The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Raven1]

I have only ever purchase one batch of chickens and it was from a hatchery for meat birds.  Is it acceptable (for lack of a better word) to purchase from a person?  I mean, how do you know who you can trust with healthy chickens and how do you know the true age of the birds?

Do you have some for sale?

DMRippy -Donna has great birds she is honest and anything you get from her will be what she said it is and the age she said it is! You can trust her and there are quite a few people that will tell you that!
I have known her personally for a few years now, you will not be dissapointed with any of her birds.
Love ya Donna!

 

[DMRippy]

I have only ever purchase one batch of chickens and it was from a hatchery for meat birds.  Is it acceptable (for lack of a better word) to purchase from a person?  I mean, how do you know who you can trust with healthy chickens and how do you know the true age of the birds?

Do you have some for sale?

DMRippy -Donna has great birds she is honest and anything you get from her will be what she said it is and the age she said it is! You can trust her and there are quite a few people that will tell you that!
I have known her personally for a few years now, you will not be dissapointed with any of her birds.
Love ya Donna!

thanks Becky!

Becky has nice birds too and will tell you the truth too. LORI is down where you are moving too not sure if she has any birds to sell.

HUM I can't think of anyone else that direction with chickens that have some to sell....

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

the exotic auction in Cookeville

It is the Triple W Livestock sale, they also auction chickens/poultry every Tuesday after they get done with the goats.

They dont advertise it but they do auction them one day every week.

 

[DMRippy]

they DONT test for the weekly auction but SAID they did for the exotic auction.

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

they DONT test for the weekly auction but SAID they did for the exotic auction.

yeah, they seem to SAY a lot of things but never really follow out with it, I have never been to the exotic sale and dont really want to because I am sure it is not just the poultry that is sick.
And they seem to have a lot of animals at the exotic sale that seem they are or should be illegal to have, such as Monkeys, Giraffes, Buffalo, Zebras and more. At least those are some of the animals that they advertise they will have, like I said never been never want to go.

 

[DMRippy]

yeah they had those. they had a camel a porcupine squirrels lots of weird stuff.

the Atlanta zoo was there.

 

[Raven1]

I do still have some birds for sale: Trio of Black Crested White Polish, Pair of Salmon Faverolles, and a male Peacock this years hatch. Shoot me a PM if anyone is interested would love for them to go to people on here so I know they are cared for.

 

[CatMom]

So, I will be moving to Lewisburg in a few weeks and I would really like to get some ladies started to we can have eggs.  I so far have only raised meat birds and will again in the spring, but since I am moving from Iowa and don't have a proper gauge on the weather yet I would like to know if I should get day-olds now so they will be ready to lay be spring or would it be better to get pullets since you guys are going into winter?  Also whichever you guys think is better, do you have some suggestions as to where I should purchase?  There is a hatchery close by here and I could get them here and have them shipped (if they will while it is this cold) or I could pick them up and take them with, but again chilly and stressful.  I have heard completely mixed reviews about Poultry Hollow Hatchery in TN.  Any info would be great, Thanks!

Welcome to the neighborhood! I'm kind of new to chicken fandom myself, but I had good luck the 1 time I went to Poultry Hollow, HOwever they do seem to have a spotty reputation. I just bought a couple of Donna's pullets and they are fantastic!
I think peeps are a pain in the neck, myself. I think I would always buy older pullets or Point-of-lay pullets in the future. I have had good luck with buying them and there's less worrying about heat lamps & all that shennanigans in the cold weather. (It doesn't really get 'wintery' like you are probably used to around here, by the way.)
The other thing about getting started pullets: right now seems like a good time b/c people are deciding what to winter over vs. what to cull so availability is good & *best of all* shorter wait time until eggs!

 

[TShelton54]

I would like to invite any of you that are interested to attend the meeting of the Volunteer State Poultry Club this Sunday. We have our meetings at the VFW Club on Marshall Stuart Drive off Hwy. 46 in Dickson from 2 to 4 PM. This is our election meeting. We usually have the first hour as the educational portion then refreshment break and then a buissness meeting. We are in the planning stage for our spring double show to be held Saturday April 26th 2014. Thank you, President and Show Superintendant Tim Shelton For more information call 615-925-1126

 

[Penny Hen]

yeah, they seem to SAY a lot of things but never really follow out with it, I have never been to the exotic sale and dont really want to because I am sure it is not just the poultry that is sick.
And they seem to have a lot of animals at the exotic sale that seem they are or should be illegal to have, such as Monkeys, Giraffes, Buffalo, Zebras and more. At least those are some of the animals that they advertise they will have, like I said never been never want to go.

Well for the monkeys you have to have a special license to own them. I am not sure about the Giraffes but usually the special licensing comes into effect for large carnivores or animals that could potentially carry cross species diseases easily if not monitored closely. Elephants need special licenses now because they are so large and intelligent that they can be deadly and it takes a trained person to handle them safely. With the monkeys it is about the fear that they can transmit rabies. What I have read of it (in monkeys) though has yet to make logical scientific sense. Now I believe that licensing for monkeys and apes is a good thing for the sake of the monkeys and apes. A person should have to demonstrate a knowledge about them because there are many diseases that can pass back and forth between humans and them. But the legislation of the licensing seems to focus on the rabies which I see as difficult for the monkeys to contract anyway if you are keeping them in a beloved pet conditions. If you are large scale breeding them in outdoor pens where racoons might bite them through a cage and introduce the rabies that would be different. But the literature on the subject seems to imply that the monkeys would spontaneously develop rabies and bite and infect people. It reads like moron PETA bureaucrats wrote the documents.

The reason by the way that I have researched this particular aspect of monkey business is that my daughter is handicapped with Cerebral Palsy. Up until a few years ago there was a small but growing use of trained small monkeys (usually spider or Rhesus) for assistance with fine motor tasks that evaded people with CP, Lou Gherig's, MS and several other debilitating handicaps and illnesses. Usually they were used only in the homes and did not go out into public, thereby limiting there exposure both to other people and to sources for rabies. With this new legislation not only was the owning of the monkeys required licensing but were impossible in most cases for the people who already had them as Assistance Animals to obtain the license to keep them.

There was even a recent legislation that mandated that only dogs could be assistance animals shutting out Hearing Cats, Guide Mini Horses (who can do every thing a dog can and live 3 times longer) and some Parrots that have been trained to alert deaf people to phone call and door bells and stuff. This is so important because without the official designation of the Service Animal they can often not live apartments that usually don't do pets or like the house broken mini horses live with in the city limits because they will be classified as farm animal. There was a great outcry and some of that has been modified now but it is still an ongoing struggle. From what I have been able to research most of this push to restrict Assistance Animals is coming from PETA. They would like to take the dogs out too but they are too well established so they are attacking the minorities of the Assistance Animal World.

Sorry for the "digression" but the world is a net not a straight line and it all ties together to make a big structure. There are always multiple effects to any action and what seems reasonable from one directions has unreasonable results from another. Still if idiots like this auction in Cookville weren't being lazy and ignoring proper health protocols then the NAIS (the tagging and eventuall microchipping of all farm animals) wouldn't have a leg to stand on. I don't know if reporting them to the State Ag Department would have any result. Maybe a wall of shame online (Not BYC) where poor health practices of agriculture auctions could be posted. Not just a wall of shame though. There needs to be a list of those who we would recommend for responsible agricultural practices. In fact it may be a better idea just to list recommended people and auctions and businesses that are stellar and get the list out there easily available to those who would look for it. This would increase the business for those practicing responsible agriculture and might eventually bring some of those who don't to realize they need to change things in order to compete. At least we may be able to save some individuals from the heartache of destroying pets and years of work on breeding lines from infected purchases from disreputable dealers.