The Middle Tennessee Thread

[CatMom]

Wow, that is one stunning bird. Is she black & gold & white or chocolate brown & gold & white ? (looking at this on a phone so it's hard to tell) Just amazing.

Just throwing this out there but if anyway is ever around the Chattanooga/Ooltewah area and you want/need a bantam cochin (or two, three - lol) let me know I have an excess. They are currently at my daughters because she has much more room/land where they all free-range pretty much all day (cooped at night) Most of these guys are from a brown/red roo over one brown/ red hen & two different Calico/hens. So, theya re pure cochin but are mixed colored. The pic is one of the girls I've kept because I'm in awe of her coloring (even though she fits no recognized category, just real pretty eye candy). None of the boys are quite like her but many do have quite of bit of calicoing (new word - lol) on thier breat & some are basically brown/red looking (but keeping in mind a calico could have been momma). Again, throwing it out there in case your in my neck of the woods some day. There are probably 8 or so. thanks

 

[DMRippy]

wow on the news he clicked on one area that got heavy rain..... 8.9 inches in 24 hours.....wow.

 

[msmeower]

Does anyone raise muscovy ducks? I'm looking for a few ducks to put on the creek in my backyard. And maybe a few geese.

I might putting some Muscovy eggs in the incubator within a week, if you can wait about a month for ducklings!

 

[Oramman87]

wow on the news he clicked on one area that got heavy rain..... 8.9 inches in 24 hours.....wow.

That's crazy I am glad I am almost to Alabama my runs are a little muddy so I need to go get some wood chips after this rain is gone..

 

[StacyTN]

Oooooo... she is pretty! Love that mottling!

Thank you
& I will admit. I actually sold this chick to someone (we've since become good friends) when she was like maybe 2-3 weeks old. She sent me this pic a couple of days ago and I about fell off my chair.
So, anyways, she has given (traded) her back to me.

Again, she came from my brown/red roo over to calico/MF girls. I've only kept 7-8 others, out of some 30 I hatched, from this combo. This roo was only with these girls (still is) because I was working on trying to establish mille fleur breeders and didn't have room to seperate. Now I am wondering what all the other chicks came out like & rethinking breaking this combo out.

I know this coloring is not in the books etc. and although I try to breed to standard on my other bantam cochins. I think I may see what becomes of this and give it more time. It's such an interesting & unique coloring and they would make wonderful beautiful yard eye candy.

Like I said from my original post- I only have several boys left but some of them have some moltted in chest area but nothing like this & none of them show any where close to this much brown. I am very interested to see next yr. what I may get from her and one of these boys.

 

[StacyTN]

Wow, that is one stunning bird. Is she black & gold & white or chocolate brown & gold & white ? (looking at this on a phone so it's hard to tell) Just amazing.

actually she is ALL those colors-

 

[HeltsleyHen]

Good Morning Everyone!

Couple of things we need a little advice on:

1. Had a little bantam get into a fly strip this morning. Got her out and she is fine but her leg feathers and under one of her wings is a little sticky. Do we need to try and clean that off, if so, with what? She is out and about, eating and acting normally. I am checking periodically to make to sure nothing large is stuck to her or on her foot.
2. We are going on vacation in October. We live close to downtown Nashville and have cats/dogs/chickens. We have someone we trust to come and watch our dogs/cats but this will be the first time we have ever vacationed since we have had the chickens. They are in a coop/run and we let them free range in their 'play yard' (fenced in area of our backyard) during the day. For the most part they are good if we let them out in the morning and just make sure they all made it back in at night. However I do check on them periodically during the day. Anyone have any tips or best practices for what to do for chickens while you are on vacation. These are our pets and we certainly don't want anything to happen to them. Our pet sitter could definitely handle the feeding/watering/collecting eggs - I just worry about them being out unsupervised all day and asking him to wrangle them in in the evening if needed. I thought maybe building a larger or temporary run onto their existing coop run so that they still have room to graze, etc without him having to 'let them out/put them up'.??????? What have you all used to do that (if you have)?

Thanks in advance for any advice/ideas/experiences you share.
P.S. Anyone have a trusted chicken sitter that you might share info for? ;-)

 

[FeyRaine]

Helping some ppl who lost their flocks --

Last night some ppl I know lost all their birds (AND all the birds they were bird-sitting for an elderly neighbor currently in hospital having heart surgery)
to dogs (which also killed all their angora rabbits). These ppl are really nice folks, who help others whenever they can although they themselves have a huge burden as he has cancer for which he has been on chemo treatments periodically for 2 yrs, and their young daughter has asthma bad enough she has been hospitalized more than once this yr. So they are really struggling and have no money to replace even the flock they were bird-sitting let alone their own losses.

Here is what I'm going to do --
1- DH is going this wkend to help them w/ coop/pen rebuild (the guy just had chemo this week & was going to do it all himself anyway, now he'll have a hand to help).

2- I am going to give them a couple mutt hens laying, so they have something to give the heart surgery man when he gets home, as a start on replacing his flock.

3- I am going to give them a few partly grown birds I have right now -- some of these came from YOU BYC folks so I wanted to tell everyone-- , a couple of you gave me free hatching eggs & a batch of chicks, these are now 4m to 4 wks old and so I am going to "pay it forward" by giving half of those to these folks (to share w/ the elderly man too), just to be clear; nobody is loosing any birds sales from this, these ppl truely have not a penny to pay for replacement birds.

4-I'm going to set another bator full of eggs to share the chicks to these ppl which will hopefully equal out the flocks that were lost w/ birds that should at least be laying by Feb/March.
If anyone would like to contribute some hatching eggs PM me pls ( I live 16 miles from Fall Creek Falls state park, or 1 hr from Chattanooga , but plan to be in Murfreesboro for a friend's " I survived breast cancer cellebration" on Sun Aug 18 so I could poss. meet someone in that area that day).

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Well I hope everyone is recovering from all the rain/flooding & that your birds are ok.

Also, there are a ton of new ppl on this thread & I don't post often so HELLO New people

 

[Angelak]

Fey raine

 

[Angelak]

Feyraine sorry hit button too soon...lol
Hats off to you for your" paying it forward",wish more would do this......we all need some help 1 way or another sometime in our lives....
I would suggest a ckn tractor for your chickens while vacationing,that way their safe,sheltered n free range to a point.
I wish I had some chickens or chicks I could help u with but im really just getting started on chickens...GOD BLESS U!

You will reap what u sow....