The Middle Tennessee Thread

[tnmommy]

Anybody interested in chocolate bantam English Orpingtons chicks? I will be asking $10 each. I'm about to incubate 18 eggs, my first test hatch of my breeding trio. I have a chocolate roo over a chocolate hen and mauve splash hen.




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[Hasgrits68]

Thanks we ended up buying a sweet place in Ethridge with a great hen house ready to go. The five hour move went fine and they have not stopped laying. We are all excited to be Middle Tennesseans

 

[tnmommy]

Thanks we ended up buying a sweet place in Ethridge with a great hen house ready to go. The five hour move went fine and they have not stopped laying. We are all excited to be Middle Tennesseans

We're in southern Lawrence County, welcome to the area

 

[DMRippy]

I have been super busy and still am but I have been tossing something around...... if we sell our house soon and get moved to the farm sometime next year I am going to make some changes to chickens. I have WAY too many chickens in my shop and I want to move them outside. I also need a new grow out area as we will probably tear down my current pens since they are so close to where the new house will be.

I have run everything through my mind. We talked about tractors for some and I might do that for the bantams. The only thing that make sense is to build more breeding pens in the same location as my other breeding pens. I have thought about a big barn and how to make runs but the money doesn't make sense. I can make the breeding pens for little or nothing. I could probably make another 20 pens and even grow out pens/rooster pen in the same area. We would just have to clear a few trees.

Anybody see a flaw in that plan? am I missing something that I should be doing instead? (other than reducing the number of birds I have LOL.... trying really I am) I have seen some great barns for chickens but they cost THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars. I am willing to spend some money but not a small fortune.

 

[amenfarm]

I have been super busy and still am but I have been tossing something around...... if we sell our house soon and get moved to the farm sometime next year I am going to make some changes to chickens. I have WAY too many chickens in my shop and I want to move them outside. I also need a new grow out area as we will probably tear down my current pens since they are so close to where the new house will be.

I have run everything through my mind. We talked about tractors for some and I might do that for the bantams. The only thing that make sense is to build more breeding pens in the same location as my other breeding pens. I have thought about a big barn and how to make runs but the money doesn't make sense. I can make the breeding pens for little or nothing. I could probably make another 20 pens and even grow out pens/rooster pen in the same area. We would just have to clear a few trees.

Anybody see a flaw in that plan? am I missing something that I should be doing instead? (other than reducing the number of birds I have LOL.... trying really I am) I have seen some great barns for chickens but they cost THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars. I am willing to spend some money but not a small fortune.

I would love to see pictures of the current set-up.
Overload: when your corgi sneaks in your coop behind you.

 

[DMRippy]

 
I have been super busy and still am but I have been tossing something around......  if we sell our house soon and get moved to the farm sometime next year I am going to make some changes to chickens.  I have WAY too many chickens in my shop and I want to move them outside.  I also need a new grow out area as we will probably tear down my current pens since they are so close to where the new house will be.

I have run everything through my mind.  We talked about tractors for some and I might do that for the bantams.  The only thing that make sense is to build more breeding pens in the same location as my other breeding pens.   I have thought about a big barn and how to make runs but the money doesn't make sense.  I can make the breeding pens for little or nothing.  I could probably make another 20 pens and even grow out pens/rooster pen in the same area.  We would just have to clear a few trees.

Anybody see a flaw in that plan?  am I missing something that I should be doing instead? (other than reducing the number of birds I have LOL.... trying really I am)  I have seen some great barns for chickens but they cost THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars. I am willing to spend some money but not a small fortune.

I would love to see pictures of the current set-up.
Overload: when your corgi sneaks in your coop behind you.

I am on my phone but I think there is a link in my soggy to my breeding pens. The major thing I would change is the runs would be tall enough to walk in. Either that or wire floors but not figured out a long term way for wire floors to work.

 

[amenfarm]

I am on my phone but I think there is a link in my soggy to my breeding pens. The major thing I would change is the runs would be tall enough to walk in. Either that or wire floors but not figured out a long term way for wire floors to work.

love the breeding pens, but that low would kill me. You just can't make the wire floors work over time--bumblefoot. how about that type with legs or a table underneath?

 

[FeyRaine]

Hi ya'll , I know I haven't been around in months, I'm skipping a couple hundred posts I'm behind.
Hope everyone has done ok during all this cold!! (We had 3 inches of snow Nov 1st so I feel like its mid-winter here for a month already).
Welcome new ppl


Question -- I'm of course thinking about NYDH , & of course have only 1 pullet laying atm (major farm fail, I'll spare you the drama, lets just say I'm down to 1 pen really close to the house now).

So, anyone have fertile eggs ? near me & low cost (large fowl , Barn Yard Mix fine)

I'm 16 miles from Fall Creek Falls State Park, I go to McMinnville sometimes & to Chattanooga sometimes, anyway shoot me a pm if you think you'd have eggs I could get between now & set date which is Dec 11.

 

[DMRippy]

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I don't know what you are talking about..... can you post a picture or a link to it?

 

[DMRippy]

Has anyone ever tried passive solar water tanks? We are going to give it a go this year. We bought 20 bales of hay for $2 a bale. We are going to put the hay in black trash bags (help absorb heat and protect the hay from the weather) and stack them around all my water tanks and cover the top with some storm windows we salvaged from the remodel on the house. Basically the hay keep the wind off the tanks and keeps the heat in. The window will help collect heat during the day and once the water is warm the goal is to not loose much heat at night. They say it will not freeze even at 10 degrees.