YO GEORGIANS! :)

[ohju1ia]

Looks like construction on the two new layer coops can't wait until spring like we hoped. Will be starting on it as soon as my serama hutches are done. We have two restaurants and a farm to table group that all want eggs from us so I need my laying hens sooner then planned. Fun times since I need chicks now to grow them to layers by spring and the selections in hatcheries is low right now

I'm right down the road from you. I'm hatching black stars and white rock x rir in a month or two. The Cochin roosters fertilization needs to pass.

 

[ohju1ia]

I'm right down the road from you. I'm hatching black stars and white rock x rir in a month or two. The Cochin roosters fertilization needs to pass.

Unless of coarse you want some Cochin x barred rock and Cochin x white rock chicks

 

[Kyochan]

Isn't it funny how they do that??? LOL cute chick!

Thanks, hee hee, she's a little stinker. I think I have more pictures of her giving me the evil eye then I do of her looking normal. lol

 

[OohLaLa]

I don't think chickens mean to give us "that look"....you know the one that says you we're put her on earth to tend their every need then disappear so they can continue with their activities.....and yet they do it very often and with such intent.

 

[ohju1ia]

Anyone in the North Georgia area know where I can buy untreated feed barley? Everywhere I've read says people pay ~15 for a 50lbs bag. The most I've found was $30 for a 50lbs bag. I really want to start growing fodder.

 

[Highcotton]

Yes, yesterday WAS cold!! Brrr. My girls only gave me one egg yesterday! :/
This morning I walked out there to find frozen waterers. I'm going to have to empty them each evening and put them away so it will be easier for me to fill them up each morning. 

I made a treat for them since it was below freezing this morning. Some cooked oats & cooked rice, along with fresh collards. They tore it up!! So far I've gotten 3 eggs, and there are 2 on the nest right now!   Looks like I'll be cooking them something warm more often when temps are this low. 

It was 32 down here this morning. That is the coldest yet. I got 7 eggs from 7 hens as usual. My hens are 29 weeks old.

 

[Flowerbh]

It was 32 down here this morning. That is the coldest yet. I got 7 eggs from 7 hens as usual. My hens are 29 weeks old.

Go ahead and kick us while we are down! hahahahha! That's great that you are getting so many eggs this time of year! Are you using light in your coop? What kind of hens do you have? I only get 6-8 eggs a day from 12 hens, but 2 are molting and one is broody. I think the shorter daylight hours have gotten to some of them, too. I have some pullets that are 27 weeks and 33 weeks that haven't started laying yet! Ugh! Also have a few that are 19 weeks old. Only one looks really red faced. She is a Exchequer Leghorn X Crested Cream Legbar mix and should lay blue eggs. I guess because of the Leghorn in her, she may be the earliest to lay of any bird I ever had! I had one silkie who was 49 weeks old before she laid her first egg! Then she went broody 2 months later! hahaha! I also have a new set of chicks that are 8 weeks old and more eggs in the bator! I probably have at least one hen from every breed! (Not really, but quite a few different ones!) Love the different egg colors!

I am glad I have staggered ages because I love the excitement of having a new egg layer! Always so fun to see what color eggs I get!

 

[ohju1ia]

My neighbors dog killed 10 of my 20 chickens tonight. I literally ordered by hardware cloth today and have been steadily securing my coop. The dog killed his masters chickens yesterday, and I told him this morning that once a dog tastes live chicken he will always go for more. I put the girls inside their coop, inside the run, and secured it, which I've never done before, but I wanted them to be safe. He tore through the chicken wire, chewed off the latch, and lifted the 10lbs wood door with his head. I caught him before he killed the last of them. I'm left with 2 28 week old white rocks, 1 19 week old EE, 1 18 week old white leghorn, 4 9 week old silkies and 2 4 week old BOs. The silkies and the BOs are in their own little box, inside the coop, so they were safe.

 

[h2ofowllovngrl]

This is horrible. Truly.

 

[Kyochan]

My neighbors dog killed 10 of my 20 chickens tonight. I literally ordered by hardware cloth today and have been steadily securing my coop. The dog killed his masters chickens yesterday, and I told him this morning that once a dog tastes live chicken he will always go for more. I put the girls inside their coop, inside the run, and secured it, which I've never done before, but I wanted them to be safe. He tore through the chicken wire, chewed off the latch, and lifted the 10lbs wood door with his head. I caught him before he killed the last of them. I'm left with 2 28 week old white rocks, 1 19 week old EE, 1 18 week old white leghorn, 4 9 week old silkies and 2 4 week old BOs. The silkies and the BOs are in their own little box, inside the coop, so they were safe.

Oh my god. I am so sorry for your loss! That dog would be gone if it did that to mine. Straight to the pound and would be getting shot with a BB gun everytime it stepped on my property if the owners got it back. One of the ladies down the street has a dog just like that. Luckily she only got one of our hens and we started keeping a BB gun right by the door. A few weeks later she learned to steer VERY clear of our house.