Arizona Chickens

[Bob's Henhouse]

NoSkiveez, I trapped a fox in a box trap in the front yard a while back. I may have a picture of it somewhere. I relocated it to a wash about 5 miles down the road. Thought it would find plenty to eat there, and good cover. The coyotes were howling up a storm last night. I kept looking for them but never saw any.

 

[NoSkiveez]

I used to work at the Moterola Corporate computer center in Tempe when I was 18 and there was a fox there. I used to feed it cat food on my break. It would eat from my hand. It was the coolest thing I've experience with a wild animal. I haven't seen a coyote in a while. I can't hear them from inside the house typically (our walls are 18 inch thick adobe block). When we first moved back here they used to be all over. I love the wildlife here.

 

[dofnup]

Aha!! I knew something was up. I just realized now I hadn't gotten an update from this thread and it couldn't be that no one was posting

I just got a new laptop so I wasn't logged in ... guess that made the notifications stop. Hopefully this will jump start it again.

Yesterday when I went to get eggs my silkie was sitting in the box and wouldn't move, I thought she'd gone broody but it turns out she was just laying ... oops!! I poked at her a few times but she didn't protest, thought if I was bothering her she'd at least squawk ... What are the consequences of bugging a chicken while she's laying?

 

[beverlyl]

Bob I get it at Double D in Wickenburg. My chickens eat it pretty well (they don't know any better it's all they have ever had)

Mahonri how would I know if it is Arizona Feed? all it says on the bag is Sun Valley Brand?? Is Arizona Feed not very good?

Thanks

 

[gckiddhouse]

I have been cruising CL again...not that I need anything. This is free.

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/grd/1938011757.html

 

[NoSkiveez]

Craigslist is the last place I need to be browsing. I'm trying to get rid of things. I just gave away all my maternity clothes and I'm glad i won't have to look at them anymore!

Beverly, I used Arizona brand feed and I think its garbage! I live in Casa Grande and its the only/cheapest feed they sell here and they nail me over $18 a bag for it. I also go thru almost double the amount than a better brands. I also think feeding my chickens a lesser quality feed caused my chickens to stop laying when they were laying very well.

 

[NoSkiveez]

Today Dr Paul Gosar came to town and we got to meet him. It was a small group of about 15 (including my small army of 7) and a reporter. It was neat to meet him and get to talk with him in a down to earth environment. Once I get around to getting a real internet connection, I will post a pic.

 

[rufus]

NoSkiveez, where and how did you find an adobe house? We once drove all the way to Tucson to look at a supposedly adobe house. It turned out to be framed stucco. The real estate lady was from back east and didn't know beans from shinola.

Rufus

 

[NoSkiveez]

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My husbands grandparents bought this house in the early 60's and it was old then. The first record of sale of this house was in 1942 and the people who bought in 1942 said the first owners built it. Many of our windows open upwards. The area for the stove is large because it used to have a wood burning stove. The house has a lot of quirks but i love it. We have copper door knobs, pewter switch plates on light switches, and doors that lead outside that need skeleton keys. Even our interior walls are 18 inches thick. The room additions were done by my husbands grandfather out of bricks he made. The only down side I see is that our electrical outlets are metal tubes that ran down the wall because the walls are too hard...and good luck hanging anything on them. Our roof is different than the newer homes. Its thick wood boards, kind of like 2x4's but wider and then singled. Its not much of a looker but we like it. Our power comes from BIA/DOI and is pricey, so I would like to get solar panels.

Some of our lovely wallpaper (I've peeled off atleast 6 layers and I think this is the bottom layer)

 

[rufus]

NoSkiveees, the neighborhood where I grew up had a lot of old adobe homes. The walls were double thick adobes, laid two lengthwise and then one crossways. The ceilings were all bead board or tin ceilings that were nine and ten foot high. That plus a veranda around the house kept them very cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Many of them had a screen porch at the back of the building. Toilets were outside, and plumbing was minimal.

They have all fallen to the bulldozer now. When we moved in 1980, we went looking for an adobe. There was none to be had. I guess the building codes did not allow for adobes.

When the freeway takes our house, I would like to have one built of adobe.

Rufus