Georgia is the chicken capital. You can get just about any kind of chicken here.
The last place that I bought chickens from is The Pasture Farms - Northwest of Atl.
Craigslist always has people trying to sell chickens.
So does Facebook groups but you have to use private messages (PMs) to discuss...
I want to incubate a small batch of Araucana eggs. Does anyone have any Araucana specific advice on doing that? I'm asking because the hatch rate seems to be pretty low with Araucana.
I don't want to keep chickens in anything less than about 33sqft per bird of run space and 10 + 10/per chicken of coop sq footage. This would still include an hour or two of free run time per day, when possible.
Without free run time, they would need even more run space.
"Cooped up" chickens do...
I also have a chick that is limping. She (hopefully) is about 14 days old now and I noticed her limping about 3 or 4 days ago. She is the lighter one on the right
My broody and I raised a group of 5 chicks and they got scrabled eggs on day2 - the same day they started eating thier starter feed. The first thing they ever ate was nappa cabage. They also started eating yogurt on the second week. They always voluntarily ate mostly starter feed.
Yes, this done all the time. You can use "injectable" ivermectine that is not water soluble in the water. It will separate over time so you may want to shake up the waterer if you can. You use it in the water for a couple days, discard it afterwards, then do it again in two weeks