The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

Quote: KOOL! She was from hatchery stock and they star laying early. Wow.... I must have sold everything that would be laying now

I just don't have many pullets that look like they should be laying. I know one WL is laying.... everyday since she started

It is coming.... soon though... I hear about everyone else's birds they got from me are laying. Glad we guessed right on the SLW too.

 

[TinTennessee]

TinTN..... Your Marans pullet is looking pretty good to me.... I should have kept her.  Nice copper in her neck.  Dose she have copper on her breast at all?  She was mossy right? and clean legs?  Hum... might have to keep some of those mossy girls.  I see hope in this years Marans.   Now if I can find enough pullets at my place with copper necks, I will be in business.   Now if I just know what roo was the sire :/

 

Donna no copper except her neck, she's shed/ molted all the rest. I really like the dark blue on her. If I breed her to my ROO would the color wash out? I might have to see if I could get you to hatch some eggs for me next year. Any chance of that?

 

[DMRippy]

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Me hatch eggs....

your are funny. Blue to Blue matings are the best... will give you a more even tone in the chicks. You will get Blue Splash and Black. 50% blues though. I KNOW you will show me the egg color... I bet she lays a darker egg

I could not use her anyway... I just want to use feathered legs in my pens. I still get clean legs, but not as many.

 

[DMRippy]

I just got some white wyandotte hatching eggs... shipping next week! The are for a friend... but she can only have pullets and maybe 1-2 since she also wants other breeds. I get to keep the extras... or sell them.... hum.... need more pens.... need more pens.....


That Incubators Anonymous thread is no help...

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I need y'all's help. Something got in my large fowl pen Friday night and killed all 15 of my birds. That pen was an assortment of breeds and ages, including the six I had gotten to POL from this season. Even the rooster was dead and he was a tough cookie. I got home after midnight Friday and didn't go out to lock the coops up. I don't know if it happened before that point or after that point. Either way I'm just sick over it. This was the pen of chickens I have had since I started.

I found all but one of them in the food shed between the roosting coops. The other was out in the run. I saw no obvious damage to them. One was completely missing. They were scattered throughout that shed (4' deep x 8' long and about 3' high). None of the other pens was affected. The marans who likes to roost up on top of the run was fine. The spangled sussex that got stuck in the banty pen was also fine. Just those in the LF pen were affected.

I'm assuming that this is a predator. I have set the live traps for the last two nights and had bait stolen the first night and the trap disturbed the second night. I have been fighting possums all summer, but this doesn't seem like a possum attack. Weasel perhaps? It could be raccoon since I know they are around. None of the birds were decapitated though. They were just dead.

The other options would be illness or poison. No one has acted ill and I've seen no evidence of sickness. None of the other pens have been affected and they all touch each other. The birds were all different breeds and ages, so it would be odd that an illness would just touch those 15 and none of the other pens.
If it were poison I would have expected the birds to be scattered around the pen instead of all up under the shed. Plus the two that lived would also have gotten into whatever might have killed them. Everyone was absolutely fine when I left for work Friday morning.

What could have done this? What am I missing? Do y'all think it was a predator? How do I catch this sucker? It needs to die.

 

[DMRippy]

So SORRY

That is so odd..... usually animals kill to eat, not to just kill. Cats will kill for the fun of it. Maybe a dog. It really does not sound like something they would have done.

 

[Countrypunk92]

I just got some white wyandotte hatching eggs... shipping next week!  The are for a friend... but she can only have pullets and maybe 1-2 since she also wants other breeds.  I get to keep the extras... or sell them.... hum.... need more pens.... need more pens.....

 

That Incubators Anonymous thread is no help...

When you hatch them and you decide to get rid of them, I will gladly buy them. White dottes are easier to breed. And they are stunning!

 

[Countrypunk92]

I let out my buff sussex, my layer hen and my pet blrw roo I rescued.. came out and my border collie got out and killed the blrw roo.... He was everyones fav..my neighbors fed him and loved seeing him out in their yard... Told fam that we need to find him a nice farm with livestock...

 

[pickledchicken]

I need y'all's help. Something got in my large fowl pen Friday night and killed all 15 of my birds. That pen was an assortment of breeds and ages, including the six I had gotten to POL from this season. Even the rooster was dead and he was a tough cookie. I got home after midnight Friday and didn't go out to lock the coops up. I don't know if it happened before that point or after that point. Either way I'm just sick over it. This was the pen of chickens I have had since I started.

I found all but one of them in the food shed between the roosting coops. The other was out in the run. I saw no obvious damage to them. One was completely missing. They were scattered throughout that shed (4' deep x 8' long and about 3' high). None of the other pens was affected. The marans who likes to roost up on top of the run was fine. The spangled sussex that got stuck in the banty pen was also fine. Just those in the LF pen were affected.

I'm assuming that this is a predator. I have set the live traps for the last two nights and had bait stolen the first night and the trap disturbed the second night. I have been fighting possums all summer, but this doesn't seem like a possum attack. Weasel perhaps? It could be raccoon since I know they are around. None of the birds were decapitated though. They were just dead.

The other options would be illness or poison. No one has acted ill and I've seen no evidence of sickness. None of the other pens have been affected and they all touch each other. The birds were all different breeds and ages, so it would be odd that an illness would just touch those 15 and none of the other pens.
If it were poison I would have expected the birds to be scattered around the pen instead of all up under the shed. Plus the two that lived would also have gotten into whatever might have killed them. Everyone was absolutely fine when I left for work Friday morning.

What could have done this? What am I missing? Do y'all think it was a predator? How do I catch this sucker? It needs to die.

Sorry to hear about this it's never a good feeling ! It doesn't sound like illness it sounds as if the birds had tried to seek refuge. The dog that killed my chicken was a little Pomeranian he killed it and then carried it about ten feet and went on his marry way. I plan on putting up an electric fence soon I'm gonna use a 100 mile fence charger with a whopping 6 joules of zap. Unfortunately I think this is common ground all us chicken folks will share sooner or later I know your pain !

 

[pickledchicken]

I have 21 eggs in lockdown today some English Orps, Lav Orps, and Golden Cuckoo Marans