South Carolina

[leirob007]

Gonna try to start keeping up with this thread again! I put a dozen eggs from Amy under my broody blue orp this afternoon

. Half of them are EE and half SLW! So eggcited!! My hubby thinks I'm crazy but there's no point arguing with a pregnant woman! lol! Plus we have 24 guinea eggs in the bator that HE wanted! (So maybe my crazy is rubbing off on him??) Mary Bell was kind enough to give me some guinea eggs her friend had. This is my first time trying guinea eggs so hopefully it'll go well!

18 wks pregnant tomorrow!! Almost halfway there

Here is a thought for you.
3 weeks before the due date. set some eggs in the incubator.
then when your little one comes home he/she can have their own chickens to torment.
HOPEFULLY with the same birth date.
Now that's a real birthday present !

 

[Lroach711]

Here is a thought for you.
3 weeks before the due date. set some eggs in the incubator.
then when your little one comes home he/she can have their own chickens to torment.
HOPEFULLY with the same birth date.
Now that's a real birthday present !

That is too funny! We're having a little girl and trust me...she will have PLENTY of animals to torment around here!!

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Hello everyone, thought I'd pop over to my home state and say hello .

Thought I'd post this here too, seeing as I'm only 20 mins from SC state line.
I have a wonderful, loving, and playful, 8 month old Nubian/Alpine doe for sale. I bottle raised her and trained her. She walks calmly on the lead, stands for hoof trimming, and even understands commands like: Down, back, & No. She is a wonderful little girl and its breaking my heart to give her up but I just can't keep her. Please PM me if you are interested.

 

[Patsy29332]

I have 4 white Silkie adolescents for sale. looks like they are a pair of each...2 boys and 2 girls sold as pairs for $10 a pair. I also have 2 little white Silkie cherubs about 3 days old...sooo cute! Asking $5 each.

The kids:

 

[DeSey Bulldog]

Hey Cristina33,

Greenwood is a great place not a whole lot of crime but it is picking
up as far as stealing's, and house break-ins! I think this is happening
everywhere !

DeSey Bulldog

 

[KPenley]

Hey Ya'll! Newbie from Anderson question. How on earth do you decide which chickens to start with? When I began researching this site I had one thing in mind...white eggs. But after a week of devouring these pages and gorgeous pictures there are a dozen different breeds with different egg colors I want! So how did you do it?

 

[jamij]

Hello KPenley -- and...welcome!

I am a pretty new newbie too. we homeschool and finally live some place where we could do chickens so we built incubators and started at the beginning. I did lots of research on chickens and was overwhelmed -- so I decided to have a mix flock and chose chickens who laid well but different colors. We have 2 Red Sex Links, 3 Black Stars, 2 Tetra Tints, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Americauna, 1 other Easter Egger, some Cochins....They just started laying a couple of weeks ago and we are loving the different sizes and colors. In fact...yesterday we got our first double yoker.

Have fun!!!

 

[KPenley]

Thank you jamij! I was originally thinking about going with pullets but now I'm rethinking and leaning towards eggs or chicks (Plus my son should hopefully be coming home with 1+ chicks this spring after his class hatches them). Do you have roosters? Or just hens? I've been wondering what people do with their roosters, especially on their "days off" lol.

 

[jamij]

We do have roosters- not by choice at first- they were "ooopses" that we thought were girls! We have too many at the moment and will have to find homes for a couple soon! But we love them - we just had to put our favorite roo down and we are so sad bc he was the favorite and we loved hearing him crow! I am guessing whoever crows first among the rest of our young Roos will become the new fav

 

[EggieRowe]

Welcome KPenley! I had the hardest time deciding breeds - I even made a spreadsheet! Our priority was eggs and entertainment, so I picked a wide variety of hen & egg colors. So I ordered 5 of 5 different types - Cuckoo Marans, Delaware, Black Australorp, Easter Eggers, and Buff Minorcas. They threw in a Silver Spangled Hamburg as the mystery chick. I mostly relied on Henderson's chicken chart (http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html) and the observations on behavior have been fairly accurate. No eggs yet, so I can't say if the other observations are as reliable.