Arizona Chickens

[NoSkiveez]

Im rapidly selling the chickens. They are going like hotcakes! I sold all of the Silver Laced and all of the Gold Laced Polish to the same person. He picked up the Silvers yesterday, got them home and inspected them and called me first thing this morning and came to pick up the other coop full. Im glad he was so happy with them that he wanted to come back for the rest of them.

I decided to keep the White Crested Black Polish. I am going to put the hens in with the White Crested Blue Polish in a few months. to reduce the amount of Splash I would get. Im not very fond of the splash color.

Today I got a blue polish egg. I got one yesterday too but they kicked it around and broke it. Then I dropped it and the dog ate it and now she has the runs.

 

[gckiddhouse]

Went to shut the chickens in tonight after their first free range day in a long time (we've been overseeding the grass). One was missing.... DD and I looked all over. We knew it was the 1/2 Polish who is flighty and likes to get up in the trees. We almost didn't find her. But there she was way up in the tree. I had to get a long poll to knock her down. I would have left her there, but she would have come down really early and that isn't a safe time of day. This cool weather brings in the predators. We really have to watch them during the day if they are out. Glad we found her.

We are rolling in eggs. Getting 10 a day from 12 layers. Still waiting on the 3 Polish, the 1/2 Polish, and the BWA. Not sure what the hold up is on these girls... We are dying to see the blue eggs!

 

[Mahonri]

Gorgeous evening. Moon just past full. Temperature is PERFECT!

#3, & #4 are at the homecoming dance at Shadow Mountain.

#5, &6 & #7 are at a school Halloween carnival.

DW is doing service, tending kids for single folks who never get out while they meet one another at a dance at our church.

I'm here all by my lonesome finishing up my Sunday School Lesson... the last chapters of Isaiah... then I'll fix Sunday dinner, clean up the kitchen and watch a little TV.

Great day to be alive... we got two of the three coops cleaned.. only got 4 eggs today. The Marans are laying so much better than the Ameraucanas,... but some of the Wheatens hatched the end of April and many of my wheatens don't lay until 6 months so hopefully I'll be getting lots of BLUE eggs by Thanksgiving.

The Lord blesses us all in so many ways.

 

[Gallus_domesticus]

Not to be an enabler or anything, but just saw this post on Phx CL for a suspiciously chicken-coopy looking shed (FREE!):

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/zip/2022334086.html

Speaking of chickens in trees...

...one-eyed wheaten likes to fly into the grapefruit tree in the evening if I don't take her from her yard to her coop in time.

She is still not 100% better yet, but is comfortable and contented. And Mahonri, I have to thank you again because DBF REALLY likes this little girl, and now wants me to get more wheaten chickens! Any excuse for getting more chickens makes me happy.

 

[NoSkiveez]

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Like x 1000!

Ive actually been looking for some new ideas for freezer meals to prepare and freeze for Wednesday evenings. We go to bible study Wednesday evenings. We do the early service on Sunday because the twins can go to the child center and play with other children. They dont get to do that often enough.

We got some coops cleaned up this morning too. It makes it much easier with the cool weather. We've had massive amounts of flies lately. Its horrible! We've also got thousands of dead bee's everywhere. We had a huge hive in a tree and we've had numerous bee keepers come out here only to have the problem not get corrected. As much as I didn't want to kill them because they are so beneficial to the environment. We've been chased and attacked a few too many times to wait for one of these bee keepers to get it right. So in the hole the DE go. The first night there were so many piled in to the entarence it looked like "boiling" powder. The next night I got about 2 pounds of DE in the hole. There are 3 or 4 holes in the tree. We've been working all of them but I still see bees. Once the are all gone, I will flush out the comb with boiling water. I am anxious to give this tree a trim. We have lots of work planned for the cooler months. One thing is for sure, this house needs to be painted. I refuse to describe my house as the ugliest green color you've ever seen, brown, brick and "what appears to be plywood" again.

It looks like we will be having Thanksgiving here. I really dont look forward to the stress of having Holiday gatherings at our house. It will be the first big holiday without Tata.

 

[NoSkiveez]

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It wont fit in my mini van.

Sometimes im glad CL doesnt have a Casa Grande section....Id have so much clutter!

 

[AZKat]

I'm only getting 2-4 eggs a day, out of six that are old enough to lay. My EE hen hasn't laid in a couple of weeks (she's the only one who lays green eggs) and one of the Buckeyes is molting and taking her sweet time about getting done. I've got another eight that should be laying in a month or so. I really need to downsize, so if anyone is looking for leghorn pullets let me know.

The meaties are getting big, and seem to be doing pretty well. One is getting really big, really fast, I think that I may have to butcher that one before the rest. I had to cull one at two weeks because of a bad leg, but other than that, no problems.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

Mahonri, glad to hear you had a good day!

Did you see anything in the pic of the new chicks that you want? (they are your chicks, so if you see something you want, speak up) I'll post another progress pic in another week or two.

NoSkiveez, congrats on selling your birds. I REALLY need to downsize too, but instead I ADD to my harem. Must be a psychological reason behind it somewhere. I'll have to ask my daughter, she got her Masters in psych. I probably couldn't afford her though. lol
Good luck with the bees. I had them living in the walls of my last house. It was fun. It may sound ridiculous, but I've used spray glue, (in a/c work it's spray duct adhesive) when I had a swarm over my front door in Sunnyslope, and when I was getting rid of them at my last house. When you spray them with glue they don't get injured so they don't know to attack, but they glue themselves together and die. And it's not a poison so I worry less about anything eating it/them, at least after it's dry.

Lost 2 or 3 roosters to coyotes over the last 5 days. I can't really tell, but 2 for sure. On the bright side, the coyote's team lost 2 of it's players. So the score is still pretty close. Looks like it's Chickens 2, Coyotes 2. Of course I play on the chickens team.

Gallus, nice pic.

This is why we need the coops covered on top?

gckidhouse, I found one of my white hens hiding between the coop and my cargo container last night. I usually don't look for them there, but I'm glad I did, since the coyotes came around last night. You're right, it's not safe to be out, especially this time of year.

mahonri, I noticed the price was higher than you had mentioned. I went looking for that feed store to buy manna chick starter, and priced the other feeds. I'm wondering if everybodies feed prices are going to go up?

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

re; cleaning the coop. It is great weather for it isn't it? I shoveled out 14 feed bags of droppings, feathers and bedding yesterday. My trees and garden are in for a treat. I saw Big Lots selling containers of chicken manure one time, I think it was called Chick A Poo. Came in a little bottle. I wonder what a feed bag full would be worth/

 

[squeakyballs]

Bob's Henhouse :

re; cleaning the coop. It is great weather for it isn't it? I shoveled out 14 feed bags of droppings, feathers and bedding yesterday. My trees and garden are in for a treat. I saw Big Lots selling containers of chicken manure one time, I think it was called Chick A Poo. Came in a little bottle. I wonder what a feed bag full would be worth/

This is the only person I've seen charging for it! http://tucson.craigslist.org/grd/2022997608.html​