Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

That's good to know. I have an order in for April... hope there's no problems with it.

What did you order?

 

[CaroleW]

I'm glad I don't need to mail order chicks this year. I warned a friend (who may order or hatch for homeshooling project) about possible disruptions for other reasons. I didn't think of polar vortex being the cause to cancel USPS flights.

 

[BlueBaby]

I'm glad I don't need to mail order chicks this year. I warned a friend (who may order or hatch for homeshooling project) about possible disruptions for other reasons. I didn't think of polar vortex being the cause to cancel USPS flights.

At least my hatching egg's from Mississippi made it over here ok yesterday. They were well packed in that foam, and double boxed. They sent me 14 egg's and none were broken.

 

[ChicksnMore]

What did you order?

Silver Spangled Hamburgs . Hoping they'll be my ideal, perfect chickens. My dwarfs are beautiful and great layers, but want to go broody and get pouty over egg collecting. My Yokohama's are beautiful poor layers. Hoping the hamburgs will be beautiful, good layers that don't go broody often and don't pout about egg collecting.

 

[BlueBaby]

Silver Spangled Hamburgs . Hoping they'll be my ideal, perfect chickens. My dwarfs are beautiful and great layers, but want to go broody and get pouty over egg collecting. My Yokohama's are beautiful poor layers. Hoping the hamburgs will be beautiful, good layers that don't go broody often and don't pout about egg collecting.

Good luck, and I hope that they will work out for you!

 

[CaroleW]

Silver Spangled Hamburgs . Hoping they'll be my ideal, perfect chickens. My dwarfs are beautiful and great layers, but want to go broody and get pouty over egg collecting. My Yokohama's are beautiful poor layers. Hoping the hamburgs will be beautiful, good layers that don't go broody often and don't pout about egg collecting.

My only SS Hamburg ended up being cross-beaked starting about 7-8 weeks. Got her from Murray McMurray Hatchery in 2020. She is still living and maybe lays an egg every once in a while but she is last one in coop at nite since she is still eating when she doesn't have to compete with everyone else already roosting.

I hope yours turns out good, just letting you know my (limited) experience in case you are getting them from same place.

 

[ChicksnMore]

My only SS Hamburg ended up being cross-beaked starting about 7-8 weeks. Got her from Murray McMurray Hatchery in 2020. She is still living and maybe lays an egg every once in a while but she is last one in coop at nite since she is still eating when she doesn't have to compete with everyone else already roosting.

I hope yours turns out good, just letting you know my (limited) experience in case you are getting them from same place.

I am getting them through Murray's too. Fingers crossed these are healthy babies. Everything I read makes them sound like I might love them. Smaller sized, regular layers that rarely set. And spots...I have a thing for spotted chickens .
I ordered 4 roos, 10 hens and one Yokohama red shoulder, just because I don't have any yokos from them yet. Hopefully enough to have at least a few decent birds.

 

[BlueBaby]

Ok, egg's just went into the incubator.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Ok, egg's just went into the incubator.

21 days til happy !

 

[BlueBaby]

21 days til happy !

I'm already happy. These new egg's that were shipped are a little bit darker shade of brown then the one's that mine have been laying, plus a couple of them have speckles. I know that some people like those light tan of brown so they breed for that, and some people like the one's that are just plain brown. I like them all and that probably will show that I will have a better gene diversity in my flock of these Bielefelder's. I won't have to bring in any more shipped egg's, because I think that I'm good with these now. I can just hatch out from my flock while these are growing out.

My next door neighbor want's to borrow my extra cockerel in my pen in a couple of month's to breed to their Naked Neck hen's that they got from me before. So, I'll be hatching those later too.