Eastern Tennessee Thread

[NellaBean]

Make a bachelor pad. I kept nearly 30 roosters together once. If its all boys, who are all put into a "new" pen together, if often works out. DO NOT try adding a single boy to an established group of boys, or a new few boys into a pen that already has boys. The key to it is that all boys start out on equal ground and there are no girls to fight over.


On a semi related note, my neighbor once told me that if the roosters crowing gets to be too much, she just takes her hearing aid out. Gotta love OLD GEEZER neighbors.

 

[bairo]

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Who...tenessee or me? If I ever had 30 roos.....well, lets just say the "bachelor pad" would be below freezing

 

[NellaBean]

tennessee! Hey, I was thinking of getting a pair of meat rabbits....if I bred them and got a litter, wanna buy em all? LOL

 

[ladyride]

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[NellaBean]

Ooops....lemme claify. Tennessee is the one who needs a bachelor pad.

Bairo is the one who needs to buy all the meat rabbits! lol

 

[ladyride]

Dang tenn how many roos you got ??

Nella leave me out on roos & rabbits got enough roos to process soon don't like rabbit.

 

[Impress]

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Yes, her birds are all mixed together! I traded some younger chicks and laying hens (the blue egg layers) for a harlequin rabbit, I felt she was being kind hearted because she said she lost a bunch of her birds to dogs and wanted more and didn't need so many rabbits. Then traded 2 laying khaki campbells for another harlequin rabbit (I thought he was cute

) So far, Duckgirl got the campbells for trade of her rouens and you got an assortment of mutt eggs that who knows how old... I know who she is and now ignore her CL adds... the harlequin buck found a loving home through the fair

and the khaki's are with someone who loves ducks

I feel bad for some of the other animals that come into her care though... when she traded me for the second harlequin he was bony and a bit underweight, the judge declared him "out of condition"

Same thing she told me, only it was foxes and not dogs. She lost them all and was trying to rebuild her flock of beloved animals. What city Craigslist does she post on, I'd love to go read her ad for my beautiful Speckled Sussex roo and glare at the screen.

 

[stanglover2001]

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Yes, her birds are all mixed together! I traded some younger chicks and laying hens (the blue egg layers) for a harlequin rabbit, I felt she was being kind hearted because she said she lost a bunch of her birds to dogs and wanted more and didn't need so many rabbits. Then traded 2 laying khaki campbells for another harlequin rabbit (I thought he was cute

) So far, Duckgirl got the campbells for trade of her rouens and you got an assortment of mutt eggs that who knows how old... I know who she is and now ignore her CL adds... the harlequin buck found a loving home through the fair

and the khaki's are with someone who loves ducks

I feel bad for some of the other animals that come into her care though... when she traded me for the second harlequin he was bony and a bit underweight, the judge declared him "out of condition"

Same thing she told me, only it was foxes and not dogs. She lost them all and was trying to rebuild her flock of beloved animals. What city Craigslist does she post on, I'd love to go read her ad for my beautiful Speckled Sussex roo and glare at the screen.

She posts in Knoxville, I havn't seen her post anything besides rabbits though... I think she looks for adds of people wanting to trade and then contacts them... or waits for people to contact her...

 

[tennesseeckn]

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He looks happy! I am so glad he's with you guys.

I have got to get rid of a couple more boys. I keep throwing these makeshift pens together to keep them separate because they hit puberty and loose all sense. I'm going to get accused of running a fighting outfit pretty soon. My only defense will be, "They're orpingtons. They don't fight. They barely MOVE, well, unless there's food involved."

LMAO... Just like the typical man. Those roos will turn retarded when the hit puberty

I would take them if we needed more roos at the moment....but the other boy from you is soooooo happy that he is the only one now. He struts around and really takes care of all his girls, yet he still takes his nightly rub from me and almost coos when he sees me coming out at 9pm to check on everyone. He is def. the poop as far as roos go.

I am so glad. He's probably going to stay on his best behavior because he's thinking, "PLEASE don't send me back to shanty town and solitary confinement!"

When I got on the forum I read the posts backwards. I was wondering at first why Nella was suggesting that I needed a bachelor pad. It took me a second to realize she meant birds and not the human-type bachelors.

Nella, you must have the magic touch. I put Thor and Blue in together in a new pen and they had a slow motion war. They'd go for each other then Stop and pant a while. They had a scabbed each other up pretty good when I admitted defeat around day 4. They were in sight of the ladies so that might have had something to do with it.

 

[NellaBean]

Some roosters cant hack it. I would guess that keeping 2 together is harder than keeping 20 together. Ever thrown 20 chickens that dont know each other together? Its a free for all, no major scuffles.

If you throw 2 together, one is the boss and beats the snot out of the other one.


Which is EXACTLY why I only hatch out 15-20 chicks at a time.....makes integrating much easier. Or at least thats what I keep telling myself!

I have had roosters before who could NOT live with other roosters even in my half acre yard and with 50 hens split between them. They were delicious I MEAN um, bad roosters.


Just kidding, I dont eat my own. I may give them to other people to eat, but I dont eat them myself.