Arizona Chickens

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Well, I don't know enough about the breeds to know what kind I want...LOL I want a calm and gentle breed that I can hand tame. I want ones that will sit on my lap. I need them to be quiet and not high strung. I live in an HOA and I don't want noisy ones if I can help it. :) I have a test that I do with all my new animals. If they fall asleep in my hand or like to be held well then, they are mine! I want young babies. Mine they say were 5 days old. I also want large eggs and good layers. It won't take much to enable me....LOL
 
I walk out and see my 4 week old buff opington chick sprawled over out on its side, legs outstretched. I thought it was dead. My heart dropped! I ran over to it and it got up and looked at me like "Hey! Why are you disturbing my sleep?" LOL I didn't know they do that! I also saw that my 2 4 week old chicks are now sleeping/sitting with my rescued quail all huddled together. I am glad the quail has company but I am not sure how enthused she is about it! :)
 
parentwarrior said:
Well, I don't know enough about the breeds to know what kind I want...LOL I want a calm and gentle breed that I can hand tame. I want ones that will sit on my lap. I need them to be quiet and not high strung. I live in an HOA and I don't want noisy ones if I can help it. :) I have a test that I do with all my new animals. If they fall asleep in my hand or like to be held well then, they are mine! I want young babies. Mine they say were 5 days old. I also want large eggs and good layers. It won't take much to enable me....LOL
Click to expand...
As many answers you get, so will you get chickens.

From my quite limited experience I have found that they are much like people.

Two of the same breed from the same batch can have entirely different personalities.

One Dot ( a Red Broiler who has no business being friendly and laying every day) loves me and will set contentedly on my leg, her sister could care less & while I can pick her up would rather be elsewhere.

Same with the spitz. Two of them are friendly - two very skittish
 
WHERE IS EVERYBODY!?!?!?

So we went outside to putt the cluckers to bed and round up the peepers and what do we find???

Three of the spitz had taken up roost in the big girls coop.
ep.gif


I consulted with the Control Tower and she said let 'em stay!
idunno.gif


Going to have to keep a pretty good ear out tomorrow morning for a bunch of crashing and squawking & come the rescue if need be.
fl.gif
 
Are those crickets I hear?
lol.png
How old are those spitz now? That's a big step for them! One of my cockerals was stalking the outside of the big coop tonight and I thought he'd get the nerve to go in, but he went back to hang with his brothers in the tractor after all the ladies went to roost.
 
pupeluv said:
How many of you let your chickens free range during the day? Do you lose any to hawks?
Click to expand...

I used to be very vigilant about locking up the birds when I wasn't outside. In the past couple months I've become somewhat complacent about that and letting them run free for the day. We have Cooper's hawks in the yard every day, multiple times a day, but they don't mess with the older girls. I do worry about Red Tailed hawks and Harris's hawks, but they don't come into the yard much--I see the latter a lot but they stay high. Other people here on this thread have lost birds to hawks in the past. Probably the highest risk I have is from stray dogs coming over the wall. Of course they are all locked up well at night. I think that if you decide to free-range, you have to accept that the risk of losing birds is higher.
 

Similar threads

Millylou18
    • Like
Az heat and chicks
Replies
3
Views
287
cavemanrich
cavemanrich
C
Introducing new chickens to the flock
Replies
4
Views
334
OLDRanch
OLDRanch
G
MISSING CHICKEN
Replies
5
Views
284
Eggcessive
Eggcessive
K
    • Like
Help With Garage Brooder - Arizona!
Replies
5
Views
1K
BlueBaby
B
T
Heritage Leghorns vs Ancona
Replies
2
Views
302
trenace
T

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom