FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

[jessicata]

I had registered sometime ago and don't believe I have posted before. I am located here in Central Florida.

 

[getaclue]

I recently posted asking for help with hatching some eggs. I want to thank those that responded. That was very kind of you. Both responses were a bit too far away from me. Good news! The lady that works in my local feed store is setting up her incubator, and is doing an educational hatching exhibit. She will help me hatch my eggs. More good news! I have since bought another incubator, so I have one for lockdown, and can more easily stagger hatches. Again, thank you to the very kind people that offered to help.

 

[cmom]

I had registered sometime ago and don't believe I have posted before. I am located here in Central Florida.

Glad you found your way back.

 

[clousert]

I had registered sometime ago and don't believe I have posted before. I am located here in Central Florida.

Welcome

 

[getaclue]

Welcome cmom!

 

[McPhersonFarm]

Here is our new updated list. If you are far we also will be able to ship out in the next couple of weeks!!!


We can meet in Lake City, Gainesville, Trenton and will be at Bent Creek swap in Jacksonville March 30 as well as Fort White Swap April 5 or you are welcome to meet us near our farm at any time with appointment
Brooder packages always available with everything you need $50, with 5 chicks $75 with 10 chicks $100
Heritage Java chicks (2nd oldest breed in the US- Amazing dual purpose bird, eats less feed than newer varieties! Start laying @ 5-6 months old!) - $5
White Crested Black Polish $5
Misc Polish (blue, black, splash) $7
Turken Chicks $5 or 5 for $20
Black Bantam Cochin Chicks $5
Bantam Frizzle Chicks $5
Wheaten Maran (chocolate eggs!) $7 straight run - $12 pullet $5 cockeral
GORGEOUS Orange sizzle / Mille Fleur D’Uccle Chicks $5
Easter Egger/Ameraucana cross frizzle Chicks $5- 10 for $40 (Blue, Black, Auburn and more colors available!)

HATCHING SOON- Paint Silkies, Rhode Island Red, Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Mille Fleur D’Uccle, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys – Contact if you are interested in waiting list
Hatching Eggs – Frizzle, Bantam Cochin, Wheaten Maran, Rhodebar, and Buff Orpington, Quail (button and coturnix) Please PM for prices
Already plumbed 8ft sections of PVC with 6 nipple waterers installed. $5/ea, 5/$20, 10/$40, 20/$70
Biddie Waterers with Float that can be plumbed to hose or 5gal/55gal bucket/drum $5 each
Large commercial size chicken feeders approx. 1 ft across could be plumbed to have feed automatically drop $10 each 5/$40 10/$75
Nest boxes nice wood sturdy single $20, double $40

 

[kwol]

I had registered sometime ago and don't believe I have posted before. I am located here in Central Florida

Welcome from NE FLorida

 

[islandchick1]

live in merritt island, a new chick mom 1 week now , chicks 4&5 weeks now , putting the coop together tomarrow .. any tips on startingbthe bedding and box ? straw ? shavings? how do they do in the heat??

 

[getaclue]

islandchick1, Lots of ventilation, since it gets so hot and humid here most of the year. For now, you can always cover some of the bottom portions of the coop with a tarp before nightfall, or if we get a cold snap. Leave a bit of the top open because of humidity. I keep an area with a good bit of hay that they can get into and keep warm. I wouldn't use chicken wire. Racoons can easily get through chicken wire, and some of it has holes big enough the chicks can get through the holes, or get partway through and get stuck in them. Hardware cloth, or heavy gauge wire with hardware cloth around the bottom is good. Don't forget a pen skirt. My pen skirt has helped protect my chickens several times. NO CEDAR shavings. Cedar is toxic to chickens. Pine, or other hardwood shavings is fine. Hay is better than straw, because straw is hollow, and can harbor mites.

 

[seminolewind]

I can't get straw in my area because coastal hay is so much cheaper that no one used it.
Half of my birds now roost in protected pens in the shade. IMO, Florida's coldest temperatures only last a few hours.