Arizona Chickens

[AngBantamLuv]

yes, if I were in a position, I'd be tempted to place an ad on Easter Sunday (maybe the next day) advertising a humane home (wording??) and free pickup service for the unwanted Easter chicks. Imagine the fun you'd have later, guessing the breed & sex, deciding which to keep, etc!

Yes, that is a great idea... stop making me daydream of ways to build my own zoo

 

[Parront]

yes, if I were in a position, I'd be tempted to place an ad on Easter Sunday (maybe the next day) advertising a humane home (wording??) and free pickup service for the unwanted Easter chicks. Imagine the fun you'd have later, guessing the breed & sex, deciding which to keep, etc!

I am too chicken for that! Those people have not taken good care of their chicks, who knows what they would bring to my flock! I would however respond to the free rooster ad that is posted later when the chick has grown up to be a cockerel and started crowing. Just "what's for dinner?" time.

 

[Banty crazy]

This is the largest of the group, she’s an Easter egger (and excuse the hair on the floor )

I used moths and call chick chick chick, soon they came to me to see if I had a treat for them. Them I started using warm mash and called them. Once out in the coop all I have to do is call them and they come running.

 

[Banty crazy]

I'm glad that you were successful in being able to re-home that one rooster. It really is hard to re-home rooster's unless they are a good boy and someone happens to be looking for one of those.

It’s extremely hard. So far my other two roosters haven’t shown any aggressive behavior but I think they’re only 8 months old.

 

[BlueBaby]

Craigslist will be busting with chicks and ducks and rabbits in 8 weeks! As soon as the newness wears off, and lack of planning.

Mine should start hatching on Good Friday. Why, do you need some more? Got all of those chicken diaper's made yet?

 

[springvalley123]

I am too chicken for that! Those people have not taken good care of their chicks, who knows what they would bring to my flock! I would however respond to the free rooster ad that is posted later when the chick has grown up to be a cockerel and started crowing. Just "what's for dinner?" time.

I was not giving the non-chicken chick owners enough credit. I thought they'd want to get rid of them at age 1-2 weeks max, when the fluffy yellow down gave way to white feathers. The 8 week old chicks are too hard to catch, I'm assuming the people wouldn't have talked to them, etc so they're wild. I'll have to come up with another get rich quick/fill up the freezer scheme!

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Mine should start hatching on Good Friday. Why, do you need some more? Got all of those chicken diaper's made yet?

No... no more.. now these aren't even paying rent!!

 

[Parront]

I was not giving the non-chicken chick owners enough credit. I thought they'd want to get rid of them at age 1-2 weeks max, when the fluffy yellow down gave way to white feathers. The 8 week old chicks are too hard to catch, I'm assuming the people wouldn't have talked to them, etc so they're wild. I'll have to come up with another get rich quick/fill up the freezer scheme!

Lots of the cute Easter chicks are males. Just read all the "Free Rooster" ads on craig's list. The people who are really unprepared for chicks kill them before they get out of the brooder! Those sick & dying chicks, I do not want. If I had some others I was doing anyway, I would not mind an extra cockerel or 2. They will go to a good home! They will be cared for and appreciated in my Freezer Camp for Bad Boyz.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

I think theres still a run on chicks, so the people looking the day before Easter will be out of luck! Thankfully!

 

[Parront]

I think theres still a run on chicks, so the people looking the day before Easter will be out of luck! Thankfully!

Last time I was in Tractor Supply, they had several brooders with lots of chicks in each. I was not tempted, they looked cold. And some were out of water. Some pasted butts, too.