YO GEORGIANS! :)

[kellyjeanne]

Shades of Sable: we got an EE, a NH red, a Buff Orpington, a Plymouth Rock, and a Campine. We may also be picking up a pair of Japanese bantam hens from someone who posted on our neighborhood forum, but I have to finish the coop first!

 

[katsdar]

My chickens will pretty much eat anything. Of course their favorite is the organic stuff. But at $20 for 40lbs... and I have enough birds I am too ashamed to count them... they don't get it often.

I think Dumor is the brand TSC has. While the chicks and grown ups love the dumor chick starter... those layer pellets just sit and sit and sit. Mine free range so if they don't particularly care for something they won't eat it. I've found moldy chunks by the time we get to the middle of the bag and I know it came that way because we store the food in the house and we go through 50lbs in less than 2 weeks.

Maybe they don't like it because it is old? Stale? Who knows.

Lots of farmers use the local place, so their stock rotates frequently. The nutrena I get there is always fresher.

Mine free range too, great $$ saver and such pretty orange yolks, yeah this will be the last bag of that I buy, they were out of the regular stuff.

I'm doing good tfa. How have you been

Good, trying to beat the heat!! and keep my girls cool, I buy them watermelons and get them super cold, what a wonderful treat for them.

 

[katsdar]

Woohoo! Congrats! I'm in Atlanta, too with a flock of about 20.

What breeds did you choose?

In other news, we cracked a couple eggs open this morning, is this fertile?
I think it is, but I wanted a second opinion...

yep!! congratulations

 

[katsdar]

Welcome home to all of our newbies!!

 

[ShadesofSable]

Shades of Sable: we got an EE, a NH red, a Buff Orpington, a Plymouth Rock, and a Campine. We may also be picking up a pair of Japanese bantam hens from someone who posted on our neighborhood forum, but I have to finish the coop first!

Cool! I love my little bantam hen, and she rules the coop.

yep!! congratulations

Woohoo! I can hardly wait to start hatching my own eggs.

 

[Lady Who]

I think I broke my broody final! After so many months!

 

[choonook]

I have gotten some Nutrena layer from TSC and the chickens really hate it, I check the date and it's good, but anyone have issues with their birds not liking it? oh it is pellets too.  I thought I'd try them on that and they usually eat the crumbles.

I use the Nutrena layer feed but I ferment mine in water for two days. They love it. They'll eat it dry but fermenting reduces my costs and they prefer it. Eggs are good shape, never had a soft shell yet and the taste is awesome...but my girls all free range whenever they want to get out. Usually 2-8 hours a day (some like it more than others).

 

[KJzCola]

Does anyone have contacts for (or are the person themselves) someone that has and sells different varieties of chickens in GA. I'm in metro atlanta (west), and looking for someone trustworthy with healthy young hens to buy from. I LOVE my small flock and just recently finished a bigger coop so I can keep more chickens. I have a RIR, a BPR, and a wellsumme. Unfortunantly my bearded EE was attacked by a dog during my girls stay at a froends house while we did the new coop. I woul love to get more pretty colored eggs by adding a Black coper maran, an olive egger, a blue layer, and a pink layer. Looking for girls that are more docile, but most importantly, who have been raised in a well mantained enviorment and loved. I have 2 acres for them to roam, and a roomy coop .
Thanks for the help!
KJ

 

[Flowerbh]

Does anyone have contacts for (or are the person themselves) someone that has and sells different varieties of chickens in GA. I'm in metro atlanta (west), and looking for someone trustworthy with healthy young hens to buy from. I LOVE my small flock and just recently finished a bigger coop so I can keep more chickens. I have a RIR, a BPR, and a wellsumme. Unfortunantly my bearded EE was attacked by a dog during my girls stay at a froends house while we did the new coop. I woul love to get more pretty colored eggs by adding a Black coper maran, an olive egger, a blue layer, and a pink layer. Looking for girls that are more docile, but most importantly, who have been raised in a well mantained enviorment and loved. I have 2 acres for them to roam, and a roomy coop

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Thanks for the help!
KJ

I usually have a lot of those chicks (colored eggs), but I usually hatch in the spring. I have 13 chicks growing out right now, but will not decide who I want to keep for another few months. If you want me to hatch some eggs for you I will, but you would have to agree to take them all.

 

[KJzCola]

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Oh sweet! I got a message from someone a lot closer to home who has the Marans and the Olive, and possibly the blue. I understand the need to have a guarantee sale if you hatch specifically for someone, and do not have a problem with that. Let me see what the local guy has to offer, and I will PM you if I would like to see what you could hatch for me. Thanks so much for the reply!