Its too hot to ship birds currently. Nothing over 85 for for daytime highs.
You also cant just put them in any box. The approved boxes arent found at the PO either.
you have so many local people who breed and have chicks that you should buy local aand skip the poor examples of breeds the hatcheries push and support someone working the breeds to keep them healthy and true to type (this is just my oppinion)
so glad you had good success with the millet. It is a favorite here too. I am getting ready to seed graizing space for the geese with it and will fence it off until mid to late July. We fenced a spot ast year and grew it over knee high and let it goto seed. The goats loved that space.
We have a delivery of geese and goslings in Ocala on June 1st (next Saturday). We will go north from Merritt Island to 40 and head west to Ocala. There is some space left available ont he truck, so if you need chicks, hatching eggs, ect picked up, dropped off shoot us a PM. We are doing the...
Driving from here on the island tomorrow to just across the FL line into GA. Hauling birds up (still room for some if anyone is interested in any of the hens or goslings we have for sale) and hauling birds back down as well.
x2000% agree here. New birds should be in NO contact with any other exsisting flock member for a minimum of 30 days, 45-60 is even better. Practicing good bio security is a must. This means NOT tending the new birds then going to your exsisting flock, not wearing the same shoes and or clothing...
those are forage beds. Lots of pictures here on BYC of various forms of them. Most use wood frames to support the hardware cloth. The chickens can eat only whats above the mesh and not scratch the roots out
I'm not, we are so done and over the rain. Unlike so many others in the state, we arent in a drought. 10" in 2 days and now flooding all over the property.