The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Cinny]

Want to see your girls come to life……give them leftover pizza! Haven't seen so much running around and excitement since they were spring pullets…LOL

 

[DMRippy]

I'll let you know what comes from the eggs when they hatch, if they hatch. I heat with a wood stove, so keeping the temp steady in my incubator has been a chore. Its been fluctuating between 100.9 and 101.8, which is a lot. My bator is a still air, so I'm hoping it doesn't mess my eggs up too much

Better to lower the temp then for it too get too high. Lower temp might delay the normal hatch day by a day or so but too high might kill them. I would drop it a degree 99 is good and probably would not delay them any.

 

[DMRippy]

I have someone looking for a splash silkie cockerel of good quality. If anyone know of someone with an extra let me know so I can pass that info to him. He is near Jackson but willing to travel to Nashville area if he needs too. He is off this week for the holidays.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I figured out how to hook my cell phone to my laptop. could never post any pics from my cell for whatever reason.

Finished my coops awhile back. Just need to add some gates yet.




Then at the show in Knoxville bought a nice pair of Reese RIR's.




And for the people that don't want there roos or cockerels. I'm in east TN, but depending how far u r I would take them. Out of my 15 Buff Brahmas I have 10 cockerels. A few people already want a few but I'm only keeping 3. But I don't have a problem to put them in the freezer. Farm raised chicken is WAY better than store chickens. If you knew how those Cornish X's r raised you would never eat one. LOL!

 

[elorraine52]

NICE coops!!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Thank you! My Buffs at 3 1/2 months old. They need to slow down on the eating. They are killing me. HAHAHA

 

[Heme]

Although PIGs offer a greater rate of return on the dollar when sold; they are not easy to manage. Aside from the squalor conditions they exist in, they do consume a great deal of food. Natural conditions, like outdoor pig pens are filthy and smell bad. Commercial conditions are cleaner, but they are cruel and inhumane.

In Tennessee, if you ever manage PIGs on a farm; you are subjected to restrictions regarding Land Usage. The soil contamination is so bad; the State condemns the property and it is costly to do a clean up by a Bio Hazard company. Commercial farms are doomed if and when they decide to sell their property, build on the property and simply shut down and leave it lay and waste.

Foul may leave waste byproducts on the soil, but that is absorbed and turned into soil nutrients. Foul supplement their diet by eating scraps, foliage, and bugs. They are your best friend during bug infestation periods as they get rid of the nasty ticks, fleas, chiggers, and other pests.

I would go the Foul Route.

 

[Heme]

Was your message for me? Hemedinger in Dayton, TN.

 

[Wasson6Pack]

Although PIGs offer a greater rate of return on the dollar when sold; they are not easy to manage. Aside from the squalor conditions they exist in, they do consume a great deal of food. Natural conditions, like outdoor pig pens are filthy and smell bad. Commercial conditions are cleaner, but they are cruel and inhumane.

In Tennessee, if you ever manage PIGs on a farm; you are subjected to restrictions regarding Land Usage. The soil contamination is so bad; the State condemns the property and it is costly to do a clean up by a Bio Hazard company. Commercial farms are doomed if and when they decide to sell their property, build on the property and simply shut down and leave it lay and waste.

Foul may leave waste byproducts on the soil, but that is absorbed and turned into soil nutrients. Foul supplement their diet by eating scraps, foliage, and bugs. They are your best friend during bug infestation periods as they get rid of the nasty ticks, fleas, chiggers, and other pests.

I would go the Foul Route.    

First of all, I come from Iowa, the unofficial Hog state and commercial operations are not necessarily cleaner, they stink more and are not all cruel and inhumane. Secondly, I have friends here who have a pig and they haven't said anything about special permitting or having issues with the state of Tennessee. I'm confused now. Are there special permits I need for pigs? I'm not talking 100, just 4 or 5.

They don't live in squalor, they only get muddy to cool off and I will rotationally graze them.

 

[Wasson6Pack]

I'm also wondering if anyone has experience growing bamboo and using it as fence posts or trellis posts. Where do you buy it?