Arizona Chickens

[Mikey D]

Mikey - Way to go with your flock!!!

I'm so glad to hear they are doing well.

Thanks Constance. This is me crossing my fingers

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Quote: I got mine at our main nursery here in Tucson. I've been hugely inspired by the things they're doing at Dave Wilson's Nursery, particularly as it relates to urban orchards and especially in the southwest. Here are their picks for the best trees in our climate. They're big advocates of "Backyard Orchard Culture," a method of pruning trees so that they mature at a very small size (~8'-10'). They have a fairly easy but specific timing of pruning to achieve that small size. The benefit is that you can bag the whole tree for protection and reach all of the fruit for harvesting. You'll get fewer fruit (e.g. ~150 instead of 400), but you can pack more trees into a smaller area and more varieties to extend your harvest season.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Here's a list of Nurseries in AZ that carry DWN trees. It even has .pdf files of the trees your local nursery bought from DWN.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Here's a great online store that we bought a Snow Queen Nectarine from last winter (their trees are bare root so you have to wait for winter). They had a smokin' deal, any 10 bare-root trees for $200, including shipping. I didn't find out about that until I bought most of what I needed locally.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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kev, check out Minnie Royal (fertilizer) and Royal Lee. Both have very low chill hours (I think something less than 200 hours). They're supposed to be excellent sweet cherries too. We planted one of each this winter.


I wish there were a tart cherry with low chill hours.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It's Pastrymama, but I think she was over-ruled on that one.

How 'bout it Pastry - incubate a couple of goose eggs?

Tell the fireman they're just really big leghorn / rock crosses from SonoranSilkies


I have plenty of goose eggs that Bliz is sitting on. However, my other goose is a goose, not a gander, so nothin's happening there other than a lot of hissing whenever anyone goes near her nest.

And no leghorns! Don't care for them. (Shhhh! Don't tell my long-since-passed great-grandmother--she was convinced that her leghorns were "the best." At least that is what my aunt told me.

I do have some rather large rocks, though

 

[pastrymama]

Are you trying to get me in trouble mikey? If I put those things in the bator, who is taking them once they haatch, because I am not allowed to keep them! Yes, I have the room for them, but I would rather not get divorced over geese.

 

[Mikey D]

Are you trying to get me in trouble mikey? If I put those things in the bator, who is taking them once they haatch, because I am not allowed to keep them! Yes, I have the room for them, but I would rather not get divorced over geese.

Wasn't the feed store selling geese chicks (Geese chicks? Really?) for 30 or 50 bucks a wack?

You could buy a bunch of feed for that kind of scratch!

***Edited for fake outrage***

AND YOU'RE ONE TO TALK MISS:

"LET'S-TEXT-MIKEY-PICTS-OF-BRAND-NEW-BREEDER-WELLIES"!!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Some breeds of geese are a lot more expensive than others.

 

[Mikey D]

Lunch time: French toast (with home grown eggs!) and bacon!

I got door #4 mounted & latched



Here it is open



And the access hole (Port hole) and gangway from the brooder to the bottom section



I put a walk-way around the access hole just in case the peepers wanted to make a left turn instead of a right.



We gave Max a treat of bacon grease on his kibble

(cause clogged arteries aren't just for people anymore!)

And just for grins we put his food out with the chickens.

So he could see what it's like to have the chickens eat his food for a change.