Arizona Chickens

[mclevinson]

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Love that video, thanks for sharing! I wonder what the success rate is for feather sexing?

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Update from the home front: broody Australorp hen hatched 6 of 12 eggs, but three chicks were dead the next day (probably smooshed/smothered)

Twelve eggs being the originals I put under her, not the additional ones laid by her sisters to hitch-hike.

Incubated poults and chicks due any time now.... I wish I was home!!!

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

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AWESOME!!!!!!!

Wow, great hatch! Best I've done is 10 out of 12. My compliments to your hen!

So, since these were the smaller pullet eggs from the Delaware ladies.... looks like Karl doesn't keep to his Australorp gals as much as I thought

Being alpha roo has its perks!

I have pure Australorp and Australorp x Delaware chicks in the brooder from presumably mostly Australorp hens - the crosses are growing much faster than the purebreds. Curious if that will be the case with yours......

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

I enjoyed this Meyer Hatchery video - a bit less intense on the assembly line than the factory farm chicks experience.

 

[pdx2phx]

Welcome to all the new folks! This is a great, fast moving thread. We all help each other out, and it seem like we do a lot of chicken swapping & enabling

Love to see all the new fuzzy peeps everyone! More pics...more pics!

I am truly going to have to get some Seramas sometime...but probably at the next house. Of course, that's what I said to getting chickens at all a little over a year ago....and now we have 16.

By the way, does anyone else on here have an OE bantam hen? I'm just curious if ours is indicative of the breed?

Naked Chick (so named because of her sleek look as a chick, as opposed to all of the fluffies. We tried to find a better name that fit, but it just stuck....) is the sweetest, most clever girl. I am convinced she doesn't think she is a chicken...tries to get in the house constantly, loves to be held and carried around, loves to shoulder perch and 'talks' to us constantly in this little chortle. I've never heard her make normal clucking chicken sounds.

If we didn't have parrotlets inside I'm pretty sure we might end up trying to potty train her.....

I never would have thought we'd feel this way about a chicken...and it's not just me who is a softy (for once)

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Naked Chick sounds like a delightful bird!

 

[mclevinson]

DD threw away the instructions for installing the fan into the Little Giant Incubator. I posted for help, and then promptly found a video. Back to work. Maybe need some brain food.

Edited to make me look slightly less foolish. Really.

 

[leanna1017]

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I have an OE bantam hen. Camilla is about 15 mos old and mean as a snake. I've only had her since Feb, and I don't know how well she was taken care of by her previous owner. I get the feeling there wasn't much human interaction. She doesn't cluck either and she does make a little talking sound. Camilla and my african grey would talk back and forth when my back door was open. Pearl would be yelling "hello? HELLO?" outside and Camilla would chirp in return. Pearl finally gave up on trying to chat with the hens because they refused to respond in English. She's a bit snooty.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

 

[pdx2phx]

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I have an OE bantam hen. Camilla is about 15 mos old and mean as a snake. I've only had her since Feb, and I don't know how well she was taken care of by her previous owner. I get the feeling there wasn't much human interaction. She doesn't cluck either and she does make a little talking sound. Camilla and my african grey would talk back and forth when my back door was open. Pearl would be yelling "hello? HELLO?" outside and Camilla would chirp in return. Pearl finally gave up on trying to chat with the hens because they refused to respond in English. She's a bit snooty.

Sorry Camilla is mean, but the conversations between your Grey and her sounds pretty funny

Our Boys (2 parrotlets named Oscar & Felix) will chirp and yammer at the chickens when they come to the screen door hoping for treats.....