South Carolina

[Joycats]

Enjoyed the story Junkman - I can imagine that scene very well. Also had a chuckle about the south being poor "back then" as it feels pretty poor for a lot of us right now.

I have to say, I have 2 sons and if one of them should kill one of my bantam roos they would be in soooo much trouble! I can only imagine what Grandma had to say when that happened.

 

[Junkmanme]

Yep. That WONDERFUL "soft-spoken" woman was NOT a "Happy Camper" !!!
(But, She soon got over it.)

She knew "Her Priorities"....and she loved her boy.

-Junkmanme-

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Junkmanme,
My dad was a survivor of WWII. He brought home some neat stories from overseas. I enjoyed all his stories of the farm he grew up in down in Fountain Inn. He was born in a ramshackle house down there but it has long since been torn down.
Loved your story. I read so much on this area since I live here now. I made a scrap book for my DD so she can show her kids what area she grew up in and it's history. I LOVE history.
If ever you come this way again please look me up and show me where your folks lived back then. I would love to know more. I just went through Mill Springs last Sat. on the way up to the chicken show. Beautiful spot.

And look you guys, I am scared to count all the different breeds I have now. I am adding more this spring to the free range flock for added beauty and tomorrow Sandy (Bat Cave Silkies) is bringing me a Speckled Sussex hen named "Pretty Girl". I have that breed of chicks on the way but she needed to place her and I jumped at the chance to own her.

I think me and Joy will be enjoying each others company in the old hen house for a long time! We like a lot of the same breeds and colors! But I enjoy chatting with all of you.

However, I am going back outside to work on 3 more pens that I have going. I am going to put the floor brooder chicks outside today in the new duck pen that is waiting on my Muscovy to arrive (later this week!) and I am painting the barn. I have a bunch of people wanting to come buy the last of my Frizzles and Sizzles so I need to finish my work before cold weather sets in again.

Joy! Great website! Tons of great info and I love the photos! You make me remember I really have got to finish mine up. No time, no time!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Just got back form The Hay Rack in Landrum. Yeah, I know, I can't seem to stay home long enough to get a lot of work done! LOL But I had to take all my extra eggs to the church because we have Food Pantry day every Wed. and i give all my extra bantam eggs and eggs over 4 days old to them to give to the less fortunate.

Anyhooooo.....The Hay Rack is getting chicks in tomorrow.....RIR, Black JG, Leghorns, SLW, GLW and something else I can not remember. Later they will have ducks and turkeys but for the next few weeks they are just getting chicks. They are not going to do bantams this year because no one really wanted them.

Boy, oh, boy am I glad I went today! I spent most of the morning throwing big chicks out of the brooder room and into the Muscovy pen. A bunch of unhappy campers!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Good idea about the eggs. I have way more than I can sell right now. I need to do something with them! We having been keeping the banty eggs for us but even that is getting to be way too much. I have too many chickens. Time to face facts... NOT!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have been giving our extra eggs to the poor for several years.
At first I took them to Greer to a Mission that makes daily meals for the needy but good old DHEC shut that down after about a year. They saw all the colored eggs in the pantry and asked where they came from during an inspection. The lady that runs the place told them they were donated and DHEC nipped that right there. They said no way. They wanted the foods all bought through the government programs. We were so upset.

Then we saw that the church up in Gowensville had free bread every Wed. so DH stopped and asked if we could donate eggs to be given away with their bread and food pantry and they were ever so kind. That was 2 years ago and we love all the folks and found a wonderful church to attend, though I am not Baptist.
Today I took 9 dz but put them all in 6 or 9 pks. That way they go a bit further for the needy.

I encourage everyone to give away as much of the extra eggs as possible. I even called Meyer Hatchery and told them to add my free laying hen to my order because I do give so many away.
There is only so many eggs I can hard boil and feed back to my chickens and ducks!

 

[CochinBarry]

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[gavinandallison]

Am not in SC but close enough to it!!

Love all the stories, so here's one for you all. My Grandmother, in WW2, kept chickens - an eggs farm, every day the Govt truck would arrive and take all the good eggs for the War Cause, allowing my Grandmother to keep the cracked and misshapen ones. As a child I'd look around the old barn at the old pieces of farm equipment, not knowing what they were. She kept Rhode Island Reds - hundreds of them free-range and geese as guards. To this day I have a Victorian Porcelain egg, and now when I go home this Fall I will know what the equipment is - old feeders and waterers, maybe I'll get to bring some back, they are stil like new!

And Nadine, I am addicted too, 5 Barred Rocks, 8 Silkies including the one we won at Morganton show, 8 Lavender Orpington, 12 Buff Orpington and 13 Barred Rock eggs currently in the incubator next to me........

 

[epitman2]

Well let me see I have.......
2 buff orphangtons ....buttercup and maggie
1 rhode island red ....nugget
1 dominecker ....aggie
1 black chocin .....betty
1 white frizzel chocin .....gidget
and
1 jersey giant/ easter egger rooster .....pepper

Thoes are my big girls now for the chickies..... I got eggs from Beth and John so they are mutts (designer chickies) their names are .... roadrunner , fergie , george , peanut , wiggles , wattles ,and lucky.
I guess if I had too many more we wouldnt be able to name them. So their is lots of chickens in sc on byc. Ok I have a question about my roosters offspring ok his dad was a jersey giant and the hen was a easter egger and he hatched out of a blue egg so what is the chances of his offspring laying colored eggs????

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

Going to begin framing my grow out pen this afternoon when I get home from work. Going to be 4'x8'x4'tall with one end of it (4x4x4) section enclosed to give shelter from the elements.

I will post pics of my progress. I've also got 29' of fencing to put up with my smaller 4x4 coop (on legs) to make another chicken paradise, but I need to either get some metal T posts or use the scrap 3/4 inch PVC pipe as posts. Do yall think the PVC posts will work after I bury them into the ground???

Chicken math is REALLY catching up to me QUICKLY!!!!