Eastern Tennessee Thread

[dncarr09]

Hey friends, I am going to be selling my two Pygmy goats and my guineas. I really love them, but I just want to focus on my chickens. I am trying to reduce the number of mouths that I have to feed. My two goats are both girls, they are coming up on 9 months old. They are sisters and were born on Valentine ’s Day this year. They will be coming with a full bag of feed and a goat feeding trough and their brush. They are very entertaining to watch chase each other around. They have been raised with my chickens and are good with them. Also, I am going to sell my guineas. They are about 6 months old and there are 4 pearls and two corral blues (very rare). I will only sell the goats together. And, I would like to keep the guineas together as they are their own little flock. I was going to put them on the internet, but I wanted to ask on here. I would feel more comfortable with them going to someone here than someone I don't know. And, if no one wants to buy them from here then I will just keep them. I will get pictures if anyone is interested. If not it wont break my heart. I will just tell the wife see honey I tried lol.

 

[bairo]

There is a very reasonably priced place Johnny gets a lot of parts from when he does mechanical work (His side job). I will ask him tonight what it is. They are pretty quick in shipping too. What model is it and I will have him check to see what he can get it for. Also my uncle is a manager at Auto Zone in Morristown and he gives us his discount.
Got your cage ready. I had hoped to come to Newport today cause I had a dr. app in Severville but they changed my app at the last minute....for the 3rd time!

I've got it cleaned and ready. You want me to put hay in it when I bring it Sat?
TTYL
Terry

already fixed.... I found one at autozone (lifetime warranty) for 159.00. Of course though just like everything I've ever done to a GM product newer than 1995...it was a real pain to change.
I usually check autozone and advance as they are almost always 20% cheaper than most. I could have got it online probably cheaper, but it needed to be fixed asap.

I do need a good cheap appliance repair guy for the dryer though if you know one. I am pretty good with everything but appliances.

 

[bairo]

on the hatchery chicken thing.....

I heard some bad things about that guy that drives to Knoxville once a month (forgot his name) but 2 years ago I decided to just see what he had and told him to bring some GLW's to go with a couple that I had gotten from a breeder. I figured I would just walk away if I saw anything I did not like. I got 6 and one turned out to be a cockeral, but all of them turned out to be pretty nice birds. 2 of the hens went on to do pretty well in a show. I think it is really luck of the draw and of course knowing the signs of any illness.

As far as the other hatcheries like Meyer, etc. I have several times ordered from those. Thats probably how most people get started. What I would do is order 15-25 chicks or more if I was splitting an order with someone. Then I would grow them out so I could pick and choose the qualities that I might want to add to my flock. The extras usually got sold to my father-in-law or someone else that might care more about eggs and some diversity in a general flock than they do with showing. As matter of fact I will more than likely order a bunch of rocks this spring just so I can pick and choose the good ones and keep new blood in the flock. I might only get one good one for every 6 chicks....but that is the way it goes and plenty of people around here will buy the extras just for their general egg laying flock. It's like the few adults I have left now.... with the exception of the Welsummer, I will sell them really cheap at the show. Just for someone to get started or who wants different color eggs.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Hey friends, I am going to be selling my two Pygmy goats and my guineas. I really love them, but I just want to focus on my chickens. I am trying to reduce the number of mouths that I have to feed. My two goats are both girls, they are coming up on 9 months old. They are sisters and were born on Valentine ’s Day this year. They will be coming with a full bag of feed and a goat feeding trough and their brush. They are very entertaining to watch chase each other around. They have been raised with my chickens and are good with them. Also, I am going to sell my guineas. They are about 6 months old and there are 4 pearls and two corral blues (very rare). I will only sell the goats together. And, I would like to keep the guineas together as they are their own little flock. I was going to put them on the internet, but I wanted to ask on here. I would feel more comfortable with them going to someone here than someone I don't know. And, if no one wants to buy them from here then I will just keep them. I will get pictures if anyone is interested. If not it wont break my heart. I will just tell the wife see honey I tried lol.

How much for the pygmys? I have a buck pygmy that is dying for some attention. I won't let my nubians around him (his is my 10 year olds goat)

 

[dncarr09]

I would let them go for 100 total. And that includes a feeding trough and a full bag of feed. I wouldn't be able to transfer them so they would be pick up only.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

I would love to have them, let me see what I can do. We have a repair shop and we have had a few slow weeks so, if it picks back up and they are still available I would love to have them.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

in reference to incubating.... We have little giant incubators (saving up for sportsman) and I am on day 1 of lockdown and (I have had this problem before) the water has a film over it and it makes the humidity lower than it should be- Im sure the water cannot evaporate into the air like it should. Any suggestions?

 

[tnchickenut]

I know it would be so hard to do it right and have that many breeds. I think that is all he and his wife do. Look at the old couple that run Sand Hill preservation center. I don't know how you could do it either. But, I have heard only great things about him.

Sand Hill Poultry is not one person... it is a team of breeders on differnent farms.

And whoever said he was a judge cracked the code.... he prob. has got all his stock from top breeders and started with the best. (Probably got them for free or next to free too)

 

[tnchickenut]

And AJ- he probably doesn't have them all on his farm. The best breeders usually partner up with people they trust to keep bloodlines pure and still be able to not inbreed to death. The problem is finding a old timer to embrace you enough to let you in their secret world. I get so far and then.... well, I'm not the old farmer type, we'll say.

ETA: Here is his partners.... bet money on it. And Walt Leonard... he is the King of Poultry Snobs and one of the few I have learned all this from...... http://heritagebreedpoultry.com/index_sb.php

 

[dncarr09]

Sand Hill Poultry is not one person... it is a team of breeders on differnent farms.

And whoever said he was a judge cracked the code.... he prob. has got all his stock from top breeders and started with the best. (Probably got them for free or next to free too)

Sorry, I wasn't refering to the guy from Sandhill being a judge. I was referring to Duane Urch. I was mistaken then. I thought that sand hill was ran by an older couple.