The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Raven1]

That is very cool Carol great job Carols chickens!! WHOOT

 

[pickledchicken]

Homemade brooder in a pinch ! I cut the bottom out of a kiddie pool and put it on top with some zip ties....The last pic are my baby Golden Cuckoo's

 

[CarolJ]

Homemade brooder in a pinch ! I cut the bottom out of a kiddie pool and put it on top with some zip ties....The last pic are my baby Golden Cuckoo's

Love the brooder idea! Very creative. Pretty chicks, too!

 

[TinTennessee]

I just have to share some good news. I had been in the hospital since Fri afternoon. I went in with chest pains. Quite a few years ago a had a scan done that said I had some plaque build up. I've smoked for 30 plus years. My father & both grandfathers died from heart disease. I eat all the stuff I'm not supposed to. Red meat, gravey, fried foods, fast food etc... Today I had a arteriogram ran. I have NO ,NONE, NADA plaque in my arteries. I'm fine no pain etc...Now I don't know how you feel about the subject, but all I can say is I received a miracle. I had a lot of good friends pray over & for me & GOD answered those prayers. Just to keep it chicken related, I get home and my EE laid her first egg today. A beautiful blue green egg. I just had to share.

 

[CarolJ]

Congrats! My brother-in-law is staying with us while he recuperates from quadruple bypass surgery this past Wednesday. Heart disease is no laughing matter. I"m so glad that you got a clean bill of health. And congrats on the EE egg, too!

 

[DMRippy]

I just have to share some good news. I had been in the hospital since Fri afternoon. I went in with chest pains. Quite a few years ago a had a scan done that said I had some plaque build up. I've smoked for 30 plus years. My father & both grandfathers died from heart disease. I eat all the stuff I'm not supposed to. Red meat, gravey, fried foods, fast food etc... Today I had a arteriogram ran. I have NO ,NONE, NADA plaque in my arteries. I'm fine no pain etc...Now I don't know how you feel about the subject, but all I can say is I received a miracle. I had a lot of good friends pray over & for me & GOD answered those prayers.

Just to keep it chicken related, I get home and my EE laid her first egg today.

A beautiful blue green egg. I just had to share.

Praise GOD!!!!! Good for you.... on both COUNTS!

BTW Carol Great JOB! If you every need extra eggs for eating... I can help with that if you need it. I can't help you with layers, but EGGS I have!

 

[Cinny]

I just have to share some good news. I had been in the hospital since Fri afternoon. I went in with chest pains. Quite a few years ago a had a scan done that said I had some plaque build up. I've smoked for 30 plus years. My father & both grandfathers died from heart disease. I eat all the stuff I'm not supposed to. Red meat, gravey, fried foods, fast food etc... Today I had a arteriogram ran. I have NO ,NONE, NADA plaque in my arteries. I'm fine no pain etc...Now I don't know how you feel about the subject, but all I can say is I received a miracle. I had a lot of good friends pray over & for me & GOD answered those prayers.

Just to keep it chicken related, I get home and my EE laid her first egg today.

A beautiful blue green egg. I just had to share.

God is good...and you are blessed!! Congratulations on the clear scan and on the first EE egg.

 

[Cinny]

When we sell eggs from our layer flock, the money goes to my granddaughter's fund for childhood cancer research at Vanderbilt's children's hospital. So we'd been putting the money we collect each week in an envelope for several months. Finally today I decided to count it and get a check sent to the hospital. It came to a little over five hundred bucks! Can't believe it added up to that much. I'm so happy to be able to send that money to the children's hospital in honor of my granddaughter - and I'm about to go give the chickens some extra treats for doing their part for pediatric cancer research!

Just wanted to share that good news with you.

By the way - if you can, go eat at Chili's today. Today only they will give 100% (ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!) of their profit to St. Jude. Amazing!

What a wonderful way to honor your grandaughter.....she should be so proud of you!

 

[Cinny]

HELP!!! I put the girls in their new larger coop and they are not cooperating at all....if I were a chicken I'd be living it up in there. Anyway, Oprah jumped the run yesterday and sat on the roof of the old coop trying to get in to lay her egg....I picked her up and took her to the new coop and set her in one of the nesting boxes, she eventually laid her egg. But then this morning my maran laid her egg in the middle of the floor. It was dark brown on one side and beige on the other with a dark brown dot on it....what's with that?

I keep putting them on the 3 roosts but they just look at me and fly off (they didn't use the roosts in the old coop, they slept huddled in the nesting box)

Oh and the rooster won't get out of the nesting boxes, he loves them!!

On the plus size we did get the sweetest smallest first egg from our silkie.

I know they are creatures of habit but please tell me they will get the idea.....I even have covered the nesting boxes the last 2 nights hoping they will sleep on the roosts but they just huddle together under the nesting boxes.

 

[CarolJ]

HELP!!! I put the girls in their new larger coop and they are not cooperating at all....if I were a chicken I'd be living it up in there. Anyway, Oprah jumped the run yesterday and sat on the roof of the old coop trying to get in to lay her egg....I picked her up and took her to the new coop and set her in one of the nesting boxes, she eventually laid her egg. But then this morning my maran laid her egg in the middle of the floor. It was dark brown on one side and beige on the other with a dark brown dot on it....what's with that?

I keep putting them on the 3 roosts but they just look at me and fly off (they didn't use the roosts in the old coop, they slept huddled in the nesting box)

Oh and the rooster won't get out of the nesting boxes, he loves them!!

On the plus size we did get the sweetest smallest first egg from our silkie.

I know they are creatures of habit but please tell me they will get the idea.....I even have covered the nesting boxes the last 2 nights hoping they will sleep on the roosts but they just huddle together under the nesting boxes.

I've dealt with similar problems. I rigged up a covering for the nest boxes with hooks and plastic fencing - only seconds to put up and take down. Each time I try to integrate new chickens into the flock (or when I moved my chickens into the new coop), the new ones go for the nest boxes because it's easier than going through the pecking order thing to get a place on a roosting pole. So I'll use the nest box covering for a few nights until they are accustomed to sleeping on the roost - and then I put it away until the next time I have new chickens to integrate.

As far as getting them to roost on the roosting pole: Once it is dark, they don't move around. So I'd wait until it was completely dark, then pick them up gently and place them on the roost. When it gets light, they find themselves on the roost - and it helps them and the other chickens to accept them being there. I had one stubborn hen that I had to put on the roost for about 5 nights. But then she finally got the message and it hasn't been a problem since. I don't ever let mine sleep in the nest boxes because I don't want any poop in there.

Good luck!