Arizona Chickens

[nurseshelly]

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Uh, Uh, NO! I must wait. Must. Wait. September! I know what I want.

LOL I want too, but I have to find homes for the last two hatches first!!! My brooder is full, so no more hatching until the chicks have homes

If I didn't hate having chicks on the back patio ... I would add another brooder box out there - but two coops, a run, a dog crate for my broody and one brooder to clean / fresh water / feed every day is enough!

 

[Mahonri]

And then there is this...

For sale from Mahonri's back yard

 

[turkeybreeder]

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My wife wants to see a picture of what your Icelandics look like. Would the Marans happen to be the wheatons?

wheatons are ameraucanas they lay blue eggs
and marans lay chocolate brown eggs

 

[AZBootsie]

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As I've said, I'm learning, so please forgive the "newbness" of my questions....

Do you clip wings if you have a full enclosure?

Anne.

I never have clipped wings, but do have bird netting and shade cloth across the top of my run. We have hawks here.

 

[Arizonachicken]

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As I've said, I'm learning, so please forgive the "newbness" of my questions....

Do you clip wings if you have a full enclosure?

Anne.

I never have clipped wings, but do have bird netting and shade cloth across the top of my run. We have hawks here.

Hi, Anne. I do not clip my girls' wings, either. Our coop/run is completely enclosed, too. It wasn't that way at first, it was open on top. The day we brought home our chickens, one flew to the top. She looked around and went back in, but we decided to play it safe and enclose the top. Good thing, too, because we added the shade cloth on top as well. I didn't let them free range for about a week. After that time they seemed pretty comfortable roosting in their coop and I spent the week "training" them to come to me. I would say "here chick,chick" and give them a treat. I was amazed at how quickly they learned that I was a source of treats. Now, if I say that, they can be all the way across the yard and they come running as fast as their little chicken legs will go. I wanted to train them that way in case they did fly out of the yard. It would be easier to get them back if they were trained to come to me. Fortunately, they have never "flown the coop". It seems that once they are used to a place, they don't wander. They go back in their coop at sunset by themselves, too. All I have to do is lock 'em in! Easy, easy. (if I could just get the kids to put themselves to bed, too...)

 

[AZBootsie]

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She has some pretty little roos.

Thanks so much for those beautiful brahmas... wish I would have PM'd you sooner so I could have purchased the meredith Ameraucanas. They were real pretty.

Aren't they Beautiful!! I felt like a kid in a candy store and very proud of myself for resisting temptation and only coming home with 2.

 

[Mahonri]

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She has some pretty little roos.

Thanks so much for those beautiful brahmas... wish I would have PM'd you sooner so I could have purchased the meredith Ameraucanas. They were real pretty.

Aren't they Beautiful!! I felt like a kid in a candy store and very proud of myself for resisting temptation and only coming home with 2.

If I would have known you were buying from her, I would have brought them to my house and you wouldn't have had to travel so far!

 

[AZBootsie]

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Aren't they Beautiful!! I felt like a kid in a candy store and very proud of myself for resisting temptation and only coming home with 2.

If I would have known you were buying from her, I would have brought them to my house and you wouldn't have had to travel so far!

It was a long dirve....but well worth it. All in all a fun day.

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

I brought these 3 home from aurorarose25. They jumped right on the windowsill of the coop.

 

[AZBootsie]

Adorable!!