LH Chickens..

[petie6464]

Partial artical from the news Herald yesterday. .

Lake Havasu City has finally embraced the freedom to keep backyard chickens. While the shift came through state legislation, it’s a welcome win for residents who value personal liberty. For a city that often touts its commitment to individual freedoms, it’s puzzling that we needed Arizona House Bill 2325 to allow this. Now, property owners can responsibly keep up to six hens, enjoying fresh eggs and a taste of self-sufficiency.

 

[Javajoe]

Do chickens like the ungodly heat?

 

[HCP3]

Do chickens like the ungodly heat?

The eggs cook themselves.

 

[monkeyswrench]

I read the title, and was trying to figure out how you know if a chicken is left handed

 

[NicPaus]

Do chickens like the ungodly heat?

From what I was told you have to keep them cool or they will die. That's From someone who lives out there and has them.

 

[Rajobigguy]

I read the title, and was trying to figure out how you know if a chicken is left handed

I thought that he was going to talk about how all chickens north of the equator turn left until there are no more options to go left. They do this to counter the coriolis effect.
The opposite is true of chickens south of the equator.




BTW I’m selling stock in the new California to Hawaii bullet train if you’re interested.

 

[EarpRider]

The last year that I lived in Long Beach I got a new neighbor who's backyard backed up to mine. They had 4 chickens, seriously annoying little none stop noises. I had no idea how annoying all of their clucks and peeps could be.

 

[callbob]

Good bug catchers though

 

[Tio Pancho]

I read the title, and was trying to figure out how you know if a chicken is left handed

You check out the scissors they use or which side their computer mouse is on.

 

[Ren]

Do chickens like the ungodly heat?

No. They do better in snow than heat. Some of the smaller breeds will do better in "some" heat. I run misters and use ice blocks here sometimes and we don't have weather anything like the lake.

 

[petie6464]

Personally I'm in with meat chickens, I had them in another life and nothing better than having your own fresh chickens. You can raise them in the fall and winter, butcher and freeze them.

Of course it will cost more than to buy them but at least you know what your eating and thats worth every penny.

 

[DirtyWhiteDog]

We had them in ft mo, misters and shade, all sizes of barnyard chickens. Never had heat deaths. We also had a A/C window unit in the coop because it was in the sun from 10am until sundown. Egg production slowed down a lot in July August

 

[TrollerDave]

“At least it’s a dry heat!”-LH chickens.

 

[DWC]

“At least it’s a dry heat!”-LH chickens.
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Now that’s f’g funny.

 

[FCT]

From what I was told you have to keep them cool or they will die. That's From someone who lives out there and has them.

I have about 30 chickens in Menifee and it’s to hot for them here sometimes. Idk how they would do in Havasu

 

[Roosky01]

Do chickens eat the shit out of scorpions?

 

[Boatymcboatface]

Enjoy the rats that come along with having chickens.

 

[DRYHEAT]

I have about 30 chickens in Menifee and it’s to hot for them here sometimes. Idk how they would do in Havasu

They just lay hard, boiled eggs

 

[ChumpChange]

Fresh eggs are unlike anything you’ll ever buy in the store. Delicious.

 

[PlanB]

A neighbor a couple houses down in Havasu had chickens a few years ago and planted a eucalyptus tree to give them shade. He no longer has them and the tree (which was in the middle of my lake view) is gone. Not sure if it was the heat that was an issue, but I would imagine they would not do well in the summer.

 

[Javajoe]

Personally I'm in with meat chickens

Sooo, are you telling me there are non meat chickens???

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Sooo, are you telling me there are non meat chickens???

Yes, those are used by McDonalds for whatever the fuck is in McNuggets.

 

[DLow]

Do chickens eat the shit out of scorpions?

They love the little devil monsters.

 

[Ultra...Good]

I read the title, and was trying to figure out how you know if a chicken is left handed

Kind of like an airplane, no matter how far up in the sky it is, you can always tell if it is a mail plane.

 

[sml]

 

[Ultra...Good]

They love the little devil monsters.

Chickens try to eat almost everything. Youtube how fast a snake disappears around hungry chickens. The few people I know that have them, will keep some around just for pest control. Overall better then cats.

 

[SOCALCRICKETT]

Chickens have their good and bad qualities. I sold my house in temecula a couple weeks ago and we had chickens in the back yard. 2 things with chickens, they constantly make noise (mostly small clicks, and coos) and they will absolutely attract rats especially if you don't havest the eggs quickly.


When we moved to havasu full time we gave up on the idea of taking the chickens, they could never really cool down out here as they like to dig little pockets in the dirt to lay in when they get hot

 

[BHC Vic]

My chickens don’t like the heat. The stop laying eggs or die of they get too hot. Misters and ice blocks are what we use. Usually between 20-30 chickens and a couple roosters

 

[DRYHEAT]

My chickens don’t like the heat. The stop laying eggs or die of they get too hot. Misters and ice blocks are what we use. Usually between 20-30 chickens and a couple roosters

Are your chickens from Orange County?

 

[Rvrluvr]

Do they have talons??

 

[FreeBird236]

Actually, I hear they do pretty good living under all that non running junk on the side of your yard.

 

[stingray11]

Enjoy the rats that come along with having chickens.

Yep and then the snakes follow!!!

 

[calkid]

We had chickens, ducks, horses, etc at our place in Hesperia. It's really a vicious cycle with the chickens and bugs. Yes the chickens eat bugs, but it's what people throw on the ground for them to eat that brings the bugs and rodents. The bugs and rodents don't know they're supposed to stay near the chickens so they're now all over your yard. Rats soon find out that this backyard evolution is happening and join the party, if you have power poles or palm trees it just got worse. The rats like your neighbor's power poles and palm trees as much as yours. Did I mention that the coyote's soon follow in this vicious cycle? If you have a pool you just completed this little circle of life started by those fucking chickens.

 

[hallett21]

Could you get 6 chicks in September, have them laying eggs by January and harvest them June 1 and just take the summer off?

 

[dread Pirate]

Do chickens eat the shit out of scorpions?

If it moves they will eat it.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

They love the little devil monsters.

Brb buying a shit ton of chickens to defend my perimeter from those bastards

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Yep and then the snakes follow!!!

Welp, there goes that…. I don’t know if I want to trade scorpions for rats and copperheads lol

 

[dread Pirate]

Welp, there goes that…. I don’t know if I want to trade scorpions for rats and copperheads lol

They eat snakes and mice too. I've never had a rat problem from them, but we also have cats. Granted we have wood rats regardless, but that's where the cats come in.

We have over 200 chickens. Starting to consider how far I want to run with this.

 

[ChumpChange]

Could you get 6 chicks in September, have them laying eggs by January and harvest them June 1 and just take the summer off?

They start laying at one year old so no. And they don’t lay eggs while molting.

 

[stingray11]

Could you get 6 chicks in September, have them laying eggs by January and harvest them June 1 and just take the summer off?

You could but laying hens don't make good meat chickens, meat chickens would be best.

 

[stingray11]

They eat snakes and mice too. I've never had a rat problem from them, but we also have cats. Granted we have wood rats regardless, but that's where the cats come in.

We have over 200 chickens. Starting to consider how far I want to run with this.

They won't eat a 6' black snake, we have had big snakes coiled up in a nest box, so don't reach under hen to find eggs.

 

[HNL2LHC]

All this time I thought LHC stood for Lake Havasu City. Now I know it is Left Handed Chickens….

 

[Ren]

You could but laying hens don't make good meat chickens, meat chickens would be best.

I think im going to do a round of meat birds next year after i get a bigger freezer, probably about 75-100. If you do go with Cornish crosses you are supposed to be able to butcher at about 9 weeks old so i would think you could easily do it in havasu for meat birds since its not year round. I still have about 15 laying hens right now, all getting older, get about 6-8 eggs a day, but they don't like the heat, and we have had some heat related deaths over the years (usually they get dehydrated and egg bound). If I was going to start over I think I would get 20+ mini bantam chickens (i have x2 and they are great). I like the little eggs better and they are easier to care for in the heat in my experience.

 

[Ren]

They won't eat a 6' black snake, we have had big snakes coiled up in a nest box, so don't reach under hen to find eggs.

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looks like an indigo? super cool, those are our friends.

 

[C-2]

Chickens are too much work. I'll just buy the eggs. I've never been able to tell the difference between a store bought egg and a fresh egg.

But yeah, they hate the heat. Them and rabbits.

 

[dread Pirate]

They won't eat a 6' black snake, we have had big snakes coiled up in a nest box, so don't reach under hen to find eggs.

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I remember my first experience with a black snake as a kid in Missouri. I swore it was a cobra coming to kill me! Then I learned about cottonmouths and copperheads. Black snakes weren't so scary anymore,,