Articles by ArizonaDesertChicks

See How They Grow............ We have two barred rock hens named Sugar & Spice. about 1 week old: 7 weeks old 14 weeks old: 19 weeks old: Sugar and Spice at 22 weeks - Such social butterflys, it's hard to get them alone. They are now laying light brown eggs. Spice started laying...

September 2010: I received my new chicks in the mail from My Pet Chicken on September 15th. All arrived safe and sound. This page will document their growth. Update May 2011: I currently have photos of them at 2 1/2 weeks, 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 15 weeks of age, and 7 months of age. Breeds...

It's hot here - gets up to 115 in the summer. In the winter, it rarely gets down to 32 degrees, so we built a 3 sided coop instead of a fully enclosed one. Our coop is 5' x 7 1/2'. We used a 13' x 7 1/2' dog run found on craigslist for the first chicken run. The original coop/run space is...

I'm so excited! Our pullets are finally laying (March, 2009). Here's the list from our first 10 layers: Breed (name) age 1st. egg laid egg color...

Our Backyard Flock (updated Sept. 2010) Our first chickens were purchased at the local feed store as 2-4 week old chicks October of 2008. Since then, we've purchased chicks from Mypetchicken.com (mail-ordered) and have even hatched chicks from eggs...

This is my first time to incubate eggs with an incubator: I recently purchased some ameraucana pullets from a fellow BYC member, Mahonri, and found out that the eggs they were laying that first week were still fertile (he has roosters - I don't). I decided I wanted to hatch these eggs, but...