New Member from East TN

[may98]

Hello all,

I have 10 laying hens (5 NH Reds, 5 Dominiques) and 12 14-wk-old chickens (6 RI Reds and 6 Black Star). We've been raising chickens for about 10 months and we use all the eggs in our local community. We also raise rabbits and sheep, and we have 8 horses. I've read these posts on occasion as we've gone along, and I wanted to throw some of my thoughts out there for "review".

 

[huntinwidow]

Let me be the first to say

 

[hen-thusiast]

and

from UT!

 

[georgialee]

from another E. TN'er!!!

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

from another East Tennesseean. Madisonville, TN here. We are glad to have your.

 

[SPRING CREEK FARM]

Hello, and Welcome!

I am also a new member and apparently we joined up at about the same time! You have been doing this longer than I have; I have only had a couple of months experience in it. I have 11 bantam chicks, 2 pea chicks, and 1 little pheasant chick that are a week old now that hatched out from eggs set by our little flock in an incubator. I have 2 more incubators going now. We have mostly a variety of bantams, silkies, and some really pretty specked/mottled bantams, I don't know their proper name. We also have white peacocks and golden pheasants. On our farm here in middle Tennessee we have registered black Angus cattle, numerous horses and donkeys, a few buffalo and a couple of emus. We have raised llamas and goats but don't raise them anymore. I wish that I could let my birds free range but I am afraid that all the varmints would just catch them and eat them! Between the coyotes, foxes, skunks, and yes, chicken snakes and hawks I am too afraid to let them roam around here loose. Are you able to let yours out to graze around the farm on their own?

 

[eaganchickens]

from MN!

 

[frogs n chickens]

from california

 

[b.hromada]

and

from S. Florida.

 

[SilkieTime]

Welcome! I'm very new 12 wk w. silkies and EE's. We have lots of hawks, snakes, Dogs, cats, ect. No I can never let them out. Large coop and run. Good luck to ya!