Eastern Tennessee Thread

[littlechicklet]

The EE look like gals to me... now the Orps look a little roo heavy, but I see at least on black female. The are still a little young, but the girls feather faster than the boys on this breed.
I love Tennesseeckn's Orps! Here are my two girls I hatched from eggs I got from her back in Feb. One just started laying eggs last week.

new folks! sorry I haven't been on here much. I have been so busy with my little photography business, I am ready to slow down a little so I can enjoy the chickens and the fall!

Nice to see you back.

Now why would the Orps look roo heavy???? Nothing to do with Tennesseeckn is it? I was going to be the one to break the roo curse! Yours are beauties. How many dozen did it take to get those 2 girls?

I did not realize how hard it would be on the EE's to sex them.

 

[stanglover2001]

Thanks. So far all replies on the EE thread are 2 pullets but I still wonder about one of them. The one giving the evil eye is actually the friendliest and the one I think is a pullet.

I sometimes have a good idea like the washing machine box. I wanted a fridge box but my husband wanted to know where I was going to put it. So I had to down size.

How old are they again?

 

[littlechicklet]

So cute!!! Still trying to decide what kind of chickens we are going to have

Also a big HI THERE to those new to the thread here.

Let me just state chicken breeds are like Lay's chips: it almost impossible to have just one. There are several breeds I would love to have but do not have the $, time or housing for them. I suggest you take your time & pick the one/s you really want or end up like me: attached to EE mutts I just can't part with.

I would also ask on here if you decide to go with a mix. I have had some mixes do well & others not. I don't know how much it depends on the individual bird or breed. I know many people like Rhode Island Reds but in my experience they are bossy & hateful to other breeds.

 

[littlechicklet]

How old are they again?

I think around 15 weeks.

 

[littlechicklet]

That makes me think about a commercial that started running late at night last month. It was a dating site for farmers. I couldn't stop laughing. I told my husband that I was glad I found him when I did, or he'd probably be dating some chicken lady that had goats.

I too have seen that commercial and it also made me LOL. I have decided if I turned him out with the others he would be a Pullophile instead of a pedophile!

 

[stanglover2001]

I think around 15 weeks.

Hmm, repost new pics in another month... there should be less doubt by then... The combs are small so I could have been wrong..

 

[littlechicklet]

Okay time for me to get back to work

I am usually off the first part of the week but it means house cleaning at home. Its a really a nice day to pile up on the couch and watch a good movie but with 3 dogs, 2 cats, a husband and son in the house its not an option.

Will check back later.

 

[littlechicklet]

Hmm, repost new pics in another month... there should be less doubt by then... The combs are small so I could have been wrong..

Okay. Will do.

 

[stanglover2001]

Getting me 4 more mini rex!

Going to Fairview NC Sept 29 to pick them up! Also, if anyone was interested in some wyandottes just for egg laying I think I saw a few straight combs in there I can sell, they're all suppose to be pullets but the Columbian ones are looking to have 2-3 cockerels...
ETA: The columbians are the only ones that are suspicious about being cockerels, the others are for sure pullets! I've raised wyandottes before and the pullets get tail feathers before the cocks do.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

StacyTn : I saw that CL ad--What they didn't want them free?? Have any Specked Sussex to sell? eggs or chicks--where did you get them around here?? TNBarnQueen: I think you have to bait a trap with live food because they drink blood. If you could re-cage something inside a trap so it would be safe-but I don't think that's possible. I know of someone who had a raccoon problem with a interesting way of dealing with it. After locking his hens away at night he set 2 tires in front of their pen, adjusted a long piece of pipe right over that and set house current to the steel pole--killed 5 the 1st time used. Now, he had tried traps and lost 5 hens before that. I found this for you:
MINKS
Minks dig but not avidly. They will use abandoned gopher holes or muskrat dens rather than dig a new home for themselves. Mink can easily get past the electric wire around the perimeter fence but can't climb a five-foot fence.
They can, however, easily get through two-inch wire gauge; hence, smaller gauge wire fencing is a must. Most mink cannot run down a chicken or a rooster, but they can corner them in the coop and are stealthy enough to approach a sleeping rooster in the dark. Keeping minks from getting into the coop in the first place is the best way to prevent predation by them.
Minks will chew through soft wood; therefore, metal flashing (at least 18 inches wide) needs to be attached to the bottom of all older (possibly
rotten) wood walls of a coop. this:http://www.instructables.com/id/Keeping-your-Chickens-Safe-at-Night-with-those-lit/ and rags soaked in diesel and hang around the area is suppose to be effective. I guess I could't smell any chickens if I came upon those smelly rags. I hope anyone or all of these help!

Thank you so much! I think it has gotten into my hen house and run by more than one way. I think they are like mice..it they can get their nose through they can their bodies. So far no one has be bothered for a week now. But I am caging my SG silkies at night since they seemed to have been the preference. Being as it attacked at night I am more than in agreement they are getting them while they are asleep. A man told me at the swap to try this. Take a stump and carve a 6-8 in hole about 3 inches wide. Take horseshoe nails and drive in a an angle towards the center. So when they go in after the bait and try to back out...the nails catch their head.....makes a lot of sense..and it will be painful.

Only thing is....with our large pasture pond I feel when I finally get this one...another will come along and take it's place.....sad...but realistic.