Arizona Chickens

[AZBootsie]

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Hey Dar! You should contact Bargain for WMs. I just had an amazing hatch with her eggs. She sent me 12. I dropped one when weighing before setting. 11 went into the incubator, one never developed and 10 popped out unbelievably healthy. I am not a Marans expert, but they look true to standard....fluffy golden balls with feathered shanks.

AND I went to visit Rocky a few weeks ago. He looks a little scrawny, but was molting. He has 2.5 acres to free range during the day with his flock of 5 ladies and a secure coop for nights. I will load some pics for you.

Here is a pic of the Wheaten Marans chicks...2 weeks old now.

 

[mclevinson]

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Dang. Guess I'm getting out both bators and hoping Laree has extra room.

Nope. I'm going old school. I have skillz. And after brainstorming with Mikey, I should have it up and running by tonight. I'm using two red reptile lights plugged into a reptile temp monitor with a cover to keep little fingers out, I have SEVERAL temp probes and a ceramic heater with fan as backup. This is the deluxe model, Dar. I will even get to run it for days and day's before you get those eggs.

If I had to I'd use the foam bator. But I don't.

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It has TWO temp zones and an egg turner. For future reference.
Heh heh heh. I never give up, I just take a break occasionally.

 

[pimachickens]

I'm just getting caught up after a few days. Very nice tour pictures!

Mama Hen Chris - I love your aquaponics setup. Very cool!

Arizonachicken - good luck with your girl today. I hope everything works out.

 

[mclevinson]

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Those things have foamed in place insulation like a water heater. The adhesive properties of the foam might be keeping the back on.

Picts please!

Well, there ya go. I forgot step four. Tear it apart with the tire iron.

My husband claims I'm tough on computers.

LOL!
Nope, I just had to brainstorm with Mikey and get a good nights sleep. Now I'm off to do the necessary stuff! You know, get stuff for the bator.

 

[turkeybreeder]

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i have seen at the pratts in glendale that
when people bring animals to sell them
they check that it does not have any mites
and they also check that they are healthy

 

[Arizonachicken]

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I have one of her hatch mates/ & Boston has two or three of them. None of them look like Petra's girl and mine has been laying LARGE, very DARK eggs for a full month now.

Makes me sad to know she is suffering... If I didn't have FULL schedules every day this week I'd be driving to Scottsdale to help... and so Petra... we'll all be praying and hoping for you that you can help her get it resolved.

Thank you so much to everyone!
I wish you could come over, Dar! I could even take her to you!
Honestly, she doesn't seem to be in any discomfort. She's eating, drinking, scratching, running, like there's nothing wrong.

Today was definitely not on my "Top 10 things I want to do again" list. I brought her in, and put her in the warm water. I decided to tell Hubby exactly what I was planning, and he went along with it just fine. That was great because he kept the kids calm and occupied. Anywhooo...I soaked her in warm water for 20 minutes. She did amazingly well, even closed her eyes for a bit. I checked for an egg, but I didn't feel a thing. Not having done this before, I can't be certain I was in the right duct. I dried her off, she seemed to like the blowdryer, too. As I was drying her, I noticed some mites around her vent! I don't know what else they could be, they were tiny tan colored creepy crawlies that ran for cover when I moved her feathers aside. I've never seen them before, so I dried and dusted her. Now I'm worried that my other chickens have them and I have just been missing them in my weekly checks!

I dusted the run and coop with DE, too. And I put Poultry Dust and DE in their favorite dust bath places. I feel like I need to dust my whole house now because she was inside! Can people get poultry mites? Uggggg...this is not starting out to be a good day.

 

[pastrymama]

Petra

if they are tan in color and big enough to see, they are probably lice. you need to dust her with poultry dust, sevin, or do you have ivermectin or eprinex drop on? if she has them, they all have them. total coop clean out, dust the coop in poulty dust or sevin, repeat in 7-10 days and retreat your whole flock as well until you see them no more. so sorry. it happens.

 

[Tracydr]

Becky, your inbox is full. Thanks for the Azure Standard info!

 

[Tracydr]

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Your babies are growing up. Soon, he's going to be asking for the keys to the car and $20 bucks to take out a pullet. Then, it's empty nest time.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

I came home in between jobs and to my amazement I saw something eating a pigeon on the neighbor's roof. It looked very small, I could only see it's head and neck above the carcass. I went back to take a picture but it was gone.

As long as it's pigeons I'm not complaining.