Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

BlueBaby saw it on Craigslist and sent me a link to the ad, but it was in Phoenix. Later in the day I thought about it, then asked the person with the mug if she would mail it if I paid her for the postage. I told her why I liked it, and amazingly, she said yes and sent it! Enjoying the new Big Ben mug.

I knew that the cup fit you to a T when I seen it!

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Good thing it wasn't a tornado. I wouldn't want your flock to go flying in one of those!

A tornado might take his flock to Oz or Kansas or someplace. Can't have that.

Lots of dark clouds out here, but today it all seems to be going around us. No rain.

 

[cavemanrich]

A tornado might take his flock to Oz or Kansas or someplace. Can't have that.

Here are some pix from family photo album.

 

[BlueBaby]

A tornado might take his flock to Oz or Kansas or someplace. Can't have that.

Lots of dark clouds out here, but today it all seems to be going around us. No rain.

He can get them some red shoes so they can make a wish to get back home again, couldn't he?

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[Parront]

We got all the rain in AZ yesterday, the creek is flowing but my garden got pounded flat, again!

 

[BlueBaby]

We got all the rain in AZ yesterday, the creek is flowing but my garden got pounded flat, again!

We got a little bit of rain here. Not a whole bunch, but you did share some.

 

[BlueBaby]

Anyone know where I can get some egg carton label's that say "Nest Run Egg's" at? Most that are available say "Fresh Egg's" or "Free Range Egg's". I noticed that the AZ. state law say's that if you are not registered and have a license to sell ton's of egg's, that your's must say "Nest Run Egg's", because they haven't been graded.

 

[Outta Here]

We got 2 inches in about half an hour, and our entire 48'x48' shop flooded, including the chicken coop in it. The outside covered coop got flooded too, the first time it's every gotten wet. My poor chickens had nowhere to go but huddle on the roost, scared, while my husband and I broomed water and wet sand and vacuumed the flood out and set up big fans. It was 4:30 pm already, but my 17-week Sapphire Gem dropped her first egg from the roost into the flood/mud waters of the pen...
Then when I jumped in the 4WD pickup to try the 3 miles of dirt road to go get straw (my pile of sand was outside and soaked), I almost floated and ended up stranded on a tiny high spot of the dirt road with dangerous flood waters swirling past swiftly on both side and nothing but a lake in front of me. We've had numerous people die in these parts trying to go through deep water around here and getting washed out into the field, trapped to drown in their cars. So I just sat while the feed store closed and waited.
The water didn't go down, so I inched back and did a very precarious 15-point turn around, then rolled all the windows down (windows that won't open are how people drown), put the pedal to the metal through the lake that was my road, lost my bumper to the current, engine almost sputtered out, but made it home, covered in the splashed mud!
This morning after I let them out to free range at sunrise, I cleaned and bleached the cement floor of their inside coop, repainted walls and roosts, and spread new sand (we had spread wet sand from the pile to dry overnight under a big fan). All nice and clean and dry.
I wonder, do they ever know we're the ones who do all this work to make their lives peachy?

 

[Parront]

Anyone know where I can get some egg carton label's that say "Nest Run Egg's" at? Most that are available say "Fresh Egg's" or "Free Range Egg's". I noticed that the AZ. state law say's that if you are not registered and have a license to sell ton's of egg's, that your's must say "Nest Run Egg's", because they haven't been graded.

I get cartons at Tractor Supply that say "Delicious Eggs" & "Homegrown". They do not say fresh or grade of any kind, but they do not have the term "Nest Run" printed on them. They have a place to write Name and Date. You could print some address labels with Nest Run. I just use free address labels on one end. The other option is to get a stamp and and ink pad. I just don't bother to put Nest Run on them. Lots of people save their cartons for me, and I just re-use those with my address sticker on them -- usually I put my sticker on the end to cover up the date. If you were selling eggs at a Farmers Market, you might have to comply with all those rules, but at ours the egg sellers are using old re-used commercial cartons, just like I do. They do not enforce all the rules here.