The Middle Tennessee Thread

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Thanks for the support, y'all. I'm frantically applying all over the place trying to at least find something to tide me over until a full time gig shows up. I appreciate the prayers. Knowing my paycheck and insurance end in three weeks is terrifying.

I'm still sorting through what to do with my birds. I'm trying to respond to PMs as fast as I can . It just all sort of dumped on my head yesterday and I'm still just treading water.

In a perfect world a new job will pop up next week and I can keep all my chickies. Pray hard!

(Option B, which I presented to my mother as my preferred option, is to suddenly win the lotttery, build a farmhouse on this gorgeous land I once saw in Santa Fe, build the coolest chicken pens ever, and get some goats/sheep/alpacas. And maybe a Farm Boy of my very own to do the lifting and toting. If I had my druthers, that's what would happen. I'd be a stay-at-home chicken mom.

)

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Tonight when I went out to lock everyone up I noticed that my splash roosters wattles were swollen and just a tad discolored. I assume that that means his wattles were very mildly frostbitten?

I slathered both the boy in bag balm again so hopefully that will help!

 

[DMRippy]

Well the Bag Balm worked to a point last night!

Good News: Everyone is alive and no major frostbite! Bad/Good news: My Big blue boy got very minor frostbite to three of the points on his comb. But I slathered him again in Bag Balm to hopefully heal as much as possible! AND he is the only one that got frostbitten!

Now all I can do is hope that he did not get too stressed and does not temporarily loose his fertility!!

But all things considered with it getting down to 0 degrees F. possibly a few degrees colder than that! I have no added heat and they are the only two in that 4 x 12 coop I'd give the Bag Balm an A+! Without it I am sure the blue would be much worse and all of my boys would have had frostbite!

Thanks so much to everyone who helped me decide on what to do for my babies during these extreme cold conditions!

I did nothing and they are all just fine!

 

[DMRippy]

I'm working on genetics and if I can write it out I can get it, but I'm new to it, so if I have barred rocks and blue rocks (I think) can I or should I put them together to breed or leave them separate. I wasn't sure if they are two colors of the same breed or if they are different.

They are the same breed and yes you can mix them BUT what you get will depend on what you have. If you have a reg barred roo over blue and barred you will get a mix of single and double barred cockerels but all the pullets will be barred. I would not use a blue barred roo over blues.... splash would not be a good thing in that case. Mixing them is how you get blue barred rocks

 

[elorraine52]

It is real! There were 4 boxes sender tape/glued all 4 boxes together so they would move as one but only put address on one of the boxes....somehow the boxes came apart and only the box with the address on it continued to its destenation the other boxes stayed where they got separated which was in Memphis.

anyone know if someone picked these birds up? Or was address found and birds delivered?

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Quote: Cherokeebirds UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE OWNERS HAVE BEEN FOUND AND THE BIRDS ARE ON THEIR WAY! We'd like to thank everyone for the help
Like · Reply · 165 · January 8 at 4:50pm

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

As many of you may know we have been raising and trying to improve our newly obtained Jubilee English Orpingtons for the last 10 months. After consulting with several renowned English Orpington breeders from around the world we here at Lots 'A' Cluckin' Farm feel that we have made the correct culling and breeding choices. Though we are still very early into our breeding program with the Jubilees, I am confident that the birds we have chosen to breed together will produce among some of the nicest Jubilee English Orpingtons that we currently have in the U.S. today. Over the next few generations more of our breeding goals for our Jubilees will be met. I strive to maintain and improve the crisp and clear color pattern that the Jubilees are known for. As with all of my English Orpingtons I strive for good type, color and size while trying to maintain their dual-purposeness, good layers, good meat birds, good foragers, for the hens, good mothers and for the roosters, good protectors. All of my English Orpingtons are very docile in nature if I am ever get an aggressive in nature rooster I am sure to cull him out of my breeding programs as to not pass on his aggressive nature to the offspring.

Without further ado, I am happy to announce that we have deiced to release our Jubilee English Orpingtons this spring! We will begin offering eggs for sell in early March of 2015. We are currently taking names for the waiting list so if you would like be guaranteed eggs from our beautiful Jubilee English Orpingtons this spring or if you have any questions please feel free to contact me by messaging me here or E-mailing me at: [email protected]
Thanks to all of those wonderful breeders who have helped me make some breeding decisions!

 

[Fred's Hens]

Folks, there have been reports of excessive buying and selling in this thread and a few posts have been removed.

All Buy-Sell-Trade transactions must only be made in the BST thread provided for that activity. Thank you all for your cooperation.

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[CityGirlintheCountry]

I am not trying to be snarky, but would like to understand why we can't sell to each other through this thread? It seems like it streamlines the whole process since we all live around here and keeps the BST area from getting gummed up. Again, not trying to be snarky. It has been a while since I read all the rules...

 

[Fred's Hens]

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