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Sure wish I didn't have to work today.. One d'Uccle is almost out and the other pipped, and two leghorn pips! SURELY there will still be plenty to see tonight, though!
 
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Candled last night and none to happy. 3 out of 7 Cream Crested Legbar eggs were not fertile with blotchy shells under the light and the remaining 4 looked questionable. It was a long day so I'm going with my eyes were just too tired to see through the shell for the blood veins on the others. Ever the glass is half full. I set some Blue Copper Maran eggs and a few Mottled Cochin (which I don't think will go). My Cochin girls are laying and leaving so they are very cold by the time I get in at night to collect them. I'm looking forward to the Swap, hoping to find a few olive eggers, CCL (incase none of my eggs make it) & Marans.
 
carlene lamolin said:
I will pull it out she was the only one out of four that hatched I w as hopping the other eggs would be hatching right behind it . It will be very lonely for awhile my eggs still have three weeks till hatch time .
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I wouldn't pull them yet. I pulled hatching eggs from under a broody last month and put them in my bator. The hatch dates were the 11th,14th, 19th, 21st and two on the 26th. Candle them first. Hens add eggs in the nest with a broody in there from time to time. Good luck.
 
Nunie said:
What kind of chicken predators do you all get in Georgia? Especially the Augusta/Atlanta and Savannah areas?
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I live an hour West of Atlanta. I have lost only 1 hen to a hawk while they were free ranging. I now keep them in a run with a few strips of wire spaced out over the top. I have seen nighttime predators such as foxes, raccoons, and opossum but I lock the chickens up at night so no issues. I used to live in Brunswick I didn't have chickens at the time but I imagine the situation would be the same. Maybe a few more neighborhood dogs.
 
Silver Hill said:
Good luck Eric!
I put my first eggs ever last Sunday in an incubator I made last week. I knew I would find a reason for enlarging the utility room when we built the house.
The big english guy has joined the troop and he looks kind of strange when coming across the pasture with the rest of the flock.
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Oh I bet.. I bet he looks like Big Bird traveling around with them.
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I cant wait to see the babies he helps produce!
 
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JacobandMeagan said:
I live an hour West of Atlanta. I have lost only 1 hen to a hawk while they were free ranging. I now keep them in a run with a few strips of wire spaced out over the top. I have seen nighttime predators such as foxes, raccoons, and opossum but I lock the chickens up at night so no issues. I used to live in Brunswick I didn't have chickens at the time but I imagine the situation would be the same. Maybe a few more neighborhood dogs.
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Thank you for the info! Appreciate it :)

I lived in NC for 7 years and I saw 1 fox during those 7 years! Never saw a raccoon in NC, but we'd see hawks and falcons circling around. Occasionally they would catch a bird in our yard, but if I saw any getting close (or perching on the fence) I would just go outside and they flew away. I didn't attack them or try to scare them away, I know they have to eat too! Just prefer they take the mice instead of the little golden finches and orioles we were attracting to our yard with feeders! :p

Are skunks prevalent in Georgia (they were everywhere in NC) and do they attack chickens?

Also, on a note unrelated to predators, what kind of soil do they have around Atlanta/Alberta? NC has awful red clay everywhere, such a pain in the butt to work with!
 
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Candled last night and none to happy. 3 out of 7 Cream Crested Legbar eggs were not fertile with blotchy shells under the light and the remaining 4 looked questionable. It was a long day so I'm going with my eyes were just too tired to see through the shell for the blood veins on the others. Ever the glass is half full. I set some Blue Copper Maran eggs and a few Mottled Cochin (which I don't think will go). My Cochin girls are laying and leaving so they are very cold by the time I get in at night to collect them. I'm looking forward to the Swap, hoping to find a few olive eggers, CCL (incase none of my eggs make it) & Marans.
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are you coming to the Newnan swap? I'm hoping to meet a few more people who didn't get to come to the meet and greet at GAMs last may. Always nice to make new friends. As it stands right now, we're planning on being there, depending on the weather of course

I'm crossing an AM rooster with my black australorps. Hatched out the first of them last sept, I'm down to just one pullet myself, and as far as I know none of them have started laying yet. But they should give us some shade of green egg. I also have some welsummers coming, that will also be crossed with one of my AM roosters. Of course by the time those start laying, and I hatch out some and then THEY start laying, we're talking next year to get those eggs, but that dark brown hen and my blue gene rooster should give me some girls that will lay a pretty olive colored egg. So we can keep this in mind for next year for you
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