Consolidated Kansas

[sunflowerparrot]

Introducing Fern She is home!

 

[tweetysvoice]

Introducing Fern She is home!

She is absolutely adorable!!!!!!!!!

 

[redsoxs]

Fern is a beauty, alright! Looks like a lot of fun!!
How about the weather this weekend?? It's been a long time when I've been comfortable outside all day long. It was down right cool this morning!! Made me wish for fall!!!

 

[chicken danz]

Ha! Ha! I've been wishing for fall for a couple months now but it wasn't because it was cool. And I normally hate fall. I'm typically a summer warm weather girl.
I'm draining the duck pond on to the garden again. It has only been days but my it's nasty! At least it is water for the garden which I other wise won't use. I told DH earlier when we dump all the bird water bowls and pans we might have to start recycling it. Normally the birds enjoy the damp ground but we may have to use it to water what little food we have left growing. Most of it is for the birds anyway.

 

[michelleml]

sunflowerparrot she is a cutie good luck with

 

[lizzyGSR]

sunflower - congrats on getting a puppy! She is adorable!

Yesterday, we had a REALLY nice day. It only got up to 82. We got 1/100" of rain the night before last. It wasn't much, but like everyone else, we'll take what we can get. Yesterday was such a welcome break from the heat. It is warmer today, but it is still well below the 110 we'd been having. Plus, there is a little bit of a breeze, which helps as well.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Hawkeye, Glad to hear you had a great birthday! Hope this is your best year ever.

sunflowerparrot, Fern is adorable!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

I picked up my second round of Swedish Flower eggs today and I'm so excited! The one little Swedish I have is a rowdy little thing. Sometimes when I peek in at it, It jumps up and pecks the plexiglas in the hovabator. I have it in there until a few other chicks hatch and can keep it company. It's certainly not shy and I enjoy that silly bird a lot! I have 21 eggs and have set them today and just can't wait to see how they hatch this time. The first group were pullet eggs that just weren't fertile but these are larger and I'm sure the fertility is better. I'm so excited.

Danz, are you feeling better?


Gotta run!

 

[michelleml]

which would you keep. The house we bought has a double door fridge(maytag 2010) but the freezer is way too small. We have a larger double door fridge/freezer(whirlpool 2007) but its been in storage for the past 3 years was only used for a few year before storage and we have a deep freezer trying to figure out which we should keep. I could sell one and use the money on fixing up the house or christmas money.

DH says he likes the one we have in the house cause we don't have to move it and it has a lock on the water/ice despenser. But i like the older one sense it has a little more space in the freezer

 

[sapphireblu76]

I have a chicken with a problem. About a week or so ago, she flew out of the yard and decided to roost in an evergreen. I saw her fly out and caught her after running around, under and through this big tree trying to catch her. She lost her tail feathers when I tried to get her out of the tree the first time. Ever since then, she hasn't been acting right and a couple of days ago I noticed she was keeping one eye closed. I checked it and it looks fine. She is also keeping her head turned and today she is holding her head completely upside down and turned almost all the way around side ways. I brought her in today and she is light as a feather, so I don't think she's been eating. I gave her electrolytes and fed her some egg in a syringe. She seemed to perk up and straighten out a little for an hour or so, but now she's acting off again. I repeated food and water, but I don't know what else to do. I have no clue what could be wrong with her or what to do for her. I have some of the powdered antibiotic you can get from Orcheln's, but it says it's for respiratory. Any ideas, please?

 

[Hawkeye95]

Introducing Fern She is home!

Adorable!! Congratulations!!

Hawkeye, Glad to hear you had a great birthday! Hope this is your best year ever.


I picked up my second round of Swedish Flower eggs today and I'm so excited! The one little Swedish I have is a rowdy little thing. Sometimes when I peek in at it, It jumps up and pecks the plexiglas in the hovabator. I have it in there until a few other chicks hatch and can keep it company. It's certainly not shy and I enjoy that silly bird a lot! I have 21 eggs and have set them today and just can't wait to see how they hatch this time. The first group were pullet eggs that just weren't fertile but these are larger and I'm sure the fertility is better. I'm so excited.

Thank you Karen! I have no idea what this year will hold, but I have no doubt it will be a good year. Hope your new eggs do well for you! Good luck!

which would you keep. The house we bought has a double door fridge(maytag 2010) but the freezer is way too small. We have a larger double door fridge/freezer(whirlpool 2007) but its been in storage for the past 3 years was only used for a few year before storage and we have a deep freezer trying to figure out which we should keep. I could sell one and use the money on fixing up the house or christmas money.

DH says he likes the one we have in the house cause we don't have to move it and it has a lock on the water/ice despenser. But i like the older one sense it has a little more space in the freezer

Personally, I would keep the new fridge. For a couple of reasons... One-- the newer models are more energy efficient. They use less energy and have better seals to maintain more efficiency. And two-- it's newer, so you are going to run into less troubles with it in the long run. And Three-- the older one has been in storage for 3 years?? Well, my parents did something exactly like that... they stored a brand new fridge for 3 or 4 years while they had to be gone, and when they came back, the fridge never did run well. Mice had gotten into it and the seals were not holding well... it's like it warped or something from the heat maybe?? I don't know. I say you have a known fridge right now that is working. Why chance bringing in an old fridge that might break in two weeks because a mouse chewed thru a cable or water line and you don't know about it until it has time to run for a bit and then die on you. No way would I chance that... not after our first hand experience. If you have a deep freeze, I'd just use that for your extra storage. There's my two cents.