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Regman said:
Hi All,

New AZ Egg here and a first time poster. Like most around here, my flock last year went from 4 to 9 quickly and two of those happen to be cockerels (not by choice). But that is a different story. Living in AZ and raising chickens definitely has different challenges than most other states.

With the heat of the summer coming up in a few months, I want to re-do how I water my team. Does anyone have some creative ideas on how to keep the water cool and clean?

1) I am concerned with the chicken nipples and PVC that the water would be super hot.

2) Currently, I have a trough with a float I bought off eBay to water the clan. I thought of drilling a hole in the bottom of the opposite side and connecting a sprinkler valve that I can automatically turn on/off for a minute a couple times a day. Is this overkill?

Thanks for any suggestions or ideas?

-Regman
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Welcome, sorry I can't offer any advise on the cooling suggestions as I am new to this myself. I am hoping shade, frozen bottles of water in the bucket for the pvc/nipple water, and mister will be suffice.
 
Fuzzybird said:
My Lockdown starts tonight! Out of the 18 eggs I got from Aurorarose only 4 were clear eggs. Might interest you Aurorarose that all 4 clear eggs said pen #2. Please wish my luck on my hatch everyone!
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I was checking on a new rooster. I was really hoping he wasn't.. You want to try some more eggs free of charge & let me know if this rooster is shootn blanks for me?
 
aurorarose25 said:
I was checking on a new rooster. I was really hoping he wasn't.. You want to try some more eggs free of charge & let me know if this rooster is shootn blanks for me?
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Yea, Sure I will but we have to figure a way to get together. Know anyone that comes out my way at least closer? Maybe Sirprise?
Maybe we can get a relay going with some of our wonderful fellow azchickens folks?
 
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Don't tell my husband, but I snuck in some extra chicks today when I went to pick up the EEs! We picked up 6 EEs and I snuck in 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Black Australorp, and 1 brahma!!! Do you think he will notice that we have 9 chicks instead of 6?
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Black Australorp


Brahma



Buff Orpington
The rest below are EEs.

 
I love brahmas.
mikey- you dont have to work about tammy leaving and not coming back.....you do have to worrry about her locking you in the pen with the chickens, if you get to many!
 
AZKat said:
I've decided on a name for the smaller of my two Buff Orpington chicks. She's 'Buffy', not because of her color, but because she clearly is almost supernaturally smart and tough, after she survived for almost twenty-four hours loose in the backyard.

Since the chicks are almost three weeks old, I've taken to letting them run around the yard while I'm cleaning the brooder and so on. Yesterday, I decided to take the plastic tray out of the bottom of the brooder (my brooder is a large wire dog kennel) and hose it off. So, they were out running around for a couple of hours while I was in and out of the back yard while I did housework. Then, I go out to make sure they have food and water, get them back into the brooder, and so on. I find all of them in the brooder, except for the smaller of the two Buff Orpington chicks. So I start looking and listening. No sign of the chick. I get my kids to come look with me. No sign of her. Finally, after about half an hour, we gave up, figuring that she'd gotten eaten by a cat or otherwise met a sad end.

Then, this afternoon, I go outside, and I start hearing what sounds like a chick's distressed peeping, so I look all over the place, and can't find her at all. After doing this for awhile, I decide to just open up the brooder, hoping that maybe she and the rest of her flock will find each other. I go out to run some errands, and come back and sure enough, there she is with the rest of the chicks. I have no idea where she was or how she did it, but she somehow managed to survive on her own for almost an entire day, including being on her own overnight.
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Gifted & talented chickies!
 

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