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Welcome Travis.

Be sure to check on permits for quail and pheasant in AZ. You don't need one for Coturnix, I've got 14 of them that hatched a couple months ago.

Craigslist is a good place to find jumbo brown quail here, some other colors too.
@Derrin lives across the country but may ship you some eggs.

Have fun, hope to see you around the boards.:frow
 
Hi, I love to visit Tucson but miss my girls, so only go down there from CO for a week. I would love to find a place where I can safely keep my hens, which they would enjoy. I personally can rent a casita or camp nearby.

I would have all my hens vaccinated again before driving them down. I know they can manage a longish drive because I brought them to CO all the way from NH a few years ago.

So, please help me locate a suitable place and I will share pix of the girls eating marijuana in my back yard.
 
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Hi, I love to visit Tucson but miss my girls, so only go down there from CO for a week. I would love to find a place where I can safely keep my hens, which they would enjoy. I personally can rent a casita or camp nearby.

I would have all my hens vaccinated again before driving them down. I know they can manage a longish drive because I brought them to CO all the way from NH a few years ago.

So, please help me locate a suitable place and I will share pix of the girls eating marijuana in my back yard.
 
I live in Colorado but hope to visit Tucson with my 9 girls in March. Looking for a place that they will enjoy and be safe for about 3-4 weeks while I bike and hike in the mountains.

Sorry if I have made a mess trying to get my message out to AZ chicken people. I may have found an ultra $$ place for March 2019, but am looking for acreage in the 49 and adjacent zipcodes with permissive zoning.

Please let me share these chicken ideas:
Green stuff for them to eat. Not much grass in winter CO and in AZ: I hang 1/2 cabbage by a hook in their run--they love to peck and eat this great vegetable, which you get in their eggs. (they make a mess of it, so chop the remains and give it out as finger food.) Another source of greens is to sprout wheat grass. Cut it off for them or they will pull up by the roots. We get maybe 3 sproutings from 1 seed.
Peaceful Valley sells "Omega-3 chicken forage blend" seeds to plant--also really good. Won't take much water. We tried to grow our own buckwheat, but it was a hard crop to harvest: we let the hens into this hi-protein garden patch.
Chickens love insects, which are sparse in the winter. We give ours dried meal worms---very hi protein. We buy Kaytee from Chewy with no tax, free shipping. We do some things with the flies that come into the back yard in the summer, but that is another story. Just ask.
I know the manufacturers of chicken feed say their product is the complete food. Give me a break: what if you were told to be happy eating just power bars. Chickens love variety. They are smart omnivorous animals who enjoy all the fruits of the Earth. Eat well and give them your leftovers. And, of course, crush the egg shells and return to their feed tray.

best wishes, Lin
 
I live in Colorado but hope to visit Tucson with my 9 girls in March. Looking for a place that they will enjoy and be safe for about 3-4 weeks while I bike and hike in the mountains.

Sorry if I have made a mess trying to get my message out to AZ chicken people. I may have found an ultra $$ place for March 2019, but am looking for acreage in the 49 and adjacent zipcodes with permissive zoning.

Please let me share these chicken ideas:
Green stuff for them to eat. Not much grass in winter CO and in AZ: I hang 1/2 cabbage by a hook in their run--they love to peck and eat this great vegetable, which you get in their eggs. (they make a mess of it, so chop the remains and give it out as finger food.) Another source of greens is to sprout wheat grass. Cut it off for them or they will pull up by the roots. We get maybe 3 sproutings from 1 seed.
Peaceful Valley sells "Omega-3 chicken forage blend" seeds to plant--also really good. Won't take much water. We tried to grow our own buckwheat, but it was a hard crop to harvest: we let the hens into this hi-protein garden patch.
Chickens love insects, which are sparse in the winter. We give ours dried meal worms---very hi protein. We buy Kaytee from Chewy with no tax, free shipping. We do some things with the flies that come into the back yard in the summer, but that is another story. Just ask.
I know the manufacturers of chicken feed say their product is the complete food. Give me a break: what if you were told to be happy eating just power bars. Chickens love variety. They are smart omnivorous animals who enjoy all the fruits of the Earth. Eat well and give them your leftovers. And, of course, crush the egg shells and return to their feed tray.

best wishes, Lin
 

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