Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

Trish at least those would be easier to get than ordering the kids storage bins from Walmart, but I do really like them cause they are ready to go. I just wish I didn't have to order a stack at a time. It would be nice to just buy one or two in the store. But I'm not sure I'd have room for the rubbermaid bin style from the video in many of my coops. Space is kind of a premium. I do need to order more bins. It just seems I spend every dime I make buying something else for the birds.
I had to get up early so I can catch some birds and transport them to Yates Center this morning. I don't want to be gone a long time because I have things I have to get done here in prep for cold weather. I really worry about my baby chicks in the brooder house. It's been so nice and warm out there and with this super cold weather moving in the first of the week I'm afraid they'll get chilled.
I still had a couple of unhatched eggs in the incubator last night, so I need to get all those chicks moved out of there today and fill the spots with new hatching eggs. I'm already feeling a space crunch. I have no idea how I am going to manage chicks when I really start hatching.
I could really use a second brooder house!! I don't want to mix my English babies with babies I am hatching. I've done stuff like that before, Paid $80 a dozen for hatching eggs to improve my breeding stock and then sold the chicks for $5 each thinking they were ones I hatched from my own eggs. If I hatched 12 out of 12 it wouldn't be so bad but that has never happened with shipped eggs.

 

[KsKingBee]

KSKingBee be sure and let us know what is available for worming. It wouldn't hurt to worm them for tapeworm regardless. I do worm all the birds on a regular basis anyway but nothing I've used kills tapeworm. I just can't imagine having to worm each individual bird one at a time though. That would be a major job.

While at the vet we were looking for products with praziquantel in it and found a horse wormer called Quest Plus gel. We are trying to find dosing recommendations for it now. It has moxidectin 2.% and praziquantel 12.5%

 

[Trish44]

Trish at least those would be easier to get than ordering the kids storage bins from Walmart, but I do really like them cause they are ready to go. I just wish I didn't have to order a stack at a time. It would be nice to just buy one or two in the store. But I'm not sure I'd have room for the rubbermaid bin style from the video in many of my coops. Space is kind of a premium. I do need to order more bins. It just seems I spend every dime I make buying something else for the birds.
I had to get up early so I can catch some birds and transport them to Yates Center this morning. I don't want to be gone a long time because I have things I have to get done here in prep for cold weather. I really worry about my baby chicks in the brooder house. It's been so nice and warm out there and with this super cold weather moving in the first of the week I'm afraid they'll get chilled.
I still had a couple of unhatched eggs in the incubator last night, so I need to get all those chicks moved out of there today and fill the spots with new hatching eggs. I'm already feeling a space crunch. I have no idea how I am going to manage chicks when I really start hatching.
I could really use a second brooder house!! I don't want to mix my English babies with babies I am hatching. I've done stuff like that before, Paid $80 a dozen for hatching eggs to improve my breeding stock and then sold the chicks for $5 each thinking they were ones I hatched from my own eggs. If I hatched 12 out of 12 it wouldn't be so bad but that has never happened with shipped eggs.

I know what you mean, I used to be able to find those bins at the Walmart in Derby & then they sold out of them & never got them back. I really need some more myself. I like them too because they're so compact & take up little room & the hens usually will use them. I have one pen however where the hens prefer laying in the dog igloo, that's a real pain getting the eggs out of there.

While at the vet we were looking for products with praziquantel in it and found a horse wormer called Quest Plus gel. We are trying to find dosing recommendations for it now. It has moxidectin 2.% and praziquantel 12.5%

Let us know what you find out on dosage, that would be a less expensive alternative.

My turkeys are leaving this afternoon, so the peafowl will have the hoop coop to themselves.

Boy I'm sure not looking forward to the weather coming, that sounds awful. You all keep warm & safe!

 

[chicken danz]

I'm back from Yates Center. I wasn't even tempted to look around. We were getting freezing drizzle before I left and I sure didn't want to drive back on icy roads. Someone called me while I was there wanting birds but they of course wanted nearly grown buff pullets and I don't have any left. I have a ton of boys but of course those aren't coveted. They were actually at the sale when they called and said they might pick something up there. I guess if she wants to take a chance that's okay. Not that there aren't some nice birds but you have to be careful.
I had to put the birds in a dog carrier in the back of a stock trailer and they were super crowded. I sure hope they don't suffocate each other.
I'm not feeling good today. I think I've got a sinus infection on top of everything else.
I got the chicks out of the incubator and in a bin. Looks like I have one half orp/ half brahma but otherwise they looked good. I was doing some fertility test hatches before I divided the birds from one house. I can always sell a "mutt" for a layer or meat later on. I'd rather not have any but that is a chance I took.

 

[KsKingBee]

Just when I thought all the birds were welled up the infirmary is filling up. First a little pullet that was always hiding and getting picked on came in, we started giving her a special diet to get her to feeling better. We think she is blind.
Then another pullet was limping about with a bad leg so she came in. RP hen came down with blackhead and tape worms. Now another pullet. This one with a prolapsed egg. We did a little surgery and now she is recuperating.

Glad we didn't go to Yates Center, we would have not noticed her in trouble.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

I thought I might pass along what I use to retrieve eggs that my free rangers have laid in hard to get places. I made a retriever out of a 4 foot length of 1/2 inch plastic pipe and about a foot of wire from a chain link fence segment. I folded the wire and made a spoon-shaped hoop and forced the two ends of the wire into one end of the pipe. I just scoot the wire hoop under the egg and lift it out. I made several of these so I have one close by when I find a new nest. I have one Marians that lays between a stack of hay bales, just out of arm-length. And also some that lay in corners of low coops. Some days I feel like a kid on an Easter egg hunt. Well, I do have multi- color layers!

 

[OkieQueenBee]

Here was our excitement for today

Probably happened yesterday while we were at Yoder. We didn't get back until after dark. We were there by 2:30 and were in the 3rd row, by the time the auction started there was 5 rows. Sold 19 cockerels for an average of $4.50, the way I see it is no more feed and an empty pen. Was hoping to get to see you Trish, but just didn't get out of here as planned. Hope your pea girls settle in nicely.
Our turkey is eating and drinking. We decided to go ahead with the metronidazole and gave her the shot of praziquantel for the tape worms. Here is a pic of her poop, you can see the yellow better.

What KKB was trying to say is - good thing we didn't go to the Yates Center sale, would have loved to have seen you Danz, but there wouldn't have been time for chatting. So it was a good thing we were here to take care of the BO pullet. We have an EE pullet with a hurt leg, don't really know what to do for her except keep her separated, she has been this way for almost two weeks. The other little pullet has acted weird ever since we brought her home. I have given her vit E on more than one occasion. Caught her jumping up and biting at the air the other night. Always something.
This weather is the pitts, let's hope this is the last winter storm. When I check the weather in Stillwater and see that it is 40 degrees, I wonder if I am crazy or not. I am looking forward to a garden this year, haven't had one for the past couple of years because of the move and all. I just hope I can adjust to the growing season up here. As I sit here and look at the ice pellets falling out of the sky.
Let's all have some chicken noodle soup and honey in our green tea and beat this cold weather.

 

[michelleml]

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I've had bad luck lately. I went to the Dr on Tuesday thinking they can fix a minor issue. Turned out to become a major one. I was bleeding out bad and the Dr wasn't able to stop it. The entire office was all of a sudden in a whirlwind pace. They had to wheel me across to the hospital (the Dr's office is just across from Wesley Medical Center) to get emergency surgery. The entire process (from Dr's office to the operating room) only took less than 30 minutes... talking about fast! I was really scared since I didn't expect to have surgery at all and I was in the Dr's office all by myself. I'm home now and recovering. Feeling really exhausted. I'm on a weight restriction of 5 lbs... can't even lift a gallon of milk! I'm on this restriction for at least 6 to 8 weeks. My husband and son are going to China during Spring break so this makes taking care of the chickens difficult. Oh well... I will solicit my nephew's help in this case.
< Sorry to hear sounds very scary.

 

[chicken danz]

OkieQueenBee I wasn't there long enough to visit. I did run into Candace and Kelsey Harding as I was pulling out and saw a few other familiar faces but didn't stop to chat. All I wanted was to get back home before the roads got slick. I wasn't feeling good, running a little fever, and was only there because I had birds sold and had to deliver them. I didn't even look toward all the pens because I was afraid I'd see something I wanted.
I went to bed while ago and took a nap. I don't know yet if it made me feel better or not.
I've managed to loose my glasses since I got up this morning too. I have three pairs. A pair of cheap readers I use on the computer, a pair of others I wear around home, and another pair I take with me when I go somewhere. I lost the home pair. I don't like to use my good "travel" glasses around home because I am afraid I'll ruin them.
I haven't even fed or watered the birds today. I did do it late yesterday so they should ultimately be okay but I feel really guilty about it. I went out and made sure my pheasant was still alive and gave the babies in the brooder some feed. I was hoping DH would offer to feed and water since I wasn't feeling good, but he didn't. He decided to go shopping. I have no idea what he is shopping for. I prefer to stay home and stay out of the weather.

 

[cherwill]

111 posts behind! We were out of town for a few days. My cousin and his family (from California) were in Lawrence so their younger daughter could audition for a music scholarship at KU. The whole Kansas part of the family (9 of us) met them in Lawrence and spent a few days with them. It was fun because we only see them every few years, but I sure missed my dogs and worried about the chickens and my back didn't like the hotel bed .... I'm hopelessly old! My FIL always looks after the chickens when we're gone. He even got two eggs a day, which is twice as many as we were getting when we were home.

I hope everyone's doing well. Tweety, what a frightening experience. I'm so glad you were right there where the doctor could take care of things right away.

I'm not happy about this cold snap. I've been looking at seed catalogs and I'm anxious for gardening weather.