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I'm in Macon too! How many quail are you hatching out?

How is your chick doing now? Did you ever find out what it was and did it get better? I have a chick with the same exact problem! I have been searching and searching for someone with the same issue. I have been rinsing out my chicks eye with saline off and on. We isolated her for a few days...

We have a Dickey 2 x 2 Incubator with groups of eggs with several hatch dates - from a few days away to a few weeks away. Our first batch went on lockdown last night. How do we handle humidity for those on lockdown and the other eggs not ready for lockdown?

I'm sorry to hear that. I wish I could help! Hopefully someone can help you out. I have a question for you though. We are headed to Athens this weekend for the Georgia Organics Conference. Is there anywhere around there where we can buy organic chicken feed? Or any cool feed stores around there?

We have 2 silver laced wyandottes from Meyer and I wouldn't recommend purchasing those from them. One is large, but with a single comb instead of a rose comb, and her lacing is not very pretty. The other one is a small bird, has a little better lacing, but still not as pretty as stock pictures...

Sorry for the multi post. Still trying to figure this out.

Dang. Hate that I missed it! Since you are so close, do you breed any chickens or quail?

Hey everyone! I just wanted to introduce myself. We've had chickens for almost a year and I've been lurking on BYC for more than that . I live in Macon, as my name implies . I think I've seen a few Middle Georgian's around here. We currently have 8 hens - buff orps, welsummers, silver laced...