The Middle Tennessee Thread

[matlock585]

I won an egg auction yesterday. I've got 30 more of the cochin banties coming from luckypickens. That durn possom got most of my first ones I hatched from her. Guess I'll get my bator down today and start cleaning and making ready. I'm considering rebuilding it into a bigger cooler. I'm not sure I'll hold 30. I know I'll have to stack them to get that many anyway. Have any of ya'll stacked your eggs before?

 

[Jenski]

Morning all! It only took me four days to figure out how to find you again, LOL! I am too old for all this newfangled computer stuff, eh! The site looks great, but it is going to take me quite some time to figure it all out. . . . but for now it's time to go clean out the pens.

Hope you all are staying warm! Have a great weekend.

 

[Countrypunk92]

Hung out with Okla today. Bought a new hamp hen, a mixed hen( she is just plain gorgous) and a wyandotte roo. Need to find glw hens now lol. Anyway, bought 7 dozen eggs of golden comets. And to top it all off my JG laid her first egg today!!!!!!

 

[NEK38583]

I was wondering if any one in the area would be interested in splitting an order from sandhill and McMurray. I would like to get this around the first week of may, but we would need to get our orders in soon before the become sold out. You would have to be willing to come to sparta to pick up the chicks as it is hard for me to travel. If you are interested please pm me or email me. Thanks so much.

 

[Countrypunk92]

Mcmurray is an awesome hatchery.
If you didnt live so far away I would of thought about it. but you are a good distance.
I also like Meyers.

 

[EweSheep]

OK folks hopefully I am in the right place here in the TN thread. I have questions for you if you incline to help or offer suggestions or advises!

We are planning on a trip to Shiloh event http://shiloh150th.com/index.html and wondered where we can find a good campsite available no more than ten miles from Shiloh battlegrounds. We want to tour the battlefields and local events going on at the same time (like our New Salem site, houses, crafts, etc. of old history).

We will be doing some primitive camping, having our own tents but don't know about the weather wise. Has it been decent for you in the past few years? I can not take the cold or cold wet windy days but there are some level of toleration I can handle before deciding to bunk in a motel/hotel. I got a BIG fear of bedbugs or what nots that I dont need hitchhikers coming home with us.

We were hoping a friend of my hubby would take us in her beautiful home but so far, it looked like she dropped from the face of the earth...maybe her computer is down or not working. Its a pity hubby didn't get her address and phone number before it happened.

I might have more but I would not mind picking up a few chickens on the way back home LOL!

 

[soroco]

Just joined I live on White county line. I'm working on order now for McMurrey PM me and I'll try figure out how to read it

 

[soroco]

What type of order are you wanting to make>
I'm thinking of pheasant eggs, but would also
like a few Black Australorps females.
Would that help you?

 

[NEK38583]

Yeah, that would help. Maybe we could fine a few more people. I would like around 10 bantam sultans, if you took a few, we would just some more to make the min number of 25. I am posting around some local sites to so maybe we will get some more people who want to order.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

We will be doing some primitive camping, having our own tents but don't know about the weather wise. Has it been decent for you in the past few years? I can not take the cold or cold wet windy days but there are some level of toleration I can handle before deciding to bunk in a motel/hotel. I got a BIG fear of bedbugs or what nots that I dont need hitchhikers coming home with us.
I might have more but I would not mind picking up a few chickens on the way back home LOL!

Hey, EweSheep! Welcome to TN!

I know nothing of local campsites. Hopefully some of the others can chime in and help out there. Our weather is wildly unpredictable. We have been having highs in the 60s/lows in the 40s, but this week we got snow and ice and temps down in the 20s at night. Later this week it's back up almost to 60 again with lows in the high 20s. Sigh. It has been VERY rainy this winter. My pens have had a couple of inches of mud for weeks now. About the time they start drying out it rains again. The ground is really saturated right now. I'm sorry to say that it has been nothing but cold, wet and windy lately.
I haven't heard that bedbugs are a problem in TN. Doesn't mean that they aren't. Just means that the news isn't talking about them. You are probably okay as long as you don't stay at one of the really cheap motels.

So far as taking chickens back home, this lot is a bunch of enablers. Just say the breed and someone will happily add more chickens to your stash.