North Carolina

[ayeitsmeme]

Hello all my NC peeps! Just joined from pittsboro and chapel hill area! Excited to get in with the local community!

Welcome to the group!

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm in Moore County, moving onto our more rural property next week. We're going to revamp the little coop this summer and hope to manage to get 4-6 chickens despite the great chick shortage and then work on building a bigger coop to be ready for 15-20 next spring.

I used to have a backyard flock in town with Delawares, Dark Brahmas, Australorps, and a Black Langshan under the protection of a Light Brahma Rooster. I'm hoping for pretty much the same thing again -- I am in love with black, white, and black and white chickens.

 

[Compost King]

Anyone within reasonable driving distance of the Charlotte area (~1 hour or so) selling any pullets? I'm only looking to get two and I'm having trouble finding listings online from anyone who will sell fewer than 5 at a time. I'm most interested in Rhode Island Reds and Easter Eggers but I might consider other breeds.

If Conover (near Hickory) is not too far away from you https://www.shookpoultrync.com the guy who owns it posts in BYC from time to time to promote Carolina Chickenstock in Taylorsville.

 

[Compost King]

I plan on buying Meat Birds from time to time but do not want to get stuck with processing 25 birds at a time, anyone near Salisbury who wants to buy Meat Bird chicks from time to time and split an order let me know.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

4 Gold laced wyandottes, about 6-7 weeks old if anyone is interested and close by. I am in Robeson county....

 

[cranece]

Hi - I am new and I live in SE NC just north of Wilmington. Just saying hello.

 

[Dinogrrl]

Another question, is there anyone in NC who processes their own meat chickens who might be willing (at some future point in time when there's not a world plague) to show me/walk me through how it's done? I've been thinking about raising some broilers for myself but I've never dispatched and cleaned a chicken before, and I'd feel a lot more comfortable moving forward if I had some experience there first. I do have some food allergy concerns that I'd need to go over (which is why I'd like to learn to process my own chickens). And I would absolutely be willing to compensate you for your teaching time.

 

[3KillerBs]

Another question, is there anyone in NC who processes their own meat chickens who might be willing (at some future point in time when there's not a world plague) to show me/walk me through how it's done? I've been thinking about raising some broilers for myself but I've never dispatched and cleaned a chicken before, and I'd feel a lot more comfortable moving forward if I had some experience there first. I do have some food allergy concerns that I'd need to go over (which is why I'd like to learn to process my own chickens). And I would absolutely be willing to compensate you for your teaching time.

I am not currently set up for it and it will be quite a while until I am, but I wanted to reassure you that it's not actually all that difficult. I used the broomstick method when I did my previous birds but want to set up killing cones to make it easier to handle larger numbers than the handful I had before.

 

[Dinogrrl]

@3KillerBs Oh I'm not worried about it being difficult--my background is in biology and medicine and I've done enough 'wet labs' that slicing up deceased animals isn't that big of a deal to me. Processing a chicken from start to finish is just something I've not done before and I learn better in person than watching twenty YouTube videos .

 

[ayeitsmeme]

ISO fertile hatching eggs. Not picky on breed