Arizona Chickens

[NoSkiveez]

All is well in my coops. I was worried that I would have frozen chicks. I have 5-250 watt bulbs in my chick coop. I have my youngest chicks in a dog crate on the porch and all is well. However, my water lines are frozen. They are even insulated.

 

[rufus]

The chickens will be fine. They just fluff up their feathers and endure the cold. When I lived in Wisconsin in the early 1960's, nobody worried about their chickens in the winter, and they did fine.

I learned to drag the water hose over a tree limb when I was done with it. That runs all of the water out of the hose so that it doesn't freeze in there. Not many people in Wisconsin were interested in running water outside in the winter. They preferred to carry hot water from inside the house for their birds.

Last week we shopped for trees. I bought another apricot tree. I really wanted to buy a guava, but now I sure am glad I went for the cheaper apricot. Guavas don't do well in less than 40 degree weather.

I don't know why I bother planting trees. ADOT will eventually take our house or make it unlivable. Hopefully, well after I am dead.

I had an uncle that invested thousands of dollars in planting a pecan grove in Oklahoma. It takes at least seven years for a pecan to produce nuts. He was 94 years old at the time. That is faith! He probably would have lived to see the trees produce if he had been a little more careful in traffic.

Any way, I am still getting seven or eight eggs a day from my hens. They still haven't let up even though they are still penned up.

Is anyone having any luck with the chili powder?

Rufus

 

[dewey]

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They probably appreciate it, though, even if not needed.

My 8 wk olds are finally all feathered now but I've still been keeping the bulb on and covering the pen at night against the winds. They still get under the light at night and now I feel like I have to figure out how to wean them off it, lol.

I've never fussed over chicks like this, lol, but I was used to getting spring chicks, where the temps getting only hotter, not fall chicks with the temps decreasing. Brrrr is right!

 

[NoSkiveez]

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Yes. I think I had a little luck. 1 egg each from 2 non laying pens 3 days after starting chili powder. 2 more eggs from 2 other non laying pens Sunday (not counting my cuckoo hen with all the laying issues). I'm still giving it to them.

This morning I had 7 eggs in the coops at 8:30 am. My Silkies on the side where I have my chick lights lay at all sorts of times during the day and night. I bet its from the lights. Someone laid an egg at 10:30 last night.

 

[Mahonri]

Only got two marans eggs today.

It was 29 when I left for work this morning.

Even ice cubes had a chance in he** this morning.

 

[pimachickens]

I've been giving the chili powder (and quite a lot of it) every day for a week in the hopes of convincing them to start giving me eggs. It hasn't worked. Of course, that doesn't really prove or disprove the whole chili powder debate since I think mine are broken anyway.

 

[NoSkiveez]

I got 23 eggs today! One was a quail. One we have debated over who laid it, dark to be a silkie and the other girls are too young to be laying.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

NoSkiveez, WOO HOO!

That's a pretty fair amount. How many do you have laying? I haven't been keeping track lately, but it doesn't seem to have dropped off much, but it should be increasing as some of the juveniles start laying.

 

[RioLindoAz]

Good evening, guys and gals.

I just confirmed the shipment of 25 Nankin chicks! They should be here by Thursday! Everything is 80% ready for them. Better go finish up the other 20%!

 

[Mahonri]

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Wow, where are they coming from?

NoSkiveez, do you think it is the chili powder?

It hasn't worked for me.