Arizona Chickens

[The Critter Place]

TT! :

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-...AAAAAAAACME/93RkFuCU2IQ/s800/septgarden02.jpg

The little oblong thing with spines is the closet it has to fruit so far. It is small... in the middle of the picture, and up a little.

Water it so it will grow and try again.

I'm stumped! The shape reminds me of gourd, but I can't think of much off hand with spines.
It's interesting! Maybe a new pic in a week or so.​

 

[squeakyballs]

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Are those roosters? You could tell everyone that you were sitting on a ...
I'M KIDDING! PLEASE DON'T BAN ME!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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Perfect for watching chicken TV.

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That's what I remember about goats from my childhood. That and they like to climb on everything. I'll never forget coming home from school and finding one on top of the barn.


TT!, that is one strange vine. I don't recognize it at all. The flowers are especially odd to me. Could it be a gourd? I've never grown gourds.

 

[The Critter Place]

TT! :

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Are those roosters? You could tell everyone that you were sitting on a ...
I'M KIDDING! PLEASE DON'T BAN ME!

Soooooooo Bad and Funny at the same time!​

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

TT! :

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Are those roosters? You could tell everyone that you were sitting on a ...
I'M KIDDING! PLEASE DON'T BAN ME!

Hey, I thought you had been rehabilitated.

 

[The Critter Place]

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Perfect for watching chicken TV.

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That's what I remember about goats from my childhood. That and they like to climb on everything. I'll never forget coming home from school and finding one on top of the barn.


TT!, that is one strange vine. I don't recognize it at all. The flowers are especially odd to me. Could it be a gourd? I've never grown gourds.

I was thinking gourd too... The flowers look like gourds, they tend to be paper thin. I've grown several types and just cant think of what has spines.

 

[Tracydr]

TT! :

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-...AAAAAAAACME/93RkFuCU2IQ/s800/septgarden02.jpg

The little oblong thing with spines is the closet it has to fruit so far. It is small... in the middle of the picture, and up a little.

I think that is either a Mexican sour gherkin or a west indin burr gherkin. If the fruit stay tiny and are kind of sour like a pickle, it's probably the Mexican. If a little bigger and spiny, probably the west indies. If you let any get really over mature, you could save them and stick some seeds in the seed box for "mystery" gherkins.​

 

[ca]

Talked to chicken-neighbors. The consensus is that it was dogs!? I assuemd coyotes because it never occured to me that it could be dogs. Tracks were definitely coyote-canine-isch. Doesn't matter. Although I have plenty of fire power (thanks, Mikey, very tempting!) I decided to re-engineer the coop to be coyote proof rather than trying to terminate the culprits. We shall handle this civilized. I spent the afternoon working on chicken-alcatraz for the European chicks that are getting out into fresh air next weekend. The only thing missing now is rebar pounded into the ground every 4 inches all around the perimeter of the juvie coop.
After the first Wickenburg massacre this will go down in history as the super maximum security facility devised for the canine outmates to protect the defenseless inmates. (The three leftover roosters hopped right back onto the perches tonight

. I had to pick them up and put them in the safe hen coop myself. They obviously have no recollection of what happened in the rooster coop last night. Or maybe they are just that habitual

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[mclevinson]

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Oh Yeah!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

ca, I'm not sure about your coop situation, but can you make a wire apron around the your coop and run? That's interesting that your chicken-neighbors lean towards dogs. Even though we have coyotes here in town, I worry most about the stray dogs.