Arizona Chickens

[Phottoman]

photto, i am not positive but it looks like in picture 2 is a light brahma and pic 3 is a dark brahma.

pic 1 might be a bantam golden laced brahma but need a close up of the head to be sure. it doesnt seem square enough

Thank you, and since there were two of you that answered, Brahma's they are. Funny, I seem to remember something like that being said when I bought them as day old chicks.

You asked for a close up of the head, will these do?

Phottoman
I think you have

#2 Light Brahma

#4 Black Australorps

but these all lay brown tinted eggs(sometimes the brahmas and australorps look pink-ish) so I don't know where blue would come from.

Well, there are eight hens in this coop, and you have pictures of all of them above, except the two RIR's, and as far as I know, they have brown eggs too. I get an average of two to three very light colored blue/green eggs a day. And thank you for the BA info, that makes me feel better now knowing what I have here.

Skip

 

[notinoz2007]

still hard to say., could be cochin, which also lay brown eggs. sorry, wish i was better at this. i've only had chickens for a year myself.

 

[In2Ice]

Light Brahma and Dark Brahma would be my vote too. If you put my Light Brahma next to yours I wouldn't be able to tell them apart. They lay a nice light brown/pinkish color egg. Mine are 10 months old and the eggs are weighing right around 2oz for my Light Brahma and 2.2oz for my Buff Brahma. They are very nice, docile, sweet birds.

 

[noodlegirl]

Finally the weather has cooled off enough that I decided to try to train those girls on the nipple feeder I built months & months ago.
I installed nipples on the bottom of a homer bucket with have a sump pump float inside. I finally hooked it up to the drip system today and won't you know, the bucket is cracked along where I installed the nipples. Man... that's what I get for leaving it outside all summer.

Now i have to try to remember how in the world I built that

and where that specially sized drill bit is.

Haha! I looked up the ebay listing for nipples... it's 7/16 or 11/32 drill bit. Easy peasy. Drilled hole, put rubber plug in then used socket wrench to ease the nipples in. Drilled hole on side that measures just over a gallon of water, they drink maybe 1/2 gallon/day. Screwed in sump pump float. Hung bucket. Attached irrigation line.

Now where's that peanut butter!

 

[pastrymama]

OK, folks, I have to ask a few questions.

What kind of chickens do I have?

I have a beautiful little Bantam, and I am not sure what breed she is. And she has started going all broody on me. She sits on anything that is left in the laying boxes. I had placed golf balls in there so the birds would know where to lay their eggs. However, she is so adamant about hatching that I took all the eggs out of the boxes, and placed one about four inches away from her. WHILE I was watching, she reached out with her beak and pulled it under her. I removed all the eggs from under her, and placed a second golf ball under her, and she pulled THAT one under her too. The next time I checked on her, she had pulled ALL six of the golf balls under her, and she has been sitting on them for several hours. I even picked her up and placed he on the ground outside the run and coop. Within minutes she was back inside sitting on her golf balls. This has been going on for more than a week now, and I am concerned. By the way, she is part of my first flock, she came home as a two day old chick at the end of March, 2012, this year.




Next I have several, four in fact, white birds with black tips. This is what they all look like, and hard to tell them apart. I think it's a good thing I didn't name them, I would hate arguments with these girls if I called them the wrong name. These are also part of the first flock, late March this year, 2012.




The darker 'sister' sitting beside her was also part of this same group when I got them. I should mention at this time that these girls are giving me (or should I say "gifting" me) with beautiful light blue, almost green eggs, and a variety of brown eggs, though I have no idea which are giving brown and which are gifting me with the light blue/green eggs.




The last picture is of several hens. I know the white one is a Leghorn, but I have no idea what the others are. They are ALL black, except when the sun hits them. Their feathers look green and blue, very luminescent, and BEAUTIFUL. This is my second flock, brought home as one week old in late May, 2012.





There are five leghorns (still have all five, and the only breed I can name) and there were five of these black hens, but one was a rooster, and he was re-homed. He was vicious, he attacked everything, and the chickens all ran from him. When he attacked me, that was when I finally separated him from the group and put him in a separate cage. Then a neighbor asked about him and I gave him to that neighbor. I haven't heard a sound from the neighbors yard, so I will assume that he went to freezer camp that night.

OK, folks, can you help? What do I really have?

Skip

#1 bantam gold laced cochin(very broody hens, light brown to brown eggs)
#2 light brahma
#3 dark brahma (brahmas are also very broody hens, light cream eggs)
#4 possibly astralorps if they are solid black(brown egg) leghorns lay white, so those must not be laying yet?

i can't imagine who would be laying green/blue, only an easter egger would do that and i don't see any in your photos.

 

[squeakyballs]

Phottoman - Your broody hen is broody.

 

[squeakyballs]

Phottoman - Your broody hen is broody.

You have a few choices. You can:

1) Search for "How to Break a Broody" and try those things (good luck with that, hah, fat chance)
2) Give her fertilized eggs and let her hatch them
3) After she has sat on golf-balls for a few weeks, sneak newly hatched chicks under her while she is asleep and hopes she thinks that her golf-balls hatched.
4) Wait it out. She'll give up in a few months.

In the meantime, she's going to get up once a day to eat and drink and POOP.

 

[pimachickens]

My Friend did it!!!!! She fought the city of Gilbert when a neighbor complained about her chickens. She was not zoned for it. They grandfathered her in. She can keep the chickens and ducks from what I understand. I will have her post an update when she feels better (sick) but I had to share the good news. It pays to stand your ground and fight. I am very proud of her!

That is great news.

 

[pimachickens]

Phottoman - Your broody hen is broody.

Come on TT!, let's not sugar coat things here. Say what you mean.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Realize though, that chicken wire also comes in 2" openings, not just 1"