The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

I am heading to ft Campbell and am making a pit stop at rural king. If anyone wants some chicks let me know what and how many BUT you will have to pick them up today!

 

[retiredwithchicks]

Donna, how did you tell me to get SBEL from the white leghorn and the legbar? I think i may have done the opposite of what you told me.

 

[DMRippy]

Donna, how did you tell me to get SBEL from the white leghorn and the legbar? I think i may have done the opposite of what you told me.

Either way is right. Just a WL x CCL or CCL x WL..... both work. All the chicks should be white and probably will have a crest.

 

[elorraine52]

Either way is right. Just a WL x CCL or CCL x WL..... both work. All the chicks should be white and probably will have a crest.

....and just FYI, they don't ALWAYS lay a blue egg, I ended up with 2 pullets out of the 6 chicks I got, and one lays a blue egg, the other a white egg....

 

[enola]

....and just FYI, they don't ALWAYS lay a blue egg, I ended up with 2 pullets out of the 6 chicks I got, and one lays a blue egg, the other a white egg....

Not all Cream Legbars lay blue eggs...... I have 3 CL hens, one lays a green egg, one lays a bluish/greenish egg, and one lays an almost blue egg. I have EE hens that lay aa much bluer egg.

 

[n3kms]

Some of my SBELs are white and some are more black. They all lay a light bluish egg but sometimes they lay white. They lay nearly every day though so I don't complain. I don't know if what they eat makes a difference in whether or not the eggs are blue. The CCLs that I have lay a greenish blue but not as often.

 

[cazychicgirl]

Any of you middle tn chicken farmers raise peafowl? I think I'm wanting to hatch some out under my broody hen and let her raise them. Anyone done that before?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I've never put peas under a chicken, but I have put geese under them. I'd think peafowl would be easier since they don't swim!

 

[cazychicgirl]

I've never put peas under a chicken, but I have put geese under them. I'd think peafowl would be easier since they don't swim!

Haha! I bet that made the mother hen a nervous wreck!
I would love to get some local peafowl eggs. Anyone sell them?

 

[TNHouseSwyft]

So I was checking out CL and saw a post that sounded too good to be true.

http://nashville.craigslist.org/zip/4914299356.html

23 Free Chickens with a free coop in Chapel Hill, TN (with some layers).

The post said to text or call so I went to text the number given and got an error that it wasn't a valid number. I also tried calling it (in case it was actually a landline), but received a message that it is not a valid number.

Double, triple and quadruple checked the number given, no luck.

So it looks like it was too good to be true, but in case it was anyone here, I figured I would check.

Has anyone seen this?