The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Cinny]

Anybody else have chickens that love pepperoni pizza.....they come running. Other chickens love fruit, bread, oatmeal, spaghetti....mine love pizza.

 

[pacnu]

Hi All!

Is there anyone in the Woodbury/Manchester/Murfreesboro area willing to show some chicken newbies their coop and let us pick your brain? We have 18 acres, a coop plan, and the coop location picked out. The problem is, we don't know anyone with chickens. Reading is fine and dandy (we've been doing plenty of that) but sometimes you need face to face discussions with living people to really understand how things work. We plan on going to Poultry Hollow in Carthage to poke around, but I'm sure they will tell a person anything to sell some chicks. We've got questions about coops, raising chicks, inoculations, diseases, and especially local predators. So any willing chicken mentors out there?

And when the time comes, any local chick enablers out there?

Amanda

 

[DMRippy]

Becky,

Your girls are loving it, they stand at the coop door for me when I get home every evening just waiting for mill worm treats.

Donna,

How old are your birds? I would be interested in some Barred Rocks for sure!

I looked at them today, I think I have 3 that are about 3.5-4.5 months old.... I MIGHT even sell a blue barred rock (pattern is not as good but still pretty and good layers)

 

[DMRippy]

Hi All!

Is there anyone in the Woodbury/Manchester/Murfreesboro area willing to show some chicken newbies their coop and let us pick your brain? We have 18 acres, a coop plan, and the coop location picked out. The problem is, we don't know anyone with chickens. Reading is fine and dandy (we've been doing plenty of that) but sometimes you need face to face discussions with living people to really understand how things work. We plan on going to Poultry Hollow in Carthage to poke around, but I'm sure they will tell a person anything to sell some chicks. We've got questions about coops, raising chicks, inoculations, diseases, and especially local predators. So any willing chicken mentors out there?

And when the time comes, any local chick enablers out there?

Amanda

I am a long drive for you, but you can look at my pallet coops and my breeds links are in my siggie. I am hatching all the time so if there something you want I can set the eggs for you.... or put you on the waiting list for some.

 

[DMRippy]

Hi LORI!

 

[DMRippy]

I got an intact egg from the Choc Wyandotte today!

but She jumped the fence the other day and was with my Black Laced Red roo.... choc laced red anyone?????

 

[emmalynn]

Hi ya'll. Haven't been on in forever. Lurking every now and then.

Cinny,
How is the buff girl doing?

Thought I would share a pic as today was gorgeous and the chickens were out. Pardon some of them are a bit out of focus.



And an opinion- is she a dark blue???



Have a buff silkie hen for sale





She has been shown several times and has always taken at least 1st or better

 

[emmalynn]

Hi to you too. Caught me lurking huh???

 

[DMRippy]

Hi to you too. Caught me lurking huh???

Yeap! She is blue with nice lacing or edging..... I don't know what the difference is.

Are those orps? Eng Orps?

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Hi All!

Is there anyone in the Woodbury/Manchester/Murfreesboro area willing to show some chicken newbies their coop and let us pick your brain? We have 18 acres, a coop plan, and the coop location picked out. The problem is, we don't know anyone with chickens. Reading is fine and dandy (we've been doing plenty of that) but sometimes you need face to face discussions with living people to really understand how things work. We plan on going to Poultry Hollow in Carthage to poke around, but I'm sure they will tell a person anything to sell some chicks. We've got questions about coops, raising chicks, inoculations, diseases, and especially local predators. So any willing chicken mentors out there?

And when the time comes, any local chick enablers out there?

Amanda

Hi Amanda, I would not recommend going to poultry hollow. We did last year and the conditions of there place were pretty bad. They had chicks in brooders that looked like they had never been cleaned, their adult birds really did not look healthy, it was just an over all bad experience for us, we did buy 23 chicks 1 died 6 days later, after that everything seemed fine with everyone until they got about 12 weeks old they started dropping like fly's...in five weeks I lost five birds. when every one seemed to have stopped dying I would loose a couple more...ended up and lost 9 out of 23. We did necropsies but found nothing abnormal, nothing to suggest marek's or any other disease we finally summed it up to bad genetics just too much inbreeding and such, my hens that survived never got to full size and never laid any eggs bigger than a med. size egg even though they were large breed chickens and supposed to lay L-XL eggs. The hens that survived never looked as healthy or active as my hens I got from TSC either...But that was just our experience and I have heard some good reviews from people that bought from poultry hollow.