Eastern Tennessee Thread

[TNBarnQueen]

There where some post on egg color of Marans compared to Welsummers. Here are some of my maran eggs. They are finally starting to lay again and the eggs seem a lot darker now that they are older. I was reading an article one day talking about colored eggs. Very interesting as it was telling how the egg of the color is not "applied" until it is leaving the hens vent. Thought that was interesting.
Seem every other day I get one more egg to tally...am up to 5 now. woo hooo!

'One egg is a chocolate color. Hope they stay that dark.

 

[bairo]

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I will make it to the show this time. So I can get this stuff. I hate to ask but what is permethrin spray, and Oxine used for?

see my BYC page

 

[bairo]

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Yummy

Are you hatching them?

 

[TNChick82]

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I will make it to the show this time. So I can get this stuff. I hate to ask but what is permethrin spray, and Oxine used for?

see my BYC page

Okay so do you use Oxine in your water all the time?

 

[bairo]

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see my BYC page

Okay so do you use Oxine in your water all the time?

at the lower dosage as on the byc page.....yes. It is simply a disinfectant

 

[TNChick82]

I don't know if any of you would be interested or not. But thought I would share........

Scott county UT Extension office will be having a Home Gardening by the foot class. It's to learn strategies for bed gardening. Topics will be: Planting & spacing, Vertical Gardening, seed starting, watering, Boxes and vertical supports, preventing problems, extended growing season, and harvesting. The class will take place at the Scott Co office Building in Huntsville TN. On Jan 12th, 19th, 24th and 26th. Classes will start at 6:30pm. There will be nightly refreshments and resource guide. If you are interest you can contact by phone 423-663-4777, http://scott.tennessee.edu , www.facebook.com/uttsuextensionscottcounty, or email county director/extension agent Jeremy West jwest@utk@edu

Pre-Registration Due by January 6th, 2012.

The cost is $15.00 per person or $20.00 per couple.

https://utextension.tennessee.edu/scott/Agriculture Documents/Bed Gardening/brochure.pdf


(Jeremy and his wife are wonderful people to work with. I worked with them this summer at our local Farmers Market. I'm now on the Farmers Market planning committee. Love it!!

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[grawg]

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If you're not wanting to move into knoxville city proper, you might consider Norris... nice little mayberry town about 15-20 minutes north of knoxville. For a small town it has a lot going for it. Loads of sidewalks, hiking/biking trails, state parks, fishing, etc. In the past couple years they have started up a farmers market and a few other community events like concerts on the commons during the summer. Of course you'd want to live just outside the city limits because they aren't too keen on the whole backyard poultry movement atm.

I'm in Norris and have more than forty chickens. You just have to have more than four acres to be zoned as a farm.

I love it here. Good schools and great neighbors. My next door neighbor asked me to cut a hole on the fence between our property so the birds could free range over there and they'd get to enjoy them too.

I'd say that property prices are more reasonable than normal since nothing is moving right now.

I could list all sorts of things I like about it but here's the web site.
http://www.cityofnorris.com/

I didn't know you were a Norsonian

... my son goes to school at NES. They do have really good schools. The commons are also a cool concept for a town, I think you would be hard pressed to find a town with as high a % of greenspace that's open to the public as Norris. If I ever absolutely HAD to live in a town I think Norris would be my first choice.

 

[stanglover2001]

Gotta love google! I just got a phone call from a guy who spoke with a harsh accent (couldn't hardly understand him, and I told him so!) that said he was with Publishers Clearing House driving a UPS truck to deliver me a check from Bank of America, which made no darn sense to me to begin with... but he kept telling me he was on his way! Creepy, he told me to call a number (if anyone wants to know just in case I'll let you have it via PM) with an extension to talk to his manager about setting it up and after getting off the phone with him I told the phone, "no way in hell am I calling anybody!" So, googled the # he gave me, apparently same guy has a track record of saying the same thing to everyone and he's in Jaimaica... I wonder how you get a hold of someone to keep this stuff from happening? I know for a fact some people are gullible enough to do what they want thinking they really are going to get money...

 

[stanglover2001]

oh btw, got an e-mail from Meyer hatchery, like them on FB and you'll be entered to win up 3-25 free pullet chicks of rare egg layer variety...

 

[TNBarnQueen]

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Yummy

Are you hatching them?

yep...have 3 test eggs incubating now.