South Carolina

[coywade]

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And welcome to our SC thread! Pull up a chair or old cooler and sit a spell. Tell us about yourself a bit.
Do you raise a garden? Do you live on a lot of land or a small plot near town? Have you had chickens before or will this be your first venture with our fowl friends?
Do you already own an incubator or planning to purchase one?

Easley has quite a few chicken people around the area. Many of us are near you.
I live on the Greenville/Spartanburg county line between Greer and Landrum. You are welcome to come visit my place and see the several incubators I have running. I have been hatching out chicks for several years and it isn't as difficult as it would seem.

Please visit my website to see if anything interests you and you can see a few photos of my 'bators on my Housing page, too.

I love to meet folks from BYC and have many friends on here because BYC SC folks are the best!

I would love to tell you a little about me and my wonderful family. I have a beautiful wife and two awesome children. I am a landscaper by trade and I absolutely love gardening, and most other outdoor things. We live on 2.5 acres between Easley and Dacusville so I have a very nice sized garden. We love to live off of our land and spent most of the summer tending to animals and canning vegetables and fruits from the garden. We have had chickens for almost a year now and LOVE IT!! We have 10 hens who are consistently laying 10 eggs a day right now and another 5 Ameraucanas who are only 9 weeks old. We can't have enough chickens! My 4 year old son owns the "egg business". We have begun to teach him how money works so he sells the eggs to neighbors/family, buys the feed, gives a share of the money away and buys a reward with some of the profit. It has been an all around awesome experience for our family to have chickens and we just want more!

I actually just purchased (after months of research) and R-Com 20 from a gentleman on Craigslist. He bought it 6 months ago and then was told he couldn't have a rooster in his neighborhood so he sold me the whole thing with additional trays for $250. I couldn't pass it up! Now I have the fever to incubate but I have no rooster or fertile eggs. Ok, I'll take a breath now and listen.

 

[dixiebeast]

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I think? everyone calls her a RAT!!!

She is 13 and a mix of teacup chuhuahua and toy terrior...kinda a long haired chuhuahua that resembles a RAT!!!

Awww......she's a dog! We have a little Petey, he's half pomeranian and half long haired chihuahua. He is 7 pounds of pure energy and love! We call him Pogo Petey because he tries so hard to jump up in my arms. I love my little dogs and my big dogs. But the little dogs are so much easier to bathe!

IDK...my gator(house dawg) will go wait in the tub if I tell him he stinks and needs a bath...you can only use people shampoo because he doesnt like the smell of dog shampoo,thats why he always fought a bath until I found out if he sniffs the shampoo and likes it he loves a bath. He has to stay fresh for all his tv watching you know!!

P.S. the tv is behind his eyelids most of the time!!LOL

 

[Joycats]

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What kInd of birds are you wanting? Many of us here sell hatching eggs. I give free lessons with every purchase.

Well, that is up in the air. We currently have 15 hens...2 RIR, 4 White Leghorns, 5 Ameracauna, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Araucana, and 2 others that were given to me and I don't know what they are. We just love chickens but aren't tied to one breed. I'm a lot of help, I know!

Same here, I love them all and cannot decide on just one. That's why I have over 30 breeds, standard and bantams. I also had to have peafowl, pheasants, quail, turkeys, guineas....... they're all so beautiful! Whenever you decide what you want, I'm sure some of us will be able to help you out. You could always get a mixture of eggs, that would be fun.

 

[Patsy29332]

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Awww......she's a dog! We have a little Petey, he's half pomeranian and half long haired chihuahua. He is 7 pounds of pure energy and love! We call him Pogo Petey because he tries so hard to jump up in my arms. I love my little dogs and my big dogs. But the little dogs are so much easier to bathe!

IDK...my gator(house dawg) will go wait in the tub if I tell him he stinks and needs a bath...you can only use people shampoo because he doesnt like the smell of dog shampoo,thats why he always fought a bath until I found out if he sniffs the shampoo and likes it he loves a bath. He has to stay fresh for all his tv watching you know!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102105_phone_pics_1089.jpg

P.S. the tv is behind his eyelids most of the time!!LOL

Why does he look so scrunched up? He usually takes up over half that reclining oversized sofa with his +80 poung juvenile body?!?

I only know because I have tried to share that couch a night or two with that loveable boy!!!

 

[Joycats]

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Awww......she's a dog! We have a little Petey, he's half pomeranian and half long haired chihuahua. He is 7 pounds of pure energy and love! We call him Pogo Petey because he tries so hard to jump up in my arms. I love my little dogs and my big dogs. But the little dogs are so much easier to bathe!

IDK...my gator(house dawg) will go wait in the tub if I tell him he stinks and needs a bath...you can only use people shampoo because he doesnt like the smell of dog shampoo,thats why he always fought a bath until I found out if he sniffs the shampoo and likes it he loves a bath. He has to stay fresh for all his tv watching you know!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102105_phone_pics_1089.jpg

P.S. the tv is behind his eyelids most of the time!!LOL

That is too funny! I use baby shampoo on my pups but they still don't like it. Winston (my cockerspaniel) loves the hairdryer so he tolerates the bath. They both do quite well, but they don't go voluntarily!

 

[Joycats]

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And welcome to our SC thread! Pull up a chair or old cooler and sit a spell. Tell us about yourself a bit.
Do you raise a garden? Do you live on a lot of land or a small plot near town? Have you had chickens before or will this be your first venture with our fowl friends?
Do you already own an incubator or planning to purchase one?

Easley has quite a few chicken people around the area. Many of us are near you.
I live on the Greenville/Spartanburg county line between Greer and Landrum. You are welcome to come visit my place and see the several incubators I have running. I have been hatching out chicks for several years and it isn't as difficult as it would seem.

Please visit my website to see if anything interests you and you can see a few photos of my 'bators on my Housing page, too.

I love to meet folks from BYC and have many friends on here because BYC SC folks are the best!

I would love to tell you a little about me and my wonderful family. I have a beautiful wife and two awesome children. I am a landscaper by trade and I absolutely love gardening, and most other outdoor things. We live on 2.5 acres between Easley and Dacusville so I have a very nice sized garden. We love to live off of our land and spent most of the summer tending to animals and canning vegetables and fruits from the garden. We have had chickens for almost a year now and LOVE IT!! We have 10 hens who are consistently laying 10 eggs a day right now and another 5 Ameraucanas who are only 9 weeks old. We can't have enough chickens! My 4 year old son owns the "egg business". We have begun to teach him how money works so he sells the eggs to neighbors/family, buys the feed, gives a share of the money away and buys a reward with some of the profit. It has been an all around awesome experience for our family to have chickens and we just want more!

I actually just purchased (after months of research) and R-Com 20 from a gentleman on Craigslist. He bought it 6 months ago and then was told he couldn't have a rooster in his neighborhood so he sold me the whole thing with additional trays for $250. I couldn't pass it up! Now I have the fever to incubate but I have no rooster or fertile eggs. Ok, I'll take a breath now and listen.

You're selling eggs and making a PROFIT??? I think I need a lesson from you!

My 7 year old is my helper and he loves the birds as much as I do. And I may have an answer to your infertile egg problem - how about a beautiful rooster?? I have extras.....black jersey giants, splash olive egger, a big red guy named Rudy, white leghorn.....what's your preference?

Also meant to say that I was over in Dacusville today!

 

[coywade]

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We are making enough profit for my four year old to understand what profit means...nothing to write home about by any means. As far as a rooster goes, I would love that. I have white leghorns, ameracaunas, RIR, and barred rocks currently. I would love to expand to other breeds but would be more than willing to start with a white leghorn rooster since that's one that I have hens for now. If I go with multiple roosters, how would I keep them for "interbreeding"? I don't know if that's a word or not but it gets my point across I think.

 

[coywade]

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We are making enough profit for my four year old to understand what profit means...nothing to write home about by any means. As far as a rooster goes, I would love that. I have white leghorns, ameracaunas, RIR, and barred rocks currently. I would love to expand to other breeds but would be more than willing to start with a white leghorn rooster since that's one that I have hens for now. If I go with multiple roosters, how would I keep them for "interbreeding"? I don't know if that's a word or not but it gets my point across I think.

 

[coywade]

We are making enough profit for my four year old to understand what profit means...nothing to write home about by any means. As far as a rooster goes, I would love that. I have white leghorns, ameracaunas, RIR, and barred rocks currently. I would love to expand to other breeds but would be more than willing to start with a white leghorn rooster since that's one that I have hens for now. If I go with multiple roosters, how would I keep them for "interbreeding"? I don't know if that's a word or not but it gets my point across I think.

 

[coywade]

We are making enough profit for my four year old to understand what profit means...nothing to write home about by any means. As far as a rooster goes, I would love that. I have white leghorns, ameracaunas, RIR, and barred rocks currently. I would love to expand to other breeds but would be more than willing to start with a white leghorn rooster since that's one that I have hens for now. If I go with multiple roosters, how would I keep them for "interbreeding"? I don't know if that's a word or not but it gets my point across I think.