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hannahackermann said:
Hello everyone on the Georgia thread!
I'm brand new to this website, and I came here hoping for some guidance. I have a 9-acre pond a a very lonely male Rouen living on it. He looks so lonely it breaks my heart! When wild ducks, like hooded mergansers, fly through, he swims behind as if he wants to make friends. I think I need to find him a female Rouen. The problem is, I can only find ducklings online, and I really need an adult, pond-ready female. We had female ducklings before, but some predators must have gotten them as juveniles, because they disappeared, and I don't want that to happen again. I need a fully-grown female who can keep herself away from predators, like my drake does. I cannot find any retailers online that sell adult Rouens, though. Does anyone know where I can find one? I'm in Middle Georgia, but I can travel anywhere in the state.
Thank y'all!!
Hannah
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Hey Hannah. Meyer Hatchery sells juveniles, but they don't have any Rouens right now. Don't know if they ever have any, but you might contact them. It'd probably be easier to find someone on Craigslist or something. You might ask on that forum for the chicken show they're talking about coming up in Newnan: http://www.cvpa-newnan.org/forum.html#bn-forum-1-1-3365275459/8207 Not a lot of activity on that forum, but you might find someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who's got some. :) Welcome aboard!
 
My 6 golden sex links are still giving me 6 eggs a day, right through the cold. Every once in a while, they lazy out and only give me 5. A lot of the eggs are so big I can't close the carton on them. I buy the paper mache cartons at Tractor Supply. I realize these girls will probably burn out early, but they've pretty much been egg laying machines. :)
 
ronnhill7 said:
Morning Georgiachick86,

I live in a small town called Woodbury; due West from where you are, I think, I'm just trying to meet the other "Chicken-People" in this part of the State.
I have Welsummers and Welbars . I live way out in the country and would like to hear more about your chickens when you have time.
-ron
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Welcome, I have all kinds of girls and boys in North GA
 
ronnhill7 said:
How do you make mushroom logs????
Seriously; I live South of Newnam and have 80 acres of woods (and about 30 Welsummers and Welbars)..........so how does it work?
-ron
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In late winter, before the sap starts rising again, you cut down oaks or sweet gums that are 4 - 6" diameter and 40" long. No bigger than 8". They get a little heavy to move around. Order your mushroom spore, either wooden plugs or sawdust. Drill the right size holes in the logs spaced about 6" apart and fill with spore. Then you seal the holes with wax. Set them in a shady spot, keep them watered with about an inch of rain a week and wait for the spore to permeate the entire log. Then when it's ready, out pops the mushrooms.

Then you eat mushrooms like they were Bubba Gump Shrimp. Mushrooms & eggs, grilled mushrooms, mushroom stew, mushroom & grits, etc.
 
Hey everyone. Looking forward to going to the newnan show this year. I haven't been able to go the past few years.
 
Tabasco Jack said:
In late winter, before the sap starts rising again, you cut down oaks or sweet gums that are 4 - 6" diameter and 40" long. No bigger than 8". They get a little heavy to move around. Order your mushroom spore, either wooden plugs or sawdust. Drill the right size holes in the logs spaced about 6" apart and fill with spore. Then you seal the holes with wax. Set them in a shady spot, keep them watered with about an inch of rain a week and wait for the spore to permeate the entire log. Then when it's ready, out pops the mushrooms.

Then you eat mushrooms like they were Bubba Gump Shrimp. Mushrooms & eggs, grilled mushrooms, mushroom stew, mushroom & grits, etc.
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hahahha! I love mushrooms!
 
My hatch is now over: Of the 20 eggs I put into lockdown, 18 hatched. I knew something was wrong with one....always had a strange floating thing in it....it was alive going into lockdown, but never internally pipped. Then, I was almost positive one egg was dead, but couldn't see that well so it went into lockdown. It had died early. So, of the 18 that looked good, all 18 hatched. However, one of the Blue Partridge Brahmas was born with a birth defect. It's umbilical cord was located on the right lower side of the chicks. Not sure it will live, but it is still alive right now.


Has anyone seen this before? Outcome?


Except for the Brahma and the Isabel Cuckoo Orpington, all will be colored egg layers! (Except for the roos of course! LOL)
 

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