The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

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We like you fine too!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

BYC has a long and outstanding history of awesome April Fools pranks. My favorite was the year that the site was "hacked" and everyone's user names kept changing. It was hysterical!!!

 

[JennaLynn122]

Anyone here have smaller bantams for sale? (pullets or chicks, sexed if possible) Seramas or something similar? I just want like 2 for my kids to start working with. My reds are WAYYY too big for them and my oldest want to do poultry in 4H when hes old enough.
If you do, PM me with breed price and location please!

 

[Cinny]

Donna….enjoyed today, thanks for showing me all your fabulous birds! Love the ones I got and they are doing great.

Anyone interested in getting some pullets or some adorable chicks, PM Donna, she's got them, they look great, and she's got all kinds!

 

[McCoysOrps]

Does anybody have an ebay and sells eggs cheap? I just got an ebay and am so excited

 

[heirloomorps]

Timon was helping my wing band chickens today. (Wing banding is SO MUCH EASIER than leg bands...) His idea of helping was to sunbathe and then run away when the Silkies got too close to him. He is a useless farm cat, lol

Anyway. Guinea time! After we got our first egg a few days ago I have had nothing since then. LAY GUINEAS LAY. The pied, pearl grey and white all free range and the rest are in a huge enclosed area.


Pied and Pearl Grey.


White.


Coral Blue, I think?


Brown? Buff Dundotte? Chocolate in back?


Lavender.


Brown? Buff Dundotte?


Coral Blue.


Buff Dundotte.


I think the one in front is Porcelain or Lite Lavender. She came from Donna.

 

[Penny Hen]

I have a small folded paper towel in there moistened to add humidity. I took it out today. Humidity was up to 71%! When humidity gets back down below 50%, I plan to put a less moist paper towel in there with a 50/50 water vinegar mix. Is that too much of a smidge?

I would cut it to a 1:10, vinegar/water. I ran it 50/50 and had vinegar crystals form on places in the incubator. I use apple cider vinegar. I also use a vinegar 50/50 dip to dip the eggs for 30 seconds before incubation. Let them air dry and then incubate. I had no stinker eggs from the non developing ones. I tried this after reading about a test done at one of the Ag Universities of dipping the eggs in a 5% solution of Vitamin C (which is an acid of similar strength to vinegar). This also gave me the idea of putting it in the water to discourage bacteria growth in the incubator in general. In the studies the hatch rates were improved. Unfortunately due to a spastic thermostat shorting and a power outage I don't know if the vinegar would have helped as well as the Vitamin C with improving the hatch. It did prevent bacterial growth. I was able to take the eggs that didn't develop and boil and mash them up to feed back to the chickens. I am trying again with a more stable set up.

 

[Wasson6Pack]

are you selling Guinea eggs?

 

[heirloomorps]

So far I have only got one egg from them, but when they are laying and we have good fertility we will be selling eggs.

 

[DMRippy]

Donna….enjoyed today, thanks for showing me all your fabulous birds! Love the ones I got and they are doing great.

Anyone interested in getting some pullets or some adorable chicks, PM Donna, she's got them, they look great, and she's got all kinds!

Glad to see you again! Hope you get olive eggs this time. I don't mind showing off my birds..... But that is rare now. I do limit the traffic at the farm.

I do have all kinds of people wanting birds too so I need to fill those orders first then I can know what I have left. Someone is getting about 12-14 friday, another person 4 friday, I think someone is getting at least 4 tomorrow....... someone else need to call me back but he wanted 10. After those orders I will just have younger pullets like 4 months and under.