The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Lots A Cluckin]

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying this fall weather! I haven't posted pictures here in a long time and thought it was time I shared some with you all!
I have dramatically down sized my flock since the last time I posted pictures, I now only have 17 birds in total and 2 of those are in a separate house and are just pets because I could not bare to sell them with the rest of my layers/first chickens. The other 15 birds are all English Orpingtons, I have Black, Blue, Splash & and Project Lavender.

My youngest are 6 months and my oldest are 8 months.


My pets Ethel and Lucy! they are the only 2 I have left from my original chickens from nearly 2 years ago.




BBS English Orpingtons 6 months old.





























Blacks out of BBS breedings 8 months old.
This cockerel will be going in with my lavenders this next spring
to begin my Lavender Project. I am also planing to moving him back and forth with the Black, Black and Splash pullets
that you saw above and the lavenders. He would live with the lavenders but for a few hours maybe 2x per week I would let him in with the BBS pullets.
There are only 3 of them so I would think he would be able to cover them in a days time?




These are his full sisters. They will be going into another breeding pen with the blue rooster brother to the BBS pullets that you saw above.










And here are my lavenders, 8 months old..I culled down to my very best 6 pullets from 15.

 

[memphis]

Beautiful flock! Great pictures. And yes...totally enjoying this fall weather!!

 

[cpegram]

All these pretty birds and adorable chicks!!!

 

[DaddyBird]

Nice flock. Luv the Lavs.

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

All these pretty birds and adorable chicks!!!

Beautiful flock! Great pictures. And yes...totally enjoying this fall weather!!

Nice flock. Luv the Lavs.

Thanks everyone! I adore my Orp babies, they are no doubt my favorite breed!

 

[Chrystal Dawn]

These are also ridiculous cute. I loved my Houdans. Stupid hawks... I cannot keep anything with big crests here.

Thank you! Houdans make the best noises! I shot at the hawk that hangs out at my house a few times and I think he got the point finally. I lost my black sex link, Lucille, to him. I always loved hawks until I got my chickens.

 

[DaddyBird]

My wife and I are planning to go to this on the 9th. I'm working, she's watching =)
Just thought I would share in case any of you are newbies like us and want to learn more.

 

[Oramman87]

So my neighbors turkeys got loose, it's not a bad thing he does not take care if his animals I feed them six out of seven days a week. But this lovely lady likes hanging out with my chickens I told him she was with my chickens and he really didn't care so, I named her Tammy any advice with turkey's?

 

[FeyRaine]

So my neighbors turkeys got loose, it's not a bad thing he does not take care if his animals I feed them six out of seven days a week. But this lovely lady likes hanging out with my chickens I told him she was with my chickens and he really didn't care so, I named her Tammy any advice with turkey's?

She looks just like our Bourbon Sisters. (1) Do NOT give them over ripe peaches (see my post a while ago, ours were terrified of them) (2) The need way more space than chickens for perches nest box etc & they need to be more sturdy than you'd guess , one of my chores this wk is to replace the 2x4 perch which my gals have torn loose again for like the 4th time not doing anything other than using it. (3) tell your chicken Jr Roos not to get any big ideas as the normally shy timid turkey gals can & may break their neck if they do. (4) The make the cutest trilling noises, so having one for Thanksgiving dinner is going to require raising a large number of offspring & keeping the original girls as breeders b/c I'm way too fond of them ;/ ooops....

Anyone have a local source for a Tom or eggs?
The shipped eggs I bought got scrambled by the po so I need a diff. plan to produce those offspring next yr....

 

[Oramman87]

During the day time she dug a little hole and was laying in it and all my bantams were just laying next to her. She has just been roosting on a cedar I cut down that is near the coops.