Eastern Tennessee Thread

[StacyTN]

My little Stitch!

Little Stich is adorable. Glad my granddaughter can't see, I wouldn't be able to resist once she strated asking for one

 

[littlechicklet]

@stang- Those baby bunnies are just too adorable!

I am refusing to get any but I plan on living vicariously through you so please keep posting pics.

ETA: never post about which ones go to freezer camp

 

[SistaChick]

Those bunnies are soooo cute!

 

[littlechicklet]

Weekly update on the Orps. They are 10 weeks old now & doing great. I a still holding to my 3:1 ratio.

will add more to their folder on my profile page.

lower left: blue runt, lower right: black pullet, middle: Black pullet?


same as above with cockerel inserted facing forward.



Older ones eating pumpkin (Orps & EE)



BB my black Orp

 

[littlechicklet]

Sorry but I just have to share this one of Cass guarding the front door:

 

[itsthelaw37801]

Sorry but I just have to share this one of Cass guarding the front door:

That made my day. I laughed. Too funny. My dog, Zeb, was scratching his back like that on the bed last weekend and fell off. I couldn't help but laugh.

 

[littlechicklet]

That made my day. I laughed. Too funny. My dog, Zeb, was scratching his back like that on the bed last weekend and fell off. I couldn't help but laugh.

Glad it made you laugh. He does this all the time. They are not allowed in our bedroom otherwise I am sure he would take over the bed.

 

[itsthelaw37801]

Glad it made you laugh. He does this all the time. They are not allowed in our bedroom otherwise I am sure he would take over the bed.

Zeb isn't allowed in bed either. He sneaks. I came to NC to visit my son, and Tommy came home this morning to find Zeb had taken over the guest room. He said he had worked the comforter and blanket into a little nest. He said as soon as he walked in, Zeb saw it was him and went and hid. Bad dog.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

@Itsthelaw....I really do wish you could have videoed Tommy...he may have gone viral if you had posted it on YouTube! I never thought Duke could be that obstinate!! Little Bugger! I have found...and I seldom chase chickens...I use bread. It's like crack to chickens and just make a trail. Also..you need one of my "chicken chasers". It is a piece of bamboo about 6-7 ft. long with all the limbs cut off up to about 8 in. from the top. You can reach in LONG spaces with that.

My cat is ripping newspaper like a cyclone!! She jumps on it and just starts grabbing mouthfuls and ripping it out. She is so spoiled. This is one of her favorite playrooms after all the water bottle are gone.




We just got back from camping..it was wonderful but....lost another juvenile polish.

But...am pretty certain on what has been getting them. (20) I have an older chick brooder that is made from a bathroom vanity. It works great....the chickens head was pulled behind the brooder. I pulled it out and it has a 5 in. space to access underneath it. It was packed with shavings...egg shells and a nest from hay out of the nesting boxes and very big rat poop. I racked it all out. Covered the place going underneath the brooder and then started setting traps. I took carriers and butted them together with traps inside them..they can get in but the chickens can't. All the Juveniles went in cages. But...of all 20 that I have lost 15 where Polish. Everyone is getting a haircut in that house too. Nothing messes with the adult Polish...course I would say they are afraid of them...especially Chaos. But..it has only been in the bantam side where I also grow out chicks before they go into their breed specific pen. Tommy...I may need your advice.

@tnchknut...I am ready...just let me know when to send you the funds.

I am starting oat fodder tomorrow..if I get caught up. I am anxious to start it. It cost me $13.95 for a 50 lb. feed. I am going to grow it in my greenhouse. I think between the mealworms and fodder my chickies are going to love me.

 

[littlechicklet]

Zeb isn't allowed in bed either. He sneaks. I came to NC to visit my son, and Tommy came home this morning to find Zeb had taken over the guest room. He said he had worked the comforter and blanket into a little nest. He said as soon as he walked in, Zeb saw it was him and went and hid. Bad dog.

Riley is a digger with blankets too. He will make his nest. He is hilarious: he can go in his crate at night with his blanket all folded like a bed & he will dig, flip & roll it until he gets himself covered up and if he gets hot he gets back out and makes a nest. Here he is: