The Middle Tennessee Thread

[FarmerVal]

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So sweet!

 

[RThomas]

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I'll probably stop by sometime on Saturday to check it out. It's not like I need more animals, though. Maybe I should stay way.

 

[Jenski]

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What'd I tell you??!!!


Hmph. I'm going to buy a bottle of wine. What goes with Samoas?

 

[Troyerchicks]

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What'd I tell you??!!!


Hmph. I'm going to buy a bottle of wine. What goes with Samoas?

Anything red...or white.

 

[HBuehler]

Coffee

So everyone that has cookies here...please let me know if you will be at the April meet up...so I can get your cookies to Jens house... Once again darn Girl Scouts..messing me up for this weekend's show and then the April meet up..I would much rather spend the afternoon with my chicken friends than playing mini golf in Gatlinburg staying in some resort Chalet spending tons of chicken money on the aquarium and the Believe it or not suff...The prices on the food where they picked to eat...$9.00 for a cheeseburger come on what's it made out of.OK I may need to borrow Jens picture soon

Only good thing I get to spend the weekend with my daughter..but not rest of my family..Ok I'm about to blow where is that pic

CityGirl-what kind of fun eggs do you want...Bantam Cochin-I'm not sure but I may be sticking in a frizzle for fun in there,Bantam Cochin Bantam Ameraucana Cross I can stick in a frizzle or Big EE

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Ooooo... lets do a smorgasbord of bantam cochins. That sounds fun! (If a couple of bantam AMs snuck in though I would HAVE to hatch them, now wouldn't I?)

 

[Shelly_WNC]

Hi all!

I see everyone is bursting with energy here in our Middle TN area , spring has sprung and this weekend is going to be beautiful and Sunny Saturday from the weather report.

I am bating a zero on incubating and it's not the lovely eggs I have been giving. I seem to have a break down after lock down, argh! My last hatch of 4 eggs and one pipped and zipped real good on day #20 I was jumping up and down all over the place I was so happy. but after 24 hours and almost a full zip the little chirper couldn't get out ... so i helped . Basically the shell was stuck to it - is that what some refer to as 'shirk wrapped' ?? I have no idea , but I hadn't opened the bator and my hygrometer read over 80% (I swear it's wrong though). Any way the little one has been in the brooder for it's second day and just chirps and chirps , it looks very sickly barely can stand up straight but it's a fighter and does laps around the rubbermaid bin all day long. It's also lonely so I put a feather duster in there and it sleeps in the feathers (how sweet). I'll post pics after work ... but it just breaks my heart that it's not 100% and that it's lonely.

Sooooo I am now lo0king for a few day old chicks ... What all do you have over at your place Holly?

I'm going to clean up the bator and try again ... after I buy a few more thermometers and humidity readers. Any one have a suggestion on the best they have found? (right now I have TWO mercury thermometers and one gqf hygrometer ... I rely on the mercurys for the temp and so far I'm doing terrible with the humidity reader).

believer01 - I know what you mean , I am not real sure my significant other feeds the chicks while I was gone for three days because they were WAY to happy to see me and their feed. *smile*


FarmerVal - congrats on your hatch. Hearing wonderful stories like that keeps me going ... to try again.

ENJOY THE SUNSHINE ALL !!!!

 

[HBuehler]

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Ooh 80% is way too high...less water next time.You will notice on rainy weather days like we have been having the humidity levels are high inside the bator so may not need to add any water to lockdown if it's raining outside.The chick was stuck because the humidity was too high..they get glued into the shell.The small black and silver dual temp/humidity reader at walmart-can't think of the brand works super..the white small one they sell is as reliable as my cat catching a mouse in my house.
I don't have any day old chicks..or any that I will sell but I do have some week old chicks and 2 week old's that are looking for a new home..they just don't realize it

 

[FarmerVal]

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We just hatched some Buff Orpingtons and French Black Copper Marans today. I was planning on listing some on craigslist, as we do not plan on keeping them all (though I would love to!). We still have a few more getting ready to hatch tonight. Not sure if those are the breeds you're looking for.

I set 8 Blue Wheaten Ameraucana eggs, and so far it only looks like one is going to make it...

I'm so glad I decided on trying a few other breeds of eggs or I would have really been dissapointed.

My silkie is finally laying and if I'm looking at her cracked eggs correct, it looks like their finally fertile. I have a few more Ameraucauna eggs headed our way so I plan on setting some of our silkie eggs with them. This hatching eggs thing is turning out to be quite addicting...

 

[HBuehler]

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You have been officially warned there is only 1 cure for the bantam Cochin addiction...MORE..they are the worst of the worst for addiction.
Ok it will be fluffy bantam Cochin's ..the Am's are not laying so those are Cochin Am crosses..Sam likes Cochin hens...and wyandotte hens...heck he likes them all

'm moving my cochin's around some tomorrow so my Mille's will be the only one in their pen but it will allow for some fun frizzles and others in the mottled pen.. which will all be split to Mille since I sold my black mottled roo I can't wait for Toast to begin liking girls..Buff Silkie Roo Mille Cochin hens...should be interesting
All of my Black Orpington's and FBCM chicks left tonight.It's getting tough to be the chicken that lives here.Then there are the pets that get to stay no matter what

Got to go put my lone egg into lockdown...bantam Cochin baby