Cool, thanks! YAY for getting the catalog mailed to you!Hawkeye, I am going to mail those grant forms to you. I called the Bernita, and she is mailing me an entry form for Sedialia.
WELCOME!! There are several of us in the Wichita area!hi guys milomac from Wichita retired postal, I've evesdropped on yall for several months, finally ready to join in. I keep 6 LF of different breeds to make a pretty egg carton. I also have have 5 banty amaracauna pullets just laying first eggs and there rumpless rooster. After a while I've been able to figure the main players on this forum and how yoy work. Really I got nuthin letting you know there are more people out here than you realize

I saw picture of a necropsy just a couple days ago that was kind of shocking-- they opened up the crop and there were nails and staples and shiny metal pieces in there! I'm assuming that is how the bird died. Your pens are looking great! I also didn't have the full idea when I was out there. I think this looks far better than what I was thinking! VERY nice!!Not to disagree with Danz, but.,...I would say if you are worried, pick everything you can find up. You can get a big magnet on a pole or even on wheels from a home improvement store and go around hunting for metal treasures. I did this after construction on our horse run in and you wouldn't believe all the screws and nails I found! I wouldn't think a bird would be dumb enough to eat a nail but they are. The lady I bought my brahmas from had a friend who lost a very expensive young roo who became ill and died suddenly. She sent him to K State for necropsy and they opened him up and found several nails and screws in his crop that had pierced through and he became septic and died because of it. So freaky things happen.![]()
Lots to do today. Going to pack up the kitchen and haul it down tonight. I have a doctor appt tomorrow for the big jelly bean and then its critter moving weekend!!!
Here are a few pics of the pens/fencing.
This is really phase one of the chicken construction. The big building will be split in half and be two open air coops with runs that will house my layers and orpingtons. Beyond that the tiny coop will have two breeding pens of serama and the last four pens are breeding pens for the sebbies. To the other side of the big coops will eventually be three more smaller pens/open air coops that will house cochins, brahmas and a rooster bachelor pad!!
Looking straight on. There is still a lot of fencing to be hung but it seems to go pretty quickly.
The last section of horse fencing to be put on is just this short area over by the lagoon and their metal run in is in the background.
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I hope you get your pups sold! That is no bueno that people back out. I hate CraigsList for that reason too! If someone calls me and wants to come out and buy a bird, then I expect them to show up when they say they will. I get so angry waiting for someone who is over an hour late (or never shows) when I could have been gone getting errands done or ANYTHING else! I now get pretty firm on the phone and ask people if they are really coming, because I have to get other things done. I've decided if they are late and I need to leave, I'm just going to go ahead and leave. They can just eat that drive out here in gas as far as I'm concerned anymore. I'm sick of inconsiderate people.I have some people scheduled to come get dogs if they show this time for this weekend. I still want to help you move birds. What day do you think you'll be moving them? I could try to work around the people. I have one for Saturday and one for Sunday but maybe I could get them scheduled for the same day. I expected to move 3 dogs last weekend that never showed so I am not too convinced I'm not wasting my time.
I am down to 4 males now and really really tired of taking care of puppies!
I'm so, so sorry! I sure hope it all gets worked out and smoothed over soon!Oldest sister gave me some news that kinda upset my apple cart, and I am not in a very good news. WHY, OH WHY, do parents have to be so bull headed!!!
WOW-- your barn is amazing! I didn't "reply" to the other pictures, but the inside is really neat too! There is a lot of light coming in on that cloudy day! I would be over the moon with happiness if I had that barn! Congrats and can't wait to see how you get it set up!So here are some of the pictures, I will start on the outside.
This is the south east corner looking northwest. You can see the windows, and door into my work room. This was left like this so we can park under there if we need to.
Looking west on the east side of the barn.
same spot, just looking southwest.
Looking west thru my east door to the west work room door.
Northwest corner of the barn looking east south east.
West side of barn
South side of barn looking north east.
I'm so glad you have the pen ready! The names are adorable too!I spent all afternoon covering the livestock panels on my goat pen with chicken wire & welded wire fence to keep the doelings from getting out of the pen. I took me forever to put all of those cable ties on & I used every single one I had. Hopefully I have it goat proof now, I don't want any escapees. I got the hay & grain feeder put out there & their shelter in place along with some stumps to play on.. All I need to put out there now is something for water. So after we get back from KC next week the new little doelings will be coming here. Then we'll see what my DH thinks of them. I guess he can either like it or lump it at that point because after they're already here there's not much he can do. I can't wait to get them here & get some pics to show you all, they're both cute. Their names are Penny & Patches.

I would suggest Stone Screenings instead of dirt! That is what we put on the floor of my horse barn. It holds up better than dirt and eventually packs down really well. It's also cheaper than dirt! The screenings look like crushed rock and it's white. Easy to tamp down and drive over or set things on inside the barn. Just an idea I wanted to pass on!I took this picture to show the natural light in the barn. All doors are closed. DH plans to haul the dirt in for the floor, there won't be any light coming in below the walls.

Sounds like Spring is in the air! Hope you get more turkey eggs!I was tickled today to find 4 midget white turkey eggs instead of just one ...or none. Maybe the girls are finally getting with it. I saw the boys doing the back stand yesterday several times, and HeChicken I do think they breed through their feet!!! Those poor girls were squealing. They weren't at all happy about the whole thing.
Today my Eastern Tom was putting on a show that I had never seen him do before. He was just absolutely beautiful strutting his stuff with his wings down and puffed up to three times his normal size. I just finalized a deal to sell my Easterns today and it almost made me change my mind.
I have almost 2 years vested in this quad of birds and now I am selling them when they are finally ready to breed. It's kind of sad but I love the domestics, so I'd rather use the pen space for them.
My peacocks were really putting on shows today too. It's like all of a sudden all the birds think it is spring.
I tried hatching for Easter the last two years and it was pretty much a let down for me. I realized that most people that buy for Easter only buy one or two chickens or ducks. And they aren't going to drive all the way out here to get them. Now if I lived in town or lived in Wichita or Topeka or someplace I would be hatching tons.
I do need to get started hatching ducks though because I an sell them all spring and summer by the hundreds.
This is just beautiful! I love this! You did a really great job! I would love to have something just like it! I can see what you mean with the cross breeze. On those openings in the front-- can you just get plexi glass or luan cut down to size and get it put in there?
This is the front of my coop showing the new pens. They're not perfect, but I did the best I could with what I had & no help. We never got the plexiglass for the windows, so I just ended up for now putting plastic on the inside of the windows. I may do something different with them later on, I don't know. After we messed up on measuring the openings & the other windows didn't work that just kind of threw me.
Here's the back showing my doors into each room. I forgot to move the wheelbarrow with the windows I was taking to the shed.
This is just a shot of the north side showing my windows we put in. They're going to be nice this summer to get a breeze through the whole coop.
I'll have to take some pics of the inside tomorrow when it's lighter out so you can see how I left the top half all open to get circulation through. The birds can see each other when they're on their roosts, but can't get to each other. The outside will be painted when it's warm enough to paint.
Oh no! I'm so sorry! I have no idea how to help! Hopefully someone will have a better idea.I need some help. A banty hen got ahold of some yarn and started eating it. Started in the middle so there were two ends coming out of her mouth. Reasonable force is not budging it, I cut one end offf thinking it might pull through/out better. It is not budging. I have no idea how much she has swallowed. there is "something" in her crop but it could be food also. What do I do now? She is a bit wild and not easy to handle.

So I'll try to post pics later, but for now need to run. We went out to a large poultry farm/operation and it was SO much fun!! I brought home 4 little two-week old heritage barred rocks. They look NOTHING like my hatchery barred rocks! I can't hardly believe the difference! The barring on them is not the same at all! And the combs are different! And of course, my birds have grey legs and these are BRIGHT YELLOW! Oh-- and the main difference are that these heritage birds are the size of small dogs! LOL They are HUGE!!!!! My barred rocks are seriously half that size! So my little chicks are going to be monster birds!