YO GEORGIANS! :)

[SilkieSensation]

[COLOR=0000CD]The above is a 110 gallon stock tank from TSC. It's a tuff stuff brand and we have about a dozen of the 40 gallon size around the place and use them for all kinds of things including brooders for up to 10-12 chicks. You can wash them with bleach and soapy water to clean and sterilize. They are thick and black and hold the heat from the heat lamp and work very well as a brooder. I have 25 ISA brown pullets coming in a few weeks and looking at this 110 gallon size but hate to pay the price of $65. What do you use as a brooder that is cheap and can be sterilized...?[/COLOR]

I use kiddie pools with cardboard taped around the sides & netting over the top.

 

[gypsy767]

I bought one of those and use it for a brooder also. Although, I'm going to tear out the brooder/quarantine cage I built in my coop and make some changes. After trying it with the last set of babies, it just wasn't working the way I intended. I'm going to swap ends with it and make it accessible through the big door on the side/end of my coop. Will be much easier to clean and deal with chicks when I need to

We keep the brooder babies in the garage for 2-3 weeks when it's cold like it is now...they are due near the end of February and will still be plenty cold here. When we move them to the brooder house we just pick up the tub and move it...hang the heat lamp over and once they start trying to fly out we just turn them loose in the house and leave the heat lamp in the corner...has worked well so far. There will be no other chickens in the brooder house.

 

[gypsy767]

I use kiddie pools with cardboard taped around the sides & netting over the top.

That sounds like a good idea....thanks!!!!

 

[Clinton 78]

Small world, who would think with me making the reference we would actually have a bag maker here. lol and that is crazy that is a lot of chips.  Next get together Clinton 78 is bringing the free chips!!!! wonder if your company would donate a box or two to go with Papa's BBQ   

I just make the bags. Unless u want me to bring rolls of empty bag? They get sent down to Perry, GA to be fill.

 

[Clinton 78]

I was planning on worming my chickens today with Wazine17.  Last night I looked it up and found that you needed to not eat (or hatch = deformities) the eggs for 2 weeks and then you need to re-worm after two weeks.  So that would have been a month of no eggs.  But, I found a product called Rooster Booster Triple Action Wormer that you can treat and eat!  So, I ordered some.  You just mix it in their food.  It kills 3 types of worms within days.  Anybody try it? 

They did also suggest not worming in the winter because the chickens are already stressed by the weather.  Should I wait or are they talking about far north weather?

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I use the rooster booster and they will tear it up. If any thing mine laid more but I'm sure it was timing not anything to do with it. I wormed mine after all the rain we had a few Wks ago.

 

[PapaChaz]

well last night at this time, I was carrying Ameraucauna's from one coop to the other one. This evening going to check on them just now, I had an egg! first blue egg since before Thanksgiving.

I guess tomorrow I need to get the nest boxes in!

I also made the roost bar too high, so I'll cut it down a foot and see if they like it better that way. They're too cramped overhead with it like it is.

 

[Clinton 78]

I found some more D'uccles on Craigslist. Some in Carrollton and some in Piedmont AL.

 

[ericinga]

I've been searching through Polk County, I don't see ANY listings in the ordinances for chickens at all. I know they're restricted inside the city of Aragon, but no idea about Rockmart, Cedartown or any of the other 'towns' here

Rockmart has an ordinance that you can't have more than 499 chickens and they can't be sold commercially in the city limits. I live in the city and researched it completely before getting mine.

 

[carcar80]

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Rockmart has an ordinance that you can't have more than 499 chickens and they can't be sold commercially in the city limits. I live in the city and researched it completely before getting mine.

wait what? Really!? And I worry that some of our neighbors (who are in city limits) might get to complain of all (three of) my roosters?? Nevermind lol.

 

[ericinga]

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wait what? Really!?

And I worry that some of our neighbors (who are in city limits) might get to complain of all (three of) my roosters?? Nevermind lol.

I worked at the Rockmart police station while doing my internship and I asked everyone and have a friend that works at Polk Animal Control and even made sure with them. I had 8 rooster at one time. Now I am down to 4 but 2 are bantam cochins so I don't count them. I am actually thinking of selling the 2 bantam cochin roosters and my bantam cochin frizzle hen. She is at the bottom of the pecking order and the other bantam hen in there is pulling her feathers out and eating them. She targets everyone but seems to target the frizzle hen more.