North Carolina

[KristanB]

Hi NC members. I'm in West Asheville. 

Hey there..I work in Ashvl and live in Yancey Co.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

I have not tried to raise out any Cornish X to breed, but I've also not lost any raising them out for meat.

The Cornish Rock is a Cornish cross too, by the way. Cornish X Plymouth Rock. But when they say Cornish X, they just aren't designating what the other half is.

You could always get pure Cornish and create your own crosses with whatever you want/have. I have considered it. The Cornish are interesting looking birds. But after trying the Cornish X from a couple different hatcheries, we've decided we like the ones from McMurray best. They aren't quite the slugs that the ones we've gotten from elsewhere are, but they still grew nicely. I'm not sure I want to maintain another breed just to create my own meat crosses when we've found a line we like.

If I thought the zombie apocalypse was imminent, I might change my mind, but I doubt it. Under those circumstances, I'd want dual purpose birds that can free-range and forage for a good part of their food during the warm months. And I'd be wishing forage was available in the winter, too!

I'm staying up tonight with a sick puppy. He's been vomiting, and judging by the loud churning sounds coming from his gut, he will commence with large quantities of projectile diarrhea about five minutes after I go to sleep. So I'm not going. I'm going to keep walking him frequently until either his guts shut up or they appear empty. Sick puppy is already almost 140 pounds! That's a lot of potential disaster zone. Cross your toes for me!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

I have not tried to raise out any Cornish X to breed, but I've also not lost any raising them out for meat.

The Cornish Rock is a Cornish cross too, by the way. Cornish X Plymouth Rock. But when they say Cornish X, they just aren't designating what the other half is.

You could always get pure Cornish and create your own crosses with whatever you want/have. I have considered it. The Cornish are interesting looking birds. But after trying the Cornish X from a couple different hatcheries, we've decided we like the ones from McMurray best. They aren't quite the slugs that the ones we've gotten from elsewhere are, but they still grew nicely. I'm not sure I want to maintain another breed just to create my own meat crosses when we've found a line we like.

If I thought the zombie apocalypse was imminent, I might change my mind, but I doubt it. Under those circumstances, I'd want dual purpose birds that can free-range and forage for a good part of their food during the warm months. And I'd be wishing forage was available in the winter, too!

I'm staying up tonight with a sick puppy. He's been vomiting, and judging by the loud churning sounds coming from his gut, he will commence with large quantities of projectile diarrhea about five minutes after I go to sleep. So I'm not going. I'm going to keep walking him frequently until either his guts shut up or they appear empty. Sick puppy is already almost 140 pounds! That's a lot of potential disaster zone. Cross your toes for me!

awwwwww......hope he feels better real soon and
no big bird troubles( rhea joke). Hope you get some
sleep too.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Thanks, CSB. Love the Big Bird joke. I always remember the story about the kid who wrote home from camp and said everyone had the "dire rear"! Makes perfect sense to me!

 

[sbrooks88]

Well...didnt get eveything done today. got all painting but bathroom completed. Cleaned every inch but the doggies bathroom that's the one where floor needs to be replaced. Down to 15 chickens now. Got another sick bantam. the other one passed away Saturday and this one started acting weird yesterday am so I immediately got him away from the bantam hen and today he's not lookin so good. Very droopy wings and overall depressed appearance and doesn't so much but sit there. So....I'm pretty sure he has whatever the eck the other one had. Only difference is that he's still eating as of right now. Tomorrow may be a diff story. anyway planning on finishing up by lunch tomorrow....yeah right! Lol. Gotta get the darned washer and dryer out and seems nobody wants to help DH move them out and I can't because of health problems and a bad shoulder...really bad fall last July. And broke my collar bone in 2 spots and it never grew back together. I can't lift much on that side. poor hubby wanted so badly to be done with all this today. I told him not to worry but the truth is I'm worried the landlord will make us pay for another month. I didn't bring that up though he already has a ton of stress on him. Anyway I hope you all have a great day tomorrow and I'm going to get a good nights rest knowing most of the four letter word that means poop is done! Hollowoakfarm I hope your puppy gets better soon! makes me sad when animals r sick cause they can't tell you what's wrong. oh I wish they could talk or I was dr. Doolittle!!!!!! I need to lay off on the caffeine! Good night everyone!!!!

 

[chicknleg]

I'm in Lexington, NC anyone nearby? 

I am in Thomasville and have a place on High Rock on Abbott's Creek side...

 

[cknnewbie]

I live in Ontario, Canada .

Hi!

 

[Lizabelsherrill]

Hello to all of the new members!

It rained all night here...supposed to rain today too. What hasn't drowned in my garden the deer have been eating.

I hope everyone has a great Thursday...I can almost see the weekend.

Elizabeth

 

[ramirezframing]

to all new flockers

Hollow, hope the puppy is better and you got some sleep.

Sbrooks hope you get done today

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good Morning everyone!!
We had a horrible day yesterday!!

Aside from feeling like a dairy cow (LOL)...went out to find that our broody pen had been broken into, lost all of our chicks and one of the 2 mamas had been attacked. Our main coop had also been "attacked" but fortunately it withstood the attack - something tried to pry the doors open and just got a bloody paw instead!! Glad we decided to leave the sharp edges on the HWC when we designed the doors!! Anyway...DH and I have decided that the broody coop needs to be redone (it also needs repairs) and so we came up with an idea (it was ALL me...but since he's doing the build, I'll give him credit too...LOL). We're going to move the coop, install/bury HWC underneath the entire thing (DH doesn't want to pour more concrete) and make a bigger run/coop while we're at it. We are also going to order some Freedom Rangers and use this new coop as the grow out area as well as our broody pen. We should have the new set up done by next weekend - unless DH ends up working the weekend because of "paternity leave"...yeah!
Anyway, looking forward to taking pictures of the new/improved coop once it's finished... Still have my fingers crossed that my few duck eggs that are being sat upon right now will hatch despite all the trauma...if not, I don't know what to do as this mama is DETERMINED to hatch babies. Do you think (since she is SO determined) that I could put her in with the day old chicks that we order if she hasn't hatched anything by then?? I honestly don't know WHAT to do with her...her wound didn't look too bad. She was missing feathers and had a small puncture wound - she was so stressed, she wouldn't let us near her, but DH and I did manage to get some BK on the wound (and plenty on my hand...LOL)...I'm making her a big batch of scrambled eggs to help her regain her strength...anything else I can do for her? I'm worried that I will go out there today and find her...dead. I have been putting it off because of that!

Hope everyone else has a better day!!