Consolidated Kansas

[sunflowerparrot]

COUNTRY HOME FOR SALE IN COWLEY COUNTY - Posting this for a very dear friend:



Melinda Ray Donley
If anyone is interested in a farm, we're selling our place. It's 11+ acres. The house is 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath (which we have completely updated). This place has several large outbuildings ( 30x50, 50x70, large pole barn, and loafing shed). It also has sorting pens and a fenced 6 acre pasture. Its located at 360 S. Oxford Rd, Oxford KS (2 1/2 miles south of town on blacktop). We are asking $180,000. If you're interested pm me or call 620-218-1214. I have additional pics on my personal fb page, so if you want to friend me to see them, that would be fine. Thanks!

 

[sunflowerparrot]

Sumner County! Not Cowley

 

[JosieChick]

Danz- WIll the county do that? Spray for thistle? Because we need thistle dealt with at the house up in Rantoul and I can't exactly put the baby in a carrier and go spray noxious weeds!

Yes I have. I rented a place here in Kansas. It especially sticks in my mind because it was stressful. The county came out and sprayed a field for Johnson Grass and then sent me a bill for several hundred dollars. It wasn't my property so thank goodness I finally got it sent to the land owners.
At least around this area it is highly enforced... One neighbor across the road was ordered to kill his entire milo crop last year because the content of Johnson grass was too high. He just plowed it under and sprayed it.
I just bought roundup so I could control some that has sprung up in one area here. Another person I know was fined for having lespadeza.
My son worked for the county Extension one year and his job was to go out and chop down and spray thistle for them on property that had been identified as having noxious weeds. These incidents have happened in three different counties...in this case Lyon, Morris, and Coffey counties. So at least in this part of Kansas it is enforced. I think they tend to ignore some of their own county or city owned property more so than other people's property. Ragweed is something I don't know of them addressing and I wish they would. I am dangerously allergic to it.

Roosterlew- Good advice, I laughed!

Hope everyone else is doing well! We have been working hard and got the barn cleaned out enough to put hay in it for the horses. Got a bunch of stuff loaded up to take to the dump and did lots of shopping today. The little jelly bean has outgrown her newborn insert on her infant car seat! Can't believe how fast she is growing. I think she was pretty happy to have more room in her carseat!

 

[sharol]

My notification of posts to this list have stopped. I just unsubscribed and then resubscribed, so I'll see if that works. In the meantime, has anyone else had that problem in the last few days?

 

[sharol]

On Monday last week, I put 19 eggs in the incubator. I candled them this morning. 7 were clear. The others appear toO be developing. All 3 of my Campine eggs are developing with easily visible veining. Neither of the Welsumer eggs were fertile. That wasn't much of a surprise because Lizbeth doesn't let Butch near her. 2 of the 3 BO eggs are developing, the other was clear. The rest are green eggs from 4 different hens. The rooster is an EE, so who knows what will come out.

Now, I need to leave them alone for another 7 days.

so exciting to have babies developing. I could see a couple of the moving around in there.

 

[HEChicken]

My notification of posts to this list have stopped. I just unsubscribed and then resubscribed, so I'll see if that works. In the meantime, has anyone else had that problem in the last few days?

They did an update a few days ago and I've noticed I no longer get that little pop up on the screen when I have a new private message so I am guessing they changed a few things - maybe intentionally and in the case of subscriptions, possibly unintentionally.

I am not subscribed to this thread so I didn't notice. What I do instead is filter by "I've posted" and if there are new posts on the thread, it will be bolded. If you don't use this, I'd recommend it over the subscription. After clicking on "Forum" at the top, look a little down and to the right, and you'll see where it says "New Posts". Click on the little down arrow, and it will offer the option to show you the threads on which you have posted, and when it pulls up that list, you can easily see if there are new posts.

I'll let you in on another little tip. If you go to your browser settings at THAT point (before clicking on any thread) and set that as your home page, it makes it REALLY easy to find new posts. No matter where I am on a page now, all I need to do is click on the home icon in the toolbar of my browser, and it immediately reloads with the filter rerun, so I can see new posts on my threads really easily.

 

[HEChicken]

Okay chicken people....after all our whining about snow, are we ready now for the summer weather? The forecast this morning is for 90-degree weather as far as the eye can see. I don't like snow any more than the next person but I'm not ready for this yet either! Today is supposed to be 97. I guess I need to get out there and do my outside chores before it gets too hot. I need to mow in my chicken yard again as the grass is just long enough to make it difficult for the little babies to run through it, so I'll mow the front of the yard down a little for them. Then I guess I will set up the wading pool for the ducks. They haven't been able to get down to the pond for several weeks now because the grass/hay is too long for them to forge through, so I'm guessing they'll really enjoy having their pool set up again.

Yesterday I got the last of my brooder babies moved down to the chicken yard and cleaned out all the brooders for the year - yay!!!

Two more hens have dropped to the broody bug. Right as its getting hot to be miserable to sit, surely. My silkie is already broody again! Her chicks are only 8 weeks old and she kept them with her until last week. I did know she was laying again but she only laid half a dozen at the most before going broody again. And my little game hen is broody now as well. Gah. I cannot keep up with them, even giving them only one egg apiece. DH was down at the coop yesterday offering some tips for things I can do to improve the set up, and he looked in the nest box and asked about hens who were sitting. When I pulled back the curtain and showed him several more, and then pointed out the little A-Frame on the floor that is also occupied by a broody, well, he was just shaking his head at that point.

My poor turkey is having quite a time of it. Several eggs have become contaminated and exploded under her. That smell is just the worst. Twice now I've removed the straw from her nest and given her fresh but then another explodes and I have to start all over. Yesterday I pulled her off and booted her out of the hoop coop, then pulled ALL the eggs out (very carefully), and then pulled all of the bedding out. I hosed off the tray that is in the bottom of her dog kennel, then took the eggs up to the house, carefully washed them all, and then candled. I only saw obvious movement in two, but could see veins in a third so I left it in. The rest were not clearly viable enough for me to take the risk of putting them back under her. So with fresh straw in a freshly washed out kennel, I gave her back just 3 eggs. She started with 20 so this is a terrible result and now I'm down to hoping at least one hatches after all this. I just don't know what's going on. I hatched in the incubators without a single egg every going bad, and had 100% hatch rates on all of her eggs up til now. The only thing I can think is that there are also broody ducks in the hoop coop and perhaps when Madge gets out to eat and drink, she gets their poop on the bottom of her feet and then climbs back in on top of the eggs. I wish I had a separate place to brood just her but with the number of broodies I have at the moment there is just no way to separate every one of them into a separate area. Just buying that many feeders and waterers alone would break the bank

 

[RoosterLew]

HEchicken - what is in your feed? Some kinda hormone? Maybe its the water?
Dang gal your turning into a fowl maternity ward!

 

[chicken danz]

Hechicken, when I let my turkeys sit all of the eggs have become contaminated. I have one bourbon red hen that is a couple weeks into sitting so until they explode I guess I'll let her keep setting. I've been pulling all the others. The bourbon is pretty protective of her eggs though. I am getting hatching tired so I am just letting her sit. She had about 8 earlier this year and none of those were any good. I do seem to have decent hatches from the ones I collect though. The problem is she is taking my other red hens eggs to sit on as well.
I meant to tell you all I have hatched 3 peafowl so far. I have as many or more eggs that didn't hatch but I'm getting better I think.
I hadn't noticed that, Sharol. I had issues with that a while back. I went in and changed my profile thing and now I get a notification every time someone posts on consolidated Kansas. I rarely post on other forums. If I don't get an email I don't look. I have my email set to load up on my computer automatically so I don't have to go to a web page to get it. Saves me some download time.
Yesterday I had a gal bring me two tin horns as she called them. I can use them for bird shelters I think with a little tweaking. One of them would be perfect for a pig shelter if I ever get a pig to feed out. She had planned to try to sell them for $50 to $100 each. So she said she thought they were worth maybe $50 each. She got a wonderful bargain from me. I gave her Sam and all of his salmon Faverolle hens (except one that must have been hiding). That was 6 hens. I gave her an exhibition Orpington roo I paid $25 for because I have extras. I gave her one young exhibition orp pullet I had planned to raise for myself. I also gave her son 4 lavender orpington and 4 Swedish flower hen chicks I had hatched the day before. She had lost almost all of her birds to a coyote but her neighbor shot the coyote so she feels it is safe. I hope so. I would be heartbroken if Sam got killed. He has always been a special bird.
She wanted some Breda fowl but they aren't laying yet and I would only give up excess boys so I didn't bite on that one. She says she'll be back later to buy some. They are plenty old but they are a slow growing breed so I guess that makes them slow layers as well. I have noticed at least one of the boys breeding the girls though so I expect eggs to start soon.
So slowly the danzsizing goes on. I did however in a rather long story based mostly on "revenge" spend more money and order another couple dozen hatching eggs after swearing I was done with shipped eggs.But the reason I bit again was because I had a wonderful hatch from some shipped eggs I wasn't even concerned about. I just bought them because they were cheap. They were standard white cochin eggs. I only have one white cochin and she is gorgeous. I thought if I bought eggs and they turned out at least I'd have something to go with her. So I guess my danzsizing is still in effect even though I am moving more and more birds on the cheap. Iam having buyers remorse today for buying more eggs yesterday. What was I thinking. They'll probably end up friend with these temps. I did request an ice pack but the seller had no idea what they were or where to get one.
I got the doors made and hung on the hoop coop yesterday. I need to get wire on the ends and the tarp on top and I should be good to go. I'd really like to get at least birds moved to one side in the morning. Of course that sounds like very little work but I seem to be working at a snails pace these days. I am going to have to take some time to hang some fans today for the birds. I don't want to start loosing any to the heat.

 

[chicken danz]

Josie I think the county will only do that if they find you in violation and then they charge too much. Is there a local co-op near Rantoul? I know Ottawa co-op does spraying and they are pretty close. They have been out here to spray before. Most co-ops do spray. I assume they would use roundup or something that is formulated not to kill the grass. I know they sprayed my pasture last year because I felt there were too many weeds out there. My farmer arranged it so I have no idea what it costs. He gets all the hay so he also got the expense for that.
If you want you could call the county Noxious weed department and they could give you options of what you can do. The people at ours are very nice and accommodating.