Arizona Chickens

[Mikey D]

Quote: Very nice!

Like the story too!

 

[Fuzzybird]

My Silky Cotton is laying eggs and getting broody AGAIN! This will be her 4th time. I don't know if to let her go ahead and brood her eggs with the heat coming on or pull the eggs and try to stop her from getting broody? Anyone have any luck with bringing a broody hen in the house to let her hatch her eggs?

 

[pdx2phx]

My Silky Cotton is laying eggs and getting broody AGAIN! This will be her 4th time. I don't know if to let her go ahead and brood her eggs with the heat coming on or pull the eggs and try to stop her from getting broody? Anyone have any luck with bringing a broody hen in the house to let her hatch her eggs?

We did bring one in to hatch eggs and it went fine for the chicks and was easier to monitor, but it is MESSY & stinky so be forewarned.

Chicks are one thing, but a crazy acting, loud b'cocking, super stinky elephant-pooping, flapping (feathers & bird dander flying) broody hen is another....

We used a huge rubbermaid that has wheels on one end with towels (that she would "scratch" into her water, knock over food, etc) and we also tried with terramigo bedding (very dusty). We had a grate over the top. We'd make her get out and eat/drink /poop a couple of times a day. We had food and water in the bin of course but she didn't want to get up while in the bin with the eggs. Broody poops are amazingly nasty to clean up so we woold run with her to put her outside to poop and bring her back in for the food/water..... once the chicks were about a week old we couldn't take it any more (she was getting REALLY restless) and booted back her outside. We just don't have a good yard for little chicks so continued brooding them inside.

good luck!

 

[pastrymama]

i agree. chickens in the house, DOUBLE YUCK!!!!!! unless it is recovering from heat exhaustion then it can be in the laundry room crated with the exhaust fan on. OR from a winter swim in the pool, they get a heat lamp.

but i do have someone's chickies hatching right now. i have 2 out, 14 more to go. they are in my dining room but rest assured as soon as these babies are done hatching, their rightful owner will be coming to claim them.

 

[GoldBarRanch]

I know a woman here in the Tucson area who has Black Spanish chickens. But her chickens have mites and that scares me. I have no chickens right now. She's been raising chickens for years and grew up with them so she must have encountered the mites before. Would this scare anyone else? I do not want birds infested with mites. What do you think? Tomas 5/26/'12

I know a woman here in the Tucson area who has Black Spanish chickens. But her chickens have mites and that scares me. I have no chickens right now. She's been raising chickens for years and grew up with them so she must have encountered the mites before. Would this scare anyone else? I do not want birds infested with mites. What do you think? Tomas 5/26/'12

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[GoldBarRanch]

My Silky Cotton is laying eggs and getting broody AGAIN! This will be her 4th time. I don't know if to let her go ahead and brood her eggs with the heat coming on or pull the eggs and try to stop her from getting broody? Anyone have any luck with bringing a broody hen in the house to let her hatch her eggs?

I would not advise you to do this in AZ. The shock when you return the chicken back into the 110 heat from a 70 degree ac home could kill your bird. It is different when you put chicks outside here because they have been under a heat lamp in the house and go back out under heat. If it were mine I wouldnt do it. Im not allowing mine to sit on eggs right now during the extreme heat. Use your incubater if you want chicks hatched unless your pens are well cooled. (((HUGS))) be careful Fuzzybird

 

[viejo loco]

William Terrell

Memorial Day always reminds me of a story my Dad used to tell.. As most of you know, my Dad was a half-track
driver in an antiaircraft unit in Patton's army.. He had a friend named Frenchy, and every time they pulled
into a french town, Frenchy would sneak off and steal eggs from the farm houses, (he loved fresh eggs).. One
night, he came back with two chickens under his arms, saying "The little b*****ds wouldn't lay, so I brought
them along".. Dad tried to explain to him about chickens, but he would only say "I don't care what kinda
chickens they are, if they won't lay, I'll eat em".. So, that night, they cooked those ROOSTERS for dinner...

Shortly after that their half-track was bazookaed in an ambush, and Dad was injured too badly to walk, and
when the Germans captured them, Frenchy was one of the two guys who helped carry him.. He said" You sure are
a lot heavier than them roosters.".. Dad said, " Good thing we don't have that pot any more".. They were
rescued on their way to the POW camp, and Dad got sent home.. He survived the war, but sadly, Frenchy didn't..
He died just outside Berlin, three days before the war ended...

 

[Gospel Birds]

THANK YOU! That's why I've held off. Which, for me is difficult to do. I have polaroid mentallity!

 

[Jferlisi]

My Silky Cotton is laying eggs and getting broody AGAIN! This will be her 4th time. I don't know if to let her go ahead and brood her eggs with the heat coming on or pull the eggs and try to stop her from getting broody? Anyone have any luck with bringing a broody hen in the house to let her hatch her eggs?

Terri, if you want i have ladies sitting on eggs atm and they are due to hatch this week, they are due to hatch on thursday but im thinking they will hatch early. If she is sitting full time and you want to stick a chick or two under her ill give you a few. They will be EE's tho. silkie over ameraucana. =D dont ask color you wont like the answer. LOL

 

[Fuzzybird]

Well I guess I won't be trying to let Cotton brood in doors than! John, Cotton is not sitting tight yet. Really don't want anymore chicks at this time anyway. Thanks Guys.