YO GEORGIANS! :)

[ChickDancer]

Wow folks were chatty past 24 hours on all my threads lol. Glad to see everyone got through storms. Dont see much news here so online is my only source. Hoping to find out more on the house this weekend and if its right for us God will make it work. Take care all.

The 5th is almost here though. That's when you said you can renew the internet, right?

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

. Yeah, chicken math is crazy! Congrats on your hatch...new babies are so much fun. It always makes sense if you have chicks in the brooder to add a few more while you're at it. I currently have 3 extras in my brooder that DH has not noticed at all. .

Wow folks were chatty past 24 hours on all my threads lol. Glad to see everyone got through storms. Dont see much news here so online is my only source. Hoping to find out more on the house this weekend and if its right for us God will make it work. Take care all.

Hope you get good news about the house!!

 

[abmaddox1981]

I want to know why my dorking eggs are in grand rapids Michigan if they shipped from ft.smith Arkansas. What is really going on?

 

[Flowerbh]

Sorry I just got back I'm doing my frist dry hatch I've never tried this before but I read that it was the best way the humidity in my bater stays at about 35 with no water at all in it so that's why I was going with a dry hatch was this a good idea or not thanks

I do my hatch like this: day 1 - 18, 30-40% humidity. then the last 3 days I go 50-65% I think through all the reading I have done, it seems that people do such different things, but it's like this... Those who incubate the first stage at a low humidity, hatch at high humidity. (20% - 70%) then there are people like me who go 35% - 60%, then there are people like CD who just maintain a middle of the road the whole time (50% - 50%) It almost seem like an average of the whole is what is important. IDK. I just know a chicken doesn't add water to her nest to get the humidity just right hahahha. I read one book and in the reading part, they listed one set of temps/humidities and then in the recap section, they listed a whole different set......it was weird.

But, I have heard that Marans eggs are a little tougher.....probably because of all the brown coating that is added to the white eggs shell that makes it so brown. Over the time in the bator, that coating can get tough. (like dry paint) You may want to google it or ask on the Marans thread here. Some people actually sand the shell a bit. I just hatched some Golden Cuckoo Marans eggs and didn't have a problem, but my friend (who was also hatching GCM) only got two out and she had to poke the shells and said it was so hard she had to tap it with a screwdriver and hammer! She said all the others died in the shell and looked fully developed. She was really sad she didn't help earlier!

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

Ouch! Poor thing.
Well, congrats on your hatch!

 

[sanchabird]

No. I broke that 18and over comment. Lol

So did I

 

[debgal]

Griffin Home Depot just got a trailer full of wheat straw @$5.97 a bail

 

[valleychicks]

Is anyone interested in Buff Orpington Roos? I was at our Vet clinic today and one of the vet techs said about 4 weeks ago she purchased 12 BO's from TSC in Athens and wound up with 5 roos. They want to keep 1 or 2 but don't need more than that. Anyone interested let me know. Thanks!

 

[christine9]

Anybody else dealing with mites? They seemed to just show up. But then again, I can only see them on the white trim of my coop. Sprayed the girls and coop with poultry protector and put poultry dust down. The warning label on the poultry dust kinda freaked me out or I would have put it out everywhere. Going to refill the dust bath bin with ash, poultry dust, and DE mixture. Anything else I should be doing?

 

[ChickDancer]

FINALLY found Brownie's new nest! She's been visiting the neighbor's property and plopping eggs down in an old utility sink that he has sitting outside of his shed. It has metal bars over it that look like they belong to some shelves or something, but just lay over the top of the sink right now. Apparently she thinks it's the PERFECT spot for a nest!

Hopefully, she'll keep thinking that even though I took all four eggs she had put in it. The neighbor doesn't mind (he's got LOTS of junk like that, and it just sits there collecting dirt) and I'd rather not go on another hunting expedition to find her next nest!