YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Rocky Rhodes]

Hello up north I did a job up close to jasper in the Big canoe community

Hey there Blue Roo, I delivered building materials there just this week. Where are you located?

 

[Flowerbh]

North East. Close to Jasper.

Wouldn't that be North West?

 

[carcar80]

Guys!! Not sure if any of you remember I had a sick hen but she's STILL sick. It's very obviously digestive at this point. She's all bones, it's been days.

I've researched sour crop but she doesn't have the big, ballooned crop. It's pretty much empty BUT it is squishy. I'd say it's the size of maybe an avocado out but saggy and soft. However squishing it now I CAN feel some small rocks or some kind of sediment.

Please tell me if you know what to try? Is this when you do crop surgery!? I'd love to save her, she's a great laying hen.

 

[carcar80]

And to refresh, she has the pale/cool comb/wattles, dazed affect, poor appetite and DID have loose yellow stools back when she was eating..

 

[Book]

Free To Good Home:

2 Drake Ducks, One Pekin (in the pool) and One mix breed (Dark head in the back!). I am in Thomson! They are about 6 months old. No aggression issues and they live with chickens peacefully. The mix breed ones have had dark heads till now, now they are going green. The colored feathers on the duck free to good home are blue/green.

 

[valleychicks]

Last time I went to the chicken auction, a Black Australorp Rooster went for $39! You may want to take any unwanted chickens to auction!

About the soft shelled eggs. You may want to grind them up in a food processor, the whole egg. I cook them and feed them back to the chickens. I do that with any weird, cracked or soft shelled eggs. They get the extra protein as well as extra calcium. I only have one girl who lays a soft shell sometimes, but she is almost 3 years old and doesn't really like the free standing calcium, so I just feed them back to all the hens.

I do break up shells from eggs I have used cooking and feed the shell to the hens. It's funny because I just take it outside and hold it in my hand for them to come up and get and the hens do but the roosters look at it and back away.

 

[valleychicks]

GOT MILK?

You Quack me up!

 

[Blue Roo]

Hello rocky sry I getting back to you so late I was working on the water system in the community I was across the dam of the the lake up on tope of the mountain working on a pump station but I have recently change jobs where I can be at home with my family every night the other job was out of town a lot but I did it till somthing better come along

 

[Blue Roo]

I live close to a little town called jersey ga it's about 30 min south east of Atlanta

 

[Southern Dad]

I was advised in the intro post on the welcome section to post this here instead:

I'm new to the world of raising chickens. This is my first year. We built an awesome coop with a little yard, some perches, a small concrete lined puddle we keep filled with collected rain water and a sand pit under the house for them to hang out in. They love it and we love them. We even set up some chairs so we can hang out and just sit in the shade watching them. We got our first egg a couple days ago on 7/22/2014. We have 8 birds total. 4 White Leghorn hens, 2 Silver Tipped Wyandotte hens, and 2 Black Australorp roosters.
The problem is 8 is our limit and we didn't expect any roosters, let alone 2 of them. They are docile and friendly, but they are reaching sexual maturity and are beginning to drive the girls crazy as well as square off with each other. They aren't mean and no one has been hurt yet, but we want to nip this in the bud. We would like to find someone in our area willing to trade one of our beautiful, well fed and extra healthy roosters for a young laying hen. We would be happy with almost any kind of hen but we would like most to either add a Rhode Island Red or just swap it out for a female black Australorp. Would anyone here be willing to make a straight trade? If so feel free to contact me here or my Email (which I can give you if you don't have access to it here).

Sincerely,
Noob

P.S My Avatar pic is of the Roosters in question.

I had the same problem. I found a group on Facebook for Walton County Pets and gave away both roosters, just yesterday as a matter of fact. The roosters are now going to a farm with lots of chickens. I bought some additional hens from another user on here, at a great price.

I live close to a little town called jersey ga it's about 30 min south east of Atlanta

Hello neighbor! We are in Walton County. I pass through Jersey many times a week.