Eastern Tennessee Thread

[TNBarnQueen]

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I have dogs. They are all fixed.
I have cats. They are all fixed.
I have a horse. She is not fixed but will never be bred.
I have rabbits. Mostly Lionheads and a few Netherland Dwarfs. They are bred for show
I have chickens. They are bred for show and fun.
I have skinny pigs. They will be bred once old enough.
I have Texel guinea pigs. Or rather, 1 male. Once I get a female, they will be bred once old enough.

That's it! For now....mua ha ha ha......

maybe I should not have asked. I need to research "skinny" pigs. is that really a type? Forgive me, im pig breed challenged.

I had one about 10 years ago.....

But it was not an actual skinny pig. I had angoras and bought a nice little female at the small animal thing they use to have in knoxville. I checked her over and she looked great. 2 days after I bought her the hair started falling out by the handful. By the next day she was as bald as a babies butt. She had mites...these things where so small I could not see them. Another breeder ID it for me. I tried to contact the woman who sold her to me and she never would return my call. So much for the requirement of healthy animals only. I wonder if they still have that show? It took place at one of the areas at the zoo. Always give a prospective buy a good going over,,,I learned the hard way. But her hair grew back and she was so sweet and a beauty.
For a moment there Nella I thought they where actual piglets.

 

[bairo]

@ Nella
hmm.. maybe you should get them all togas ? Just saying.

 

[bairo]

Quote:
maybe I should not have asked. I need to research "skinny" pigs. is that really a type? Forgive me, im pig breed challenged.

I had one about 10 years ago.....

But it was not an actual skinny pig. I had angoras and bought a nice little female at the small animal thing they use to have in knoxville. I checked her over and she looked great. 2 days after I bought her the hair started falling out by the handful. By the next day she was as bald as a babies butt. She had mites...these things where so small I could not see them. Another breeder ID it for me. I tried to contact the woman who sold her to me and she never would return my call. So much for the requirement of healthy animals only. I wonder if they still have that show? It took place at one of the areas at the zoo. Always give a prospective buy a good going over,,,I learned the hard way. But her hair grew back and she was so sweet and a beauty.
For a moment there Nella I thought they where actual piglets.

umm x2

 

[NellaBean]

Don't be jealous of the nekkid guinea pigs!

 

[laughingdog]

i bet the nekkid piggles feel so soft wonderful and warm.. my ex wife wanted to have them, but when i bred some hairless rats out of her old rat breeding project and she saw and felt them, it really creeped her out! lol needless to say i kept breeding them till i came out with ones that had the hair that grew backwards in mohawk like ridgeback dogs, but they never took off as pets with people for some reason. i just loooooved the rats and guinea pigs id gotten her, after she bored with them though, rodents oddly made great pets till i rediscovered chickens, then pigeons as better ones, though still have a pair of rats hoping to do something with from my mad science projects when the male matures. he he he imagining what fun i could have with breeding performing pigeons to do.. if, that is, i ever get any even halfway decent and durable performers, as have to keep these show ones in house as one kit got chilled and two birds sick, and even before the two got sick the gf had me bring them in to make them happy so theyd "dance and sing again" (the incessant but adorable mating stuff they were doing for a while right after the freezing cold temps started, then they stopped when it stopped..).

 

[laughingdog]

@nellabean, show your texel, as had to look the morph up, and havent seen that kind since childhood when my friend's family from S America had them in his show collection. i always just assumed was an offshoot from angoras, or whatever the dread locked ones were (what are those by the way???). i considered working with the piggles, on fun breeding projects and got some results, but after the drunken police neighbors shot about two dozen of them, it kinda ruined the fun of the idea, as could keep inside as allergic to, and cant let run free cause of their dogs possibly getting in my fenced area (yes still bitter apparently but hopefully theyll also get shot in the eyes if there really is a loving god).

 

[TNChick82]

Hey everyone!! Well I went out this morning and let the chickens out. Gave them their crack...I mean scratch. I noticed that my white roo. Would eat a couple of bites. Then start shaking his head. Then I noticed one of the golden comet hens was loosing feathers on her neck. Now I'm freaking out. Do we have mites?? I looked them over and couldn't find a thing. Then I noticed one of my RIR hens. perched on a 2x4 all puffed up, shivering, and looked like she was trying to lay a egg or poo. What the heck is going on with my flock today!

 

[NellaBean]

Are they molting? Mine always tend to lose feathers on neck first when molting. My poor leghorn is in a SERIOUS molt and she is cold and shivering a lot. Can't really be helped. She is a slow molter....

 

[NellaBean]

My texel is just a baby still.

 

[TNChick82]

Molting is what It thought about the golden comet with the missing neck feathers. The RIR looks just fine. I don't know what she was doing. My white roo keeps shaking his head while he eats....