Arizona Chickens

[AngBantamLuv]

Yes that sounds pretty good. Just be aware they will eat you veggies so you’ll need to protect them until they are large enough the quail can’t eat all the leaves. They kept my tomatoes bug free and happy!

Just spoke w the gardener, he is going to help me setup the garden bed boxes and get the drip lines connected next month. I have some seeds for yard long beans (i hate green beans, but these taste more like asparagus to me), zucchini, and butternut squash, so those can grow along the top/outsides to keep it cool, and root veggies will go on the inside... I am so excited!

I am sort of thinking about getting quail eggs after all instead of chicks (looking at Celadon coturnix, just for the fun and ease of finding the eggs more easily), and letting my daughter hatch them and handle the chicks. I really don't have an interest in keeping the males, so hopefully there is some sort of demand so I can even give them away for free.

All the dead trees are being dug out today and replaced with my new fruit trees. Excited! We moved some of the potted plants under my orchid tree.. HOLY EARTH WORM BATMAN! Those suckers were HUMONGOUS! So the ground is definitely healthy. I haven't used any pesticides or chemical fertilizers or anything in the backyard, so I guess it is paying off.

 

[igorsMistress]

It loves full sun so thing of planting in the West part of your yard. It does grow wonky or arts as I call it so don’t prune until it’s about 4-5 feet tall. Wonky as in weeping a bit, not a straight upright main branches. This 1 is in the front yard, the one in the chickens run is smaller and have not started to prune. I might not because they will start to roost up in it, which is not a bad thing but it could be. View attachment 2511465View attachment 2511466

Oh wow! I love that! Definitely going to find a place to put one out there and I have a lot of full sun areas. Thanks so much for the tip!

 

[BlueBaby]

Had to make a run to the feed store, so the chicken's should be full and happy for awhile. I picked up 150 pound's of feed, 150 pound's of scratch, and 10 pound's of oyster shell for them.

 

[igorsMistress]

I bought a couple more bags of feed but it took the ducks two months plus to go through one 40 or 50 lb bag. The pigeons fly over but they don’t even stop. They see ducks in a pool instead of chickens pecking at the ground. So happy! With three more mouths to feed even if consumption doubles it’s far far less than what I was spending before.

 

[BlueBaby]

I bought a couple more bags of feed but it took the ducks two months plus to go through one 40 or 50 lb bag. The pigeons fly over but they don’t even stop. They see ducks in a pool instead of chickens pecking at the ground. So happy! With three more mouths to feed even if consumption doubles it’s far far less than what I was spending before.

But your duck's are still growing, and didn't you say that you are going to be getting more duck's?

 

[igorsMistress]

But your duck's are still growing, and didn't you say that you are going to be getting more duck's?

Yes, I’ll have six total. It wasn’t my chickens costing me an arm and a leg in feed, it was the wild pigeons.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes, I’ll have six total. It wasn’t my chickens costing me an arm and a leg in feed, it was the wild pigeons.

I haven't seen any pigeons over here, but there's some doves and they can't fit through the wire on the run. There's still some of those tweety bird's (sparrow's) though that can.

 

[cavemanrich]

igorsMistress

I know you recently got 3 little ducklings. Not sure I read what happened to those?

 

[igorsMistress]

I haven't seen any pigeons over here, but there's some doves and they can't fit through the wire on the run. There's still some of those tweety bird's (sparrow's) though that can.

Yeah but they don’t eat much. If I didn’t literally guard the food when I gave FF or a bowl of greens or even some scratch then the pigeons would swarm it and push out the chickens with sheer numbers. I wanted to blast the whole damn bunch with a shotgun.

 

[igorsMistress]

igorsMistress

I know you recently got 3 little ducklings. Not sure I read what happened to those?

They died the first night Cavey. I went out the next morning and two were just out on the floor and one was under the heat plate. I reported to the hatchery and got credit but ordered ducklings from elsewhere and a different kind this time, White Layers. They look like Pekins but are smaller.