Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

I do too but not nearly as many as I used to. I've sold all my excess until I decide who is going to be breeding for me other than that one I just mentioned. Once I pick breeders I'll sell the others. They will all be fancy birds.
I just got in from feeding and watering. I had to shovel off a truck load of feed while I was at it. I also took the starter from my fermented feed and started a batch of fermented chick starter. I am going through way too much. I just realized I desperately need a grow out pen and house. I have so many birds I need to move from the brooder but that I'm not ready to put in the breeder pens yet. I have a travel trailer I bought to use as a chicken house. I could use it but I need to do some work on it first and take it off the trailer frame. Maybe when it dries up a little of this ice and snow I can figure out what to do with it. I want to salvage the trailer for DH to use but the camper top part is perfect for a chicken house.
It looks pretty ghetto but it would work for that purpose.
I am so sick of blowing my nose and sneezing. I even tried some different decongestant but it didn't help. I really want to take a nap but have too much to do.
I got the rest of the gifts for my kids and grandkids wrapped rather sloppily but at least they are done. I'm ready to get the excess stuff out of here!!!

 

[maidenwolfx80]

I do too but not nearly as many as I used to. I've sold all my excess until I decide who is going to be breeding for me other than that one I just mentioned. Once I pick breeders I'll sell the others. They will all be fancy birds.
I just got in from feeding and watering. I had to shovel off a truck load of feed while I was at it. I also took the starter from my fermented feed and started a batch of fermented chick starter. I am going through way too much. I just realized I desperately need a grow out pen and house. I have so many birds I need to move from the brooder but that I'm not ready to put in the breeder pens yet. I have a travel trailer I bought to use as a chicken house. I could use it but I need to do some work on it first and take it off the trailer frame. Maybe when it dries up a little of this ice and snow I can figure out what to do with it. I want to salvage the trailer for DH to use but the camper top part is perfect for a chicken house.
It looks pretty ghetto but it would work for that purpose.
I am so sick of blowing my nose and sneezing. I even tried some different decongestant but it didn't help. I really want to take a nap but have too much to do.
I got the rest of the gifts for my kids and grandkids wrapped rather sloppily but at least they are done. I'm ready to get the excess stuff out of here!!!

The camper sounds great as a chicken house. I need another grow out pen too. I have to build a turkey pen for the boys they just are not nice to the chickens at all

 

[Trish44]

I had to take the two SFH roos out of the grow-out pen this evening & put them in a divided rabbit hutch, that was the only place I had left to put them. They were ganging up on my favorite little SFH pullet, four roosters, so I took the two I have decided to sell out. They will have to stay in the rabbit hutch until I sell them because I have no empty pens left to move them to. They have been fighting in there too, the smallest Cream Legbar roo had a bloody head, so they have been picking on him. I really need that breeder coop done & I told my DH he has got to work on that this Sunday, no ifs ands or buts this time. He is starting on making the doors.

Here are some pics I took of some of my SFH pullets today, I didn't get pics of the roos I was keeping, just the two I'm getting rid of.

This one is my favorite, she's a friendly little girl:


The grey one:


And the black one:


I will have to get a pic of my new little one, she is a cutie & she has started following me around when I'm in the coop or run.

Here is a pic of my favorite Cream Legbar pullet, she is filling out nicely.


See the neck hackles on her, that is what the people in the UK say aren't up to their standards because our birds are too gold. I think they're pretty anyway, & even if they don't meet the UK standards maybe ours will be different.

Well we're down to one car for the next several days. My DH left for work & his car broke down right at the end of our road, so he had to walk back home & get my car. He had it towed into town to the shop, but they said they won't even be able to look at it until Weds. I hope it's nothing really bad because he isn't sure how much more money he wants to put into this car. I bought it brand new in 1999, so it's getting old & has been having issues for awhile now. He's babied it along for quite awhile. It seems like some of us aren't having good luck with cars lately.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Trish -- pretty birds! I love pics. I love them all but that black and white one is really cool! Sorry to hear about the car mess -- my van is down too. It needs a fuel pump. I guess it doesn't really matter since I'm not going anywhere anyway. Hopefully, DH will have it in and out of the shop before I even miss it.

You would think the kids would be absolutely sick of being home with a boring, sick mom but they just seem to be having a great time anyway. They've been playing games, making stuff, baking, watching movies, playing Wii. I'm so glad they're getting along. It would be pure torture to be stuck in the house with bickering children. Sigh. Hope I'm up and out soon.

 

[Trish44]

KarenS, I'm glad your kids are being good, that would be the pits if they weren't while you're down & out. What colors do you have in the Swedish Flower Hens? The little one I just got is the mille fleur coloring, I just love it. I noticed today while I was making my final decision on which roosters to sell & which to keep that the two I have will probably produce the mille fleur color because their chest & bellies are colored like that. I love both of the roos I'm keeping, I will have to try to get pics of them now that I took the other two out. One of them just has gorgeous feathers around his neck, the hackle feathers are golden colored with black lacing around them. The other one that is crested has similar coloring but is not as stunning as the non-crested one. I kind of had a hard time with the non-crested ones making up my mind because really they're both really pretty boys or handsome I guess I should say for roos. I had just decided to keep one crested & one non-crested for my breeding program & I had ended up with two of each. I think I will leave the new little pullet in the main coop for now until she grows some. She would get beat up in the grow-out pen now & I don't want her to have to deal with that. Those roosters in there are just crazy teenagers right now. I've been paring down the number of birds in there slowly at least so it's not quite so crowded now, that should help them all some. None of the birds in there right now will be staying in that pen once the breeder coop is done, they will be going to their own part of the coop & their own pen. That pen will have my new black Ameraucana rooster & the two lavender hens in it eventually & the pen where the lavender hens & my original black Ameraucana rooster is will house him & his new black hen. I plan to keep one more black pullet this year or maybe a lavender one if I get an extra. Did you end up with any pullets out of the Ameraucanas or were they all roos KarenS?

 

[chicken danz]

I'm still reeling trying to figure out why I ended up with no crests at all on my SFHs. That's just crazy. Maybe some of their offspring will have some. At least one of my cream legbars have a crest.
I figured out why I have so many more chickens than most. I think I have to have enough to do major breeding as opposed to just a trio or so. But if you only have one or two hens how do you find a space to put them where they don't cross breed? In the long run I really want to choose the best ones to keep for breeding but I also want enough if someone wants a dozen buff orps for instance I don't have to hatch them at different ages.
I started fermenting chick starter yesterday. And although it hadn't had time to brew it was well soaked up in some of the fluid from the regular feed I have been fermenting. The chicks I have in the house went crazy over it. I had to laugh at a couple of the little olandsk. One of them was chasing another one trying to steal a piece of feed from his beak. There was a whole pan of it but I guess that one morsel was important.I
left a window open in the brooder to try to air it out some yesterday so I hope I don't go out to dead chicks today. The heat lamps and heater were still on but I don't know if that is enough to keep them warm.
We have to go to Emporia this evening to meet my youngest son, DIL and granddaughter for Christmas. I am really dreading it. I would much rather stay home. I wasn't going to go to the trouble of cleaning and baby proofing the house to have them here though, because every time I have done that they have cancelled at the last minute.
I just got the fabric and the pattern to make her her princess dress yesterday so I guess I will just have to mail it to them. My sister gave me some awesome fabric I think will go with some tulle I had and make an adorable dress. Once I get started I think it will be fun. It's just getting started.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

danz you sound like me when it comes to starting a project. I just dont have the push to do it even if it needs to be done even if I know I will have fun and enjoy myself. I have fatigue so badly and it is a struggle to get my dr to help counteract this fatigue caused by the medicines they have me on.
It is day 19 and my eggs are in lockdown and temp and humidity are needing some help being stabalized but they are within the ranges I want I just have to keep an eye to plug and unplug vents to keep it were it needs to be. I hope I see pips today.

 

[chicken danz]

Oh I forgot to mention. My cream legbar eggs didn't fair the wreck as well as I thought. I had a couple of them with hairline cracks I didn't see that started oozing in the incubator. Worries me that the others might be too shaken to hatch.
I don't know if my problem is not getting started or dreading adding another project when I have so many already. I really don't enjoy doing anything that keeps me indoors....although I hate being out in the cold. I also like to do things and if I have to quit not having to put them out and get them back out.
KarenS I so envy your craft room. Mine would be full of all kinds of half finished projects.

 

[Trish44]

Well the car saga continues. My DH went out to start up the old truck so he could drive it to work & he says it has no tail lights, so if he can't figure that out I will have to take him to work tonight because I need the car to get groceries. The guy that had this truck before us screwed with the wiring in there, so you don't know what goes to where now, it's stupid. I know my DH wouldn't have bought the thing if he had known what all the kid did to it. He had some big speakers in there that he took out before we got it & probably just messed the wiring all up. The last time I tried to drive it after dark there were no dash lights so I couldn't tell how fast I was going. I had to keep turning on the inside light to check. This old truck is just here to haul things when we need to & get us out if it snows a lot, otherwise it just sits here, but when we need for it to work it needs to work. GRRRR!

I went out in the backyard to see what one of my hens was squawking about back there & found Lily with a big deer skin, I have no idea where she got that, but when I came near her she grabbed it & took off down by the garage with it. That's where they seem to hide things they really don't want anybody to have. Crazy dogs.

Danz, I'm sorry about your Cream Legbar eggs, that's the pits.

 

[Trish44]

My DH figured out it was hopefully just a fuse that went out, so he had tail lights when he left to go to work. Hopefully that will take care of it & he said it went to the dash lights as well, yay for that. At least one thing went well today.