Arizona Chickens

[turkeybreeder]

my sister in law family their favorite tamales are the green chile and cheese
and the kids like the sweet corn tamales, the sweet corn my mom makes
them friday and Saturdays but they missed my moms tamales because
they had to work on Saturday

 

[turkeybreeder]

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my mom said thank you ,the sweet corn tamales are sweet but not too sweet my dad
has diabetes so my mom does not make them too sweet the fresh corn gives them the
best taste we get them every weekend in phoenix the same day the corn gets to arizona
the freshest ingredients makes the best tamales were happy the children like them
also thank you

 

[turkeybreeder]

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Hi Laree - I went to the Stock Shop today too, to pick up a couple of BPR babies to add to the brood of chicks from my online order and hatched eggs (all same age - about 2 weeks old).

I also found an odd chick - not a crossbeak, but a one of a kind chick. It is black with puffy chicks and a very strange/flat/wide comb. The only other black chicks at the stock ship are BPR (and this is not a BPR) and the only other fluffy faced chicks are the EEs and I've never see a black EE at the Stock Shop (The EEs at The Stock Shop are generally the partridge type colors).

I'm not sure if it's a polish? or ??? -- there is no topknot/puffball on the head, like the other polish chicks I've seen, but I can't figure out what else it would be -- all black, yellow tummy, and bearded face. I just had to take it home, since it was the only one like it ..... and a mystery

It better be a girl.


Turkey Breeder -- Thanks for the tamales - they are very good. It was also helpful that your brother lives near The Stock Shop - I went there right after picking up the tamales. I'm glad your broody is still setting and I'm sure she'll make it till the end (Tuesday!)

To all the Hatchers, this week -- Congrats!

your welcome i did not know the stock shop was close by i would have told my parents to take me i never gone to

the stock shop before i am so happy one or two more days for the broody chicken to hatch some baby chicks
my mom had been busy and was not able to make the chicken tamales this week but when we make some
and my brother go's to our house i can send you some to try them thanks have a great day

 

[tightwad]

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I just have to say that I love the statement on your new pic!

 

[Nuclear Chickens]

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It all sounds great unless your the Guy in the relationship. We don't have the advantage you ladies have. We can't just smile and bat those beautiful eye and say "Dear, you know What I really need you to build me". LOL yes, after 18 years of marriage she still has me wrapped around her finger. LOL

Oh no, that's no how it works in my case (I know, I am lucky, and no - he is not for sale or rent!). He did all the research and figured out that there even is such a thing as a chicken plucker. And he is bugging me to get the motor so he can drop everything else and get started on this new and exciting project. No batting eyes required

. We are actually both into building "things". That's why we are called "Widget Creek Ranch"

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Have your husband look at the plucker on You Tube made out of a washing machine. Now that is recycling.

 

[Nuclear Chickens]

I am hoping to start a pen of Silver Laced Wyandottes . Does anyone semi-local have any pure breed fertile eggs I could hatch?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Great teacher!

She was indeed! Definitely one of the very best any of my kids have had.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The reason why my DH is getting into this chicken thing so much is because of all these "little" projects. He now wants to build a chicken plucker if I can get him a 3/4 HP motor. That plucker plucks chickens in 15 seconds flat (check out various U-tube videos). That's what you need! Easy as pie

. Maybe there will even be a DH project building support group...

It all sounds great unless your the Guy in the relationship. We don't have the advantage you ladies have. We can't just smile and bat those beautiful eye and say "Dear, you know What I really need you to build me". LOL yes, after 18 years of marriage she still has me wrapped around her finger. LOL

Hey, I build my own coops--I learned that the hard way. If I want them built the way I want them, then I'd better not ask him to do it. Give him an engine, and it will be fine-tuned and perfect. Give him wood and it will be built "adequately." He's picky about engines. I'm picky about coops.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yes, I have six more pullets from that hatch. They're roosting separately from the main population, under a creosote bush, but if I lose another one I'll secure them in the run at night. I knew we had small owls around, and are very happy to have them control mice, but I thought the pullets were big enough (8 weeks old) to no longer qualify as owl food.

So, I hope the owl enjoyed his fresh chicken dinner, but I wish I could've offered a roo instead

There are some tiny owls (saw an absolutely adorable elf owl in Tucson Saturday a week ago. Fully grown and as small as a sparrow (or maybe even smaller)!. No, it could not, would not take on a chicken. They eat insects and scorpions and small mice. But a great horned owl can and will take on the largest chicken you can find, and will usually win. Game and Fish referred to them as "a killing machine" when I called several years ago trying to determine what had killed several of my largefowl and silkies.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Vaccines will not cause chemicals to be present in the eggs. The vaccine should leave NO chemical trace in the chicken after 48 hours or so. The vaccines themselves are not chemically based--at least in the way you are thinking--and the solution they are suspended in is (basically) salt water.

http://www.greerlabs.com/index.php/human_allergy/products/sdsev/sterile_diluents/

Whaaaaaat??? They put formaldehyde in human vaccines, but saline in the ones for poultry? There is something so not right about that. Next you are going to tell me that none of the chicken vax were developed on the cell lines of aborted babies like some of the human ones. I mean chicken pox was developed on an aborted baby, so chicken vax would be too, right? JK. Oh well, thanks for the info. Now I need to figure out how to vaccinate. I hate to buy 1,000 doses for 16 chickens.

You are both correct, and you are both incorrect. Different vaccines are developed differently. I cannot verify it, but would be surprised if human embryos were used for animal vaccinations. The purpose is to have the vaccine work on the target species.

Likewise, the preservatives for all vaccines vary. Not all human vaccines use formaldehyde. (And slightly off topic, but do you have any idea how most olives are processed?)

Man, but not all vaccines shed the virus for up to 30-50 days. Most poultry shows and some states specifically have rules against exhibiting poultry that have been vaccinted in the past month or two.

Most vaccines were developed because the illness they prevent are so devastating. In a world where most people are vaccinated, we really have no clue how much of a blessing many vaccines are. That said, I do not believe that all vaccines currently available or recommended are against devastating illnesses.