The Middle Tennessee Thread

[ChickenQueen12]

So my daughter is in the fourth grade and informs me that she signed up to be in the 4H Chick Chain Project and that we may be getting 25 pullets the first week of march

. About ready to pull my hair out

i already have 50 chickens

. How wonderful children are sometimes!!!!

Well then i aked her were she planned on putting these 25 chicks till they grew up enough to go outside she tells me she is going to let them sleep in her room!! HAHAHAHA

 

[TinTennessee]

Aren't kids great ? It's just 25 more chickens mama, no big deal. LOL At least she doesn't want ostriches.

 

[ChickenQueen12]

Aren't kids great ? It's just 25 more chickens mama, no big deal. LOL At least she doesn't want ostriches.

Om goodness an ostrich would make us more money on eggs LOL

 

[TinTennessee]

Yea but where are you going to keep 25 ostriches?

 

[ChickenQueen12]

Yea but where are you going to keep 25 ostriches?

LOL in her room like she said I dont know the first thing about ostriches well i do have 5 acres will that be enough

 

[FeyRaine]

LOL in her room like she said I dont know the first thing about ostriches well i do have 5 acres will that be enough

Too funny, my DH just showed me pics online of ostrich races!! ppl actually ride the things, & also race w/ them pulling sm carts & chariots of all things odd. This yr. 25 chicken chicks , but watch out, if 4H goes international her swap chain might BE 25 ostriches next yr! yikes.

 

[CarolJ]

After taking a couple months (or more) off from laying, my Swedish Flower Hens and Cream Legbars have suddenly started laying again this week. Right now I have 9 eggs of each breed. Immediately before they started molting/stopped laying, the SFHs were fertile - but the CLBs were NOT. Apparently the CLB roo was putting his energy into molting, too. I have a list of people who want to buy the eggs, but I need to see if the eggs are fertile before I start selling them again. I've never had much luck seeing the infamous "bullseye" - even with a magnifying glass. And I don't want to get my incubator out of storage - don't want to deal with hatching chicks right now.

Does anyone want the eggs for free - with the understanding that there are no fertility guarantees - you'll be my fertility checker.

You'll have to come get them tomorrow afternoon, though. I've got a P.T. appt in Cool Springs tomorrow - right next to the mall - so I could meet somewhere around there a little before 1:00 - or around 2:30. I'm getting ready to go out of town for a few days for my mother's 90th birthday - and I just don't have any extra time right now.

If no one can get them tomorrow - I'll just keep collecting until I'm back in town next week.

Eggs are taken! Thanks!

 

[ChickenQueen12]

Too funny, my DH just showed me pics online of ostrich races!! ppl actually ride the things, & also race w/ them pulling sm carts & chariots of all things odd. This yr. 25 chicken chicks , but watch out, if 4H goes international her swap chain might BE 25 ostriches next yr! yikes.

oh they already do swine and horses she wants to continue in 4H and do swine i got my chickens to show my kids a better and natural way of living well i guess u get what u ask for lol

 

[DMRippy]

After taking a couple months (or more) off from laying, my Swedish Flower Hens and Cream Legbars have suddenly started laying again this week. Right now I have 9 eggs of each breed. Immediately before they started molting/stopped laying, the SFHs were fertile - but the CLBs were NOT. Apparently the CLB roo was putting his energy into molting, too. I have a list of people who want to buy the eggs, but I need to see if the eggs are fertile before I start selling them again. I've never had much luck seeing the infamous "bullseye" - even with a magnifying glass. And I don't want to get my incubator out of storage - don't want to deal with hatching chicks right now.

Does anyone want the eggs for free - with the understanding that there are no fertility guarantees - you'll be my fertility checker.

You'll have to come get them tomorrow afternoon, though. I've got a P.T. appt in Cool Springs tomorrow - right next to the mall - so I could meet somewhere around there a little before 1:00 - or around 2:30. I'm getting ready to go out of town for a few days for my mother's 90th birthday - and I just don't have any extra time right now.

If no one can get them tomorrow - I'll just keep collecting until I'm back in town next week.

ME! I will test again..... Let me work it out with hubby, we can eat lunch at cool spring... if I drive. He gets so frustrated trying to find something in unfamiliar territory.

 

[FeyRaine]

After taking a couple months (or more) off from laying, my Swedish Flower Hens and Cream Legbars have suddenly started laying again this week. Right now I have 9 eggs of each breed. Immediately before they started molting/stopped laying, the SFHs were fertile - but the CLBs were NOT. Apparently the CLB roo was putting his energy into molting, too. I have a list of people who want to buy the eggs, but I need to see if the eggs are fertile before I start selling them again. I've never had much luck seeing the infamous "bullseye" - even with a magnifying glass. And I don't want to get my incubator out of storage - don't want to deal with hatching chicks right now.

Does anyone want the eggs for free - with the understanding that there are no fertility guarantees - you'll be my fertility checker.

You'll have to come get them tomorrow afternoon, though. I've got a P.T. appt in Cool Springs tomorrow - right next to the mall - so I could meet somewhere around there a little before 1:00 - or around 2:30. I'm getting ready to go out of town for a few days for my mother's 90th birthday - and I just don't have any extra time right now.

If no one can get them tomorrow - I'll just keep collecting until I'm back in town next week.

sent you a pm re this