The Middle Tennessee Thread

[FarmerVal]

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It's so funny how quick a bunch of cute little chicks can stink up a bathroom!

 

[cpegram]

Awesome Tish happy for you although sad you will be leaving so when are you moving?

 

[SimplySplendidSilkies]

I love this place I would like to have had another acre or 2 but plenty of room for me and the chickens and easier for me to maintain alone. Closing is set for April 19th. We are still in the begining stages, I still have to get the the inspectors out there and we are dealing with VA and Hud. So please keep your fingers crossed I have waited an awful long time for my pefect house. Connie I was promised a 7 stall chicken barn but will most likely take a few of the ones I have now. I still have 2 more I need to get moved here. Right now the chickens and I will stay put till they are all set up in GA. I am so excited and I really love the place in GA.

 

[cpegram]

hope it works out!!

 

[HBuehler]

OK who's having green eggs for breakfast this morning

I thought about it but they are heading to the bator shortly..brown eggs will just have to do for breakfast after all.

Congrats on the new house

I'm fortunate to have never had to house shop but I know how hard it is.

Here you go Jen- I didn't want to bother them too much since they had such a long trip here.Then when they got here I had to take them to Cookeville and back which took 2 hours to get home from compliments of a 10 mile double lane parking lot. I'll get pics of them again soon..the Shaffer chicks have begun hatching.

Oh last night I put Dixie in with Big the black Cochin roo for some frizzle chciks..she called out for Wild who was there in .002 seconds and they reassured each other from different sides of the pen breaking my heart seeing them like that she's back where she belongs and the Dixie Chicks will remain as intended to be double Frizzle.I'm pretty sure if anything happens to either one the remaining one will just quit.If only people could get along like that little couple

Going to go meet up with CityGirl tomorrow and bring home that Leaky pullet...another funky silkie for my collection

strange I have some normal BBS and then my Anne kids.I believe the kids have changed her from Peanut Butter to Reeses or however it's spelled

We still have several chicks for sale and a few older ones as well..

 

[cpegram]

Awe those chicks are adorable!!!my Shaffer chicks should be hAtching next week can't wait!

 

[HBuehler]

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Are you hatching his Orps or Ameraucana's? Both are super nice

 

[cpegram]

Ameraucanas. Those pretty lavs

 

[Jenski]

Morning everyone! I went outside this morning, and it was like waking up from a bad dream! All those months of nasty weather feel like they're falling away . . . and this morning we have a beautiful blue sky, pear and forsythia in bloom, tulips poking out, the last of the daffodils, a new carpet of green, and 50 million birds chirping away outside!

Good stuff.

Thanks to everyone who answered my crazy question about the eggs yesterday. All the eggs I have hatched and birds I've raised, and suddenly I look down and don't know what the heck I'm seeing.

SimplySplendid, I am so, so happy for you!! Congratulations!!! What a lovely house you found! It has a great feel to it. Having a nice place to live - - where you feel good - - is so important. It affects every other part of your life! Many blessings on this new and exciting adventure.

Nella, good luck selling your ducks and your olive egger group. Still wish I had room for your crazy colored bantam cochin roo, but I just sold off nearly all my BCs (including hens!) just to reduce my roo population/noise level . . .

Holly, glad to hear your fuzzies arrived! They look fabulous.

I am sure you're relieved.
Dixie and Wild are so funny; some birds really do get attached. They can have complicated relationships, lifelong matings, love triangles, tragic breakups, close family bonds, and even abusive relationships - - just like any other animals I've raised. Non-animal people would never guess at the secret lives of chickens, LOL! (Hey, sounds like a book title. . .)

CityGirl, nice try but no more roos, LOL! I would dearly love to have a nice big roo in that pen, but we must find Jen some more land first. I have been working on getting my house fixed up to sell . . .

Sorry to hear about your bumblefoot roo. He is gorgeous. How'd he get that on both feet? Just a heavy roo? Poor feller. If I thought I had the chachkas to do the surgery I would do it for you, but my own feeling is that once you open the feet up you reduce the possibility of full recovery. I do not know the actual recovery rate for bumblefoot with antibiotics, but staph is supposed to respond to penicillin, erythromycin, lincomycin, and spectinomycin if you catch it fairly early. ?? I don't know your feelings about using drugs for your birds. . . . but I hope things work out for you!


OK folks, I need to get back outside! Hope all of you get a chance to enjoy the weather today!

 

[wegotchickens]

Hey ya'll!

MPC has 2 rarebreed chicks stranded at a Post Office in Memphis. There's a message about it on theire facebook page. Anyone in the area want 2 free chicks?


Per My Pet Chicken:
FB Emergency adoption - We have 2 female rare breed chicks at the Tunica St. Post Office in Memphis, TN that need an immediate home. We're unable to contact the purchaser. Please email [email protected] ASAP if you can go down and get them before 4.