Arizona Chickens

[Sock Puppet]

I get 3 to 5 eggs from 5 hens. But then I take into account the eggs my kids drop. so that leaves me sometimes with.... 2 - 5 eggs depending on how many they dropped that day.

Good thing its not everyday

 

[ArizonaNessa]

Since everyone is looking for vines and such I thought it might be helpful to post this link here to help you guys. I found the link at the bottom of the infamous treat chart here on byc and I have found it most interesting. I hope it helps you all decide what and whatnot.

http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html

 

[Mahonri]

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Your father's dentist is misinformed.

I routinely put in resin fillings unless a patient asks for a silver filling. I put one in today because the 85 year old woman said that's what she wanted....and they are less expensive

 

[blckbrnfamly]

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that list is HUGE!!! maybe I'll just do a grape vine?

 

[ArizonaNessa]

Well it's rather easy to look up your plant with the letters at the top. I am sure not everything is listed but it's a pretty good list and I learn something new every time I look at it. Like tonight I learned that sweet potato vines have a LSD effect on chickens!!! Who knew?

 

[LarryPQ]

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Oh dear, we are gonna get in trouble. I have this whole play in my mind---which is oddly reminicent of my freshman year in college. Patch thinks he is a velociraptor, Runt is crawling through the bushes thinking she is a commando stalking escaping hot wheels, and Dozer is sitting on a chair clucking about "how SMALL everyone looks from wwaaaaay up here".

Boy I hope none of those folks from the dorm are lurkers here

I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band,
I saw a needle that winked its eye.
But I think I will have seen everything
When I see a laying hen high.

I saw a front porch swing, heard a diamond ring,
I saw a polka-dot railroad tie.
But I think I will have seen everything
when I see an rooster flyin' high.

I seen a clothes horse, he r'ar up and buck
And they tell me that a man made a vegetable truck
I didn't see that, I only heard
But just to be sociable I'll take your word

I heard a fireside chat, I saw a baseball bat
And I just laughed till I thought I'd die
But I'd be done see'n about everything
when I see a laying hen high.

 

[cap1717]

Hi guys, I just took a look at "the list" ( I am a horticulturist) There are only a few plants that are commonly used as landscape plants in the southwest. (not including weeds, spurge, for instance, or native plants like Datura, that are unlikely to be found in urban landscapes. They are:

Carolina Jasmine / Yellow Jasmine
Vineing Morning Glory (Ipomea sp) This is considered a noxious weed in AZ and is prohibited, but a lot of them are growing in
the historic neighborhoods.

Oleander
Mexican Palo Verde (Parkinsonia aculeata)
Scotch Broom, (doesn't grow well here, but is sold at many nurseries in fall and winter)
Texas Mountain Laurel
Sweet Potato vine (Ipomea)
Thevetia Peruviana
Trumpet Vine (Campsis)

There are some bulbs, flowers, herbs, also listed. . . for the most part, critters leave these things alone. . . but grow them at your own risk.

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

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Thank you so much for taking time to do this. Bless your heart for helping us with your expertise.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Be careful where you plant oleandar. We have some in our front yard, but had to remove all of the pretty oleandar trees we had growing in the backyard when we decided to purchase miniature horses. Oleandar bushes are poisonous and we were told that one leaf could kill a tiny horse.

I missed having them because they were quite pretty (trees with yellow flowers), but a great side benefit for me was that I have had MUCH less allergy problems since we removed them (one was right outside my bedroom window).

 

[cluckin_crazy]

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They can kill a BIG horse!! In my old neighborhood, some kids fed them to a horse over the fence when they were walking home from school and he died!!