YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Lady Who]

It's my birthday! I still can't drink yet ;-;
I switch to a diffent brand and my bantams eggs were thin and wierd looking then when I changed back everything was fine again

 

[ShadesofSable]

It's my birthday! I still can't drink yet ;-;
I switch to a diffent brand and my bantams eggs were thin and wierd looking then when I changed back everything was fine again

Happy Birthday!! Hope it's going great. What kind of cake are you having?

Off topic question on feed (not that there is such a thing as on-topic on this board ).

Any thoughts on whether or not it would be good for the birds to feed them whole sunfish (either boiled or raw)?  My kids love catching them up at the lake and they are too small to filet/eat for us.  Seems like I could ice a bunch of the little fish down when caught, boil them (or not) and just feed them to the chickens whole.  I would think it would be an excellent protein supplement.

Has anyone tried this or have an opinion either way?

I know chickens will eat small vertebrates if given the chance (Mice, lizards, etc) but I would worry that they'd try to swallow the sunfish the wrong way and it'd get stuck with those fin spines they have. If you do decide to try it, maybe remove that dorsal fin?

 

[choonook]

Off topic question on feed (not that there is such a thing as on-topic on this board ).

Any thoughts on whether or not it would be good for the birds to feed them whole sunfish (either boiled or raw)?  My kids love catching them up at the lake and they are too small to filet/eat for us.  Seems like I could ice a bunch of the little fish down when caught, boil them (or not) and just feed them to the chickens whole.  I would think it would be an excellent protein supplement.

Has anyone tried this or have an opinion either way?

I would get rid of the scales and fins. Everything else shouldn't be a problem. I know your birds have plenty of opportunity to get grit. The small bones shouldn't be an issue. We've fed ours a chicken carcass, after claiming what meat we could, and they cleaned the bones. They'll eat any meat that's good for them. If they don't like it, you'll have some stinky trash.

 

[choonook]

Had to share today's find. I think we have one girl (French Wheaton Maran x RIR) that will lay chocolate and freckled eggs. So, the freckled and chocolate are from the Maran mixes. The brown is our true RIR and the pale is our Golden Laced Wyandotte x RIR. Still waiting on one younger Maran mix to lay and our healing Black Star. She should be laying, but she's still in a separate pen and hatest being away from the others (healing quite nicely though). I'm truly amazed at her strength and regenerative ability! Another month or so and she should be totally healed from the scalping.

 

[eqserman]

Interesting. I would switch too. As much as I want to support a "local guy", if you don't get good results, it's not worth the effort.

I stopped using TSC for feed, as the local one here the feed is close to if not out of date. Per Purina and Nuturna the feed should be used within 4 months, give or take a few days. Most of the feed at the local TSC is 3 plus months, thus only per manufacturer allowing @ 30 days or less to use up. That is cutting it close for me.

 

[katsdar]

It's my birthday! I still can't drink yet ;-;
I switch to a diffent brand and my bantams eggs were thin and wierd looking then when I changed back everything was fine again

Happy Birthday

 

[Lady Who]

Thank you everyone!~ it was chocolate with chocolate frosting on the outside and wipe cream. But I got a new chicken shirt and a gardan knife!~

 

[ShadesofSable]

I'm still eagerly waiting on my newest chickens to start laying. Our oldest (what I hope is a SBEL) just started squatting this week, so could be any day on her. I figure the wellsummers should start next, but who knows.
@Flowerbh, @PapaChaz have either of your welsummers started laying yet? I think they were all from the same shipment, right?

 

[Flowerbh]

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I'm still eagerly waiting on my newest chickens to start laying. Our oldest (what I hope is a SBEL) just started squatting this week, so could be any day on her. I figure the wellsummers should start next, but who knows.
@Flowerbh, @PapaChaz have either of your welsummers started laying yet? I think they were all from the same shipment, right?[/quote

My Welsummer died last week of an impacted crop. So sad.

 

[Lookin4GoodLife]

Where are you in Georgia?

I'm in Troup County close to the AL line.