Eastern Tennessee Thread

[NellaBean]

There are two like the gray one (blue carrying marten apparently). Both boys! the one pictures is teeny tiny. 6 ounces at 6 weeks old

The biggest in the litter weighed 11 ounces. So it is half the size. I weighed all of them and had a 6 ounce, 8 ounce, 9 ounce, 10 ounce, 11 ounce.....

There are 2 blue bucks, 1 siamese sable doe, 2 pointed whites (1 boy, 1 girl).

 

[ladyride]

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O hate to exercise my dry humor, but you know Im going to anyway

Did you ever think to bait the trap with a chicken? Just saying....

Been there and been doing that... dead chickens, that is. The very one's it kills the night before. It takes the whole bird when it's bantams but only the crop of the standards, then I put the rest of the bird in the trap and it gets it out without setting off the trap!!!

I caught oppossums without even baitting... they are dumb animals and walk right in. Caught a fox with a carcass... but this raccoon(s) is just annoying me!! I'm about to sit out all night and hunt it. Maybe I'll borrow some coon dogs, tree the thing, and shoot it.... and you know I'm mad if I say that. I lose a chicken a day. I need some replacement birds to breed somethings but I'm not going to even try to search until I get this stopped... i would hate to get someone's bird and then it get eatten. I put a weight on the trap day after last so it finally wasn't somewhere totally different, but it took the dead roo out and flipped the pan (trigger) up, not down!!! So it got away again!!! It tries to dig under and around the trap from the outside because there is always holes everywhere it flips the trap. I'm hopeful tonight.... weight on top, and this time cat food on the pan. I'll get the little..........

Ok now you need to keep your critters where you are rather than sharing with me. I have lost a chicken a day for 4 days now to fox or coyotes. Those sh**heads will wait til you walk in the house to pee or eat lunch take your chickens. I lost one of my best breeder chickens

the SO is so ticked this happened yesterday, came in to pee the darn thing made off with another brahma. No clear field of fire to far away for 410 to be effective he was jumping up & down ticked off. So we are going to have to find a different method . Think I got one but won't post here it don't include poison as that to me isn't humane. I know they will keep coming back for chicken buffet , but this is food off my table taking my breeders & egg layers.

 

[TNChick82]

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OMG Those are the cuties rabbits ever. I said I would NEVER have a Rabbit or a goat. But after seeing those little guys. I actually said aww.....I want one. Then snapped back to reality. The more I read here the more chickens I want. I'm already wanting some bantam's to raise chicks off of. But know I don't have the room for one more chicken!!

 

[Heathero617]

A quick check in!!! I'm still not getting notifications that anyone is posting here!!! ARGHHHHH Of my hatchlings i have 1 lil boy the other 4 are lil girls!! WOOO HOOOOOO Anyone want a light sussex mix roo? hatched august 15th. I'm preparing to change the floor covering in my coop today, it's all scrubbed out and drying before I try to put thenew down. Getting ready for cold weather. I've been missing chatting it up with you guys but i've been very busy. I painted a womans entire townhouse the last 2 weeks and will be going back after she comes home from vacation to do a few of the baseboards that look less than pretty. My husband has been home a week and i have only 1 more week with him before he goes away again. My main man of the coop isnt feeling well, not sure whats wrong, his comb and waddles are a wierd red, pretty much like a beet red...yanno the purpleish? Doesnt seem to have snot or anything, but breathing heavy. I've mixed up some antibiotics for them all just in case. What do you guys add to the dirt/sand to kill any germs that may be present? I dont have the option of building an entirely new abode for them right now and i have these chicks i need to move in there within the next week or so. I'm super worried. Anyhow, i have to go run some errands, I hope everyone is well.

Heather

 

[bairo]

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My step daughter is big for her age.....she eats way more than that now

 

[stanglover2001]

 

[TNBarnQueen]

I have a story for you all....Tennesseeckn..you are especially going to like this and anyone else who have Orpingtons.
About a month ago I came home one day and went out to check everyone's water. I go to the back part of the hen house and there under the cover sits a cage with a blue orpington hen in it. A HUGE orpington hen. I stood there dumb-founded trying to figure out where it come from. (Yes..Tennesseeckn..I thought of you first..but then you don't know where I live. LOL) I sit and looked at the hen..she blinked and looked at me.

It took me a while but I finally got her out of the cage...this gal weighs as much as all my cats put together.
She has integrated well into the laying flock...course she is twice as big as my largest hen so....I am sure it was a bit intimidating to the others. I let my chickens out most days to range and every evening I have to go in the run to sit her up into the door going into the hen house.

She sits and looking longingly at all the other chickens sitting up on the roosts. I tried sitting her up with them but she could not balance and fell off..twice.

So..she is content to stay in the hen house at night along with my 2 Eng. Orps from Tennesseeckn.
You cannot help but laugh at her when I let everyone out and she takes off running..or well...not exactly running but more like...shuffling. Her breasts are so big they swing from side to side.

I did find out who she came from. A friend was over one day and saw my lavender Orps. Someone had brought her a couple extra hens they had and "Gracie" was one of them. My friend decided to bring her here since I had her "kind" already. I think she was afraid Gracie was going to eat her out of house and home!!!
I just never know what I am going to find when I go out these days.

 

[bairo]

Now thats funny

 

[TNChick82]

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I would love to see a picture of her!!

 

[ladyride]

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That is so funny would love to see a pic as well . We have orps too.