The Middle Tennessee Thread

[oldchickenlady]

I would love some LF SLW's if anyone in TN has them. Has to be chicks or older, I don't have an incubator.

 

[Countrypunk92]

The ones I just recieved are not at POL( Point of Lay) Yet, but my friend has SLW, she just introduced a new roo. I will see if she will have eggs anytime soon. And I could Hatch them for you.

 

[KandiandJerry]

going to check my sources this week and see what I can come up with.................possibility...............I know where they are just have to see if the man will sell me some...

 

[KandiandJerry]

the ones countrypunk got from me this evening is the quality they will be he has pics posted on a earlier post..

 

[Countrypunk92]

Oh look how good they look on my avatar.

 

[KandiandJerry]

nice.....

 

[emmalynn]

Anne- goat upkeep first? Give time for everyone to kid.

 

[CarolJ]

A hawk got my wheaton araucana roo yesterday. I had let them out to free range for awhile. My husband looked out and saw the hawk attacking him. The roo had faced off the hawk while the hens and pullets ran to safety. My husband ran out and the hawk flew away - but the roo was dead. So mad at myself because I listened to husband who kept telling me I was being silly to worry about predators getting my chickens in our yard during the daytime. Hubby felt very guilty. He started working on a new and larger covered run yesterday. He's taking off work today and has another guy over here helping him build it. Amazing how upsetting it is to lose the roo. I'd named him Casper since he was mostly white - and we had so much fun watching him. He was the one roo I wanted to keep in order to breed him with my araucana pullets.

He was just 17 weeks old - and I had taken a video of him crowing on Saturday. So funny to watch - with his little rumpless bottom strutting around like he was such hot stuff. He had started mounting my older hens just this past week. Don't know if he was just "practicing" or if he was actually accomplishing the deed. However, I'm saving the eggs from yesterday and today - and I'll try to incubate them anyway - just in case he succeeded. It would be a strange combination because none of the araucana pullets are laying yet. So it would be the wheaton araucana roo over a black jersey giant (which was a funny sight to see him doing the deed with her), new hampshire red, ancona or assorted EEs. Probably won't have fertilized eggs from such a young rooster - but I figure it's worth an effort anyway.

Looking forward to getting that LGD in February. I figure it'll take me a long time to completely train her, but once I do, I won't have to worry much about predators again.

 

[DMRippy]

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So sorry! Do you have another roo?

Glad your hubby is fixing that problem for you. That is why I don't let mine free range. Hubby keeps telling me we should, but I am not going to unless we are with them every minute. I saw a pair of hawks near my breeding pens. But no one back there will ever free range.

 

[CarolJ]

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Mine won't free range again unless I am right outside with them. No exceptions - until next year when my LGD is fully trained.