Vegas, Baby!

[VegasDobermanns]

Welcome to BYC. Glad you decided to join our flock. No problem, I like reading novels. ) We visited my aunt in Las Vegas several times before she passed away. The lights at night on the strip and in glitter gulch are just amazing. As far as raising meat chickens and selling the meat to restaurants, you can find the answers your looking for at http://www.pianz.org.nz/industry-in...s/how-to-start-a-meat-chicken-production-farm. Please feel free to ask any other questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Good luck in starting your meat chicken farm.

Yep, the lights are great. So are the fireworks, too! Keep coming - we like tourist to keep improving our local economy!!! LOL.

Thanks for the link, but I don't think New Zealand's regulations apply in Las Vegas. I need to find the local info and the FDA info pages here. Just have not spent the time querying for them yet. So many things to do! Such is life - he he.

 

[Michael OShay]

Yeah, I know, and I need to also find heat tolerant breeds, too. Can't just get the prettiest, best layers that strike my fancy. I have a good friend here in Vegas that raises her own, so that will be a starting point, when I am ready, to see what breeds she has and how well each of them are doing in our heat.

Most of the Mediterranean breeds are heat tolerant. Unfortunately, they are also high strung and flighty, and don't have much meat on them. Black Australorps are extremely heat tolerant. I raised them in CA where summer temperatures frequently reached 117-118 F (123 F) and with shade, good coop ventilation, and plenty of fresh water, they did just fine. Not only are they excellent layers of large, brown eggs (a BA holds the brown egg laying record with 364 eggs in 365 days), but they are calm and gentle (my children, and now my granddaughter, made lap pets out of them), and they have a lot more meat on them than the lighter Mediterranean breeds. Whatever you end up getting, good luck with your flock.

 

[Michael OShay]

Yep, the lights are great. So are the fireworks, too! Keep coming - we like tourist to keep improving our local economy!!! LOL.

Thanks for the link, but I don't think New Zealand's regulations apply in Las Vegas. I need to find the local info and the FDA info pages here. Just have not spent the time querying for them yet. So many things to do! Such is life - he he.

O so sorry about that. It escaped my notice that those regulations were for New Zealand. ( However, I'm sure that you can google the info you need for here. Good luck with that.

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC, and good luck in finding a home where you can once again maintain birds.

 

[VegasDobermanns]

Most of the Mediterranean breeds are heat tolerant. Unfortunately, they are also high strung and flighty, and don't have much meat on them. Black Australorps are extremely heat tolerant. I raised them in CA where summer temperatures frequently reached 117-118 F (123 F) and with shade, good coop ventilation, and plenty of fresh water, they did just fine. Not only are they excellent layers of large, brown eggs (a BA holds the brown egg laying record with 364 eggs in 365 days), but they are calm and gentle (my children, and now my granddaughter, made lap pets out of them), and they have a lot more meat on them than the lighter Mediterranean breeds. Whatever you end up getting, good luck with your flock.

Great info! Thanks! They are quite pretty, too. One would think that with all the black, they would be hotter and harder to raise than say a white breed. My favs for looks are the Silver Lace Ws.

 

[Michael OShay]

Great info! Thanks! They are quite pretty, too. One would think that with all the black, they would be hotter and harder to raise than say a white breed.

It is surprising. I know that Black Australorps have a kind of greenish sheen to their feathers in the sunlight. Maybe there's some kind of heat reflective properties to those feathers. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that they are heat resistant though, considering that they were bred to be raised in Australia's outback which gets very very hot.

 

[gander007]

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So sorry about taking so long to get back to you but the computer and I have been having differences

Yes you are correct it takes a special breed to perform in the dessert that is for sure

These are some of the photos I took of my birds over the last year out here and most seem to be hardy as long as all the living conditions are kept in order and they do not need to be fancy just make sure water and shade are the most important matters to keep a check on and yes most any animal can live in the desert if cared for properly ......



















gander007

 

[LIChickens]

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