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biologynerd said:
Hey random, but do any of u Georgians know where I can find Cornish standard sized chickens in northeast Georgia? Craigslist and the Iwanna don't pull up anything. Thanks so much! Direct me where to look if u have any ideas. Thanks!
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Are you looking for the breed or the meat birds? If you are looking for the breed, Look for a show cloe to you(Only one I can think of right now is Newnan). Usually people will bring extra birds to sell. Hatcheries ave the meat birds, they also have cornish, but they dont usually look like they are supposed to, as with alot of hatchery birds.
You can also try the hatching egg section on here and see if anyones selling eggs, alot of birds are molting right now, so there might not be much avaible. Or try eBay
 
biologynerd said:
Hey random, but do any of u Georgians know where I can find Cornish standard sized chickens in northeast Georgia? Craigslist and the Iwanna don't pull up anything. Thanks so much! Direct me where to look if u have any ideas. Thanks!
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Last year at the Lake City Florida show in January there was a guy that had a lot of nice largefowl and bantam Cornish outside for sale.
 
So I went out of town for 3 1/2 days. Had son watching the house. One pullet died (thinking impacted crop) and 3 of the eggs under my broody are missing! He said he can't understand about the eggs under the broody. They had a heart drawn on them. None of the eggs in my cartons that they gathered had hearts on them. So, what do you think happened to them? Has anyone ever had missing eggs? They were in the coop and she sits pretty tightly to the eggs! I do know that my son had a couple come and visit while they were here watching the house, but he said the couple never went near the coop. Any guesses? Snake? Could she have pushed some eggs out and the other chickens ate the entire eggs and shell with no trace?
 
Flowerbh said:
So I went out of town for 3 1/2 days. Had son watching the house. One pullet died (thinking impacted crop) and 3 of the eggs under my broody are missing! He said he can't understand about the eggs under the broody. They had a heart drawn on them. None of the eggs in my cartons that they gathered had hearts on them. So, what do you think happened to them? Has anyone ever had missing eggs? They were in the coop and she sits pretty tightly to the eggs! I do know that my son had a couple come and visit while they were here watching the house, but he said the couple never went near the coop. Any guesses? Snake? Could she have pushed some eggs out and the other chickens ate the entire eggs and shell with no trace?
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I say SNAKE. They are moving like crazy here. We have found 3 in a week & my neighbors down the block found 4 snakes in 2 days. Pictures of huge rattlesnakes are making the rounds, but luckily we have only found garden snakes. Getting ready for winter, perhaps.
Sorry about your lose.
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It has cooled off quite a bit so they may be moving around though I thought that would be October or November.
 
themoldypeach said:
I say SNAKE. They are moving like crazy here. We have found 3 in a week & my neighbors down the block found 4 snakes in 2 days. Pictures of huge rattlesnakes are making the rounds, but luckily we have only found garden snakes. Getting ready for winter, perhaps.
Sorry about your lose.
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but would a snake just go right under her in a coop full of chickens?
 
I have lost a lot of chickens/chicks this summer. Is this common with all of you or do I just have horrible luck? 5 chickens and one duck to a bear in a single night, 1 to a hawk, 1 died just sitting on the nest (?), 1 from impacted crop, several chicks from whatever....about 2-3 weeks old, seemed fine one day and the next is dead!

My best friend has chickens, too. Just in the past 2 months, she lost 2 to predators, 1 just disappeared out of her coop and one just got snagged out of its run cage by a hawk this morning! It just pulled it thru the wire! Then she lost one to some illness.

So does everyone lose chickens like we do? Mine free range and I can understand losing one to a hawk every now and then, but what about the one that was just sitting on the nest? or what about the impacted crop? Is that a common thing? Is there any way to prevent it?

We don't have that many chickens. I am down to 16 hen/pullets, 5 juveniles and 13 baby chicks. I mean, the percent of chickens I have lost to the ones I have is large. It is so frustrating to raise these chickens and get close to laying and then they die or are killed! All that time and effort and love and caring, and then they die! So do you guys lose a lot of chickens, too?
 
This is our first year keeping chickens so I don't have anything to compare it to but I have certainly lost more than I was expecting. Since Easter we have taken in 25 chicks, re-homed 5 cockerels, lost 6 pullets to predators (3 to fox, 1 to cat, 2 to hawk), after re-homing or slaughtering the 7 cockerels I still have, we will be left with 7 pullets. I had heard of chicken math; now I understand it.
 
I started the year with 36 chickens and my dog killed every darn one of them. I have started up a new flock and up to 7 chcikens that are now laying but should be soon. I also have 40 eggs in the bator right now and 3 dozen more on the way. I have only BCM, Blue Marans, Cuckoo Marans. The eggs on the way are HRIR.
 

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