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As long as they are feed, happy and healthy we don't matter much until they need something else and then we go and get it for them! :gig
 
Our little Roo has been spending more time out in the flock with the others now that he is more the hens size, they don't chase him around like they used to when he was little.

Chewy has been a friendly little guy so far and hopefully he stays that way or he too may have other long term planes in a much colder place. :D
 
416bigbore said:
Our little Roo has been spending more time out in the flock with the others now that he is more the hens size, they don't chase him around like they used to when he was little.

Chewy has been a friendly little guy so far and hopefully he stays that way or he too may have other long term planes in a much colder place. :D
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I know what you mean. In the meantime, I am seeing the difference in the sexes of these 10 Aloha chick's. I'm keeping the girl's, but the boy's will have to go one way or the other even if it's in the dark cold place, until they get warmed back up later and get invited for dinner. ;)
 
@BlueBaby I agree with you 100% on that program. I would rather put them in our freezer first over giving them away to someone who claims they are going to give your pet a good home and it ends up in their dark cold place until invited for their dinner.

My GF don't understand how I could do that to one of our pet ducks or chickens. I tell her we have way to much invested into them in good feed to just give someone else the best tasting farm raised poultry they have ever had for free, over us getting to enjoy it first. LOL

Then if we were to ever sell any, I tell her that our pet poultry would have a nice price tag attached to them to discourage anyone, the new owners from eating them over keeping them as pets. Not saying it would work out that way, but at least we could recoup a little of our investment back. :)

Another thing that amazes me about these younger generations, they think that their chicken and pork comes from a supermarket wrapped in plastic on a little pink or yellow Styrofoam plate! :barnie:he IMO, if you can find good farm raised produce, it don't get much better then that! :)

Whenever I have to pick up one of our hens to move them, I always give their legs and breast a little feel to see how they have been progressing in size. I know that sounds bad. LOL :gig
 
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Yes, but the big red dust storm's happen during the monsoon season. This year there was very little rain where I'm at. I'm able to go in the coop and stand there too, and have had to do so in past years.

I'm glad that Miss Piggy is back to normal for you this morning. Yes, egg laying can be crazy sometimes. Some of the younger pullet's will pace back and forth trying to decide where they should lay the egg at. I've even had a couple of them that would fly up on my shoulder or back, and of course that is not a good place to lay an egg at. I have those fake egg's in the nesting box, but they don't always seem to tell the new layer's to go there?
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Thank you, I am glad she is doing so much better. Our ducks DO NOT like being held and messed with, Miss Piggy especially. After were are done holding any of them to check them over from time to time. Once they are back on the ground they will rush over to their pool for a quick swim to wash the human off of them! LOL Actually kind of funny to watch.

I have a few of those plastic Easter eggs in our nesting boxes also and I am not really convinced if they work or not for the chickens? I find eggs in different places all the time. Sometimes there will be an egg in each box, next time all four eggs in just one box and then sometimes one or two of their eggs mixed in with the duck eggs in their little straw nests they have on the ground. I guess I don't get their reasoning behind how they go about where to lay their one egg for the day. LOL

That was my first time experiencing your Monsoon season type of weather. It also amazed me how fast and hard it could rain in a short time to flood everything over wanting to soak up in the dry sandy ground, craziness!

I know why the city busses have the engines in the rear of them now. One late afternoon I was riding the city bus and a big monsoon hit and dumped a stupid amount of rain in a short time and a bunch of the street on that bus route very flooded.

For whatever the reason it didn't phase the driver and he drove right through them and in doing so. A wall of water was half way up on the big front windshield as a bunch of water rushed in and around the front door and flooded the bus floor with 2-3 inches of water. I would have never guessed I would have every experienced a crazy bus ride like that before! :gig
 
416bigbore said:
@BlueBaby I agree with you 100% on that program. I would rather put them in our freezer first over giving them away to someone who claims they are going to give your pet a good home and it ends up in their dark cold place until invited for their dinner.

My GF don't understand how I could do that to one of our pet ducks or chickens. I tell her we have way to much invested into them in good feed to just give someone else the best tasting farm raised poultry they have ever had for free, over us getting to enjoy it first. LOL

Then if we were to ever sell any, I tell her that our pet poultry would have a nice price tag attached to them to discourage anyone, the new owners from eating them over keeping them as pets. Not saying it would work out that way, but at least we could recoup a little of our investment back. :)

Another thing that amazes me about these younger generations, they think that their chicken and pork comes from a supermarket wrapped in plastic on a little pink or yellow Styrofoam plate! :barnie:he IMO, if you can find good farm raised produce, it don't get much better then that! :)

Whenever I have to pick up one of our hens to move them, I always give their legs and breast a little feel to see how they have been progressing in size. I know that sounds bad. LOL :gig
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Yes, and with these uncertain time's I think it's sort of nice to have a few extra roo's that can be invited to dinner, and at least you know how it was raised and taken care of.
 
416bigbore said:
Thank you, I am glad she is doing so much better. Our ducks DO NOT like being held and messed with, Miss Piggy especially. After were are done holding any of them to check them over from time to time. Once they are back on the ground they will rush over to their pool for a quick swim to wash the human off of them! LOL Actually kind of funny to watch.

I have a few of those plastic Easter eggs in our nesting boxes also and I am not really convinced if they work or not for the chickens? I find eggs in different places all the time. Sometimes there will be an egg in each box, next time all four eggs in just one box and then sometimes one or two of their eggs mixed in with the duck eggs in their little straw nests they have on the ground. I guess I don't get their reasoning behind how they go about where to lay their one egg for the day. LOL

That was my first time experiencing your Monsoon season type of weather. It also amazed me how fast and hard it could rain in a short time to flood everything over wanting to soak up in the dry sandy ground, craziness!

I know why the city busses have the engines in the rear of them now. One late afternoon I was riding the city bus and a big monsoon hit and dumped a stupid amount of rain in a short time and a bunch of the street on that bus route very flooded.

For whatever the reason it didn't phase the driver and he drove right through them and in doing so. A wall of water was half way up on the big front windshield as a bunch of water rushed in and around the front door and flooded the bus floor with 2-3 inches of water. I would have never guessed I would have every experienced a crazy bus ride like that before! :gig
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When the ground is dry it takes longer for the rain to soak in. The dirt has that Caliche in it.
 
@BlueBaby Thank you and very interested to check that out. So how deep is your shallow water table in that part of AZ?

Back home 20' will support a shallow well pump (hard water usually ) Then 60' and deeper endless soft water because of the sodium in the water.
 

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