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Just got the new bator getting it stabalized! Now to hunt for local eggs to try since my girls went on strike!! Ugh!! Anyone have fertile eggs around the jesup-waycross area!?
 
birdsforbrowns said:
Since yall are in Georgia, and I am a newbie, I wonder if you could answer a question for me! We have spring break the first full week of April, so I am trying to gauge the best time to get our day-old chicks. I could wait and hopefully get the exact combination of breeds that I want (we only have have room for 4 hens - converting the dog house in the avatar to a coop!) if I order from Meyer in April, or I can get them from my feed store in mid- March and hope for the breeds I want but then have to get someone I trust to come check on my babies while we're gone for 4 days or so for spring break. So here is the question:

Is mid to late April too late to get started with day-old chicks???? Or is it better to go ahead and get them and hope that they'll be ok while we're gone at 3 weeks of age with someone stopping by once a day to check on them in their brooder (ours will be a large rubbermaid tub!)?
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I'm hoping others will chime in here too, but I wouldn't think it would be too late to get chicks in April (ie after your spring break travel) but maybe someone else has a better idea?

Chicks, tweens and teenage chicks can get into trouble (overturned water or food), fighting, etc, so unless your chick watcher is experienced I might not want to put that kind of tending in someone else's care.

If they are experienced, maybe they'd be willing to keep the chicks a week?? Chicks always manage to start jumping out of the brooder before I think they should be able to, too. Plus during that awkward tween stage they somehow manage to poop more out than they manage to take in as food (it's A-Ma-Zing)
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means a lot of brooder, food & water cleaning...
 
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Just letting folks know, to look out for Bald Eagles in the Cairo Area. Had one circling the house this afternoon, checking out my chickens. My roo was doing his job and looking out for his girls, he'd make noises and the girls would run over to the privacy fence under the bushes.
 
I'm originally from CT., so they aren't a sight I'm accustomed to in my vicinity. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw one in the Henry County area last year! No one believed me, because I was too stunned to stop my car and take a picture! It was a young male, sitting in the top of a dead tree by the road :).
 

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