Arkansas folks speak up.........

[FarmGirl01]

Can't wait it see the pics.

 

[202roosterlane]

OMGoodness, I am having swap withdraws!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

chestnut! batesville is about 4ish hrs east of newton county. virgina is a beautiful place. went there to the smokey mtns when i was a teen. i fell in love. i hope to be able to take my daughter there one day. you will love arkansas! i know you will feel right at home, arkansas and virgina are 2 of the most beautiful states in the u.s. wish we lived closer, i would take your bigger birds off your hands, always looking to put some variety in my flock.

happy moving!!

Thanks!!! We absolutely love living in the mountains here which is why we loved the Ozarks so much. A different feeling, especially at the lower elevations, but such cool mountains! I love all of the water and bluffs. I'll probably downsize before moving just to simplify the arrangements, but thanks so much for the warm welcome.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

My husband and I are in the process (

) of buying land in Newton County and hope to close in a month. We plan to move at the end of the school year, although I'll only be there occasionally for a few years because I'll be going back to school full-time. Lots of changes!

I have German New Hampshires and Basque Hens (EOs) that I only just hatched this year. (I'll be selling the older, mixed flock of birds before we move.) Breeding will be on hold for a few years, it looks like, but I'm thrilled to see other folks keeping each of these breeds in Arkansas in case anything happens to my stock in the meantime!

Anyone live in Newton County?

We have lived near Roanoke, VA and in the Ozarks. You will love the Arkansas Ozarks. Plus, its not a Commonwealth! We are in the southeast corner of Arkansas. However, we have a lot of good people on this thread and some other forums that are in that area of Arkansas. You will enjoy The Natural State!

As far as finishing your education, the best higher education system in the country is the University of Arkansas system! Check out http://www.uark.edu/home/ There is the UA of Fayetteville, UALR, etc. We have the UAM (UA-Monticello). Most of the community and smaller colleges are now in the UA system.

So just load everything up and come on to Arkansas!

ETA: Just be sure to leave all that commonwealth stuff and my ex-inlaws in Virginia!

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

We don't live in Newton county, but we're at the northern tip of Pope. It just takes a 30 minute drive or so

 

[MommaEsChicks]

I need to pick yall's brains for a moment if I could. We have 4 hens (3 Speckled Sussex, 1 Cornish? Bantam) A week ago I went out and closed the door not checking the count as they had been so good about going in at night on their own. I was sitting by the window the next morning and had a mini heart attack as I saw the bantam run across the yard on her own. The next night, she wasn't in the house at night again so my husband and I and I searched all over for her. Finally found her, she's taken to hopping a limb up onto the edge of the fence to hide in the gardenias that edge the fence to sleep.
Hubby put her in the coop only to have the other three run her out again, twice.

We've had to go out and get her off the fence each night once it gets dark and put her in the house via the nesting boxes (which none of them want to use...so she ends up sleeping there.
They aren't pecking her or harming her other than chasing her out if the doors still open to the coop when we put her in. They don't seem to bother her as they roam the yard, it's just at night. Any thoughts?
My mom has the rest of the siblings so I've thought if we cannot get them to quit kicking her out we may let her move out to the big farm with the other sisters. They were all raised together from day 3, so I'm not really sure why this seclusion now other than the SS are laying now and Daisy isn't.

 

[Arkansas81]

Momma~I have 15 almost 20 wk old red production hens, and I have also got 6 polish and 5 ee's that are about 15 wks old. I also have two cochin (hens) banties. I have one huge coop that they all stay in, with a sectioned area inside the coop where the small ones were till they were let out with the big ones. I've kept it where the little ones and banties can go in where they can get away from the bigger hens, and roosters.

Ive had to seperate them once before-I was afraid that the big ones would kill the babies, so maybe make her-her own special spot in the pen. Since I've kept a place for the smaller ones, and babies everyone is much happier. The issue might resolve itself in time when the lil lady starts to lay. I'm no expert but that is what I did. It's a pain to have to clean out the smaller section but I am happy that everyone can live peacefully.

I don't know if any of that helps but I hope that she gets back in home safely each night. ive had a bad experience before with one hen getting left outside by herself. best of luck!

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

I brought home a new cochin bantam rooster several weeks ago, along with four sex link pullets. The day I brought them home I got called in to work so I had just enough time to turn them loose with the rest of the flock and make sure they all got along before having to leave unexpectedly. I didn't get home til after dark and I was hoping they just followed the example of the other chickens (all of them are about the same size and age) but they did not. I found the new girls pretty easily, roosting on the doghouse lol and put them up in the coop, but I absolutely could not find the rooster. I looked everywhere in the fenced in yard where they all stay for an hour. It's a big fenced yard, almost an acre. I finally gave up, fearing he had found a way out of the fence. No chicken that gets out of the fence ever returns because we live in the boondocks and there are tons of wild animals and dogs that love chicken out here. Well, come to find out next morning he was struttin' around like nothing ever happened! That night I watched him to find his hidden roost. It was on the ground in a pile of oak leaves

. Well, I put him in the coop, but he didn't want to go. As a result, I was like you having to grab him each night and put him in the coop. This went on for about 2 weeks, but something finally clicked in him and now he goes in all by himself. Your girl has probably just gotten into a bad habit and you will need to break her of it. May take a couple weeks, but I hope it works! As for your SS girls, they seem to have also formed a bad habit of running her out because now to them it's not normal that she is in there. Hopefully with a little determination they can be broken of that, too. Best of luck!

 

[FarmGirl01]

Sometimes it just takes a long. I've done it to.

 

[MommaEsChicks]

Thanks all. My mom is still in the process of finishing up her girls big coop so we were going to wait a bit anyway before sending her there. We'll see if she breaks the habit first. It was just odd to us because they have all been together since the day we brought them home.