Arizona Chickens

[Gallo del Cielo]

I just ordered 1000 meal worms on ebay! I'm going to build a meal worm farm and spoil the heck out of my ladies!

Your ladies will love you for it.

 

[rufus]

Got 11 eggs yesterday.

Dropped a board by accident and killed my last sulmtaler pullet.

I hate myself.

I'm not a good backup for ca.

Hope my birds survive this heat.

Did you get the air conditioner fixed? Make sure you run the unit a little every day. You might try to put it on a timer in the winter.

Rufus

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

I have three cockerels, about 16 weeks old if anyone is interested in giving them a home. If not, I'll be sending them to freezer camp. One is an EE, the other two are a mix of I don't know what. --Oh yeah, the other two were probably sired by an Egyptian Fayoumis. They have interesting looking heads.

Sorry to hear about all the bird woes. I think the heat is making it tough.

 

[Mikey D]

This seems not to be a good week for some of you. So sorry to hear you are gong through this. I will add my issue with my BO who is 21 months old. Seems after she molted months ago, I was finding lash eggs in the morning under where she roosted. She is going down hill and now I think she has egg perintinitis. Not sure what to do for her. She is losing feathers again. They are just dropping off her. She isn't eating as much as she used to, but will eat and drink some. She just sits and watches the other girls. Not sure what to do for her. My poor Daisy.

Sorry to hear that Chris.

Best wishes to Daisy

 

[Mikey D]

Hey everyone..... haven't posted much lately but have been keeping up for the most part.

Sorry to hear of all the injuries and losses and sending hugs to everyone who needs them!

We just put out 15 wk youngsters (3) in with our older flock of 5. We were very lucky and all went great. No fighting and they all went in the hen house together on the very first night. We let our older 5 out in the yard to free range and put the 3 new ones into the run alone to explore. They didn't move around much but when the older one came back in about 1 1/5 hours later everything was just fine.

Just wanted to share our good news..... now the wait is on for the younger ones to lay some eggs for us!!

Good news is always welcome!

 

[Mikey D]

Quote: I call it chicken TV - My wife calls it...

... well, I'm not going to say what my wife calls it.

 

[Mikey D]

I got hatchage. =D 2 of the eggs that are hatching so far. =D 2 babies for 3 mama's so far. They all are talking like crazy to the babies. LOL

Beautiful!

 

[Mikey D]

Got 11 eggs yesterday.

Dropped a board by accident and killed my last sulmtaler pullet.

I hate myself.

I'm not a good backup for ca.

Hope my birds survive this heat.

Sorry to hear that Mohonri.

That's gotta be rough.

 

[Mikey D]

I have a young cockerel with definite health issues, there's something wrong with his crop, he limps bad, refuses to grow... probably gonna have to cull him pretty soon. Sad, since this is my 4 yo brothers favorite pet. Looks like right now is just a bad time for everyone, seeing as birds are dropping like flies.

Ah well, how is everyone else under the blazing Arizona sun today?

I'm actually taking a break from welding in the garage.

It wasn't hot enough yet so I figured I needed to do something to heat it up a bit.

 

[Jferlisi]

Sorry to hear that terri. =( Hope she pulls thru. I have one baby. The EE didn't make it for some reason. But the one that hacthed is a blue silkie. =D

Here is mama