YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

I use the heat lamp. Just gotta watch it till you know the heat level you can really cook your babies and start a fire if your not careful, those bulbs can get really hot.

I use a heat lamp but just use a regular light bulb....60 watt. I adjust it up or down depending on what the chicks are doing. If they are all clustered under the lamp...they are too cold and I lower the lamp. It they are all over the edges of the brooder, they are too hot and I raise the lamp. If they are ok, they are sleeping all over. Those red bulb heat lights are way too hot for my brooder. They would be dead in minutes if I used one of those.

 

[ameliadanielle]

Do they still have the rule that the eggs in one carton have to be a uniform size and labeled by egg size? That was why I never sold eggs. The candling wouldn't have been a problem for me... but having different breeds of chickens, I didn't want to spend all day weighing and measuring eggs. Lol. We give our extra eggs away to families we know could use them. It's not much, but we save them a few dollars here and there on the grocery bill.

 

[Lady Who]

I sell Cartons of eggs that are half full of Bantam eggs. Most people are so excited or confused by the different size but never have complains. (I don't have a egg selling license so it's normally a one time deal anyway XD)

 

[PapaChaz]

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

well since you have to have it to legally sell at a farmers market, flea market etc etc, then yes, it's worth it. It was a pretty neat class, and they basically tell you up front, that NO ONE is going to fail it.

as for those asking about eggs all having to be the same size or every egg candled, not that I remember. I don't candle any egg I'm not hatching......and as for size, I have customers who like that mine are a variety.

 

[Mylied]

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.

That's terrible. I got mine at a chicken swap and they looked good at first site. He was a guy that was selling lots of chicks and chickens. I've only ever bought chicks from the feed store and a couple times from a local popular breeder, or hatched my own. And all the birds I've sold have been healthy. So I don't think about the sucky people out there who are willing to sell sick or infested birds. But I have no reason to buy any more adults, so I'll work with what I got and get them healthy.

 

[speckledhen]

That's terrible. I got mine at a chicken swap and they looked good at first site. He was a guy that was selling lots of chicks and chickens. I've only ever bought chicks from the feed store and a couple times from a local popular breeder, or hatched my own. And all the birds I've sold have been healthy. So I don't think about the sucky people out there who are willing to sell sick or infested birds. But I have no reason to buy any more adults, so I'll work with what I got and get them healthy.

If it's only lice/mites, worms and malnutrition, you'll be fine. If they are carriers of something, and hopefully not, unfortunately, they would never be healthy, not really. But, I hope the owner was negligent in their pest control and not plain dishonest. On the other hand, some sellers are plain ignorant of chicken disease so they'll treat mycoplasmosis and think their chicken had a "cold" and not realize that it's now a Typhoid Mary.

 

[missy1971]

Not sure where to ask this question, but I need a natural weed control solution that really works! Any ideas???

 

[Junglefowlboss]

Im still looking for a rooster. I live in Mableton. Im at the most willing to go 30 minutes for him. Cant go to far, got places to be and places to go. If I had the time I would go two hours for a couple chickens. And I have before.

 

[we5farmers]

Not sure where to ask this question, but I need a natural weed control solution that really works! Any ideas???

I would also like to see the responses on this question. My husband wants to spray our yard since the chickens won't be out in it. But I worry about using pesticides and herbicides even if we're not spraying their "yard". Where he will be spraying is just feet from the chicken run. I worry about windage and so forth.

 

[Junglefowlboss]

If its really windy I dont think you should spray the yard. It could poison the chickens.