Arizona Chickens

[Mikey D]

the ducklings came this morning at 8:30am!!!!!!!!! i love holderreads!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't believe it was overnight shipping. i brought them home and the fireman opened the box

and they were all alive!!!!!!!! i quickly set up a brooder and started pulling ducklings out and dipping bills into the waterer, he said "wait a minute, there are 17 in this box??????" um, not anymore. they are in this box! they sent a few extra, i couldn't possibly have ordered that many. so i received welsh harlequins, white magpies and silver appleyards. i sold 2 this morning. better hurry and clean out the growout pen.

and yes, i have duck pools and wading dishes. lucky duck was just pushing her luck. maybe she was annoyed that i have a fence around the people pool that the stupid basque keep flying into and she can't figure out how they get in and she can't.

memphis, bring me that goose. we'll pass it off for a pekin and you can have one of my loverly scovy drakes.

So which one of them is the laying type?


No ducks for Mikey!
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No ducks for Mikey!

 

[Novaleigh]

Well, we had to send Cruella to a more fitting home today. Now we only have 5 laying hens, but Cruella being true to her character was just too mean to the new young ladies! She would constantly chase and peck at the young birds and actually pull feathers out of my GSL's back! You don't know how much I wanted to make a beer can chicken out of her, but she is living safely and happy at my wife's aunt's ranch with about 20 other chickens. Let's see how the pecking order works out now, you little !#$%^! What goes around comes around. Now the hens are all getting alone blissfully well!

"Let's see how the pecking order works out now, you little !#$%^! "

This post made my night!

 

[pastrymama]

So which one of them is the laying type?


No ducks for Mikey!

No ducks for Mikey!


No ducks for Mikey!


No ducks for Mikey!


No ducks for Mikey!


No ducks for Mikey!


No ducks for Mikey!


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No ducks for Mikey!


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No ducks for Mikey!


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No ducks for Mikey!

Beavis, THEY ARE ALL THE LAYING TYPE! What kind of hairbrainned question is that? I told you, no more hennies for me(except basque and silkies) and I am going to ducks. You thought I was kidding.
I just asked the fireman if I could get a few geese, of course he said no. I laughed. And told him that he knows I am going to do it anyway. But I respected the no turkeys, no goats. I am a good wife,, no matter what you say mikey!!

 

[Billiam]

Well, we had to send Cruella to a more fitting home today. Now we only have 5 laying hens, but Cruella being true to her character was just too mean to the new young ladies! She would constantly chase and peck at the young birds and actually pull feathers out of my GSL's back! You don't know how much I wanted to make a beer can chicken out of her, but she is living safely and happy at my wife's aunt's ranch with about 20 other chickens. Let's see how the pecking order works out now, you little !#$%^! What goes around comes around. Now the hens are all getting alone blissfully well!

 

[Fuzzybird]

Well it has been a terrible ending to the day for me! Around 4 this afternoon I let the 2 standard poodle girls out to go potty in the back yard. I sat down to watch Judge Judy and dozed off. I woke up with a start and thought "the poor dogs why did they bark or scratch at the back door, it is so hot! I went to let them in and no poodle! I ran out and the back gate into the "farm" yard was open. My heart sank. I knew what I was going to find! The Turkeys and the young chickens that are with them were loose!
I found a carnage. Bodies all over the yard! I got the dogs in and went into where Les was taken a nap, crying hysterically! He came back out with me and Gabriel the Royal palm young Tom is dead as is Goldy my red bourbon young turkey hen. One baby turkey was dead. My polish cockerel Fancy was dead. Denise's Cochin baby was dead. 3 baby turkeys missing. The two red hens of Denise's came out from under the shed finally and Polish hen Muppet had hid under a kennel we had in the turkey yard. As we were looking a neighbor down road came up with one of the baby turkeys she found in her yard under her dogs feet but didn't hurt her. The babies can fly so 3 got away over the fence. One turkey came home later for dinner. That leaves just one baby turkey still missing out there in the dark somewhere.

Blue Bell is hurt! She did get herself wedge into some safty but her tail was pull out and she has one, just under the surface of her skin, wound on her back up a bit from her tail and some other minor just first layer of skin imbrasions. She did eat a but tonight and is roosting in her normal spot. I treated the wounds. Her poor tail!

I have a hunch but won't name names that the gate was left unlocked deliberately knowing I had the turkeys out and that the poos would get them or maybe by mistake but it was human done and we here never use that gate! We are going to get a pad lock for it so that can't happen again!
Puffy, I want more turkeys.

 

[Novaleigh]

So sorry to hear of this! What a terrible day for you. My heart goes out to you. Dogs and poultry never mix (accept on extreme rare occasion), and accidents are bound to happen. Glad Bluebell didn't die, extremely lucky, she is such a lovely turkey.

Well it has been a terrible ending to the day for me! Around 4 this afternoon I let the 2 standard poodle girls out to go potty in the back yard. I sat down to watch Judge Judy and dozed off. I woke up with a start and thought "the poor dogs why did they bark or scratch at the back door, it is so hot! I went to let them in and no poodle! I ran out and the back gate into the "farm" yard was open. My heart sank. I knew what I was going to find! The Turkeys and the young chickens that are with them were loose!
I found a carnage. Bodies all over the yard! I got the dogs in and went into where Les was taken a nap, crying hysterically! He came back out with me and Gabriel the Royal palm young Tom is dead as is Goldy my red bourbon young turkey hen. One baby turkey was dead. My polish cockerel Fancy was dead. Denise's Cochin baby was dead. 3 baby turkeys missing. The two red hens of Denise's came out from under the shed finally and Polish hen Muppet had hid under a kennel we had in the turkey yard. As we were looking a neighbor down road came up with one of the baby turkeys she found in her yard under her dogs feet but didn't hurt her. The babies can fly so 3 got away over the fence. One turkey came home later for dinner. That leaves just one baby turkey still missing out there in the dark somewhere.

Blue Bell is hurt! She did get herself wedge into some safty but her tail was pull out and she has one, just under the surface of her skin, wound on her back up a bit from her tail and some other minor just first layer of skin imbrasions. She did eat a but tonight and is roosting in her normal spot. I treated the wounds. Her poor tail!

I have a hunch but won't name names that the gate was left unlocked deliberately knowing I had the turkeys out and that the poos would get them or maybe by mistake but it was human done and we here never use that gate! We are going to get a pad lock for it so that can't happen again!
Puffy, I want more turkeys.

 

[In2Ice]

Ok, so most of you don't post when your girls lay an egg, but I can't help it!!! Today is the first time that I have gotten a bakers dozen and I am expecting 2-3 more eggs today. So the bakers dozen didn't just happen today but over a bakers dozen since Sunday. Used to take my two girls two weeks to make me a dozen and it's only taken three days. Whoop whoop. Here's my variety. Time to get my friends and family to save up them cartons.

Still not as bad as crazy as us. When we go out and collect the eggs my daughter pats the chickens on their heads and says "pleasure doing business with you". We then go in and weigh the eggs and chart on an excel spreadsheet that I made the date and weights of each egg

. Not bad though considering that we only have 4 chickens and 3 that are laying. It's pretty cool tracking which ones skip days and watch the weights of the eggs progressively get heavier.

 

[Novaleigh]

Still not as bad as crazy as us. When we go out and collect the eggs my daughter pats the chickens on their heads and says "pleasure doing business with you". We then go in and weigh the eggs and chart on an excel spreadsheet that I made the date and weights of each egg

. Not bad though considering that we only have 4 chickens and 3 that are laying. It's pretty cool tracking which ones skip days and watch the weights of the eggs progressively get heavier.

LOL!!!! Your daughter is WAY CUTE! LOL!!

 

[Novaleigh]

I keep finding palo verde beetles on my property! EEP!!! Those things will kill my young fruit trees! So glad my peepers love eating them (I remove any pokey parts from the beetles first, of course). Turn those tree killers into eggs! Mwahaha! Take that, you rubbish beetles!

 

[GoldBarRanch]

Well it has been a terrible ending to the day for me! Around 4 this afternoon I let the 2 standard poodle girls out to go potty in the back yard. I sat down to watch Judge Judy and dozed off. I woke up with a start and thought "the poor dogs why did they bark or scratch at the back door, it is so hot! I went to let them in and no poodle! I ran out and the back gate into the "farm" yard was open. My heart sank. I knew what I was going to find! The Turkeys and the young chickens that are with them were loose!
I found a carnage. Bodies all over the yard! I got the dogs in and went into where Les was taken a nap, crying hysterically! He came back out with me and Gabriel the Royal palm young Tom is dead as is Goldy my red bourbon young turkey hen. One baby turkey was dead. My polish cockerel Fancy was dead. Denise's Cochin baby was dead. 3 baby turkeys missing. The two red hens of Denise's came out from under the shed finally and Polish hen Muppet had hid under a kennel we had in the turkey yard. As we were looking a neighbor down road came up with one of the baby turkeys she found in her yard under her dogs feet but didn't hurt her. The babies can fly so 3 got away over the fence. One turkey came home later for dinner. That leaves just one baby turkey still missing out there in the dark somewhere.

Blue Bell is hurt! She did get herself wedge into some safty but her tail was pull out and she has one, just under the surface of her skin, wound on her back up a bit from her tail and some other minor just first layer of skin imbrasions. She did eat a but tonight and is roosting in her normal spot. I treated the wounds. Her poor tail!

I have a hunch but won't name names that the gate was left unlocked deliberately knowing I had the turkeys out and that the poos would get them or maybe by mistake but it was human done and we here never use that gate! We are going to get a pad lock for it so that can't happen again!
Puffy, I want more turkeys.

Oh Terri im so sorry to hear this . ((( HUGS )))) I cant imagine what you must be feeling tonight. . got you in my prayers for strength honey.