Arizona Chickens

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

Meg- when is your meeting with the HOA. For some reason I thought it was sept 13th. If so, how did it go?

 

[Mikey D]

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WAIT - you lost 2 of the new ones? Or was this in the past?

I lost two Cornish. And the Silky. Doing okay now. The reds are doing great. Makes me wonder if the Cornish came from somewhere else to Ideal before being shipped out.
The bantams are always delicate so having only one, it's hard to say what happened. Everybody else looks good now. I was worried that it was some sort of infection because the yellow ones seemed sleepy compared to the rest but that could just be Cornish, too. They are a less active breed. But I also noticed they have wing feathers which the others don't, making it look like they could be a few days older, which could possibly mean they went through extra shipping and extra starvation. I noticed that some of the yellow ones were more "ribby" and dehydrated feeling, which also makes me think they were drop shipped to Ideal.
Hopefully, that's all it was.

I don't have that discerning an eye to see the "ribby" type stuff. I've really only given them the starter & small bits of American cheese. (I really can't resist as they go berserk over it!) They are quite indifferent to celery leaves and ham but are totally activated by the bits-o-cheese. As no one has screamed MIKEY STOP - DON'T GIVE 'EM CHEESE! I figure it's prolly OK in small quantities.

The cornish are very active, they won't take a treat from my fingers like the others, but as soon as someone else has it in their beak they join in the chase like the rest.

I cannot believe I'm (A big hairy grown man) having so much fun with these little things!

And if my wife finds out I'm in here typing (she's moving the truck to unload coop panels) instead of helping, I'm in trouble. We stayed up 'till 3:30 AM this morning working on the house next door. One more trip to Homer and 3-5 more hours and they can move in.

 

[Mikey D]

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WOW! The force is strong in this one!

I can (for the first time in my life) feel the force of "Chicken Math"!

Thank you Bill - no more peepers for Papa just yet.

 

[Mikey D]

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A date is a part of the relationship maintenance routine that you must be diligent about!

The control tower & myself have Friday "Date Night" and adhere to it almost religiously. Of course fort he past 5 weeks, date nights has been working at the house next door.

Next in the line up is the Broadway Palm Theater to see "Spelling Bee" - It's supposed to be quite humorous.

 

[The Critter Place]

Date Night? Hmmmmmmmmmm.... Distant memory.

pastrymama~ Hoping you get to go and it's a great night!

 

[kevs-chickadees]

Date night or do you mean date hour? HA j/k. Thanks again Meg for the seeds, it was nice to meet you and I cant wait to get these things going.

 

[Mikey D]

Found a little black bug

Put it on a piece of steno paper

Put the paper in with the chickies

Quite interested in it, kept looking at it like,

"I know I'm supposed to do something with this,

I just don't know what it is..."

Silly entertaining peepers!

 

[LarryPQ]

[sounding it out]

Dddaaaaaaaaaaaaa-tah ?

 

[Mikey D]

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Very good Lauree! Daaa-tah

 

[LarryPQ]

I don'f know if evej did those "daytah" thingies before I got married.