North Carolina

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

we still are blessed with good weather......
now if I could get enough time away from
work so I can get some outside stuff
done around here.......always a project
to keep me busy

hope your day a relaxing one

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning, Everyone!

I finally have a source for the good quality New Zealand meat rabbits hubby has wanted. I'll be picking up a young buck and a bred seven month old doe on Saturday. Woohoo! Since I sold all my French Angoras we have missed rabbit meat. Now I'll have easy care rabbits that don't need the grooming, although I'll miss the fiber. (Not like I don't have loads stored for my spinning pleasure!) I'll be going to Greensboro for them. I hesitate to offer to transport poultry, but if any small equipment, small mammals or eggs need transporting from just south of Fayetteville to Greensboro or the other way around, let me know.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hello Fellow North Carolina Chicken Addicts! We are relatively new to BYC. We live on Lake Norman north of Charlotte. Our coop can be viewed at:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/lake-norman-coop-de-ville

Let me know what you think. This all started because we saw a local news segment on urban coops in Charlotte. We did a ton of research and now here we are.

We have five 20 week old Hy-Line Brown hens that we absolutely love. We got them through the state program and picked them up in Mt. Ulla almost three weeks ago. No eggs yet. We were a little upset that the hen's beaks were trimmed.

We have coffee by the coop every morning and go down several times a day to hang with the flock. We are self employed and blessed to be able to work from home most of the time.

We are so crazy about our five girls and have learned so much from them. Our time down by the pen has created an awareness of the nature around our cove. We hear the buzz of the bees around the flowers, the calls of many different birds including three red tailed hawk and several great blue heron that hang out here. The girls are comical and so much more fun to watch than any show on TV. We feel so relaxed after our time with them.

We hope to get to know many of you that live in our area and appreciate all of the great people here on BYC!

Ken Poindexter and Wendy Broughman

Just looked at ya'lls coop and girls awesome!!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I loved how these two pictures turned out and I love these two birds, so since I won't be able to stalk the thread this weekend I'll share with you guys!

Blueberry


And my boy Titus (Partridge cockerel)

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Welcome to all the new folks!!

Glad to have you here!!

Not much is going on down here at the farm....my teenager is falsely HUGE (he's all feathers...boo) while the younger ones are quickly catching up to him and one of my blue sex link males is HUGE in comparison. I am excited about how big he will get as we are going to keep him and "retire" our Buff...not sure what we're going to do with him. He's SO pretty!! The newest chicks are growing up fast and I am 99% sure I have at least ONE male...the black one either has a long neck, really likes stretching the neck or is a boy...with my luck...I'm going with boy!!

Today is going to be a sewing day....or cuddle day as DD#2 has been aggressively teething and super cuddly (that's her version of being cranky)

Have a great day everyone!!

 

[TheRookie]

Does anyone know where I can find that thread that has day by day candling pictures? At least I think its a thread... or maybe an article... I want to compare my hens eggs to the pictures to see what I should be seeing and am not.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Does anyone know where I can find that thread that has day by day candling pictures? At least I think its a thread... or maybe an article... I want to compare my hens eggs to the pictures to see what I should be seeing and am not.

Heres 1 I don't know if it's the one your talking about though https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

 

[NCnarrator]

Hello Fellow North Carolina Chicken Addicts! We are relatively new to BYC. We live on Lake Norman north of Charlotte. Our coop can be viewed at:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/lake-norman-coop-de-ville

Let me know what you think. This all started because we saw a local news segment on urban coops in Charlotte. We did a ton of research and now here we are.

We have five 20 week old Hy-Line Brown hens that we absolutely love. We got them through the state program and picked them up in Mt. Ulla almost three weeks ago. No eggs yet. We were a little upset that the hen's beaks were trimmed.

We have coffee by the coop every morning and go down several times a day to hang with the flock. We are self employed and blessed to be able to work from home most of the time.

We are so crazy about our five girls and have learned so much from them. Our time down by the pen has created an awareness of the nature around our cove. We hear the buzz of the bees around the flowers, the calls of many different birds including three red tailed hawk and several great blue heron that hang out here. The girls are comical and so much more fun to watch than any show on TV. We feel so relaxed after our time with them.

We hope to get to know many of you that live in our area and appreciate all of the great people here on BYC!

Ken Poindexter and Wendy Broughman

Hi and welcome! This forum has been a great resource for us, and I'm sure it will be for you, too! Particularly at 5 in the morning when your chickens have done something weird

Two of our girls have trimmed beaks as well. It struck us as weird at first, but they don't have a problem with it and we've gotten so used to it that we don't really even see it anymore. They are just as adept at catching bugs and things when we release them for free ranging as the other girls, so clearly it doesn't slow them down. We let our girls out of their run to roam our property every night about an hour before sundown. They don't have enough time to travel far, but they LOVE the free-range time and gripe about it if we can't do it for some reason!

 

[emarketwiz]

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" Mahatma Gandhi

 

[abChicken]

emarketwiz--I havent been on here for few weeks bad case of bronchitis-We even missed Chickenstock dadgumit-wanted couple more tee shirts

Hope to make the show in Morganton.-Hi ML good to c u on here agn

AB

I'm abt 9 miles fm Lake Norman