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  1. coleco

    What is your latest prepping project?

    I was going to get some golden phaesants over the weekend but im under the weather and my friend with the birds has surgery this week. Couldnt risk getting her sick. I want to though.
  2. coleco

    What is your latest prepping project?

    Duck eggs can become many and snow is slick. From my experience I build in coop storage "boxes" to store eggs so that they don't freeze (yuck) and for the ability to have them all in one place when i am ready to collect them. Then if i see an egg I can move it. For my purposes I need the...
  3. coleco

    What is your latest prepping project?

    I suggest some quails. They go from hatch to egg production in 7 weeks. I have been prepping for breeding some chickens this winter. While i do not live in a very blizzard prone environment here in kansas, i keep my birds away from where i live and it does get very cold. We have a range from...
  4. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    What a bummer danz. I'm wondering now if my guineas that decided to sleep on top of the coop last night survived the owl that is constantly hooting back there.
  5. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    The best thing you can do is Not to panic. Its specific to the worm how they kill the chickens and it is not a fun read about how. They will act lethargic for a few days while they recover. The damage isn't already done, they can spring back out of it. I have a chicken that I call the...
  6. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    Happy Belated Danz! I spared everyone here my winter panic yesterday! I was going to post about how my native Kansan intuition was screaming that winter is coming! I am ok for winter, the birds will survive, but that is not my plan. My plan is to build at least 7 pens and runs before...
  7. coleco

    Indoor plumbing?

    If you build a cabinet for the plumbing with a lightbulb inside it will generate enough warmth to keep it thawed (depending on the lightbulb depending on the power staying on) If you wanted to get snazzy you get the on demand propane camp shower and plumb it into the faucet to have hot water...
  8. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    I really was amazed by your work Danz. Love the ideas and will have to come back for a work day to help sometime! You definitely deserve a break even if it's unwanted. I will absolutely return the favor on the breeders when i find another line and build some pens. Can you add eggs into a flock...
  9. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    I am going to eventually write a build thread but ill send a pm for now :D
  10. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    I did build one and I have some kind of sickness because I continue to think of building more. My first hatch went ok but humidity wasn't easy. I have now completely waterproofed the wood and it's time for a new test because I got 10 eggs from ChickenDanz. This time around i'm going to build a...
  11. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    I wanted to say that I went to Waverly and traded with Danz for some chooks. She is such a nice person and I was overloaded with all of the cool birds lol. I decided this year to start breeding some Lavender Orpingtons and the roosters that I got from Danz are going to have me off to an amazing...
  12. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    I wish i had known people needing net. Tsc had 7'x100' 1" bird netting rolls for 19.99 on clearance and i called some people but nobody wanted some.
  13. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    Congratulations TerraBellaBirds on the NPIP!
  14. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    ...(cant get mint to stop) You will find that you can grow almost anything in Kansas if you can take the heat. Broccoli still eludes me but it's just too hot to fast for it to work for me. It's easy in the spring, hot in july and i personally start giving up in august. **** it's not august...
  15. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    Welcome! I got several of those breeds from heartland hatchery at local chick days. The way i find the chick days has always been by checking craigslist. For example: next saturday http://kansascity.craigslist.org/grd/5123447619.html That said it seems that we have a lot of good breeders even...
  16. coleco

    eating feed but not chickens

    Oppossum, when theres no more feed it will turn on the ducks.
  17. coleco

    Consolidated Kansas

    My chickens had first eggs like that or with a leathery shell. Do you have some pullets that are close or is this happening from hens?
  18. coleco

    Do I euthanize?

    It's part of both the chicken cycle and chicken owner cycle. Sorry to hear it. Last week my pure french black copper marans was killed, defeathered, torn open, and rolled 30' where the predator got her stuck in a fence and ran off when I arrived.. I picked her up to put her body in the trap...
  19. coleco

    Anti dig skirts

    I have seen evidence of a skunk digging but that was it, he gave up. It does sound simplistic but just like a minnow trap sometimes the solution (back up and dig) is just outside of an animals toolset.
  20. coleco

    Anti dig skirts

    Yard staples are exactly what you think. They are big steel staples maybe 1- 1.5" wide and maybe 5" long. They come un-galvanized so that they rust and bond with the soil. I purchased them in a box of 1000 at the landscape center because the price point was much better. I think they ask 10$...
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