Arizona Chickens

[turkeybreeder]

glad your chicks are stable

Good news everyone! The bringer of death stopped sweeping his hand over my flock.

Last Friday was when I purchased the ducklings and chicks, and they had steadily been dying over the weekend. In the end, I lost 6 total. But I am happy to announce that yesterday and today was death free, and all of the survivors are rambunctious, healthy, getting into mischief, and all over the place! I still have no idea what killed the ducklings and chicks, I looked all over their little bodies and found no mites/lice.

Thank you everyone, thank you for wishing my flock and I well. Thank you all for your tips and help.

 

[pastrymama]

mikey,
sometimes you just gotta keep your trap SHUT!!!!!!!!! if you just show up with chicks, it's not like you can take them back. now if i came home with a baby goat or two today, i would have been in serious trouble. but a few silkies, he never would have noticed.

oh, i found someone by me that has white muscovies. i may go pick up a dz eggs this weekend. i'll put a few in your may 31st hatch box.

i don't care what you and memphis say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! she has a chick with one eye and a scissor beak!!!!!

 

[Puffycheeks]

Oh that is good news. I'm glad for you that it's not something that can be passed on to your other birds. I'll bet you're right too about her being in a weakened state and more susceptible to parasites. I wonder, was she dust bathing as much as she usually would before the tumor? The tumor growth must have been scary! I wonder if that is also what's going on with my black Australorp? She has a sort of small fleshy tube over one eye. It kinda looks like a smooth wart. It grew fast to the size of a pencil eraser but has been stable for well over a year so I don't worry so much about it anymore. It doesn't seem to affect her in any way, but I can't help but keep an eye on it. Once again, I'm glad your bird is doing better!

 

[Puffycheeks]

I don't know. I try to be a good neighbor and distract the girls when they start to get loud, but obviously they aren't quiet all the time. Most of the neighbors think we are a little out there (but I have to admit, they are really tolerant in that they just shrug and eye roll and then move on with their lives). It's kinda scary to think I might be influencing more deviation from the norm. Whoa. That's a lot of pressure.

I SHOULD GET A DONKEY!

 

[Puffycheeks]

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! I came home from being out of town for two nights to find THIS bitty PEEPER!!!!

This chick is our first chick to hatch ever, under 2 first time broodies....I kinda figured that the 3 eggs the co-broodies have been jointly sitting on would be duds but not this little one

Daddy is Cujo, the 1 pound Serama roo, and mom is a Serama hen (But we're not sure which!) either Squirrely or Webster

Here is Squirrely and the new chick, which we are calling Uno for now

 

[Puffycheeks]

Katy had her kid last night! He is sooo cute! Only one, we thought she would have 3 but she was kinda fat before she got PG and this is her first time. Mother and son doing well this morning!

I am in LOVE!!!! He is too too cute for words and how on earth did he get blue eyes??? Is he pure Nubian?

 

[AZKat]

Not in Oz: Mikey covered most of it already, but if you want to have a good selection and a short-ish line, I'd suggest getting to MoM around 8am. Most of it will need to be used fairly quickly, so be prepared to spend several hours cooking over the next few days.

I'm sorry that the SLW isn't getting along with the rest of the flock, I hope that changes soon.

I had my own chicken related adventure today, thanks to Mickey. I got a text, and then called for more details, about some chicks that belonged to a friend of his, that needed to go now, because of neighbor complaints. What the neighbors were complaining about I have no idea, since there were only three pullets. He wasn't sure what kinds they were, I recognized two of them as black sex-links, and a bit of research revealed that the third one was a California White. So, I've now got three more pullets, in addition to my seven big girls, and the eight pullets that I was raising already. Now I just need to decide who is going to get added to the layer flock.

 

[Mikey D]

mikey,
sometimes you just gotta keep your trap SHUT!!!!!!!!! if you just show up with chicks, it's not like you can take them back. now if i came home with a baby goat or two today, i would have been in serious trouble. but a few silkies, he never would have noticed.

oh, i found someone by me that has white muscovies. i may go pick up a dz eggs this weekend. i'll put a few in your may 31st hatch box.

i don't care what you and memphis say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! she has a chick with one eye and a scissor beak!!!!!

I'm sorry, I'm a full disclosure kinda guy.

Besides, I got all excited about the Americunas & Wellies & Black Cooper Marans & Spitz & whatever else I'm going to wind up with after you sneak an emu chick or two in the box!

And please don't put any of those plague ridden, tumor carrying, hideously deformed ducks in my hatch.

 

[Mikey D]

Not in Oz: Mikey covered most of it already, but if you want to have a good selection and a short-ish line, I'd suggest getting to MoM around 8am. Most of it will need to be used fairly quickly, so be prepared to spend several hours cooking over the next few days.

I'm sorry that the SLW isn't getting along with the rest of the flock, I hope that changes soon.

I had my own chicken related adventure today, thanks to Mickey. I got a text, and then called for more details, about some chicks that belonged to a friend of his, that needed to go now, because of neighbor complaints. What the neighbors were complaining about I have no idea, since there were only three pullets. He wasn't sure what kinds they were, I recognized two of them as black sex-links, and a bit of research revealed that the third one was a California White. So, I've now got three more pullets, in addition to my seven big girls, and the eight pullets that I was raising already. Now I just need to decide who is going to get added to the layer flock.

Excellent! I'm glad it worked out for all involved.

 

[pimachickens]

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And I will call him George, and I will love him, and keep him, and pet him...