Eastern Tennessee Thread

[NellaBean]

Excellent! They are nice girls. Always came running for treats. I loved the looks of the brown/black laced girl, can't wait to see her in a couple months once she is all filled out.


I moved the next batch of "kids" out to the big coop and yard. 6 New Hampshire Reds (next season's show birds), 2 black Orpington pullets and 5 more Cochin mix pullets. Which meant the youngest broody batch got moved out of the garage and to the 4x4 coop. It had 7 bantam mottled cochin chicks, 1 black cochinX pullet, 3 buff/blk cochinX pullets, 1 yellow cochinX pullet and 2 or 3 yellow cochin/leghorn cockerels. Cute birds. Nice and heavy on the pullet to cockerel ration for once. of course, in the mottled chicks they look like mostly roosters.

The rest of these young pullets will be for sale at the TN Valley Fair. Looks like I should have 21 CochinX pullets for sale then, all the way from Point of Lay down to 10 weeks old, plus the 2 black Orp ladies.

 

[bairo]

@ nella

P.S. We decided on the Gold laced roo for the X and kept the speckled

 

[NellaBean]

Good choice

The speckled roosters are gorgeous once they are all grown up. and since the laced guy was already a butthead, it was only going to get worse!

 

[laughingdog]

well i did give her apparently some seeming sweet to me, but once got to better home, they turned to tiny terror snot goblins. though glad the banty cochin is pleasing, so hope makes up for. maybe heather can get or borrow one of the giant cochin cockerels or cocks to get in between to start sized babies (though as broody as she seems already, im not sure how well she will lay)?

 

[bairo]

at nella

Goodness you are downsizing it sounds like. Are you ( or anyone ) going to show at Cocke county... August 6 I think.

 

[Heathero617]

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Thank you very much. I'm going to see if i can track them down. My son kept telling me he was taking them home! But i think they were all bigger than him LOL

I'll ask my friend if she'll have any chicks for sale soon, her rooster is a big baby. Her Langshans are pretty huge!

Ohhh that would be wonderful! I appreciate that!

 

[Heathero617]

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I don't need show quality of anything, i keep them purely for my own enjoyment as well as the kids. I just was completely impressed by their sheer size and beauty!!!!

The impressive size seems to only come with the show quality. Hatchery birds tend to be on the smaller size as they are more worried about production than breed correctness.

As long as they arent banty's but i have to say again WOW those birds were HUGE!! LOL They had 1 for sale, but again, didn't get to talk to anyone because my boy was worried about the Allosaurus he saw in the field that he had to go shoot before it ate all the chickens and the people!!!

 

[lsualumna]

Newbie checking in from Birchwood, Tennesee which is right outside of Chattanooga!

 

[Heathero617]

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Bahahaha terror snot gobblins!!!! It's ok Handsome Hank will straighten them out once they're allowed to play together.....Pipsqueek already was telling the big white one to ease up cause he's the boss of the little "people"

We'll see how everything goes. I'm gonna check my eggs in the bator in a few minutes to see if there are any signs of "life" so keep our fingers crossed.

 

[SandraD]

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Welcome Isu