Tennessee

[tnchickenut]

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Where and when this weekend?

Madisonville trade. First and third Saturday every month. Right next to East TN Feed & Seed. (near The Lost Sea)

 

[tnchickenut]

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He's a young guy with a scruffy beard/goatee. He wears glasses and a baseball cap...I believe he was in a sleeveless T-shirt and shorts that day with a young teenage boy running around with him.

yeah, if my memory serves me (which it may not! lol) I think that is who bought the Sussex pair. He carried them off upside down which I never do so they reached up and bit him. I felt bad for them. Why do people carry them that way? I hold them to my body like a football if they are more "wild" but my tame ones will stay in my hands. I don't "get" why people wouldn't WANT to carry them right side up. (some insight please)

 

[NellaBean]

Yep, I built some "travel" cages since last time....I still need to do the doors, but now have a large 4 compartment cage, a small 4 compartment cage and a medium 2 compartment cage. Everyone will be separated by pairs or trios so it'll be easier to "show them".

I had planned on bringing one of my dogs with me for company.....not sure if I will or not. Pretty boring sitting by yourself the whole time

I hate the whole carrying of birds upside down. I never carry my girls that way. Angry roosters, yes. Terrified birds, no. Nice birds, no. I didn't like the people carrying them by the wings either. My girls are spoiled......which is why I am not bringing my extra layers there to sell...bantam pairs are one thing. I don't want to see my girls who have been spoiled their whole life treated like that.

 

[1_FnkyFrm]

I'll be there.

 

[wegotchickens]

I may be there. I really need to clear some room for the black d'Uccles. I'ts just a matter of getting up and out on time. Crack of dawn is soooooo not my thing LOL.


I also do not carry birds upside down unless they try to spaz out of my hands. I have a couple of roosters that are that way. Mostly I can work through that. Seems like being upside down for too long could be unhealthy for the bird.

With the fair coming up I've really been working most of my birds, getting them out every evening and handling them so that they know the drill. I'm putting in some new birds in the show this year and want them to be good when they're handled.

 

[possumblossum]

The only thing worse then carrying the birds upside down is bending their wings back behind their bodies. I saw a few Hispanic folks doing it at the last swap and I asked a guy I work with about it. He said there is no better indicator of a cock fighter than to see someone using that technique. It's the only way to keep a fightin' bird from ripping your hand to pieces.....Keep that in mind the next time you sell a bird to someone.

 

[tnchickenut]

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That's what I thought and didn't want to just come out and say it. Exactly why I really don't like to take standard roosters to the trade. I will take a pair here and there if I really need to make the room... but a lonely standard rooster is better eatten by me then put in a ring as a training bird.

I have plenty of standards for sale... but I'll only be bringing the bantams.

 

[tn.lou]

Hey all, my flock is now NPIP Certified also tested Neg. for Avian flu.so to keep my certification i can no longer buy and sell at trade days or flea markets.I can only do business with other certified breeders. Is anyone else in this area certified?

 

[emvickrey]

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That's what I thought and didn't want to just come out and say it. Exactly why I really don't like to take standard roosters to the trade. I will take a pair here and there if I really need to make the room... but a lonely standard rooster is better eatten by me then put in a ring as a training bird.

I have plenty of standards for sale... but I'll only be bringing the bantams.

Everytime we go to auction, thats how they handle all the chickens. It looks cruel tome and I cringe everytime I see it. I hate to take my birds there but sometimes I have to to tihn them out. I don't think it's just those that do the bad thing. I'm sure those people do but there is a young man down the road that also handles them that way and he doesn't do the "Bad Thing". I'm positive of it. I handle my birds as gently as I can. I will hold them down and grab their legs and hold them upright like a baby. I just grab the legs to keep frmo getting clawed up. I have some that I can just pick up nd they don't even try to claw me.

 

[emvickrey]

tn.lou :

Hey all, my flock is now NPIP Certified also tested Neg. for Avian flu.so to keep my certification i can no longer buy and sell at trade days or flea markets.I can only do business with other certified breeders. Is anyone else in this area certified?

I am. Getting reteted at the end of this month. I'm in West Tennessee.​