South Carolina

[countrypreacher]

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I have one and am getting one in a trade this weekend that I would be willing to sell you....

 

[countrypreacher]

Hey everybody in the upstate. I dont know if this will get flagged or not but I have an overstock of 5 grain scratch at my store. I had a customer that ordered it but now doesn't want it.

I need to get it gone so i figured i would offer it to everybody on BYC first at a reduced rate...

If you are a BYC member then you get 5 grain scratch for only $8.50 per bag. That is way less than what other stores are getting for regular old 3 way scratch...

give me a call at the store today 864-338-8844 and let me know if you are interested in any of it. just ask for Country and tell me you are a BYC member...

 

[thewilson6]

Hey everyone! I posted back when we first got our chicks in August but I can't remember if I ever came back and posted again. A few weeks after we built our coop, both of boys started fall baseball so we were going nonstop for a solid couple of months. Anyway, we have a trio of red sex-linked chicks (Scout, Sadie, and Cady) that we bought back in late August, then a few weeks later, after we had completed the coop, we picked up an assortment from a local chicken guy (Jimmy in Chesnee- I don't know if he posts here or not, we found him on CL). We started out with an Easter Egger (Martha), Buff Orpington (Porsche-this was my husband's chicken), Silver-laced Wyandotte (Stella), and a couple of Barred Plymouth Rocks as well as a younger BPR (Matilda). Well, the 2 older BPRs were horrible (hence the reason why they never got a name)- they attacked our poor little chicks and pretty much were terrorizing the entire little flock we had so we called him and he traded chickens with us. Honestly, this may have been normal chicken behavior but I couldn't deal with it- my husband travels for work so the chickens are my sole responsibility (on top of 4 kids) and I couldn't deal with them. So, the older ones went back and we got another EE (Hazel), a Rhode Island Red (Scarlett), and a another questionable chicken (Vivian). My husband was actually the one who took the other ones back and got these new ones and he didn't remember what it was- I am thinking that it another Buff. So now we have a little flock of 9. The first Buff that we got (Porsche- obviously she was named by my husband bc the rest of them have little old lady names) has been a daily layer since the day we got her. And actually she has now gone broody in the past couple of days. This led to a bit of stress for me bc I didn't realize that they could go broody without a rooster around so I was trying to figure out which of my hens was, in fact, a rooster. This led me to questioning my ability to raise chickens. lol Thanks heavens for the internet and the ability to find quick answers to things. I feel so bad taking her off her nest to get the eggs which is odd bc for the most part I am very levelheaded about my chickens. I mean, I love them and name them and talk to them- but if I had to eat them, I would. That probably makes me sound very callous though. You should hear the responses when peope find out that I have fed my chickens leftover cooked chicken- you wuld think that I had confessed to being Hannibal Lector. I am now (impatiently) waiting for the rest of them to start laying. When we got them- the guy said they should be laying within weeks and no such luck yet and it has been close to 3 months. Anyway, that was little bit of catching up and I am hoping to try to stay on top of following thread a little better from here on out.

 

[HenThymes]

Hi everyone

, don't mean to hijack your thread but just wanted to see if you have seen the thread the renegaderidge starter for us Carolinians?? It is a for sale/swap thread. Would be great to see what others have available. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=421045&p=1 Hope you all have a great day!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Thanks for the link! I did not even know we had a list for sales/swaps or trades. I figured Betsy would have let me know!

 

[HardLuckHill]

I just had to brag that my 7 month old frizzle serama just hatched out two babies! They're at my mom's house, I'll try to get some pics tonight. Right now, they live in a coop in the garage (awaiting my fencing off a little part of my big run for them). I need somebody to tell me it's too cold for them and they need to come into the house! I've also got another week to wait for my marans to hatch out her motley clutch. I've got quite the assortment of chickens at my house, so who knows what's going to hatch out. I can't wait!

Beth

 

[juliette2009]

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Good for you!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Awww! I bet they are adorable.

I have a black Silkie with 3 chicks; 2 blue Silkies and a mixed Cochin.
As cold as it is up here you would think those babies would be freezing but they are running around outside like it is nothing. Every once and a while I see them scurry under mama hen to get warm. My birds think nothing of raising chicks all winter.

 

[HardLuckHill]

Well, my babies didn't come inside soon enough for one of them...

I went over to Mom's after work to check on the babies, and three of them had jumped out of the nest box. One had already passed, one was huddled as close to the heat lamp as he could get, and the other was a few inches away shivering his little fuzzy behind off. I made an emergency run to Petsmart to get some corn cob bedding, stuck Mom and babies in a 10-gallon aquarium, and whisked them off to my house with me where they can live inside. So there are five, plus there is one more egg that has yet to hatch. I swear I hear it pecking on the inside. The first one hatched on the 2nd or 3rd. Could this one really still be viable? It has been disturbed quite a bit.

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

Hey Beth! Long time, no talk. I think the last egg or 2 may still be viable depending on when it was laid, but I'm not too keen on hatching/raising babies just yet, HOPEFULLY THIS SPRING

Any word on those exchequer mixes you were talking about before??