Arizona Chickens

[Lyongirl]

Bob- Those babies are so cute! What kinds are all of them?

Gallo- I'm jealous of your garden! I would love to do something like that in our backyard but we just can't afford it quite yet. We moved in to this house not long ago and we are only 23 so we're working our way up slowely but surely

. One day I want to have a little farm with a beautiful organic garden like that and then I won't have to buy any more disgusting produce from the grocers.

 

[cluckin_crazy]

I get 100% local produce delivered to my front door from The Backyard Farmer in the EV - all I have to buy at the grocery store is bananas - it's awesome!

Remolting... a few of mine are doing it too and I don't know why. The White Leghorn I adopted from Hickmans is pushing 10 months now and hasn't laid a single egg. She molted in November and is doing it again as of last week. Same thing with the SLW and the BA. I wondered if the cold had anything to do with it? I have a Buckeye that finished molting in November, laid for the first 2 weeks of December, then stopped. I havent had an egg since the second week of December. They have a light on them until about 8:30 or 9pm. This is getting old!!!

Oh, and since I've been absent for a while and things in my life have changed, I am now pregnant

 

[smjacob]

Well Hello all,

I have not been on here in a while. Things have just been so busy i havent had a chance to say Hi. From my quick scan it seems everyone is ok. My chickens are all doing really well. Aside from the freezing temperatures and the rain they are great. (bad coop placement in the yard - its a story for another day)

We got rid of a few this last week to some people who wanted more chickens to add to their flock. Other than that all is basically going well.

I am going to make a more concerted effort to stop by at least weekly.

Hope all is well and talk to you all soon.

Shaun

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

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LOL Your guess is as good as mine. I've purchased a couple of variety packs, and one batch of Pearl White Leghorns. Then I've hatched a couple of batches from those mixes, so I have at least second or maybe third generation mixes. Some of them are really cool looking as they mature, but I can't really tell what bred with what, except the cochins.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Shaun -- I was wondering how you've been doing. My pullets from that same flock some that yours came from finally started to lay - just last December. Alll mine went on strike for a few months. Are yours laying yet? That is, if you still have them - not sure which ones you rehomed.

 

[Nuclear Chickens]

Bob's Henhouse :

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LOL Your guess is as good as mine. I've purchased a couple of variety packs, and one batch of Pearl White Leghorns. Then I've hatched a couple of batches from those mixes, so I have at least second or maybe third generation mixes. Some of them are really cool looking as they mature, but I can't really tell what bred with what, except the cochins.

Bob, From the eggs you gave me for the NYD hatch I have at least one that looks like your Pearl Whites are mateing with your cochins because I have what looks like a Pearl White Leghorn that will be feather footed. I really hope its a hen cause I'll be putting it in with a couple SLW roos. I'll post a Pic in the next couple days so you can see.​

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

Nuclear, sounds cool. A feather footed Leghorn, or a skinny white Cochin?

I'm glad you got some to hatch. The biggest white eggs should have been the Leghorns.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Get two 2x8's from Home Depot or Lowes, have them cut them in half to give you four four foot lengths. Bolt together into a square. Or use concrete blocks to make a square. Fill with soil and plant your choice of in-season veggies. Not very expensive to build, and the produce grown will more than offset the cost.

 

[65browneyes]

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Congratulations to you!!

 

[Mahonri]

I so hope that Baker's has little veggies ready to transplant. Last year I planted this week... and then after all of the extreme cold & rain, (never froze) they finally started to grow and I had some great lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower (DELISH) and then of course I planted Peas, corn, peppers. (last freeze killed my huge plants from last year

, table beets, cabbage. etc... I didn't like my cabbages.. I'm thinking i didn't give them enough water and I ended up feeding most of them to the chickens...and they loved them, oh yeah and i plant pole beans around the corn... so after the corn is done i'm picking beans off of the corn stalks. The weatherman has given me clear sailing through the end of next week so I figure... why not?

Chicks are growing fast. I have a MaransXAmeraucana that has a SEVERE cross beak and I'm wondering if I should cull. The way it looks now I'm thinking I should, it's just grotesque, I don't know how it eats... started out as the MOST huge chick of the hatch and now the Marans have caught up and past it. Of the 13 Marans that hatched, at least 4 are big roos, with huge combs.

it's fun watching them grow, but I've got to get them into a bigger area... they are eat, sleep and poop machines at present and feathering out nicely.