YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

Nope! Lmao think they may have ended up with two males, how can you tell?

Boys have long spiky/stringy hair dos. Girls are thick and rounded. Here is a girl.

Here is a boy

 

[Drivernumber22]

I be darned! I'll have to tell them in morning. Where they live in Gainesville it's prob not a good idea to keep a roo

 

[Flowerbh]

I be darned! I'll have to tell them in morning. Where they live in Gainesville it's prob not a good idea to keep a roo

Maybe you can take them back to the auction next Saturday!

 

[valleychicks]

We got one gate finished and are close to finishing the other gate. Next putting up the new 6' fence. Hope the rain holds off today until we are done.

 

[valleychicks]

OK! I have a question for all the Yo Georgians, I'm always reading things y'all put on here to my DH and today he asked who has the most chickens? So if you have time and feel like chiming in please just post how many chickens you have or for those that have too many to count give me a ball park figure please.

 

[Flowerbh]

OK! I have a question for all the Yo Georgians, I'm always reading things y'all put on here to my DH and today he asked who has the most chickens? So if you have time and feel like chiming in please just post how many chickens you have or for those that have too many to count give me a ball park figure please.

I'm down to 35 (sold a few hens and some roosters lately) plus 10 baby chicks (most will be sold) and I have 17 eggs in the bator due to hatch on Tuesday. I will keep some of those pullets, too.

 

[carcar80]

Not me.. I have just 17 right now.

 

[karleighskiki]

It is a Black Australorp.  You can remember it by remembering that it is a type of Orpington from Australia,  You take the first part of (Austral)ia and add the first part of (Orp)ington.  The other one is an Araucana.  It is hard to find a true Araucana.  They are rumples chickens that lay only blue eggs.  You are probably really getting an Easter Egger.  But those are all really great chickens and you will love them.  I bet you can't stop with just 4!!!  hahaha......chicken math coming your way soon!

Thank you!!!

 

[karleighskiki]

Question? Finishing up our run off of our coop. Very concerned about predators - live way out. My husband wants to put metal around the bottom - do my girls need to see out?

 

[Flowerbh]

Question? Finishing up our run off of our coop. Very concerned about predators - live way out. My husband wants to put metal around the bottom - do my girls need to see out?

The biggest things about predators are that they are either good diggers or good climbers (or both). If your coop is designed to be able to lock the chickens up inside it at night and is predator proof, that is good. But, if they are staying in an open area and the run is part of it, you need to bury your fencing down about a foot and the out about a foot (like an L) That helps with the predators that would dig under. Will your run/coop have a roof? We used hard tack wire for the coop. No little raccoon hands can reach in. Our chickens are only in the run area during the day. They are under a lot of trees and can not be seen as easily by hawks that way.