Arizona Chickens

[LarryPQ]

Anyone wanna venture a guess at what breed this little guy is?

No...I don't have any better pics of him. I will try for more sometime this weekend, if necessary.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I have been trying to make it to one of these meetings for months. I super appreciate you posting here! I get emails, too, but sometimes they end up in the spam folder. One of these months...
Do you ever have meetings further north??

Don't have a place up north to meet at.

 

[newchickmom09]

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Oooo, if that is what he is then he is going to be beautiful. I love those. I think yokohama's have pea comb?

Looks like he could be a red shoulder yoko.

 

[Mahonri]

I am so sick of this heat. This may be the year without an monsoon for us. We've had nothing... zero, zilch, nada!

On June 30th, we actually had a few sprinkles but that's it here in east central Phoenix. The heat sink around Phoenix won't allow in the T-storms.

Did I tell you all that 50#s of Purina Layena pellets are only $14.58 at the pet store on Cave Creek north of Bell Rd?

DS #1 flies in on the 20th to help take care of the house, chickens and his younger siblings while DW and I go to the mountains for a youth trek/encampment among the pines and along the off roads between Clint's Well and Mormon Lake. Then the following Monday it's off to the Marriott at Newport Beach for 4 days and 3 nights. I hope it's cooler there!

 

[joel david]

I had a egg minus shell in the nest box and a crushed up shell in the coop, does that sound like an egg eater or a thin shelled egg that got crushed and stuck to someone?

Oh and I had two drops of rain hit me when I closed the coop up last night.

 

[rufus]

Well, it is 1:34 in the morning and it is still hot.

When I was young, people in Phoenix used to sleep outside in the summer. It was cooler.

Mosquitoes had a field day on us. My father used to burn horse poop to keep them away. They would cut citronella from the canal bank and spread it around to deter the blood suckers.

If you let a leg or arm slip outside the mosquito net, it was covered with red welts in the morning. It was mosquitoes; Phoenix never had bed bug problems. I don't know why? Maybe it was just too hot and too dry.

Black ants were a problem too. They would get into the beds. We used to put the legs of the beds in cans of water to discourage them.

My father figured out that the ants would not crawl on black rubber. After he caught on to that, everything was perched on a piece of cut up old tire. It was tacky beyond belief, but it worked.

I wouldn't think of sleeping outside now. I would wake up with my throat cut.

Thank God for air conditioning.

Rufus

 

[Mahonri]

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AMEN!

I heard that the valley had it's first death due to the West Nile virus this week and they say Aug/Sept are the worst months... when a goodly number die from encephalitis due to the WN virus because of standing water and mosquitoes. The only standing water around here is in my waterers and those are changed two to three times a day to give fresher, cooler water. I don't think it will get below 92 around here this morning. My thermometer on my car in the shade yesterday was 118. They are predicting 114 today... better than the previous prediction of 117, but I'll bet it goes beyond that today. I think the first day that will be below 110 according to the 10 day forecast is next Thursday... I think if we could just get a good storm to blow through, that would help.

 

[newchickmom09]

We got a good down pour last night for about 20 minutes then it just sprinkled. I knew it was going to rain since I gave all of the plants and garden a very good soaking all threw the day.

Any rain is better then no rain I guess.

I remember walking to school in Phoenix and getting home to see the bottom of your shoes had started to melt.

Phoenix is just so hot it really is crazy. People don't understand unless they have lived there either. I would like to move back up there but hubby says he can't handle the heat and likes his brain not scrammbled from the heat.

So does anyone deer hunt! My hubby and I got drawn for whitetail!

My mother and grandfather also got drawn, I am so glad since my grandfather is really getting up there in age and I don't know how much longer he is going to be able to hunt.

 

[LarryPQ]

Its hot here...just...hot....

There were 10 sprinkles on my windshield this morning, and the sunrise was REALLY pretty. The rain was coming down (and evaporating 100 feet later) so the sky was all pink & orange streaks.

 

[tofuranch]

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Where are you going hunting?....Sounds like fun