Arizona Chickens

[NestingMillenial]

Yes, but then I was told that there can be relapses if stressed.

The good news is that among those with symptoms of fowl pox, we had no casualty and they recovered perfectly well after a few weeks. But they did look pretty awful for a minute, so I'm with you there :/


(Side note: we did lose one but she didn't have fowl pox symptoms (yet?). I think she died from a combination of other things: those pullets literally got all the possible chicken ailments imaginable within those first few weeks we got them - it was truly a baptism by fire for me, as a brand new chicken owner T_T)

 

[BlueBaby]

It looks like Santa laid off the raindeer for this year and hired cheap labor that will work for chicken feed. Yes, I got one that will be here tomorrow.

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[Blodget]

Greetings.
I'm living in Tucson and am pondering building a hoop coop in the back yard and raising ~ half doz. chickens. I'm thinking 12 foot long so I can move it less often. I have 3ish places I can put it back there.
I would like to plant something that would grow back after I move the coop. Any suggestions? It's mostly just dirt now with a few stragglers of grass.
Thank you for your attention to this request.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Hi! Sounds like what you're thinking of is a chicken tractor. As long as you can make it predator proof there's no reason not to make one, I think it's a good idea to move them around to different ground where they can nibble bits and pieces of desert greens.

Check out Native Seeds for seeds that grow well around here, they are local and you'll have a lot to choose from.

Nature's Seed sells seeds by region and you can find climate-specific seeds there.

If I were starting out with a new flock, I'd either choose (1) Aloha chickens, which despite the name are a breed specifically developed in Arizona for our climate, or (2) C3 polymorphic desert fowl chickens, also bred and raised for our climate. You can find Aloha breeders around Tucson and Phoenix, and the C3 hatchery is in Tonopah, if you're interested.

 

[BlueBaby]

My chick's got 2 leftover buttered pancakes this morning that I cut up into enough pieces that they all were able to get some. They went crazy for it and were looking for more, but there wasn't anymore. They will have to wait, and eat the feed.

 

[NestingMillenial]

They will have to wait, and eat the feed.

Hard life!! Ahaha

 

[BlueBaby]

Hard life!! Ahaha

They look forward to anytime that I'm carrying something out there in either a ziplock baggy or a bowl. Other then that they have plenty of feed in their feed buckets.

 

[BlueBaby]

Incoming chick pics. They are growing.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Incoming chick pics. They are growing.

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Beautiful!

 

[BlueBaby]

Beautiful!

Thanks! I wasn't able to get pics of all of them. They are so active and keep moving around.