South Carolina

[Woodi]

Does anybody in the Anderson or Greenville area have a young female brown Speckled Sussex for sale?

 

[NestingHillsSC]

No, but have really nice Heritage Delawares, bloodline Paul Harter. 13 extra cockerels and maybe a pullet or 2.

 

[Woodi]

Thanks, but I'm just looking for one little speckled lady!

 

[pickitfarm]

Thanks, but I'm just looking for one little speckled lady!

I have 30 speckled sussex in by bator right now. Due in mid August. Sorry.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I hope everyone close to the upstate here will join us at the Polk County swap Aug. 24. I went through my brooders today cleaning and moving chicks and saw how many little beauties I am going to have to sell. It will be hard, they are all gorgeous but just in my brooder room alone I have 400+ babies. I also have 4 large wire bottom brooder pens outside that have anywhere from 40 to 60 youngsters growing up in each one and then I have grow up pens on the ground for my older juvies. I can't keep them all so I will be bringing some great deals to the swap if not sold directly here from the farm sooner.
All my ducks are sold except for about 3 hens but I think I have 4 blue Runner ducklings to part with if I do not fall hopelessly in love with them first. Geez, I am such a sap. LOL

 

[Moonchild]

Just wanted to share a few photos of my chickens and new covered dirt/sand run for the large flock to bathe in.

This covered area lets the chickens have more room during lockup.


This is Promethus aka " I gotta carry a stick to teach him a lesson and it has finally worked"
He better be thankful he is pretty...or to the pot he would go. He's BlueJGxEE


This is BleuBar. He's a Sweety and He's BIG. He's BlueJGxBR, Now he was chicken raised and knows I'm the boss and loves to eat out of my hand and never tries to fight me. He was the lesser of the two roos but now it's 50/50.

He's perched up on the BantamSLPolish traitor.

 

[Moonchild]

OK SILKIE peeps..Rocker hen, Nikki or anybody else who has silkies.
Cotton my only silkie has made a nest outside the coop and is very devoted to it. It is no covered and has no shelter. I take her into the coop everynight and place in a nest with pebbles(you'll understand that in a bit) and eggs. She'll stay in the coop at night but at first light back to the nest she goes, if I destroy the nest she rebuilds it everyday HELP with any ideas.

Her pebbles that she finds and tries to hatch. even if I scatter them she finds them then brings them to the nest. This has been going on three days now. Actually as I type at 8:57pm she just went back to them. I must go move her.

 

[RockerHen]

Sweet little girl, silkies will try to hatch anything, no matter if it's an inanimate object or not do you want her to stop being broody or just to relocate her? I can help you with either, I've done both many times this summer.

 

[Moonchild]

Relocate her...I would love for her to hatch some babies of her own.

 

[RockerHen]

I have had the most success taking the hen and moving her into a small, secluded pen near evening (I have 2 large rabbit hutches that are about 4 foot off the ground that I use) and, this might sound strange, but walling her up into a nest box overnight and for a short time into the next day. I have three sided box type broody nests so I usually slide a board in front of the open part to prevent her escape. She will most likely be unhappy for a while because she's not with her nest she wants to brood, but will settle down on the eggs overnight because she has nowhere else to go. Having the eggs under her all night and into the next day is usually enough to convince her that this new nest isn't so bad after all. I peek in on her the next day, and if she has turned all zombiefied with broodiness, remove the board and pat yourself on the back, you've relocated a broody! If she is still unhappy and agitated, I remove the board (but keep her in the pen all day) and repeat the walling up process the next night. Note: I've mainly done this for high-strung game hens, and it has worked like a charm. Silkies are usually even more accepting of it. One hen went broody out in their coop, it was really bad weather that week and the chicks were close to hatching so i put her in a dog carrier and brought her and her eggs into the house. She never put up a fight, or even tried to move from the eggs once I put them in their new location. She hatched them inside the house and was a happy girl