YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

You might consider putting Vaseline on your chicken's combs and wattles to help keep them from getting frost bite. I have a heat light in my run. I have also put up plastic sheeting on the side of the run that always gets the most wind. You can buy an aquarium heater for your water if you have electricity that runs to your water supply. I don't think it is worth it as it doesn't freeze all that much to merit that. Try to keep the flooring dry as wet feet can lead to frozen toes and they could lose toes that way. My roosts are high and protected from the wind and wet. I don't overworry about our southern winters, we don't have the cold as bad as most of the country. A lot of the warnings you read about are for places that stay 'frozen' most of the winter. A few nights of freeze will be uncomfortable, but it shouldn't kill your chickens. Just make sure they have fresh water. That will be your biggest worry. Chickens in the south handle cold weather much better than they do our southern summers!

 

[pdx2phx]

One solution I've considered is that I should probably go get more chickens. All in the name of body heat/survival, of course.

I like how you think!

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

@goldenchicks16 thats the next item on my chicken to do list. Hatching eggs. This will be my first attempt. I've got someone to hatch the eggs for me, but my biggest challenge is figuring which eggs to hatch...

 

[pdx2phx]

@GAFarmGirl87 Hate cold weather! The summer is much better in my opinion! There's more eggs, more food to free range on, no freezing waterers, don't have to worry about frostbite, and I don't have to use the silkies as ear muffs!!

^^^^^^

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

@flowerbh That makes me feel much better. Thanks for the info!

 

[swampturkey]

I think it would be awesome if one of those little "swap" deals be arranged in the south georgia area. i would like to to attend one and meet people from this forum (i dont have much of a social life lol).

 

[Jharper]

I think it would be awesome if one of those little "swap" deals be arranged in the south georgia area. i would like to to attend one and meet people from this forum (i dont have much of a social life lol). 

There's one in Cairo in the morning at Bennets Feed and Seed.

 

[GoldenChicks16]

@GAFarmGirl87 this is my first attempt also.. We have two roosters with about 40 hens and then another rooster with 6 hens. With those numbers you'd think about half the eggs would be fertile right? Wrong! I set 34 eggs and so far, on week two, every single one is developing with no infertile eggs! Imagine that the boys stay pretty busy.
@pdx2phx haha it's true! I have a pullet and a cockerel that will let me hold them to my ears with doing the chores! Their little fluffy bodies keep my ears nice and warm!

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

@goldenchicks16 Yea, I've got 3 flocks, each with a rooster, 12 hens max. Likely I'll do a test run before setting a large number of eggs.

 

[pdx2phx]

@GAFarmGirl87 this is my first attempt also.. We have two roosters with about 40 hens and then another rooster with 6 hens. With those numbers you'd think about half the eggs would be fertile right? Wrong! I set 34 eggs and so far, on week two, every single one is developing with no infertile eggs! Imagine that the boys stay pretty busy.
@pdx2phx haha it's true! I have a pullet and a cockerel that will let me hold them to my ears with doing the chores! Their little fluffy bodies keep my ears nice and warm!

That is funny! I swear mine like to jump up on me just to warm & dry their feet off after it rains...they didn't do it near as much when we lived in AZ!