YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Jharper]

Good luck, my uncle did one like that and it worked

I think I'll sell it cheap if I get through with it.

 

[kaybee123]

Hey Everyone, Just thought I would share this great photo of my Granddaughter, Valerie. She was just saying how she loves GeeMa's house. This is my home that we now use as a vacation rental home (in order to keep it because my husband lost his business due to this horrible ecomony!). My DH and I live in the apartment attached to the home when we have renters. When renters aren't here, we stay in the big house. We love it here! And so do my chickens!

What a beautiful place and great solution so you can keep it!

 

[ChickSter99]

Ok is it just me or did the feed store guy totally ignore my NON-Medicated chick starter/grower request. I have mixed ages in my flock and need to go non-medicate with other needs offered on the side for my older girls. Look at the 1st line on the bag.

The feed supply person loaded cattle feed into my truck. When I asked about it & repeated "Chicken Layer Pellets", he said' "these will do the same thing." I'm sorry but that rubbed all over me wrong. I told him that he may have other people that use cattle feed but I don't. I'm very specific about what my chickens get." I should have known better than to go back because the time before I asked for grit. He replied, "Did you mean oyster shell?" He was serious. I took a deep breath and told him in a nice way, "No, grit. Oyster shell is not grit". He proceeded to tell me that no one has asked for grit before. I almost flipped. You mean a feed supply store that sells chicken feed doesn't carry grit muchless has had not one person til know ask for it. What in the world is someone that doesn't not sqwat about chickens doing in a feed store. Then, he continues to say that he thought grit and oyster shells were the same thing. The middle school teacher came out in me. He got an entire lesson on why oyster shell is not grit & what grit does and that it is extremely important for chickens. He just nodded an said, "Yes, Ma'am." He got a schoolin' about the cattle feed for MY chickens too. He can sell that to whomever he wants but please when someone asks for chicken feed, ask what age ranges the chickens are or get what the person is asking for. I was flabbergasted by the time I left. We own a business so, I know how important it is to know what you're selling. We can sell a variety of lumber, windows, siding, etc. If our employees don't know about the stuff than guess where our customers are going? up the road to the next place that sells the same thing with knowledge of what they are selling. If they don't know, ask someone who does. I know that you were not happy and I don't blame you one bit. Did you return the feed?

 

[ChickSter99]

Well we have had five more hatch out but one of them hatched out to a different cochin hen and she killed it. What the heck? Does that happen? ;(

My last hatch my Turken was the broody. She killed two by breaking the eggs. I got there in time to see that she was working on a third. I took the others and put them in the bators. Good luck with the rest of your babies.

 

[sbrown]

The feed supply person loaded cattle feed into my truck. When I asked about it & repeated "Chicken Layer Pellets", he said' "these will do the same thing." I'm sorry but that rubbed all over me wrong. I told him that he may have other people that use cattle feed but I don't. I'm very specific about what my chickens get." I should have known better than to go back because the time before I asked for grit. He replied, "Did you mean oyster shell?" He was serious. I took a deep breath and told him in a nice way, "No, grit. Oyster shell is not grit". He proceeded to tell me that no one has asked for grit before. I almost flipped. You mean a feed supply store that sells chicken feed doesn't carry grit muchless has had not one person til know ask for it. What in the world is someone that doesn't not sqwat about chickens doing in a feed store. Then, he continues to say that he thought grit and oyster shells were the same thing. The middle school teacher came out in me. He got an entire lesson on why oyster shell is not grit & what grit does and that it is extremely important for chickens. He just nodded an said, "Yes, Ma'am." He got a schoolin' about the cattle feed for MY chickens too. He can sell that to whomever he wants but please when someone asks for chicken feed, ask what age ranges the chickens are or get what the person is asking for. I was flabbergasted by the time I left. We own a business so, I know how important it is to know what you're selling. We can sell a variety of lumber, windows, siding, etc. If our employees don't know about the stuff than guess where our customers are going? up the road to the next place that sells the same thing with knowledge of what they are selling. If they don't know, ask someone who does. I know that you were not happy and I don't blame you one bit. Did you return the feed?

I had a lady at the feed store tell me if I had my chicks on starter then it was medicated, after telling her I used non medicated. This lady was one of the owners I think also. That may have been all they carried but I knew what I was using.

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

Hey I have been feeding my chicks medicated start n grower and they have acess to it around the clock but I'm still losing babies I have never had this happen before but I have lost the last 2 batches of babies I have hatched and I was wondering what it could be.
I have them in the house until about a month old and then I put them outside in a covered barn with a small run where they can get some sun. What is going on?

Thanks!

 

[Jeniferl29]

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Hey I have been feeding my chicks medicated start n grower and they have acess to it around the clock but I'm still losing babies I have never had this happen before but I have lost the last 2 batches of babies I have hatched and I was wondering what it could be.
I have them in the house until about a month old and then I put them outside in a covered barn with a small run where they can get some sun. What is going on?

Thanks!

I have found they can still get coccidiosis with the medicated feed. Especially if we have a whole lot of rain. Georgia heat and humidity is a perfect breeding ground for it. I watch mine like a hawk for symptoms. It can kill them so quickly. Sometimes they won't even have any bloody diarrhea. I keep meds on hand just in case.

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

What type of meds do I need?

Thank you!

 

[OohLaLa]

So we were up late last night....so this morning I was still in bed when the rooster started crowing at 6:45. Not just a few times, but over and over again which is unusual for him. Then about 5 minutes later I hear the chickens make a weird kind of clucking....not the egg song, not the "hey, where is everyone" cluck, not a happy cluck, but one I haven't heard before, so I jump out of bed and go to the door and there is "The Bear" staring at them through the run door! I imagine this is the same one that killed 5 hens and my duck about 5 days ago! And here it is 7am! I mean it is broad daylight and only 6 feet from my back door and there are renters here (like 20 people) and all their smells, the 4 dogs that came, and all their cars and noise! WTH is this bear thinking! The bad thing is that the electric fence we put up is on a timer...from 9 at night to 6 in the morning.... and here it is at 7! Well we went out and ran it off and shot behind him to scare him. It is a juvenile bear...probably just left his mother. Only about 80 pounds, but now we may have a problem if he keeps coming back! Guess we will have to change the timer on the electric fence! May keep the chickens in today.

BUT, sooooo glad all my chickens are safe! Can't afford to lose any more!

Good Luck sounds like you got a problem on your hands. That bear especially if young has found his food source and won't forget easily.

 

[OohLaLa]

The feed supply person loaded cattle feed into my truck. When I asked about it & repeated "Chicken Layer Pellets", he said' "these will do the same thing." I'm sorry but that rubbed all over me wrong. I told him that he may have other people that use cattle feed but I don't. I'm very specific about what my chickens get." I should have known better than to go back because the time before I asked for grit. He replied, "Did you mean oyster shell?" He was serious. I took a deep breath and told him in a nice way, "No, grit. Oyster shell is not grit". He proceeded to tell me that no one has asked for grit before. I almost flipped. You mean a feed supply store that sells chicken feed doesn't carry grit muchless has had not one person til know ask for it. What in the world is someone that doesn't not sqwat about chickens doing in a feed store. Then, he continues to say that he thought grit and oyster shells were the same thing. The middle school teacher came out in me. He got an entire lesson on why oyster shell is not grit & what grit does and that it is extremely important for chickens. He just nodded an said, "Yes, Ma'am." He got a schoolin' about the cattle feed for MY chickens too. He can sell that to whomever he wants but please when someone asks for chicken feed, ask what age ranges the chickens are or get what the person is asking for. I was flabbergasted by the time I left. We own a business so, I know how important it is to know what you're selling. We can sell a variety of lumber, windows, siding, etc. If our employees don't know about the stuff than guess where our customers are going? up the road to the next place that sells the same thing with knowledge of what they are selling. If they don't know, ask someone who does. I know that you were not happy and I don't blame you one bit. Did you return the feed?

It's in the back of my car, going back Monday. I went out of my way to get this and now I'll have to go out of may way to take it back. It wont be pretty trust me. In the mean time I found a Tractor Supply with in reasonable distance that carries everything you could want on a regular basis and has helpful and friendly employees that make you feel like your needs big or small matter.