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I don't really know. I kept one of the barred boys and put him in my large fowl coop. His offspring do not breed sex-linked. He is not in there with any pure ameraucanas or even any of the easter egger splits. He is in there with wyandottes, orps and welsummers. His offspring have been all...

Hi, Alaina! Your comment about BR sex links caught my eye. I have been breeding blue amerauana and a black ameraucana roosters to barred rocks hens for a couple of years. You do indeed get a sex linked chick out of the deal. The females are all solid colors and the males are all barred. If...

I have some buff silkies I will be putting up for sale next week. There are a TON of Tennesseans with silkies (white, blue, black and splash all come to mind). Hope over to the Middle TN thread and post there too. A ton of us play on that thread too.

Ugg. I hate possums. Ick. Glad you got him. Be careful of that ankle, woman. We have things to do!

We started the Middle TN thread because this one was pretty heavy for east TN. Then the middle TNers got chatty. Now we are all chatting everywhere. Sigh.

Quote: My old farmer friend will argue you down about what you call those black and white stripey chickens. He doesn't believe me when I tell him mine are barred rocks. They are domineckers. Of course, he also thinks my welsummers are rhode island reds and he doesn't quite believe that the...

Quote: You are a better woman than I if you can resist the lure of the empty bator, especially a new one. Tell honey that you need to do some test hatches to make sure it is working properly.

Hey, y'all! Poll #2 about the next meet up- https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=441016 Someone will be posting another soon about the proposed Cookeville meet up. I know y'all are all as stupid busy as I am. Let's get these dates on the calendar!

Ohhhhhh.... gotcha!

stanglover- do you have a co-op near you? My co-op makes a 21% layer pellet that seems to be working great for my girls. I'll try to go snag the ingredient list off the bag to see exactly how it's made. I like the extra protein though. They have 16%, 18% and the 21%. It is the co-op brand...

Actually, I started the other one because I felt like we had hijacked this one from the East TN folks. Y'all usually are really chatty on this one. I kinda felt bad that we had muddied it up for you the last couple of weeks.

We won't! We just felt like we had hijacked the TN thread from the east Tennesseans. We'll all pop in every now and then.

Hey, Middle Tennesseans! Check out our new thread- https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=440277

I'm afraid the outside cat has signed peace treaties with all the little mousies. He is completely useless at rodent control. The indoor cats are iffy in their hunting skills. They really prefer to annoy the mice more than anything else. Problem two is that the mice come out mainly at night...

Quote: Amen! Thankfully the new magic muck boots have really deep treads on the bottom or I would have been flat on my back several times. I am klutz extraordinaire! I have found that breaking a new path everyday through the snow is my best bet. It is still crunchy enough to keep me...

Most of my coops are like yours, Believer. The Loew's playhouse, right? My silkie coop is one 4x4. The LF pen is two of those with an 8' shed built between them. I have covered the windows in all three of those with plastic sheeting. The AM coop and banty coop I built from scratch. The...

Awwww... look at all the happy, smiling kiddies! Cuteness everywhere! I'm trying to gear up to get motivated to get out of the house. They finally scraped the road late yesterday, so I'm going to have to go in to work eventually. Fingers crossed that it doesn't freeze over again as it will...

That pen has a gorgeous buff silkie roo (my backup) covering blue, white and buff hatchery hens. I haven't tried hatching anything out of there, but it would be interesting for sure. If your kids want to give some random mutt silkie eggs a try I am happy to send some that way later this...

Quote: True that! At this point we have 11 crazy chicken ladies coming to play and if Cindiloo shows up it will be 12+ of us taking over the mexican place. Whoohoo!!! Come play with us if you can. Coming from Carthage would be a bit of a trek, but it should be entertaining enough to make...

The girls are not amused. They all fussed at me endlessly this morning like the snow was my fault. I pointed out that I had nothing to do with it, but they were unconvinced. We got about 5", but it seems to still be spitting snow out there. It does make the homestead look pretty though...