Consolidated Kansas

[Silkie Chick]

Medawinks- We all love that name! It sounds as though Bloom has found a home where she is having a lot of fun!

 

[prairie]

Love the name Bloom! Might have to use it for my little Light Brahma I got from Danz! Great name for a white chicken!!

Well my baby guinea is still doing great, Ivy! This morn when I checked on them she was trying to hide under the baby duck's wings -- and her head is bigger than their wings!! When I went out a bit ago she was up on top of the ducks! I bet that little guinea will think of those ducks as her mama!

p.s. they ate the whole egg plus the chick starter I put with it!

 

[JosieChick]

Hahahahaha!!!! It takes a bit more convincing than that sometimes!!! He is a very good guy and puts up tremendously with my chicken habit! The ducks are doing great, they are so sweet at this age I might just buy a little baby boy from you and raise the three little ones together and keep them. It is so much easier to handle them when they are this little. The bigger pair are still as wild as can be!

Ivy- RP poults are doing great!! One of them keeps sprawling out and I keep freaking out thinking it is dead but it jumps right back up and runs around!!!

Well I just forgot to mention one thing. I think Josiechick's husband is the perfect husband! Anytime she'd mention getting something he'd say "Okay, whatever you want." Wow! We could all use men like that except maybe Wichitakid, Pikeman, etc. You might want to not look that direction!

Back to work in the yard, we are putting up the dog fence today so no slacking for me!

 

[Ivywoods]

Josie-They freak me out, too when they lay there like they are dead. It just looks so unnatural.

I just finished doing chores. The wind is blowing hard. It is hot, and we haven't had a drop of rain for so long. All these big storms that have been around Kansas have ALL missed us, sometimes by just a few miles! It is so dry the mulberries are turning into little rocks on the trees. Even my burning bush is scorched, and there is so much dust sometimes it's hard to keep your eyes open. They are talking that it might rain tonigh and in the morning, but I'm not holding my breath. We need rain so badly!

I need to go down the basement. There's some quail chicks down there that need to be moved out, and some chicks in the hatcher to come out, and more pipping. I just put a set of turkey eggs in the hatcher, and noticed one of those was pipped already. I hope I have a good hatch on these like the last one. After this, I'm just going to hatch out a few more chickens, and only some of the ones I want to keep and raise up for showing, like my rosecombs, black bantam cochins and old english silver duckwings.

 

[medawinks]

Wahoo!!!! My kids are dancing around and thrilled to pieces! Aubri found a small pink egg in the box I have for the silkies to snuggle in. Our new Silkie, Bloom, decided to lay a perfect little egg!! I had told the kids it would be a while before she would do that, but she would be laying before the little silkies. How old did you say she was Silkie Chick? I thought you said that she was 7 months old.

I know you all see these things daily and they are old hat, but here..... it is major excitement!
Especially for this little guy!!!

 

[sharol]

That is terrific.

Wahoo!!!! My kids are dancing around and thrilled to pieces! Aubri found a small pink egg in the box I have for the silkies to snuggle in. Our new Silkie, Bloom, decided to lay a perfect little egg!! I had told the kids it would be a while before she would do that, but she would be laying before the little silkies. How old did you say she was Silkie Chick? I thought you said that she was 7 months old.

I know you all see these things daily and they are old hat, but here..... it is major excitement!
Especially for this little guy!!!

 

[HEChicken]

Medawink, congrats on the egg. Be aware though, that you may not see another egg for some time. A hen that is laying will usually stop laying when she experiences any type of stress such as a move from one place to another. If an egg were already "in the works" at the time of the move, it will be laid shortly after she gets to the new destination. She might even lay 2-3. But her body stops producing eggs at the time of the move so after the ones that were already started have moved through the system, she will likely not lay another one for several weeks. It is nice to know you have a laying hen though, and once she adjusts fully, you can look forward to some more of those pretty little eggs!

 

[Ivywoods]

Medawinks-yep. It's a hen.

 

[Silkie Chick]

Medawinks- We didn't think that she would be laying for another month or two because that is when our other silkie started to lay. She is seven months old. I am so glad that she is going to be laying for you all!

 

[prairie]

Ivy, We haven't had any rain either for weeks! I can stick all my fingers down in the cracks in the ground! We also lost our oldest (25 yrs) peach tree -- a Belle of Georgia white peach-- which has the most fantastic and sweetest peaches in the world. It is an old heirloom variety so we planted some of the seeds about 8 yrs ago so now have 3 other bearing of that variety.

I watered the garden and all the flowers because I don't think we will get any rain tonight either. I have the sweetest hubby-- yesterday before he went out to start baling hay he hauled 4 trailer loads of hay and mulched my tomatoes and peppers with about 10 inches of hay! I was working in the house and didn't even see him do it! That was going to be my job for tomorrow and now I don't have to so guess I have time to play with all my little ladies more!!

Where does everyone show their birds? I know dumb question........... but I haven't a clue where the birds are shown except maybe at county and at the State Fair in Hutch.