The Middle Tennessee Thread

[amenfarm]

I have 4 nest boxes, and it's anie meanie minie moe--every day! I find eggs in different boxes and for kicks and giggles someone will lay under the boxes every other week or so. I hate kneeling in the litter!!

 

[debid]

I have 4 nest boxes, and it's anie meanie minie moe--every day! I find eggs in different boxes and for kicks and giggles someone will lay under the boxes every other week or so. I hate kneeling in the litter!!

I have four boxes as well with six layers. They use two of them on most days. Whichever hen lays first picks the box of the day and then a second box is selected when a hen doesn't want to wait. I can choose for them by putting in a dummy egg or two. The only time I find an egg out of the boxes is when Hazel is moving eggs and drops one. She's a weird one -- wants her egg to have as many egg friends as possible and is willing to move eggs to make a bigger clutch. It took some detective work to discover how the 4 dummy eggs were migrating into one box.

 

[littlechicklet]

Precious!

 

[BKPUCKETT]

They must be precious a lady came and bought them all

 

[Brown Chicka Brown Cow]

Sometimes white can hide stuff. We have a white hen who has buff coloured chicks... But they all grow up white.

It's a recessive white...will definately feather out white.

 

[Masonicflock]

The one in Springfield is generally smaller than say Nashville, but it can be just as beneficial at times to go. So its worth giving it a shot any given Saturday.

 

[NEK38583]

Felmish Giants Avaible they are all high qualty. They do have the papers/pedigrees. These will be huge rabbits. They are located her in Sparta. They are $60.00 each if any one is interested please pm me.

Thanks

 

[Masonicflock]

Well its official.. I've lost my mind. I've been up all night now

(5:20am) mostly planning on adding bout 200-300 extra sq. ft. and two (2) extra coops to my pen (which is only used in emergencies as all mine roam.) due to adding some more to the flock here soon. Fiance is usually doing this

when I mention chickens... I work nights so being up isn't an issue it's the whole I can't shut my brain off due to

. Plus hatching

before long hopefully.. Oh the joys of raising fowl...

 

[debid]

200-300? Oh my! How many peeps are you expecting?

I ordered hardware cloth last night for the juvie coop's run. Hubby had tried to talk me into poultry netting but I dug in my heels listing all of the predators known to inhabit our forest. I then shopped all of the stores around here and all over online. Ozbo beat them all on the 36x50 roll. It's longer than the 30 ft I figured I'd need but bigger is always better, right? And the 50 ft roll was so close in price to three tens that it made no sense to get the smaller ones. BTW, it ended up being the same price per foot as the 36" poultry netting at TSC which gave hubby NO room to argue.

 

[DMRippy]

200-300? Oh my! How many peeps are you expecting?

I ordered hardware cloth last night for the juvie coop's run. Hubby had tried to talk me into poultry netting but I dug in my heels listing all of the predators known to inhabit our forest. I then shopped all of the stores around here and all over online. Ozbo beat them all on the 36x50 roll. It's longer than the 30 ft I figured I'd need but bigger is always better, right? And the 50 ft roll was so close in price to three tens that it made no sense to get the smaller ones. BTW, it ended up being the same price per foot as the 36" poultry netting at TSC which gave hubby NO room to argue.

Was shipping reasonable? I am going to need some when I start making small breeding pens. after I sell some pullets to make some more money. That feed bill really wiped my chicken money OUT! 2000lbs will do that and the some.