The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Lots A Cluckin]

Quote: LOL!! I know! It is a hen! I was just shocked buy how long and sharp her spurs have gotten!

I have had her since she was just a day old...but anyway...it was a joke..I knew all along that is was a hen! Just trying to see what other say

 

[Heme]

Too Funny! I supposed you did not read up on chickens before you started to invite them to your home. The guys will eat a variety of grasses and plants; too many to rule out what they do not like. Mostly they love to dig and scratch for bugs and eat small gravel along the way. Our marigolds are still in one piece!
What we did was pour some distilled white vinegar around areas we wanted to preserve from cats, rabbits, moles, squirrels, and other pests. They stay away now, (repeat treatment after a heavy rain) and the hens do not go there very often. Try it!

 

[Penny Hen]

My broody hatched one chick and then refused to sit on the rest so I took them in the house and set up an improptu hatcher with a desklamp in the aquarium. Wasn't getting my hopes up. I didn't wire in a a thermostat just gapped the lid enough to keep the temps in range and put water in a bowl to raise the humidity. I decide to check it before work just know and I have a chick!

 

[Raven1]

YEA!!!!!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

There used to be a lady on here that had eggs under a silkie that didn't hatch. She thought they were all dead and so put them in a coffee can in the barn to throw out later. It was a week of this hot humid stuff like we are having now. She went back the next day and a couple of the eggs had hatched. That is clearly a sign that it is too darn hot and humid!!

 

[FeyRaine]

My broody hatched one chick and then refused to sit on the rest so I took them in the house and set up an improptu hatcher with a desklamp in the aquarium. Wasn't getting my hopes up. I didn't wire in a a thermostat just gapped the lid enough to keep the temps in range and put water in a bowl to raise the humidity. I decide to check it before work just know and I have a chick!

That is great !
Funny thing is I just did the opposite; I that 2 just hatched , a piped egg & an internal piped egg which I just put under my sitting broody b/c 1 of the eggs she is refusing to leave has hatched but I'm not too sure the rest were good when I stuck her on them. (Most were in the 12 hr post storm not electric makeshift tea candle warmer so if/when they may hatch is hard to say). But I figured she at least could have her one fuffy bright yellow hatcher (from a dark olive egg) plus my 2 dark hatchers from blue eggs so now I can turn off 1 hatcher for a week and save on the electrical bills or at least keep running the extra fans in the house!

 

[Wasson6Pack]

So awhile back I bought a dozen EE and 2 ducks from TSC. I have then all in one pen and the seem to get along well, but since they will all be about laying she in the next 4-5 Weeks, should I separate them? Do I need to?

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

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[Cinny]

LOL!! Hen or Roo?

Must be a Roo……a hen would never go that long without a manicure! LOL

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Quote: LOL!!!