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valleychicks said:
Look out, your catching up to us. LOL! We have 25 plus a roo of our daughter's that is staying with us until she gets her new coop built. Chicken math is bad around our place. 
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well, I started with my 8 buffs. Then I got a Roo, then I got 4 more, then 6 more... Putting in an order tomorrow with Ideal.
Ugh. Someone tell me how to stop! Haha :D
 
RoboDuck said:
We have an Inside The Perimeter group? People come visit us but we don't have enough of an operation to do tours. Not much to see. I know we have too many roosters. We have about 15+ free ranging right now and another dozen in the chicken pen. If some of them would hurry up and finish fattening up, we could eat them. Others are just too pretty and need to find new homes. We rotate some of them through isolated pens with hens we think would make cool babies with them.
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I went to something that I found on Meetup.com called The Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group. They meet once or twice a month and 'Talk Chicken Over Chicken". ITP was before the group meeting date and time and I did not realize that the abbreviation was for Inside the Perimeter. lol Tom and I drove from Senoia but it was worth it. We saw a local backyard coop coexisting with beehives, a green roof that grows vegetation over the coop, and lots of gardening. It was potluck so we ate afterwards and met other chicken owners. It was fun and informative. Next month is a field trip to Lee Penny's Farm. Do your roosters free range nicely together? Sounds like a fun operation :) I am waiting for mine to be old enough to sex...I am not good at that yet.

http://www.meetup.com/chickens/events/201229272/
 
GA Homesteader said:
I went to something that I found on Meetup.com called The Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group. They meet once or twice a month and 'Talk Chicken Over Chicken". ITP was before the group meeting date and time and I did not realize that the abbreviation was for Inside the Perimeter. lol Tom and I drove from Senoia but it was worth it. We saw a local backyard coop coexisting with beehives, a green roof that grows vegetation over the coop, and lots of gardening. It was potluck so we ate afterwards and met other chicken owners. It was fun and informative. Next month is a field trip to Lee Penny's Farm. Do your roosters free range nicely together? Sounds like a fun operation :) I am waiting for mine to be old enough to sex...I am not good at that yet.

http://www.meetup.com/chickens/events/201229272/
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I was at that one, too. They only had 9 birds at the moment, but it looked like room for more. The gardens were pretty impressive, and mostly English style (made to look like it grew that way naturally). The green roof was neat, too; they had just thrown the weeds directly down to the chickens, plus it seems a great way to keep the henhouse cool.

So no, you don't have to have a big operation to host.
 
The only large one I know about is Poultry Hollow which delivers to Chattanooga and Knoxville. I've been fairly pleased with the business I've done with them. I also like to get together with farmers from the local farmers markets and arrange hatching egg purchases. Just be careful with that because they are often geared toward egg production so they have fewer roosters which can mean shoddy fertilization rates. Other than that I always pull over when I pass by a home with chickens and talk poultry for a spell if the owners are willing. You can meet some nice folks that way. I'm a little wary of craigslist but there are always plenty of listings in the area for young poultry and eggs. It can kind of be hit or miss there, but you can still arrange to meet in person and/or tour their setup, which is good. Tractor Supply tends to come with mixed reviews. At the one near me in Fort Oglethorpe they have chicks every spring. If you order something special in there is a six chick minimum or if you just walk in to the store they'll have displays of day old chicks of more common varieties from which you can choose as many or as few as you want. They also have poultry events a couple times a year at TSC where you can meet to buy and sell birds on a Saturday morning. My advice there is do your homework, plan to haggle, and come early! I'd say use ordering online as a last resort. I've have some smashing successes and some dismal failures with shipped eggs. Although I've never ordered live chicks online. I joined this thread to find local chicken folk and meet reliable sources of eggs and chicks so if you meet one near us send them my way! I'm raising some barnyard "mutts," Easter Eggers, and a few mystery birds from various sources. When they get bigger and if you're ever so inclined, private message me and we can set up a swap!
 
Are you still doing chickens? I just searched the thread for Chattanooga, my area, and saw this post! If you are, I'd love to arrange a swap some time!
 

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