The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

Hey guys, sorry I haven't been on. Nasty weather, Eh?
I lost a few young ones in the nasty weather sadly.. everything is frozen here..
I have been thinking hard the last few weeks, And I have decided I need to get rid of most of my birds, As much as I hate to. But I need to focus more on my future, and need to get a good runnin car..

I am really reluctant to even get rid of anything because I love them so much..
But if anyone is interested in the following, Please PM me.


Pair of Chocolate Wyandottes
Pair of Blue laced Red Wyandottes (Black Laced Red rooster and Splash hen)
2 blue laced red cockerals, turning out great.. One is extremely petified.

I am keeping my SLW and Silver Pencilled, can't bring myself to get rid of them, As they are my favorite.

MINE!

 

[soroco]

Wife and Son gave me a gift of this wireless keyboard should be easy to post now.
Maybe someone can help me with a decision about my second flock. I want standard Auto sexing (not Sex-link) birds. I'm on SS so the sky is not the limit on pricing. Anyone have suggestions?

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

I thought auto sex and sex link were the same thing? The black stars seem to a good producer and popular breed. But so do the red varietys. Both are usually on the lower price scale. Just depends on the color you like! If you want a breed where the roos are one color and the hen another the salmon faverroles are very popular. Might be a bit more pricey. I'm like you on a gov. budget so I have been ordering catalogs from everyone trying to find the cheapest source. Verdict not inyet!lol

 

[soroco]

I have read the difference is that autosex breed true, sex-link is a cross that does not.

 

[CarolJ]

Actually auto-sexing and sex-link aren't the same.

Auto-sexing breeds are like cream legbars and rhodebars - the males and females are distinguishable at hatch because of feather color and patterns. You can breed a cream legbar rooster to a cream legbar hen, and the resulting chicks will be auto-sexing at hatch. Auto-sexing breeds are auto-sexing generation after generation.

Male and female sex-link chicks are also distinguishable at hatch because of feather color and patterns. However, if you breed a black star rooster to a black star hen, you won't get sex-linked chicks. The sex-link trait only lasts for that first generation. For example, if you breed a barred rock hen with a rhode island rooster, you'll get a black sex-link. However, you can't later breed those sex-linked chicks to get more sex-linked chicks.

 

[soroco]

The Cream Legbar look interesting to me but, prices I've sen put them out of my price range. Have Domoniques but the hen we kept is very chatty she talks constantly Anyone have Rhodebars?

 

[BMaverick]

BMaverick, I have cracked and tossed acorns to my flock but limit what I give to the variety I can eat as is. I'm lazy like that. It's surely one of the white oak types and we have a lot of them around. The ladies run to the driveway in search of car-cracked acorns also.

Thanks a bunch! Feed costs keep rising and we do have a few oaks on the farm. The leaves are gone, so telling what type of oak isn't possible now. I've seen acorns easily opened up and course ground using a hand hard corn grinder. This way, adding the acorn meal to the feed mix would be easy. Our Freedom Rangers (FRs) eat so much so often.

 

[CarolJ]

The Cream Legbar look interesting to me but, prices I've sen put them out of my price range. Have Domoniques but the hen we kept is very chatty she talks constantly Anyone have Rhodebars?

I have cream legbars, and they're wonderful birds - and the eggs are gorgeous. However, I'd be really suspcious of any Rhodebars you might get. I bought Rhodebars directly from Greenfire Farm - and they ended up not being purebred. GFF refused to acknowledge their mistake or to do anything to address it - but there were a lot of people who bought Rhodebars from them that ended up not being purebred. My Rhodebar hens laid green and olive colored eggs - something that would never happen with purebreds. I got rid of my Rhodebar rooster and put the hens with my layer flock. I couldn't justify selling "Rhodebar" hatching eggs and chicks when I knew they weren't purebred. And since all the Rhodebars in the USA came from Greenfire stock, I'd be skeptical of all of them.

I'd be glad to hook you up with cream legbar hatching eggs when my birds start laying again. Right now they're on a break while they finish molting and/or wait for the days to get longer.

 

[debid]

Thanks a bunch!  Feed costs keep rising and we do have a few oaks on the farm.  The leaves are gone, so telling what type of oak isn't possible now.  I've seen acorns easily opened up and course ground using a hand hard corn grinder.  This way, adding the acorn meal to the feed mix would be easy.  Our Freedom Rangers (FRs) eat so much so often. 

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Look for small caps on small acorns. Crack one and have a taste. The kind we have near the coop doesn't have any tannin bite and they are easily cracked under foot. The rooster used to eat them whole and green! One of those trees masted last fall and it sounded like a machine gun hitting the plastic roof on the tractor shed. The chickens were thrilled. And, if you open a wormy one, they will happily take the worm.

 

[TinTennessee]

Chad don't know if your still looking for poultry netting, here's a link to the add I saw on Craigslist
http://nashville.craigslist.org/grd/3478828048.html
Hope it helps