Arizona Chickens

[AZBootsie]

O.K. If you haven't already heard, we're having a BYC pot-luck dinner at my house tomorrow at 6:30 pm. If the prospect of all the regular Tucson BYCers isn't enough to capture your interest, consider our special guests of honor, all the way from Apache Junction, Mikey D and The Control Tower! PM me for directions.

How fun!!! I Know you all will have a great time!!! My chickens and I will be anxiously waiting for the stories!!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

fmk602, there are a lot of current and former hospital workers on this thread. My wife is one too. Seems you're right that chickens are a good release from that environment. I hope your limping bird is O.K.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Quote: Yeah!

What she said!

Only nicer...

Love you Pastry

pastrymama does have a good point. For someone just starting out with chickens, I think it's best to get all of your birds from a single source at the same time. You can also reduce your chances of inheriting problems by getting day-old chicks. The problem with the CL listings like that is you really have no idea about the history of those birds. E.g., did the seller practice good bio-security? Are the birds infected with MG or some other heinous bug, which might not be immediately obvious, even to the trained eye? The same for the coop (although that could be disinfected to some degree). It's tough enough starting out without saddling yourself with someone else's problems. While you can't totally eliminate the possibility of potential pathogens in your birds (some things can be transferred from hen to egg and wild birds are always vectors) I think it's best to minimize those problems. The longer you hang around here, the more you'll hear stories of complete and utter heartbreak from those who have had to cull their flocks due to untreatable illness. Devastating experiences like that will make you a fanatic about biosecurity.

 

[fmk602]

A pictoral testiment to the "weirdness" of chicken people. Soaking my injured/sick bird (Rocky's) foot , all the while she says "peep, peep, peep?" to her chicken mamma.

Thank you everyone for giving me a forum to be "weird" with.

(as I write this she is sadly whining, then loudly calling for company from the sick kennel )

 

[fmk602]

fmk602, there are a lot of current and former hospital workers on this thread. My wife is one too. Seems you're right that chickens are a good release from that environment. I hope your limping bird is O.K.

Thank you! Rocky and I are working on it.

 

[Fuzzybird]

I wish I could go to the potluck too. Take a bunch of pictures!
We had a LOT of rain last night and got caught in a down pour when feeding this morning.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Hey Y'all!

I'm still looking for an Australorp breeder in Tucson. I need a fresh unrelated roo for my increasingly inbred flock.

Show-quality preferred, and I don't mind paying for quality. If you know of anyone, please pass on my email [email protected]

Thanks!!!

Bryan Smith

 

[Mikey D]

Quote: HMK - sorry to hear about Rocky

I think you are correct - I was weird to begin with...

 

[Mikey D]

Quote: Yeah!

What she said!

Only nicer...

Love you Pastry

pastrymama does have a good point. For someone just starting out with chickens, I think it's best to get all of your birds from a single source at the same time. You can also reduce your chances of inheriting problems by getting day-old chicks. The problem with the CL listings like that is you really have no idea about the history of those birds. E.g., did the seller practice good bio-security? Are the birds infected with MG or some other heinous bug, which might not be immediately obvious, even to the trained eye? The same for the coop (although that could be disinfected to some degree). It's tough enough starting out without saddling yourself with someone else's problems. While you can't totally eliminate the possibility of potential pathogens in your birds (some things can be transferred from hen to egg and wild birds are always vectors) I think it's best to minimize those problems. The longer you hang around here, the more you'll hear stories of complete and utter heartbreak from those who have had to cull their flocks due to untreatable illness. Devastating experiences like that will make you a fanatic about biosecurity.
Yeah!

What he said!

Just like that!

Sux to have to kill your own birds!

Picture yourself taking your pet out to a log in the backyard with a hatchet.

Sux...

 

[pastrymama]

Yeah!

What he said!

Just like that!

Sux to have to kill your own birds!

Picture yourself taking your pet out to a log in the backyard with a hatchet.

Sux...

Shoot, I don't know how to multiquote. But I tend to not sugarcoat, unless making a cake! Yes, losing birds makes you a biosecurity freak. Mikey is nodding his head. People tend to be too loosy goosy and then complain when birds start dropping dead. Practice good biosecurity, do it the right way and most things turnout fine. Of course, you can't get rid of the rat birds.