South Carolina

[RedBugPoultry]

Well, the good thing is that with the puppy here, Jolie is staying home. I am not sure if she is glad for the company or she just doesn't feel like running off but since Riley has been here, so has she! She also gets very upset when she smells where a bird has been taken but to be safe most of my birds are locked up in tractor pens now.

Thanks for all the kind words. You guys are the greatest!

Now, we need to help Heidi with her coyote dilemma! I think a working dog is in order!

Should have read further-- I am open to suggestions on breed types as I do not think our hound/golden retriever cross is the answer. DH borrowed some traps yesterday from a friend and we are going that direction it looks. Maybe if we can catch the main big dog/coyote we can at least change their idea of how nice the area is to live. We have found the tracks and one of the coyotes has huge feet.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Are guineas prolific layers like chickens, or is just by the time someone finds a nest its that full?

They lay pretty much everyday during their laying season which is from February/March through to September/October. That can make for a really big nest of eggs because all the girls (or at least several) like to share the same nest.

 

[Hollim]

Hello and a BIG welcome to you!!!

I am in Donalds towards Greenwood from you! This is a great place with lots of great people and glad you found us! So...tell us all about what you have going on...how long have you had chicks/chickens? I started almost 2 years ago and they have quickly taken over here!!! I just love them and I think they love me too!! HAHAHA I just have very small groups or flocks or pairs depending on how you look at things...I just love them all!!!

Hey! My name is Holli, and yes, I agree, this is a great group of chickeners (did I make that word up?), what great personalities yall have. I had been thinking and reading on chickens for about a year and finally got the coop on my avatar a few months back. I got it all set up and found 3 nice hens..2 red star and one barred rocks. They walked around the yard happy as can be for about a week, but were not trained to go to the coop when I would "shepherd" them. I had a devil of a time when they would cross an old wire fence and into the horribly unkept woods on the kooky neighbors land. One evening we had dinner reservations and they wouldn't come back, so I was hoping they would come back on their own at dusk, one was snatched out of a tree by, I fear a fox. So, left with two sweet red stars, I got a RIR rooster, and two red hens (I thought were red stars, but weren't) One of them was beheaded in broad daylight a few weeks later by the biggest meanest gray bird (hawk?) I have ever seen. I was so mad at him! We travel alot and had planned a weekend getaway the next day, and I knew I could not leave them so vulnerable with my mom, so I had my companion's employees come and make a hoop-coop-run off the side of my coop immediately! Later I threw together a easy to move temporary fence, so they are able to eat a little more grass and bugs. I have adopted 4 more red stars, putting my pre-chickenstock total at 9. At one of the plants sweetheart works at, in a tractor trailer, Jason (sweetheart/companion) has found me SIX test buildings that are insulated and I believe he said 6x5, on legs, with a door and a window, that he said will be perfect to "beautify" for my next coops. That makes me happyyyy!! My goal is 1-2 breeding/baby coop/s, and 1 meat... I really want Ameraucana or even EEs, hopefully I can get some chicks on Saturday. I love my chickens

and cant wait to add on!! Thank you for welcoming me

I cant figure out why my photos come out sideways on this site

 

[Hollim]

Hi ya! I know how you feel about the neighbor chickens - we had our first flock in 'burbia and we could hear roosters somewhere. I drove all around the neighborhood one weekend trying to find out who else was hiding chickens around the golf course. Kept thinking one day a rooster was going to show up to shack up w/my six hens. LOL

for real! I want them to come over, they were cool, but just cant find them again......yet!

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

My guineas lay from April - Oct. The eggs are better than hen eggs just hard to crack. I mainly keep mine to get rid of ticks and chiggers. Worth their weight in gold for that reason.

I sorted my buff silkies to take to chickenstock.

2 pullets and 11 roos. Never sure with silkies until they lay or crow but 11 have streamers. Not sure what I will be bringing to chickenstock.
Probably a couple of roos and maybe 1 pair. I haven't decided whether to sell the pairs now or wait until the pullets start to lay. Probably will wait until spring.

I will be selling honey.

 

[Dylan Haley]

is their anyone from around the charleston area on here?

 

[riversedgefarm]

Well I have sick bantam babies. It started almost two weeks ago. One was sneezing and wheezing and coughing but I never saw a discharge. Now all 10 are doing it and one died tonight. I was resistant to starting an antibiotic but I bit the bullet today. I should have listened to Sam when it first started. So it seems my chicken math problem is taking care itself. I just hope my silkies don't die on me. They seem to be covered in snot. In fact I swear I saw one of them blow a snot bubble today. Ughhh! Poor babies!

Ok some of my chickens are doing same thing snot sneeze sounds like a baby with a cold when I pick them up a feel it in there chest. I have dr all of them with tylan50 and I'm still seeing signs of sickness and still. As soon as I think I beat it another comes sick and help I would love
Also anyone have address for the chickenstock

 

[Moonchild]

I'm excited!!!

 

[carolinasculpture]

Hi! I am sure I have missed it somewhere, but where and when is ChickenStock? Sounds like fun!
Thanks!

 

[Patsy29332]

I'm excited!!!

I will be there along with many many others!!! This is a fun time and great swap...and especially great peeps and people!!!