South Carolina

[Patsy29332]

Hi All!!!

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we are now starting to gear up for "Fall" Carolina Chickenstock, date is to be September 22. Keep an eye out soon for a new fall thread with more information. Really looking forward to seeing everyone again and.. this time I AM GOING TO HAVE MORE TIME TO SOCIALIZE!!! maybe

yaaaaaaaaaaay

Thanks Walt!!! On my wall calendar now!!! Sooo ready to see and gab with everyone again and see everything we all bring to show/sell/trade!!! I will miss seeing you tomorrow but I sure want to hear what you think of my boy you are picking up from Samantha (DixieBeast) tomorrow...you know pictures just never do them justice even as cute as they all look in pics...hahaha He is a good man to the ladies!

 

[Cpntherfan]

Thanks Walt!!! On my wall calendar now!!! Sooo ready to see and gab with everyone again and see everything we all bring to show/sell/trade!!! I will miss seeing you tomorrow but I sure want to hear what you think of my boy you are picking up from Samantha (DixieBeast) tomorrow...you know pictures just never do them justice even as cute as they all look in pics...hahaha He is a good man to the ladies!

thats right! I cant wait

 

[Sharyno]

The good news? Two of my girls laid their first eggs this morning! Unfortunately, they didn't know to go the nest boxes -- both eggs dropped from their sleeping perch onto the droppings pan. The nests have had fake eggs in them since the girls moved into the coop. My lead bird is more vocal than normal and seems to be looking around the coop and run
for a place to hide. I've placed her in a nest box and she wanted nothing to do with it. So excited my girls will be able to make breakfast!

 

[EggieRowe]

I've been hunting for coop materials on CL and found some poly panels Lake Greenwood. We have a house down there (that we haven't used since last fall) and my BF wants to spend the weekend there if we're going drive down there. How crazy would it be to pack up the chicks (1 week old today) and take them with us? I have a rubbermaid tote about the size of a truck box and it will fit across the back seat or under the tonneau cover of the pickup bed. Would that be too stressful? Could I leave them w/enough food & water for two days and have someone just stop by each evening to make sure its clean and warm?


EDIT: Not going after all, but still curious about anyone's experience w/traveling with(out) chicks.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Wanted to post a pic of Lacey: The Chicks have finally started intergrating into the main flock and coming out from under neather my leland cypresses.
Lacey aka lil runty with cool looking pattern on her chest. I'm just glad they started coming around to see whats going on.


Ghost love her coloring

The Three Sisters playing in the ivy...Mrs.Lyles, Ghost and Lacey

Yancy, your babies have done very well! And I really do like the lacing on Lacey! It will be interesting to see how it develops. Very pretty shades of blue too!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Quote:
Stop talking cars! I don't have the money or the extra saliva to drool over them. I love old classic cars. I wish i had learned more about them when dad was alive.

 

[dixiebeast]

66 Nova, 61 Corvette. 67 Camero, 68 Camero, 69 Camero , 79 Camero, 35 Chevrolet Truck, 56 Desoto FireDome with Power everything and original 330 Hemi. and a few others I have all been restored to exceed factory spec. The " Guy across the street " is Ray V. and that is who owns what I do.

Sorry..don't hate me but just as Ameraucana folks get over spelling I am an AVID F-Body collector and its CAMARO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ray V better be glad he dont have me close bugging him everyday!! I could not work near all that! whew!! I am drooling from here!! Geeze poor Nikki was trying to show me some fluffy birds and her hubby opened the shop...she lost me then...what were those fluffy things Nikki!! LOL

 

[samouw]

Yea! A fellow Aikenite! We're on the south side of town. My girls are adorable: one California White and four sex-linked red pullets. They stay in the shady part of their run, where I place their water, when the heat gets to them, and they spread their wings and pant. Last week my son felt sorry for them and thought they might enjoy a cool mist from the water hose -- they ran from the spray like it was liquid death! But they did enjoy "dust" bathing in the moistened soil. The heat doesn't seem to bother them too much. They play and forage more often than they wilt. They have not starting laying yet (hatched March 3) and they're our first chicks, so I have so much to learn. It sounds like you have a thriving coop and scads of experience! Any cooling-off tips?

Well...my coop is thriving now, but I can't say I have scads of experience! lol I just got my first chickens in March of last year. Though, I have learned tons from this site, as well as meeting several of the nice folks here.

We did lose two of our hens when this heat wave first struck. I was leaving to go to my Dad's when I found them and cried all the way there. But our coops are all covered with sun shade and hubby added more sun shade down the east and west sides after we lost those two. We have also been spraying down the coops, adding frozen two liter bottles to their coops, and whatever we needed to do to keep everyone else safe and comfortable. Fortunately, everyone is looking happy now and loving this little bit of cool-down.

My chickens first would run from the spray, but now most of them seem to enjoy the mist - as long as it is on mist and not spray! I have a little blue wheaten Ameraucana roo that still runs when he sees me coming with the hose, but loves to "dust" bathe in the wet sand afterwards. I have a little wheaten Ameraucana pullet that would go stand on top of the frozen two liter bottles. I really should have gotten a pic of that.

Welcome to the group! You'll learn lots here!

 

[Moonchild]

Yancy, your babies have done very well! And I really do like the lacing on Lacey! It will be interesting to see how it develops. Very pretty shades of blue too!

Thank You RedBugPoultry!!!! I am enjoying them finally coming out and getting in with the flock!!! I'm starting to really love me some mutt chickens!!! You just never know the coloring!!! Funny all three of these babies have the same mother and father. They took on charactics of both, yet they look nothing like their parents.

 

[Moonchild]

Hi All!!!

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we are now starting to gear up for "Fall" Carolina Chickenstock, date is to be September 22. Keep an eye out soon for a new fall thread with more information. Really looking forward to seeing everyone again and.. this time I AM GOING TO HAVE MORE TIME TO SOCIALIZE!!! maybe

yaaaaaaaaaaay

OK I need to make this one!!!! Marking it on the calendar!!!