Arizona Chickens

[ca]

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Compare the content labels! It will tell you whether they are "the same" or not. If feed contains ashes, I don't buy it. Chickens hate it and I hate paying money for 10% contents with 0 nutritional value.

 

[Arizonachicken]

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I noticed the exact same thing. My two hens were giving us 10 eggs a week, even in the heat. I switched to Pet Club and now I get maybe 3-4 eggs a week. I didn't save the Layena bag to compare. Maybe the heat is catching up with them?

 

[ca]

Mine dropped in egg production and I did not change the food! I think they are molting. They look pretty frizzled

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[southerndesert]

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Same here molt and heat = less eggs for us every year.

 

[dofnup]

Well I got 2 bags of the Pet Club Feed ... once they are done with them I can get Layena again and see what happens.

Sure, you could argue that by then the heat will start to come down, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So... yeah

 

[pastrymama]

southern desert
thanks for the update. i am glad they are fitting in well and ruby has found a "younger crowd" to pal with. she's not even 6 months yet so i guess that makes sense.

dofnup
how's your salmon? mine isn't laying, but then again, no one is except one little EE who just started a few weeks ago.

 

[dofnup]

My Salmon is laying!! I'm getting these random weird looking eggs .... they are cream colored and misshapen, almost lumpy! They have to be hers, none of my others has ever laid an egg that looked like that.

They are very sporadic, though, probably because she is just starting plus the heat. But yay!!

She is also the gentlest and friendliest of all my chickens by far. She follows me around and loves to be pet. Love her!

 

[pastrymama]

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oh my gosh! i can't even pick up my silly salmon. she makes these weird noises, almost like a goose. want another????

 

[tball chicky]

Does anyone SOUTH of Phoenix (say Casa Grade & lower) have a Japanese Bantam rooster they'd be willing to part with? My girls need a friend

Thanks!

 

[Tracydr]

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Do you have any dog crates,, big boxes, big rubber made containers? My chicks are first put into either a large cardboard box or smallish ( 20 gallon?) rubber made container, size depending on how many I have. I attach a worklamp, usually with just a 60-100 W bulb, since they're in a warm house, not in the cold outdoors.
They are moved from there to a big dog crate, then to my dog ex-pen. I like to get them outside with the dog ex-pen at 2-4 weeks, depending on feathering and size. Cornish X are ASAP, bantams are close to 4 weeks, since I cants even put them in the ex-pen, they can get through the grate slats for so long, they are so tiny.
When outside, or even in the house in the ex-pen, I cover the top with a sheet or tarp. My yard is pretty predator proof but I did have a pit-bull bust in and kill some cornish chicks this spring, very scary, my Doberman and papillon got into the fight and I came close to losing a papillon. Still thanking my doberman everyday for that one! Stray cats are a problem but so far haven't figured out the pen/ sheet contraption.
I once lost a peachick to a hawk in OK. It was pulled through the slats of the ex-pen! I have it in a picture! The chick was almost as large as my full grown OEGBs!
Anyway, I wouldn't get real fancy with a brooder set-up. I've also made them out of the cheap, plastic fencing from HD, although I wasn't very happy with that.