The Middle Tennessee Thread

[debid]

YOU'RE KILLING ME! I've been sitting on my hands to NOT ORDER CHICKS because we really have enough right now and getting chicks would mean building some sort of grow-out pen and the associated arguments over whether it is necessary (my husband would surely want to toss them in with the adults as soon as they were off heat). I'm trying very hard to wait and see if I have a broody this spring because a broody hut inside the existing fortress would be a whole lot easier to toss together and then mama can introduce the chicks to the flock. I'd probably let her hatch an egg from our flock and then try to slip her two more sexed pullet chicks... but I should not be thinking about any of this because we don't need chicks this year!

Buncha ****** enablers, all of you.

BTW, the bator cam is brilliant!

 

[HBuehler]

I'm with you..I want chicks so bad but I'm gone most of Feb selling GS Cookies then on the road every weekend in March with the rabbits as well as most of April..not fair to my dh to have to do bators brooders and feed while he's working 12-16 hour days
Now,when it gets warm enough for broody success I will be happy! Each time they try and get eggs started one of those cold days come and kills my babies.No shortage of broodies here though now we mostly have bantam Cochin's
Baby pics are coming again soon though I promise

 

[Countrypunk92]

Hey, I Pmed you, Holly.
The bun I got was actually a doe.LOL
Double maned, Isnt it best to mate with a single mane?

 

[matlock585]

I'm so excited. I just did my seven day candling and all 11 of the blue and green eggs I set from my hens looked good. Well, I actually couldn't see the veining because the shells were too dark to see through, but I could see an air cell in all but one of them so I kept them all. I kept 22 of the bantie cochins and 3 of those are question marked, but the other 19 looked like acrobats.

 

[soroco]

I should finish the third pen tomorrow and am looking for eggs to hatch.
No one has replied when I ask if there were any large chickens that
lay colored eggs? I now get brown and light brown, Would like a
Trio of brown Leghorns for white eggs. but would like blue and green also maybe chocolate.
Saw a add for blue egg layers on LSN tonight but would rather hatch
myself. PM me if you can help. First bright sunny day I will try to
have my son take pictures of the Pheasants and put them up for me
afraid I don't know how.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Soroco- see below. I answered you right after you asked. I just didn't put your name on it.

My ameraucanas are laying again if you are interested in blue/splash ameraucanas. I haven't tested fertility yet this spring, so I can't guarantee how many are good, but if you are interested drop me a PM. Ameraucanas lay blue and blue green eggs.

My ameraucans are a nice midsize hen. The boys are a decent size, but the girls aren't as big as my buff orps or welsummers. They are round and fluffy though. I would guess that most AMs fall into that category too.

My EEs tend to be bigger than my pure AMs. Probably because most are mixed with buff orp, wyandotte or welsummer.

In about a month I should have blue and splash ameraucana chicks. I'm tossing eggs in the bator on Friday. Whoohoo!!

If you are content to wait until March, there will be chick days at TSC and the co-ops. I know the Murfreesboro co-op does barred rocks and production reds. I tend to time a hatch to come out at that same time of either EEs or AMs so I can brood them all together. Both barred rocks and production reds are sex linked, so you can tell which ones are girls right off the bat. Sometimes TSC has sexed chicks as well about that same time. You might be able to get all three breeds you want at about the same time. Of course, it does mean waiting until March.

 

[lemuckley_flock]

Have a few minutes before I'm getting everyone up for school, thought I'd share a few pics of our kids.

My favorite little chick - I love her colors!

More of the new babies - before they got the boot outside.

Four of my big girls last spring, having a little fun in my garden.

One of my all-time favorite pics of our chickens...our two six-year-olds decided one of the girls needed her 'nails' painted. She got pretty pink, and a sparkle beak as well. She was dubbed that day Queen Chloe and received her own home on the fort part of the swingset - Queen Chloe's Lair. Quite the regal chicken, lol!

 

[lemuckley_flock]

Okie dokie....obviously I have no idea what I'm doing! If you click the above links you can see the pics, and I'll try to figure out what I need to do to make them show up.

 

[matlock585]

They load fine once you click them. Nice pictures.

 

[debid]

Um, that favorite little chick with the pretty colors is looking like a boy to me...

Have a few minutes before I'm getting everyone up for school, thought I'd share a few pics of our kids.

My favorite little chick - I love her colors!

More of the new babies - before they got the boot outside.

Four of my big girls last spring, having a little fun in my garden.

One of my all-time favorite pics of our chickens...our two six-year-olds decided one of the girls needed her 'nails' painted. She got pretty pink, and a sparkle beak as well. She was dubbed that day Queen Chloe and received her own home on the fort part of the swingset - Queen Chloe's Lair. Quite the regal chicken, lol!