Arizona Chickens

[SherrieT]

I am a total Walking Dead freak! There's even a thread somewhere around here about the show. Can't believe we have to wait till October for season 3. So funny about the chickens Welcome.

Thnak you for the welcome and thanks for the replies---I seriously had my eggs out ready to boil them up as soon as the word came out they were good--lol


Mikey- so glad to hear that your chickens are doing better-logged on just to see

Anyone like the Walking Dead show on AMC? Well, if you haven't watched it, its a series that had a season final last week about a group of survivors shacked up at a farm and the seasons end they were over run by zombies and had to leave......and I was talking to my TV...... "TAKE THE CHICKENS WITH YOU!!!" ...humor I am sure that only you guys/gals would get....(Yes I am a little weird lol)
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[Billiam]

Hi Everyone! Sorry I've been away so long. I just wanted to give an updated. I think all five of our black australorp hens are laying eggs. It all started with a single egg on March 17th. It's been 12 days now and we just got our 21st egg! Four just today!

Here is a picture of our first egg. The two white ones are just props to help the girls know where to lay their eggs. It seems to have worked okay. We got them at Hobby Lobby for like 50 cents or something cheap like that.


Here is the egg counts by days. The three eggs along the top right are the remainder of our store bought eggs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Yeah I know,
What did you need to know about i have several raised beds and lots of its filled with veggies. Lately I've ben planting in the landscape usually reserved for non edible plants, just for show. i decided why waste water and fertilizer on stuff I can't eat, I tried to convince my wife that we needed an apple tree in the lawn area of the backyard. That didn't go over well, she likes all the tomatoes and peppers, I'll get her on board yet.

Get a photo of an apple tree in bloom and show it to her; also plum, nectarine, peach, apricot, pear, .... Either my nectarine or apricot has the most stunningly beautiful blooms. This is the second year of blooms, but no fruit yet, so I keep forgetting which is which. Dark pink double blossoms that last a LONG time.

 

[rufus]

We don't have a lot of success with apples here in the valley. I have seen them, but they don't really do well. Those that I have seen with fruit on were mostly Golden Delicious, and it took a lot of fineggling to get them to produce. They require a certain period of chilling. This can be done with an insulated box around the base of the tree rising up about four foot up the tree.

Freeze ice in your freezer and pack it around the trunk. You have to be really dedicated to this process. The ice will thaw almost faster than you can freeze it. If you try it, I hope you post the outcome.

Rufus

 

[noodlegirl]

Even my kids love that show 6, 10 & 13. The 6 yr old isn't scared of zombies, they aren't real. But when they broke that chicken's leg to throw to the zombies! She screamed & cried. We tried to tell her it wasn't real. They didn't really hurt the chicken in real life. It's just pretend. Suffice to say, she had to be excused. THAT was too upsetting. Not that the zombies were eating the chicken but that the people broke it's leg.

 

[AZKat]

Personally, I wouldn't plant an apple tree, I've known people who have, and the fruit is not abundant or especially tasty. Peaches do very, very well here, the only trick is to get a variety that doesn't need a lot of chill hours. I've also heard good things about plums, but haven't personally tried the fruit.

 

[Mikey D]

Mikey, Could I intrude in your chick problem to ask if your chicks came from "Ideal".?.. Could this have anything to do with their not shipping to some of the feed stores over here in New Mexico.,?.. I don't have a problem, yet, but I was looking to get a few chicks, and all of the feed stores I checked said that Ideal would not ship any to them until the middle of April.. Being naturally paranoid, I was wondering.............? Will

Thanks for all the well wishes folks! Tomorrow is going to be the last of the injections. No runny noses anymore - no yucky eyes - hoping it all goes into long term memory.

Will and Henhouse - The chicks were from Ideal. I did have a serious issue with them but it was not illness related. They kept shipping chicks without packing peanuts & January was too cold and they kept dying.

As far as what is going on now - the closest I can tell it showed up a week or so after I got back from the poultry show. I bought 2 4 week old chicks there and did not follow proper bio security / isolation procedures. Of course there is no proof that it came from the chicks, it might have just been coincidental.

It started with what looked like a watery eye and progressed into a full blown eye infection. There was white puss in the eye and I'm honestly unsure of nasal discharge (but it did show up later in others). I had to cull three chicks (after weeks and weeks of nursing them) and two more died.

Tylan was suggested and while I have already culled the serious symptomatic ones, this stuff seemed to do the trick. 1/4 cc for the small birds & 1/2 cc for the layers.

I am also fogging with Oxine - 1 oz to 3/4 gallon (My Walmart ultrasonic mister only holds 3/4 gal so I reduced the ratio to match) just about 24 hours a day.

Hope it helps

 

[Mikey D]

Hi Selina,
We live in Gilbert and well I'm still trying to figure out what size coop and how to provide enough shade for a few birds. It would be on the east side of the house and share the space with our raised beds, compost bins and garden shed. I have water available and the area gets shaded staring around12:30 or so. The biggest concern is that unless the current policies regarding who can and who can't keep BYCs changes I would be risking having to tear down and find homes for the chickens. I'm an avid gardener and in my mind I think as long as they pose no problem,there shouldn't be a problem.

Glad to hear you are starting up, any pics yet?

dave

Dave, build as big as you can and then enlarge it some more!

Careful with those Hovering Overbearing A$sholes - they have de-chickend some good people on this board.


Welcome!

 

[Mikey D]

Thnak you for the welcome and thanks for the replies---I seriously had my eggs out ready to boil them up as soon as the word came out they were good--lol


Mikey- so glad to hear that your chickens are doing better-logged on just to see

Anyone like the Walking Dead show on AMC? Well, if you haven't watched it, its a series that had a season final last week about a group of survivors shacked up at a farm and the seasons end they were over run by zombies and had to leave......and I was talking to my TV...... "TAKE THE CHICKENS WITH YOU!!!" ...humor I am sure that only you guys/gals would get....(Yes I am a little weird lol)
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Thanks AZsun!

 

[Mikey D]

Hi Everyone! Sorry I've been away so long. I just wanted to give an updated. I think all five of our black australorp hens are laying eggs. It all started with a single egg on March 17th. It's been 12 days now and we just got our 21st egg! Four just today!

Here is a picture of our first egg. The two white ones are just props to help the girls know where to lay their eggs. It seems to have worked okay. We got them at Hobby Lobby for like 50 cents or something cheap like that.


Here is the egg counts by days. The three eggs along the top right are the remainder of our store bought eggs.

That's awesome Billiam!

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