The Middle Tennessee Thread

[CityGirlintheCountry]

So where is the show this weekend? I'm so confused.

Silkietime- Who is looking for buff silkies? I'd love to go ahead and move some of this lot. I want to thin that crowd out fairly soon. I just can't have the NPIP man out until spring break.

 

[HBuehler]

It's ok CityGirl we know you have been away for awhile

the show this weekend is in Newnan big 2 day show. I have to get my NPIP redone before the Dalton show just in case.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Yeah, I came home very lost as to what all had been going on here and on Facebook.

I thought the Newnan show was earlier in February.

 

[Jenski]

Well I'm confused too! Who is putting on the Newnan show?? The sites I usually visit have just not kept up the show lists this year.

 

[HBuehler]

Jenski and City Girl chattahoochie valley is the Newnan show this Sat and Sun
Most of my chicks are in their new home but I ran out of space..for now.All of the leftover material is still in there taking up my chick space

 

[Jenski]

Wow . . . nice, nice warm air we have today, and hardly any wind. I guess we can do without the sun.

Ohhh Holly, you are hatching pterodactyls!!! I just love them and I don't know why. Those scary looking Cornish darlings are just so lovely to me. I need help.
Well, how nice it must feel to have (most of) your fuzzies outside! As always, we NEED MORE ROOM, eh! If you completely empty that basement, you will feel lonely and empty, though. . . just like I did when I finally got my bathroom back after months of fuzzies.

CityGirl, I remember you mentioning you were overrun with roos. Why don't you make a nice roo page under your BYC pages so folks can browse through? I mean, between your job and your birds and the plays and family and . . . as I used to say, "Yeah, I'll get right on that."

I am a little roo-heavy too, but the longer they're here the more attached I get . . . And one more reason I love my roos: two nights ago, I heard my d'Uccle roo (Flash) crow at 9 p.m. The dogs ran to the back door and Remy had started crowing too. I grabbed a flashlight and ran out the back door (brilliant, I know!) to find - - the sneaky, noisy herd of deer snorting at us from the brush behind the house. The roos heard them and did not like the intruders.

I really like knowing my roos are watching out for the flock when I can't be out there. They really help me run things! Every coop that has a roo just seems safer to me.

 

[HBuehler]

Jenski-I can help you with that Cornish problem

They are neat looking birds and so mellow..sure can't fly either

Trust me I won't miss them in my house one tiny bit..not a chance I want them OUT all of them..the tiny's get to stay in a few days though.Just took 30 out of the bators and some are still hatching.
I need more cages to get them all in the new house..plus most of my cages are 30" wide and I have 24" from the wall to the door without them sticking out a bit...so all new pens would be nice but that will come.One thing at a time..right now I need to get rid of some more chicks

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Don't get me wrong. I do love my roos. It is just that I have learned that having more than one roo in a pen is asking for trauma. Plus, the poor hens are just molested! For seem reason I seem to hatch out a greater than 50% average of roosters. Sigh. If I wanted roos to eat then I would only hatch out hens. Murphy's law of chickens. I already have 4 main roosters (one per pen). Unless I go on a building kick I am full up on roosters!

I've posted this lot in the BST section and on Craigslist. No local takers. What I really would like is to find someone wanting to feed their family with sustainably raised, cage free, hormone free chicken. I'll make them a deal if they are willing to do the final growing out and the processing part.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Don't forget all sat is the first swap of the year at Tim&susie's over in Scottsville,Ky. Usually draws a good crowd,they are on facebook for you facebook addicts!lol my bantams really got bust today, I got 17 eggs today!
I am going to thin down some,have a trio of gorgeous golden comet bantams,a pair of Asill games, three Hatch game Roos,and a pair of King pigeons.Also have a trio of English Spot rabbits,these are really pretty!

 

[Jenski]

There ya go, girls - - take all those extra roos and chicks and sell 'em!

You know, the Dalton show always has a sale row in one of the barns, as well as plenty of folks in the parking lot selling their birds. They set up the cages in rows behind their cars/trucks. Some breeders even have special trucks with racks of cages inside. There will be birds everywhere, and if you don't want to rent a sale cage you could just open the back of your car and set the cages out . . .


So Holly, tell me how loud the Cornish roos are when they crow . . .