Eastern Tennessee Thread

[bairo]

Hi, I am new to BYC and from Sevier County, TN. I was wondering if anyone had any pullets for sale, preferrably from this spring, so 4-5 months old. Not really set on the breed, just want some excellent layers, no Bantam. Please let me know what you might have. ]
Looking forward to be active in this forum, been reading a ton for weeks, but this is my first post.

those rocks (2 of them) are the last two pics on page 2 of my album on my coop page. I was surprised I do not have any recent pics of the dels.

 

[littlechicklet]

Hi &

I too am new & so far everyone has been wonderful. I like it here & I think you will too.

 

[sevierchickens]

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Somehow I can't reply to your PM anymore, says only 2 per day, so I am writing here....Tuesday sounds good! And like the pics, what are the other pics you posted? any of the delawares? any rooster? really like your chicken pictures a lot!!! definitely let me know when you have more, might even take some chicks...would love a local trade, rather than ordering from somewhere I have no idea what it is...and love this Forum...BYC IS AWESOME!

 

[bairo]

Quote: Your welcome and welcome to the forum (our little part anyway) Please dont ever be afraid to ask anything at all. Between all of us here we have probably made all the mistakes there are to make and arn't afraid to share. Just ask my wife how many times I have rebuilt walls and moved things around the shed turned coop

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A lot of the pics are from past chickens or projects I was playing with. I am currently only working on easter eggers, olive eggers, and a couple of dark egg layers. My primary rooster is mr. kellogs and is a one year old Welsummer. His cotton tail is too bad to show, but he is a really good rooster and carries a strong dark egg gene (for lack of a technical explanation). My pullets include a welsummer, a black copper marans, a chochin cross olive egger, several easter eggers, and some young Ameraucanas coming up. The cochin cross is brooding out 7 chicks right now and the incubator is full of 2 dozen eggs. Out of the week old chicks and the eggs....there will be an equal chance of dark brown, green, and olive layers, with a smaller chance of a pink or blue/green egg layer. That list did not include what you are getting...only what I will have left. I should have chicks ages 3 days to 3 weeks for sale by the time the fall show rolls around for Cocke county. At this point those first runs will be a grab bag where everyone is together and people will have an equal chance of getting dark brown, green, or olive layers....but I will make them pretty cheap because of that. By next spring everyone will be tagged as to their chances of being an olive egger or not. The others will be either a dark brown layer or a blue layer.

Here is Mr. Kellogs

 

[Contrastphoto]

Hi, I am new to BYC and from Sevier County, TN. I was wondering if anyone had any pullets for sale, preferrably from this spring, so 4-5 months old. Not really set on the breed, just want some excellent layers, no Bantam. Please let me know what you might have. ]
Looking forward to be active in this forum, been reading a ton for weeks, but this is my first post. 

Welcome! I am from Gatlinburg, so real close to you. I have a few pullets/hens that I am looking to sell too. (And of coarse I have Swedish flower hens eggs and chicks hatching every few weeks.) So if you want more after Bairo meets up with you let me know.

 

[bairo]

hey Genelda... I wanted to catch up with you too. So the swedes are still doing well? Are you getting a lot of crests? You still like them? How many eggs are they laying, etc....

Im needy you know, have to know all of it

LOL

 

[sevierchickens]

Welcome! I am from Gatlinburg, so real close to you. I have a few pullets/hens that I am looking to sell too. (And of coarse I have Swedish flower hens eggs and chicks hatching every few weeks.) So if you want more after Bairo meets up with you let me know.

yay, another local backyardchickener. And thank you for the offer, I am definitely interested in getting up with you as well. I have a fairly large chicken coop and run, and a big enough property (10 acres) to let them free range later on, so I definitely wanna get a nice size flock of different chickens together. right now I wanna size up to around 10 but will probably double that quickly.

 

[Contrastphoto]

hey Genelda... I wanted to catch up with you too. So the swedes are still doing well? Are you getting a lot of crests? You still like them? How many eggs are they laying, etc....

Im needy you know, have to know all of it

LOL

I love the Swedish Flower Hens. Yes I have been getting about 50%+ crested. They have been laying great! I have five hens and I am getting 3-5 eggs a day all summer. I have some chicks hatching today. Fertility has been real good too.

 

[chigger bait]

I have question for the folks here that show poultry, how do you wash a chicken for the show?

Mine are free range right now, and they take dust baths under the wife's rhododendrons and azaleas.

At times it reminds me of this when they fly up in a tree during dry conditions.



How do you clean them up before you show them?

Or do you?

I'm working night shift this week, got up, was drinking a cup of coffee on the front step, talking to pullets, petting them, and this is something that just came to mind.

 

[dncarr09]

Does anyone know what causes a prolapsed vent? I had a chick that developed this at 4 days old. I couldn't fix it and I tried really hard but the chick ended up dying. It was one of my SG doking chicks and I only had 3.