YO GEORGIANS! :)

[speckledhen]

Funny how someone was talking about not buying started chickens. I bought my first adult chickens a few weeks ago. I had sold and/or given away all my layers and the rooster so I could get Cream Legbars. I paid a decent amount for them. Then I notice their poop is not right. So they had worms. I dewormed them. Now I see they have mites. :-( Good thing I don't have other chickens in the pen. My silkie pen is in the front and these guys are in the back. I'll get them healthy, but it sure is annoying.

Annoying is right. Hopefully, they are not carriers of anything but you never can be sure. My only purchased adult bird the first year we had chickens came to me, owned by an FFA kid who should have known better, with lice/mites, malnutrition and favus and was on the verge of pneumonia from being kept in a dank, dark flooded pen in the woods, no sunlight at all could reach it. The water tank he drank from was full of nasty black water. He had been fed only corn his entire 10 months of life and he was positively yellow/brassy-he was a Barred Rock from McMurray. Thankfully, a month of proper care and he looked like a different rooster and he had nothing contagious, plus his issues were gone by the time he was introduced to the hens, but why on earth would a Future Farmers of America member be that clueless? Boggles the mind.

 

[brucifer]

Never too far to drive for a chicken!!!

I'm with you on that one, kat. In about an hour I'll start a two-hour trip to pick up some hatching eggs. The breeder is well past the east side of Atlanta. I dread the trip back, but I want them eggs!

 

[GAMarans]

I think most of us have driven otherwise crazy distances for birds/eggs. haha

I will look around next time I am at the farm to see what, if any, extra roosters I may have. I'm not too far ... Villa Rica.

 

[brucifer]

I've been kicking around the idea of selling eggs from my girls-only pen at the local farmer's market. When I looked into it, it seems that GA wants retail sellers to have an Egg Candler's Certificate and to take a class. There's no charge for the class or the certificate, which helps, but I want to know if anyone has gone through this process, and if so, if you feel that it is worth it?

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I've been kicking around the idea of selling eggs from my girls-only pen at the local farmer's market. When I looked into it, it seems that GA wants retail sellers to have an Egg Candler's Certificate and to take a class. There's no charge for the class or the certificate, which helps, but I want to know if anyone has gone through this process, and if so, if you feel that it is worth it?

Good question I was thinking about that same thing until the dog attack but still courious about it for later on this year with the cost of eggs and all

 

[EmilyP]

I've been kicking around the idea of selling eggs from my girls-only pen at the local farmer's market. When I looked into it, it seems that GA wants retail sellers to have an Egg Candler's Certificate and to take a class. There's no charge for the class or the certificate, which helps, but I want to know if anyone has gone through this process, and if so, if you feel that it is worth it?

What is an Egg Candler's Certificate?

 

[brucifer]

What is an Egg Candler's Certificate?

Here's a brochure that explains it:

http://agr.georgia.gov/Data/Sites/1...egg_candling/neweggandeggcandlingbrochure.pdf

 

[EmilyP]

Here's a brochure that explains it:

http://agr.georgia.gov/Data/Sites/1...egg_candling/neweggandeggcandlingbrochure.pdf

Interesting, {note: i do not sell my eggs} so you are supposed to candle every egg before it is sold? is that a correct understanding?

 

[Flowerbh]

Do not get the activator. It is for disinfecting chicken houses that are empty, very, very strong. You only need the Oxine AH in the gallon jug. I don't know about red or black, this is what I have and what I got last time as well. I'd never seen the black label before. I use Virkon-S concentrate tablets to do a solution in a spray bottle for shoes and cleaning in the coops as well. It is cheaper to ship than Oxine, but I wouldn't put it in drinking water or necessarily mist birds with it. I keep both around here. (maybe the black is just their updated label?)

Thanks!!!

 

[Flowerbh]

ok,, I need advice, I have my shipped eggs and they are just chilling before they go into the bator on Sat. they are big end up and I candled them and some have seriously damaged air cells, so do I just let them just six and relax? Do I turn them?

You don't want to turn those that end up with damaged air cells....just let them sit without turning!