Consolidated Kansas

[Derrick785]

 

[chicken danz]

So after rounding up stuff and getting on the road plans changed and I am back home for a while. While I was rushing around this morning my fence guy called and was on his way from Emporia. Anyway he came out and measured and saw what I wanted and of course my cost of labor went up because of the way I wanted the driveway etc done. I will find a way to pay for it one way or another. It will be so nice not to have to worry about my birds and dogs getting in the road when it's done.
I also have to move a flower bed. I have these big sand stone boulders lining it and those have to be moved and the iris have to be dug for a ways. I sure hope it doesn't keep them from blooming this year.
I have to get this done by Friday so I guess I'll be out there today with a shovel. Oh what fun!!
Derrick785 those are some cute chicks.
Congrats Maidenwolf on your new hatches.. Hopefully today I will have more ducks and turkeys hatch.

 

[exop]

Is anyone in KS driving east to shows in Indiana, Ohio, or even further, sometime in Spring 2013?

I had my heart set on hatching eggs from Frank Reese, but there have been problems with the post office this year, and it sounds like the only safe way to get eggs is farm pickup.

I am in west central Indiana, and Mr. Reese is outside Lindsborg, that's 20 miles south of Salina off of 70. If anyone will be coming my way, I will be happy to pay $50 for your help if you can transport a box of hatching eggs from there to here, and I could meet up with you to get the eggs when you pass through IN. Anyone interested? Please PM me,

Thank You, dear Kansans,

exop

 

[sharol]

I put straw on my peas and then sheets over that. They seemed to be OK when I uncovered them about 9. I'll see. sorry about the seedlings, welcome to Kansas, right?

*** snip***

My seedlings did not fare so well. I covered them with bed sheets held down by rocks last night, knowing it was going to freeze. However when it snowed, the snow stayed on the sheets and froze them right through it. Grrr... All my work planting them - I even got a huge blister on the palm of my hand while doing it - was for nothing. Now I still have to start over. Double grrr.

 

[HEChicken]

I put straw on my peas and then sheets over that. They seemed to be OK when I uncovered them about 9. I'll see. sorry about the seedlings, welcome to Kansas, right?

Yeah, Kansas spring this year has not been so good. These were tomato and pepper seedlings, and in the past I've found that tomatoes are VERY susceptible to freezing temps. They're okay down to 33-34, but let it dip down to 32 and they're gone. I had used a bunch of old hay as mulch when I planted them (only last Saturday) and because it was so windy, I built the hay up right around them to their tops, to prevent the wind from breaking their tender little stems. So last night I took sheets and put them over all of that and I think they might have been okay had it not snowed. The sheets should have kept the thermal mass above freezing - or at least prevented any frost from landing on the leaves. But the snow landed all over the sheets, weighting them down and freezing the sheet itself. So where the sheet came in contact with the tomatoes, they are toast. The peppers *may* be okay - I'll have to wait and see. I had one pepper seedling that was a lot more mature than the rest and at least twice as tall. So I cut the bottom out of a soda pop bottle and inverted it over the seedling before putting the sheet on. I think it might have saved that one. Unfortunately we just don't drink enough soda pop around here so that was the only bottle I could find.

Exop, I will keep that in mind though I have no travel plans. I visited the Reese farm a couple of months ago and picked up some of his BR and NH point of lay birds, who are now maturing to be quite beautiful. What breeds of hatching eggs are you wanting?

 

[sharol]

I'm afraid I'm losing one of my prettiest chickens. Hermoine appears to be eggbound. She is swollen and walks funny. When she poops, it comes out in dribs and drabs. Her belly just below her vent feels really squishy.

I soaked her in warm water and lubed her vent with mineral oil, but I'm pretty sure she won't be able to pass the egg. I can feel it on one side with the squishy stuff all around it.

She is drying off in the dog kennel in the garage (heated) right now, and then I'll let her go back to the others. This has been going on for a week or so, so it is just a matter of time. Last night she slept in a nest box (lower, easier to get to.)

 

[chicken danz]

I'm sorry Sharol. I lost one of my special chickens to egg problems just a few weeks ago. It is really sad when you can't help them. Too bad you can't give her drugs to help her along!!!

 

[HEChicken]

I'm sorry too Sharol. It is really hard when you try everything and they still don't respond. I hope she is able to pass this egg and not have any further problems. She is a beautiful color.

 

[RoosterLew]

Is anyone in KS driving east to shows in Indiana, Ohio, or even further, sometime in Spring 2013?

I had my heart set on hatching eggs from Frank Reese, but there have been problems with the post office this year, and it sounds like the only safe way to get eggs is farm pickup.

I am in west central Indiana, and Mr. Reese is outside Lindsborg, that's 20 miles south of Salina off of 70. If anyone will be coming my way, I will be happy to pay $50 for your help if you can transport a box of hatching eggs from there to here, and I could meet up with you to get the eggs when you pass through IN. Anyone interested? Please PM me,

Thank You, dear Kansans,

exop

I will be in Illinois in August and Ohio in September..but nothing this spring

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Some new additions...

Dorothy




OZ



Swedish flower hen babies (Trish's grandchicks), front chick is week older -smaller one in back is crested--yeah!

Cute chicks! I can't wait until my Swedish Flower sexed chicks arrive!