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The Knoxville new ordinance a few years ago we put through was actually pretty easy. Chattanooga had many more hops to go through. We have built a variety of chicken tractors for people in west Knoxville and provide them with new pullets every 2 years. Has worked well and none if the HOA...

Welcome to all the new folks. You'll love East TN and never leave. :-)

Setup... you mean breeding pens? I rotationally graze with Kencove electronetting behind the sheep and cattle. I have a quad set of adjustable breeding pens and a triple cock/grow out pen. Nothing fancy. But easier for me than most I believe because I use Italian maremma - so no predation...

I too am in that area and have several hundred on the ground. I don't begin selling them each year until June... after they are all sexed and sorted and close to POL.

The only coyotes ever killed here would be ones eating our stock. Killing coyotes from an area who are not eating your livestock will simply mean that eventually other coyotes will move that habitat - and they just might have a taste for the livestock you have. We have quite a variety of...

When we first moved here we spent a lot of time fencing all 50 acres. Each of us routinely had 20-25 ticks to pull off each night. Seven guineas and a year later and i only had 2 ticks the entire year. Lots of turkey, deer and bobcat here. If you plan on small ruminants then the deer can...

I can honestly say I've seen no cock roaches here. The biggest problem we have had is ticks. Want the goods news or the bad news? Bad news first. .. guineas are noisy. Good news... they'll solve your tick problem in one year. ;-)

You'll LOVE TN. The good news is that if you should have roaches you'll never see them. Poultry are omnivores. They require animal protein and bugs should be a big party of their diet unless you you supplementing them with meat or some other kind of animal protein. We rotate ours daily to...

Bless you!

I'm a little slow. ;-) Knoxville will be my first show so I may bug you to death. Lol

Paige?

Officially entered in Knoxville. Hope to meet a few of you there.

I'm working on that. A friend who is judging this weekend came through to visit on his way to judge today. I apparently NEED to be showing some of these youngsters. ;-)

I have a few RC RIR that need to be shown in Dec. An exceptionally nice cockerel. But they won't let me leave on Sat night and I have a prior commitment on Sunday I can't get out of. I'm trying to talk the person who breed my foundation stock into driving down and showing and showing mine...

Welcome. Just down the road from you with standard bred RC RIR and Rhodebars

Hey! We'll have none of that here! ;-) :-P

Smoky Mountain East TN is the name of the other thread where there are occasionally posts.

The east TN lay is not very active... Most of us pay on the Smokey mountain list. But welcome... There are some of us in the area. I breed standard bred true Rhode Island Reds and Rhodebars

Welcome to you both. We aren't too far from you just north of Chattanooga. Good luck with your startup flocks.

I loaned my small bator and a dozen Rhodebar eggs to my sisters school to hatch. They hatched 5 pullets and 5 cockerels, so anyone wanting easily sexed Rhodebar chicks please let me know... I will not be keeping any of this hatch since I just had knee surgery about 10 hrs ago and will not be...