YO GEORGIANS! :)

[ChristyinGA]

I think it's 3 weeks.

 

[buddy phoenix]

ours do fine outside only babies stay inside til feathered out.

 

[ChickDancer]

We have two!!!

YAY! GOSLINGS!!!

 

[ChickDancer]

If y'all know anyone looking who fits my strict description (LOL), I have listed my horse for sale.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/grd/4385989952.html

Lord help whomever puts theirself out there to take a look at him.

Jk..

Sigh..

Ugh... if I only had a fence!!!

 

[ChickDancer]

Had the same problem. Three therms and three differents temps. How frustrating trying to figure out which one to believe.

I've got five thermometers. One cheap $1 bulb-style thermometer from Wal-mart, two bulb-style that came with LG incubators, and two digital thermometer/hydrometers from Wal-mart (that $8 one).

EVERY LAST ONE of them shows something different. It's frustrating! I wish I knew how to get at least the digital thermometers on the same level. Right now in the same incubator one shows 100 degrees, and one shows 104. That's a HUGE difference!

 

[ChickDancer]

I've heard three weeks. And I do have proof of that, because I had a bantam mixed-breed hen who was laying phoenix-mix eggs for a full 21 days after they were separated. She was placed into a pen with a roo that is STILL too young to breed, so I knew the sperm were gone when the eggs began to be infertile. I actually hatch every last egg she lays now just to find out when he DOES start breeding with her.

But six weeks seems really extreme. I certainly have no proof of that, since the bantam I mentioned previously only had fertile eggs for three additional weeks and not six. But I know she's laying eggs fertilized by my white rooster already, because she is having pure white chicks as well. And she wasn't placed with any pure white roos prior to mine.

 

[ChickDancer]

Weather was beAutiful today

I had the top down on my car everywhere I went. I think I might have gotten a slight sunburn from it, but it was totally worth it!

 

[ChickDancer]

Life before chickens for me meant never really looking at the LOW for the day, just the high.... now I guess with pets outside I will have to pay attention to the low! So um.... how low is too low for full grown chickens with no heat source?

Answer: As long as they are dry, it won't get cold enough to kill them around here.

 

[buddy phoenix]

Tomorrow big build. goin to try to make a portable triangle pen for becky

 

[ChickDancer]

Okay so abmaddox, mrsdszoo, a non-BYC friend, and I all went to the livestock auction in Barnesville today. I took a dozen sumatra eggs to sell, and abmaddox took lots of rabbits. After they did the hoof animals they moved on to eggs, and... I didn't see my Sumatra eggs.

Turns out they changed the rules AGAIN and tried to sell my sumatra eggs at 6pm instead of offering them after the bigger animals and before "caged animals" (which all start at 7pm). Most people aren't even there at 6am, so I got a whopping $2.50 for them.

For purebred Sumatra eggs!

Meanwhile, there was someone there selling purebred Sumatra chickens - full grown - and I know they probably would have been interested in buying my eggs to put new blood into their own lines. But since they changed the rules around, without our knowledge, I'm sure that person never saw the eggs I was selling. I guarantee the eggs would have sold for more IF the auctioneers had waited until after the goats, calves, and sheep to start the bidding for them.


So next time I go, I'll walk in about 6:30pm with my hatching eggs. Then they can begin the bids after most people have arrived!