The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

I used blue.

 

[Goose and Fig]

OK- I guess I never did have the picture. She just said that the mauves were like a caramel/light coffee color as chicks. <3

 

[DMRippy]

here she is! pretty sure she is MAUVE

 

[DMRippy]

heard the worst story today. the lady I meet at the exotic auction really had some bad luck.

she bought 80 birds at that auction and they started to get sick.....se sent one off to get tested and it came back with MG she had to cull all the birds from the auction. AND her healthy birds too. she really had a hard time with it. having flash backs of it. what a mess....poor thing she had a going egg business and now she is out of business till some new birds grow up for her.

I will tell you this.....they said they tested the birds at the auction......not one bird was tested at that auction. I watched my birds all the way through and I know they were not tested. never saw anyone open a cage and test any birds.

it may have been just a one time thing that they didn't test but they said they did and people bought birds hoping for healthy birds and didn't get them. I know they prob would not have tested for MG. but it was the principle of the thing.


I will not go back. ......for several reasons.

 

[Goose and Fig]

here she is! pretty sure she is MAUVE

Ha! I bet she is!!!! Put me on the list!

 

[DMRippy]

here she is! pretty sure she is MAUVE

Ha! I bet she is!!!! Put me on the list!

how many do you want? do you want a split roo too????? what do they look like if they are splash????? SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THESE NEXT FEW HATCHES. The SLW X Choc are due next week and more orps too....and something else.....OHHHHH the Isabelle Marans too!

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

heard the worst story today. the lady I meet at the exotic auction really had some bad luck.

she bought 80 birds at that auction and they started to get sick.....se sent one off to get tested and it came back with MG she had to cull all the birds from the auction. AND her healthy birds too. she really had a hard time with it. having flash backs of it. what a mess....poor thing she had a going egg business and now she is out of business till some new birds grow up for her.

I will tell you this.....they said they tested the birds at the auction......not one bird was tested at that auction. I watched my birds all the way through and I know they were not tested. never saw anyone open a cage and test any birds.

it may have been just a one time thing that they didn't test but they said they did and people bought birds hoping for healthy birds and didn't get them. I know they prob would not have tested for MG. but it was the principle of the thing.


I will not go back. ......for several reasons.

We have been there several times to sale birds...I would never buy birds there....they do not have clean conditions in the auction barn nor do they make anyone follow their rules such as no cramped cages, must have hay/shavings or some bedding, and they must be tested before entering.

Hardly anyone down here cares for their birds as they should, the barn is always filled with a fog of cigarette smoke and cussing rednecks to put it nicely

 

[DMRippy]

heard the worst story today. the lady I meet at the exotic auction really had some bad luck.


she bought 80 birds at that auction and they started to get sick.....se sent one off to get tested and it came back with MG she had to cull all the birds from the auction. AND her healthy birds too. she really had a hard time with it. having flash backs of it. what a mess....poor thing she had a going egg business and now she is out of business till some new birds grow up for her.


I will tell you this.....they said they tested the birds at the auction......not one bird was tested at that auction. I watched my birds all the way through and I know they were not tested. never saw anyone open a cage and test any birds.


it may have been just a one time thing that they didn't test but they said they did and people bought birds hoping for healthy birds and didn't get them. I know they prob would not have tested for MG. but it was the principle of the thing.



I will not go back. ......for several reasons.

We have been there several times to sale birds...I would never buy birds there....they do not have clean conditions in the auction barn nor do they make anyone follow their rules such as no cramped cages, must have hay/shavings or some bedding, and they must be tested before entering. 


Hardly anyone down here cares for their birds as they should, the barn is always filled with a fog of cigarette smoke and cussing rednecks to put it nicely 

some where OBVIOUSLY sick and should not have been allowed to be sold. I will not go back. what was really scary one of the guys that was working the sale bought most of them to resale at the Lebanon flea market.....not going in his booth anymore......

 

[Goose and Fig]

Quote: how many do you want? do you want a split roo too????? what do they look like if they are splash?????

SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THESE NEXT FEW HATCHES. The SLW X Choc are due next week and more orps too....and something else.....OHHHHH the Isabelle Marans too!
4 would be good. What do the roos look like- type-wise? I got it down to all my keepers now- not doing too many chickens anymore.

Sucks about the auction. That is one good thing about waterfowl- you don't have to worry about all those nasty diseases. I love how hardy the geese and ducks are.

 

[DMRippy]

the newly hatched one's are split for choc and would either be blue or black. I have one older split....I don't really know.type on orps yet....they are fluffy.