YO GEORGIANS! :)

[carlene lamolin]

Hello Georgians! Is anyone here using Tucker Milling laying pellets?

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[katsdar]

Ok, y'all don't jinx me now! I'm trying to get to Nashville in one piece!

Just don't drive faster than your guardian Angel can fly

The worst part, me with a bleeding finger and pain going am back to the house for some first aid and almost stepped on a copperhead snake and so pain and bleeding had to take care of that situation. Apparently not my day. !

I have one word, Guineas!!! you need a body guard, but you fit right in with the rest of us

Oh, and those eggs? Awesome. I fed them to Stanley Roosterface & his Golden Girls, but not before I at least sampled a bite. I figured, one bite of some eggs treated with ivomec wasn't gonna kill me. Lord knows I poisoned myself with worse in my 20s. DH took a bite too. I suddenly felt like I've been hoodwinked my whole life. That was my first taste of a fresh laid egg. No more store bought ever again so long as I can help it.

Eggs from an egg farm can be a month or older before they ever get packaged and when they get packaged then the 45 day expiration date goes on then off to the store so we can buy some fresh old eggs, sounds good huh

 

[katsdar]

I have just finished dusting my birds with poultry/garden dust, now I understand flower saying shake n bake. but I can safely say I don't have mites and yes I used a mask and long sleeves, that was a first, with everyone talking about mites I checked my birds and I saw a few. Now I know to treat the coops,birds and retreat in 10 days the question is where do the mites come from? Only from infected chickens? or do they live in the environment?

 

[iam4hymn]

Wow, I am waaayyyyyy late in this post, but I am in Carroll Co, GA!!

 

[katsdar]

Wow, I am waaayyyyyy late in this post, but I am in Carroll Co, GA!!

Don't know where that is I'm in the Rome area.

 

[PapaChaz]

Wow, I am waaayyyyyy late in this post, but I am in Carroll Co, GA!!

welcome aboard! Cedartown here!

Kat, think Bowdon, Carrollton, Villa Rica.....for Carroll county. Another one in our area, NICE!

and you're not way late really, the originators of this thread have long since fallen by the wayside but the real GA regulars are going strong

 

[eldridgebrood]

I think I've found a new BFF!!!!! cause misery loves company, LOL

Yall sound like me and my husband..if I'm not injured, he is!

 

[katiedarling]

I have just finished dusting my birds with poultry/garden dust, now I understand flower saying shake n bake. but I can safely say I don't have mites and yes I used a mask and long sleeves, that was a first, with everyone talking about mites I checked my birds and I saw a few. Now I know to treat the coops,birds and retreat in 10 days the question is where do the mites come from? Only from infected chickens? or do they live in the environment?

Soooo glad you asked this!!! I was wondering the same thing! I let the littles out of the house one afternoon and the spot I picked was under the shade of a tree. There was a bunch of moss on the ground. I didn't think anything of it. Later, I thought about it and googled if that was safe since they were obviously pecking and scratching at it. Allegedly, red mites like to live in the moss. But, I'm sure our mite issue was going on before the coop was even finished, I just couldn't ever find them, despite inspecting many times. Even with a magnifying glass.

I still would like to know where all the others come from. I'm not even sure if the mites in the moss are the kind that like to hang out in the roosts.

Either way, it all gives me the heebie geebies.

 

[katiedarling]

Wow, I am waaayyyyyy late in this post, but I am in Carroll Co, GA!!

Better late than never!

Hello from Coweta Co.

 

[katiedarling]

Just don't drive faster than your guardian Angel can fly

I have one word, Guineas!!! you need a body guard, but you fit right in with the rest of us

Eggs from an egg farm can be a month or older before they ever get packaged and when they get packaged then the 45 day expiration date goes on then off to the store so we can buy some fresh old eggs, sounds good huh

I KNOW! If we hadn't decided to start keeping chickens, I never would have thought to look into it. Minimum 6 weeks old by the time the get to the store. Then they can sit in the cooler in back stock for a bit. I read an article who said something to the effect that sometimes, eggs that you buy in December could very well have been laid in April. It laid out the timeline. I was horrified. I'm that person who will not drink milk one day past the date on the bottle. even if it IS just the sell by date. Unless I'm desperate for a glass of milk.

edited to correct: April