YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Oldmomma]

Internet very low so just a hello, welcome to newcomers. Great bunch of folks here. Oconee, my great granny was born there! Looking at a place so im hoping I will have good news shortly. Daughter back home posted a cryptic message about my grandsons that got me worried so im trying to not do much internet surfing. Could find no info online about the meds the vet gave us here. And if a chickens gonna be a roo shouldn't by 5 mo I should see spurs? Except for 2 or 3 curved feathers around a more upright tail than the other I cant tell? They both have been seen sitting on the nest I bought and they get along fine roosting side by side. Got updates photos but will have to wait til renewal on 5th to post. Take care all.

 

[SternRose]

Roos won't have spurs until about 1 year and half.

 

[Book]

That's great news! DO they go to the roosts? A few of mine still just lay in the shavings to sleep. Now if we could teach them to open and close their own doors then all would be perfect lol

Inside the coop has bars that are just about on the bottom so I can't blame mine for sleeping in the sand. LOL (We are trying out sand for inside the coop)

 

[Book]

Almost forgot - just one week left until the remainder of my chicks are here! I REALLY HOPE they don't call me on Friday and say there has been an issue and it is delayed again. I want my little bantam babies NOW. Not to mention all of the large fowl that I had to order to replace ones that died in transit, or that I lost soon after.

I hope they all arrive healthy and what you ordered! I don't blame you for wanting them now and being worried about a Friday call!

 

[ChickDancer]

I don't even have to sit, just walk in and have a roo on my shoulder or head. Lol

I recently started to get that with a bantam hen. She was living with four frizzles (she is just a mutt) and I recently mixed the frizzles with the three silkies in one big pen together. She is the only good flyer, and couldn't stand the competition. So I set up a 6-foot-long folding table in there, and that's where she hung out most of the time (and still does). But everytime I walked in, she flew up onto my back, my shoulder, my head, whatever.

But going back to the food incentive, she probably knew that's most likely what I was bringing in. And she also knew after that first day or so that I would feed her on the table, so the others would leave her alone. I even put a tiny little water dish up there. But even if she had food or water, she'd do it anyway. I think she learned that I was a safe spot to perch away from the others, and did it just to get away from that table for a bit, too.

 

[SternRose]

How many time have you reordered or Ben delayed in these chicks?

 

[Flowerbh]

Good Morning all! Having my hot tea/honey/cinnamon drink and being thankful we had no bad weather here. Not even a lot of rain. I am hoping all of you are ok. Getting ready to give my chickens the leftovers that the renters left......mainly lots of corn on the cob and a black bean, corn, tomato salad. It was a huge bowl. The girls will love it!

CD, your duck pics are adorable! Thanks for sharing.

Well, off to Dahlonega to pick up some free FBCM hatching eggs from a friend!

 

[ChickDancer]

How many time have you reordered or Ben delayed in these chicks?

Only once so far. But there's a good reason I'm worried.

I placed the order way back in October (2013) as soon as they posted the spring hatch dates on their website. I ordered a total of about 45 chicks - half bantam, half large fowl. The bantams are five each of white frizzle cochin, silver sebrights, blue silkies, and blue cochin bantam. The white frizzle cochins have been "sold out" for the entire spring breeding season since about January. They just don't expect to have anymore available this year. My ENTIRE order was supposed to arrive April 7th.

But they called me the Friday before to say the bantams were not doing well at all "this year" and they had to delay the order until May 5th. They decided to go ahead and send the large fowl, since I had enough of each to make two separate shipments. So I'm just waiting on the bantams. But for them to be "sold out" on the white frizzle cochin, and still delay my order by only a month - ESPECIALLY when I know I was one of the first people to PLACE an order (as soon as they had spring hatches posted on the website, remember?) - makes me feel like they won't be able to hatch out enough of those at all this year. And if anything happens to any of the other breeds, I won't have enough for them to send a full order anymore.

So while they've only delayed it once, all things considered, it just looks like they won't be able to make it anyway.

 

[ChickDancer]

Good Morning all! Having my hot tea/honey/cinnamon drink and being thankful we had no bad weather here. Not even a lot of rain. I am hoping all of you are ok. Getting ready to give my chickens the leftovers that the renters left......mainly lots of corn on the cob and a black bean, corn, tomato salad. It was a huge bowl. The girls will love it!

CD, your duck pics are adorable! Thanks for sharing.

Well, off to Dahlonega to pick up some free FBCM hatching eggs from a friend!

Good morning! I'm having coffee, myself. Although I know you don't like it, I needed it today! LOL!

 

[ChickDancer]

Woke up this morning with burning sinuses. I hate that feeling, because it usually means a cold, flu, sinus infection, etc., coming on. I've been on antibiotics lately anyway because of an abscessed tooth that I can't see a dentist for, so I'm pretty sure it's not a bacterial infection. Soon after getting out of bed, I was sneezing like crazy and my nose is running right out the door and into the blue yonder.

But coffee, thankfully, dries a lot of that up. Sneezing stopped, and my nose is only running across the room now.

So I walked outside to check on the fowl after last night's storm. The pen that Skeeter used to be in is getting beat up by the tree branches that lean on it. The wind pushes the branches into the tent, and the tent semi-collapsed because of it. The ones that the silkies are (still) in, is fine. It has no tree branches nearby, and it held up to the wind just fine.

Then I went to the big pool-turned-pen. All of the chicks were dry. The ducks and geese were wet, but sitting under the shelter with the heat lamp, preening themselves and re-fluffing their feathers.

Except one. Apparently when it rained last night, they all made a dash for the shelter except the crested blue swedish. I found him semi-upside-down, one foot in the air, but kicking VERY slowly everytime a chick walked by. I rushed in to grab him, and noticed he was still blinking when my finger got near his eye. GOOD! Reflexes still in tact, still has a good chance!

He's on top of a heating pad now, wrapped in a towel, with a small heater blowing on him. I got frustrated at my sister via text message because her kids have made the red hair dryer disappear and THAT is what I really needed to properly dry him quickly and warm him up!


But aside from this little one, everyone is okay. The chicks clearly made good use of the shelter, and stayed there all night during the rain. And I THOUGHT the worst was over with the rain. I thought that last storm passing through was the one to worry about. But I checked weather.com and it turns out there is another storm system developing around Mississippi that is going to hit us late tonight. And so far, it looks to be wider with more coverage of "severe" storms. So we're not in the clear just yet! BLEH!