Hi,
I just subscribed to this forum, today. I am very happy to have found it. I live in Pickens Co., Jasper, GA.
I am just getting back into backyard chickens since we moved. Right now, I have 3 Euskal Oiloa Marraduna type, 1 hen, 2 pullets and 3 Pita Pinta Austuriana, 1 roo and 2 pullets, 8 wks. old. These breeds are Spanish and supposed to be very cold weather tolerant and heat tolerant.
I have raised and owned Dominique, RIR, Black Australorp, Buff Brahma, Buff Orpingtons. I am planning to get a couple of Black Australorps if I can find a couple of juvenile pullets. I hatched out 9 chicks in my new incubator a couple of mos. ago. However, because of a health scare I was not able to take proper care of them at the time. I had bought 6 eggs from a local Easter Egger breeder and she was gracious to take the 5 babies hatched from her eggs. The other 4 chicks were from eggs that came from CA.
I still have 3 of them. After all this, it seems that what was thought to be allergies and causing bronchitis, turned out to be manageable without my having to give up my animals; horses, chickens, cats, dogs.
I love my chickens and look forward to seeing and hearing what all is going on in GA