Eastern Tennessee Thread

[bairo]

Oh...no wait....I think Daphne was going to strangle me cause I called her chickens "fatties"..

at least im politically correct about daph's hens....I just tell people if they need BIG bottom girls, see Daph.

I dont know what she feeds those things, but wow!!

 

[bairo]

Terri. yes, I'll take a quarter or a third...what ever you feel like selling. I need to find a humidifier also, mine went out.
Never guess what im going to try tomorrow..... Im going to go get a ton of course sand and go ahead and try it. If I can get a ton for what I pay for 1 change of shavings and can get away with scooping it and just add a little thru the year, ill be happier I hope. I am just worried about how cold it may get in the winter....the only downfall from what i've heard.

 

[bairo]

@xchickie

My prayers are with you and your family.....

 

[laughingdog]

maybe having up to twenty pigeons to downsize, so if anyone has extra space for small coop and cheap feed, who are wanting to fly them, or just let them fly but have a shelter to keep them under temp till they get used to your place.. let me know! mostly rollers, and some jacobins and a jacobin roller mix i think, and possibly two young pairs of flights, and maybe loft kept colored racers (they got out and were gone for hours the one time, so guessing theyd home to my balcony here). hating to downsize, but actually have a plan in motion now to go move back up north with an old school buddy ect, and he isnt letting me keep more than four (maybe i can talk into the three pairs instead of two), and having to hide them anyway from owner who said no birds..

 

[xChickiex]

Thanks to everyone for there thoughts and prayers for me and my family during all this, its been a tough time.
Now for a question to those of you who show birds,I just bought a apa standard of perfection book, not the current but an antique, 1915 is the year on it. How exactly rare are those now? Kinda curious because I got this one on ebay, thought it would be something pretty interesting to add to my ever growing poultry stuff collection.

 

[bairo]

Thanks to everyone for there thoughts and prayers for me and my family during all this, its been a tough time.
Now for a question to those of you who show birds,I just bought a apa standard of perfection book, not the current but an antique, 1915 is the year on it. How exactly rare are those now? Kinda curious because I got this one on ebay, thought it would be something pretty interesting to add to my ever growing poultry stuff collection.

Dont know how rare it is... but def. worth more if a first addition.
Here is a site that I like, you might find interesting. The link points to a search I did on APA
http://archive.org/search.php?query=The american standard of perfection

 

[tennesseeckn]

at least im politically correct about daph's hens....I just tell people if they need BIG bottom girls, see Daph.

I dont know what she feeds those things, but wow!!

They've told me they prefer to be referred to as "big boned". When they come down off of their 2' high roost they make a big KABOOM sound.

 

[tennesseeckn]

I must have some subconscious desire to not expand my SLW flock. I went to put my latest hatch into lock down last night and realized that I hadn't plugged the stupid incubator up the night before after I candled. The temps were down to 85. THEN tonight when I checked on them I realized that I had set the whole thing on the water tube and the humidity was down to 38 percent. Grrrrr... Looks like I'm going to have to leave the hatching to the broodies until I get out of school and am not a distracted mess. Poor things.

 

[bairo]

xchickie

you got me in a researching mood, LOL
here is a great quote from the 1902 edition about feed and baby chicks that I liked (maybe daph does this?)


BILL OF FARE.
The first meal for chickens after being taken from
the nest should be boiled eggs, chopped fine, shells
and all, also baked corn cake or excelsior meal cake
crumbled into scalded milk ; no fluid as drink but the
scalded milk. After the first twenty-four hours, after
their gizzards have become filled with egg-shell, gravel,
etc., let their meal in the early morning be excelsior
meal, bread and scalded milk; at ten o'clock granulated
corn; at two o'clock the excelsior, bread and mflk, and at
six o'clock canary seed, millet seed, and granulated
corn. This if the hen be confined and the chickens
have their liberty to find grass and insect food. Thus
feed till two weeks old, when it will be found that few
or any deaths will have occurred, and the chickens
started well for rapid and vigorous growth.

 

[Barbedwirecat]

Building cages for Saturday. Stupid J clip pliers pooped out on me after 10 minutes.

Good thing I have some needle nose pliers. I think I built these cages too big LOL! I could probably fit a Turkey in these holes. Oh well. I couldn't find any plans on these so I just started building. At least these will have cages!!!

xChickiex I'm so sorry about your grandmother passing, my condolences.