The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Jenski]

Morning all! I hope everyone has been keeping themselves and their birds COOL this week. It was wicked hot on Monday, eh! By 9:30 that night, it was still ***95*** in my coops! I couldn't believe it. Two of my coops have secure porches, so I can leave the coop doors open at night, but for the oldest coop I have just been letting the birds sleep out in the pen. It's super secure, but I still worry . . .

I've also been going through a bag of ice per day, with my handy Dollar store Pyrex pans full of ice in each pen. One of my old hens likes to stand in hers.

They sure do like sipping their ice water in the afternoons. . . though I imagine the one water pan must taste like chicken feet . . . .

The birds also like crunching on the chilled cucumber slices I set out for them at lunch time. My garden is full of them right now! We can't give 'em away fast enough. When I was little my dear Grandma used to make cucumber sandwiches with chive cream cheese in the summertime. I still love to have those on hot days! So nice and cool . . .

Well, I'd better get out there and start the watering. My veg garden has underground irrigation, but my berry and grape rows - - and my young apple trees - - do not. I guess I need to get with CityGirl to figure out the best way to do the irrigation so I can sit inside and read the forum in the mornings.

Hope you are all well! Thanks to all of you who have posted chick pics; I love seeing them.

Stay cool, everyone!!

 

[HBuehler]

Troyerchicks...they are waiting

There has been a buying craze this week.I'm having to hide the one's I have on hold to keep people from hanging me.Gosh I need to find more chickens fast!
I still have some Roos if anyone wants any...Wheaten Ameraucana, BLRW and a few others..just come get them.

Raven1-sending you an e-mail..we took a bad hit on the blue copper hens this week so got to start rebuilding the flock

I have chicks hatching under broodies like popcorn..most are all going to be EE chicks since my ladies kept stealing the daily egg pile with the free rangers. I sold a hen that was sitting last night so had to stick all of her eggs under my little cochin's but they don't care the more the better!
I also have a pile of baby bunnies just born and kittens 10 days old so watch out more of those adorable baby critter pics to come-if I'm ever home long enough to get some pictures.

 

[Tracyree]

tish- so that was a memory I could have done without!! Ha!!! Those were a crazy few months, another lifetime!! (I think I had people asking me if I was one of those two girs from that dance club for at least three years after that!!)

Better pm you before all these Folsom know way too much about us!!

 

[wife89]

hello, do you all mind if I butt in??

My husband and I are buying a place in mid tn and we are waiting to close. I hope to spend this winter learning as much as I can about chickens and other fowl... I would like to get them right away, but the place has been empty for a year and needs a good cleaning. Although I would like to get some guineas to get rid of the tick population

We are hoping to get chickens, goats and maybe a cow or two, not too sure what just yet.

 

[Troyerchicks]

Welcome aboard Wife89!

 

[Troyerchicks]

wife89 - you have come to the right place! The people here are friendly and always ready to help. Just be aware of the cute chick pictures that get posted from time to time. Those little ones are super hard to resisit!!

Where in middle tn is your poperty?

 

[cpegram]

all the way from Manchester

we'll help you out as Troyer said lots of enablers on here. We have from north Alabama to North of Nashville in this group. Welcome!!!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Welcome, Wife!
Be warned. This group is full of enablers who will encourage you to all manner of excess. You will be encouraged to try new breeds and build incubators and hatch out lots of sweet little chicks. About the time you think you are full someone will post pictures of cute little babies (or bunnies or kittens) and you will be planning your second and third and fourth coops. We will cheerfully encourage you to do so.

Glad you are here. This is a GREAT group!! We meet up every so often and gather for lunch and chicken chat. Come join us next time we go play. You will have a blast!!

 

[HBuehler]

Welcome to our thread

Other than that I have nothing to say about the enabling or the cute pictures

Fluffernut our lionhead rabbit had 8 bunnies this time..wow I'm glad it was her..not cute yet but where is that camera

 

[matlock585]

Hey wife89 and

from Dickson Co., TN. I hope you enjoy it here.
Now for the rest of you locals I have a question... on my way home yesterday I saw a baby wild bird on the side of the road, it was trying to cross a fairly busy highway. I pulled over because I was hopeful it was a young turkey poult, but much to my surprise, it looks to be a mocking bird. I could tell it was too small to be away from mom, it could barely walk around and was just barely beginning to feather. I looked around and couldn't see anything close that looked like a place a nest would even be in. Well I just picked it up and brought it home. I put it in the brooder with my week old cochin banties and they just accepted it right away. I fed it a worm I went and got from the yard and it ate it right up, then I fed it moths after dark till it quit wanting to eat. I took a bread crumb can and put some quilt batting in it and the baby bird seemed fairly happy with that. I just left it in with the babies while I went to work today. I stopped on the way home and bought some fishing worms. They were the big old night crawlers so I cut one into maybe 6 pcs. The original worm was about the size of a pencil, maybe just a little less. It ate the whole thing and it's out there right now peeping like it still wants food. Do you think I should feed it more? I've heard baby birds will overeat. I don't want to keep it, I think you can get in trouble for having one. I just want to keep it healthy till it feathers out and can eat on it's own.
I'll get some pics on in a bit of it.