YO GEORGIANS! :)

[mrsdszoo]

@mrsdszoo - Update on the eggs in the incubator. They are going into lockdown tomorrow. Candled for the first time tonight I have 2 definite quitters and 2 probable quitters - but I saw movement in 9 and the other 3 all had veining visible, but I didn't see movement. 100% fertility though!



My husband took off work today and worked on the new coop. Hopefully he'll have it finished on Sunday and we can get the red rangers out into it then. They will be just over 4 weeks old but are pretty much feathered and are quite large. And they are making a huge mess in my basement LOL

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a good hatch for those eggs! I usually candle four times: Day 5 to check for development, Day 10 to mark the size of the air cell, and again on Day 14 and 18 (lockdown) to mark the air cell. That way I can gauge the humidity needs of the eggs, and adjust accordingly. I usually don't get much movement by day 18 either.

I am so very ready to start getting chicks and their mess out of my garage, so I totally understand -and I'll hope for a finished coop for you too.

 

[mrsdszoo]

I thought Cornish that you can't raise to adulthood, WERE the cross. How is there a "pure Cornish" if they can't be bred?

I may just be tired.

I believe it is the Cornish Rock (cornish x) that doesn't live past adulthood; nor do they "breed true" or are they easy to produce on your own with the contributing breeds. That's good, because they're not pleasant birds to raise.

 

[mrsdszoo]

Whew! Long day today, but boy was it productive . I added three bunnies, and subtracted 7. I've discovered bunny math . Tomorrow if the weather gives us a break, the oldest chicks move into their outside coop at the farm and become big boys and girls. Oh, and bunny multiplication -breeding some does to the two NZ bucks

 

[Chickie Momma]

Baby turkeys soon did I hear?? I have 2 Barred Rocks that are total pigs. My Silkies sure didn't eat like that when they were 5 days old! They do now but they are 5 weeks old lol looking forward to meeting the folks at the GAMaran farms tomorrow. Got 2 cutie pie silkies for their daughter to spoil

 

[brittanyd]

Hello my name is Brittany I live in southwest Ga was wondering if any of you would know where to get goose hatching eggs If so please reply I have had no luck and would love to buy locally thanks

 

[LingaB]

Yes, chicken math goes like this:


You go to the store to see about possibly getting some chicks. You're thinking maybe three or four. The store has a minimum purchase of 6 (which Tractor Supply usually does). So you need to get 6. But there's only 7 left in the bin, and you don't want to leave one lonely, so you buy him too. The next week you just go get feed, but they have new chicks. Oh, they're SO adorable! You come home with with the feed.... and another 6 chicks.


You swear that's it. No more chicks. But you need more feed about 6 weeks later. And when you get there, they have a NEW breed that you've never seen before. So there goes another six.



THEN.... you buy an incubator....


And from then on there is only multiplication and addition - NO SUBTRACTION!


You don't understand how it works. You just know that somehow you only wanted "maybe" three chicks for some fresh eggs now and then. That's all you really remember...

Haha loooove this! I have stuck with my 16 for almost 4 weeks!

I am Valdosta Ga

Welcome!

 

[Book]

 

[ChickDancer]

Hello my name is Brittany I live in southwest Ga was wondering if any of you would know where to get goose hatching eggs If so please reply I have had no luck and would love to buy locally thanks

I have no idea where to buy locally - yet.

I purchased my eggs from someone in Ohio, and someone in Maine. But the ones from Maine came through okay and just this morning I HEARD ALL THREE OF THEM CHIRP INSIDE OF THE EGGS!!

Oooooohhhhh, I'm so hoping for a pip by the time I get home! I CAN'T WAIT!


But I don't know of anyone that has goose eggs available in Georgia yet. Myself, abmaddox, and Roboduck are all raising geese now, but none of us has any old enough to breed yet.

 

[debgal]

Good Mornign!

 

[farmerChef]

(By the way, I know you can't raise full-blooded cornish to adulthood and breed them, but what about Cornish rocks? She wants me to keep hatching them so she can keep having meat birds.)

pure Cornish are a breed, that can breed naturally.
Cornish rocks are hybrids that rarely live past 3 months because of extreme weight gain, which can cause broken legs and heart attacks. If you had some make it to being age, though careful feeding, you would have to help them breed. The rooster would be to heavy, and if he tried, he could hurt the hen. If you have feed the and water close together, they will just sit there and eat. They eat allot and poop allot, and will be to heavy to roost.

These are my bantam Cornish