The Middle Tennessee Thread

[msmeower]

Country Punk, I have chicks! Gold Laced Polish, Black and White Frizzled Cochin bantams hatched about 2 weeks ago. Also have the following hatching now: Gold Laced Polish, White Crested Black Polish, Auracana, Frizzled Cochin Bantam, Sumatra and Mille Fleurs d'Uccle. Also some interesting Polish/Mille Fleur crosses! We are NPIP. All chicks are vaccinated for Marek's. Near Lynchburg, TN. 931-695-3301

 

[DMRippy]

I just set my last 120 eggs....

I don't even think I want to hatch in the fall .... I will not have any big hatches again till december

Now I will hatch some special breeds in the fall but they are strickly because I NEED them

None that will be for sale.

 

[wife89]

My incubator is looking empty

Till the BLRW eggs get here. But that will be my last hatch for a little while. REALLY!

I have chicks, it you know someone that needs some. I have some NH and some clean legged cuckoo marans (blue and reg) I kinda think that is it for now. I have a few more hatching, but not many that would be for sale.

I have to get these pullets out to growout pens ASAP. I am going to use the breeding pens as grow outs for now. By the time they are big enough to put in their reg pens I will have some more to go in their growout pens.

Another reason I need a break.

I would like a few Cuckoo Marans... How much are you asking for them?

 

[DMRippy]

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[matlock585]

just found the four turkeys I hatched dead in their grow pen... I don't know what happened. Also, I've got a dang fox picking me clean of my grown birds. Do any of ya'll have any springtraps I could borrow? I have my rifle and I'm a good shot, but this thing is coming randomly and we are gone most of the day.

 

[Leah21]

just found the four turkeys I hatched dead in their grow pen... I don't know what happened. Also, I've got a dang fox picking me clean of my grown birds. Do any of ya'll have any springtraps I could borrow? I have my rifle and I'm a good shot, but this thing is coming randomly and we are gone most of the day.

I am so sorry! I don't know about traps, but I read somewhere here on BYC that someone deterred a fox by putting a radio out by the coop on talk radio. It might be worth a shot...

 

[TinTennessee]

Is there a way to tell who is the head bird in the coop? I have 3 cockrels and need to get rid of at least 1 probably 2. I dont want to upset the pecking order to much. So i'd like to get rid of the lowest man on the totem pole (or roost if you will) first.

 

[DMRippy]

Is there a way to tell who is the head bird in the coop? I have 3 cockrels and need to get rid of at least 1 probably 2. I dont want to upset the pecking order to much. So i'd like to get rid of the lowest man on the totem pole (or roost if you will) first.

The way they roost.... the ones higher on the roost are higher in the pecking order. Lower roost lower on the pecking order.

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Most of mine get on the top roost lol

 

[TinTennessee]

they still sleep on the floor. I'm just about to go put some on the roost maybe then they'll figure out thats where their supposed to sleep. But also all my roost are basically the same height.