Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

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I hope your cat is okay. My mamma cat moved her kittens night before last. I don't know how I am going to tame them if I cant' find them. Dumb Cat!!!
I just got 4 trays of eggs ready to put in the incubator. Sure glad I'm taking a break from hatching! LOL. I did put a few hatching eggs up for auction again for today. If they don't sell due to the holiday I'll jsut put them in the incubator.
I imagine people have purchased tons of chicks for easter presents. It is so cruel. I remember we use to go buy chicks at Easter and they never lived because we had no idea how to care for them. I am sure my parents secretly hoped they would die. We lived in town and didn't have chickens ourselves but had neighbors that did. But chicks were like 3 cents each back then. Much different than today. We used to have an Easter egg hunt in town where you got like 5 numbers. Every business in town had a number. So if you got the number for our local hatchery you would get a baby chick as your prize. Most of the other stores gave out a piece of candy or something. I remember one year they had died them pastel colors. Stuff like that would never happen in today's time but it was a time I looked forward to each year.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

I hope your cat is okay. My mamma cat moved her kittens night before last. I don't know how I am going to tame them if I cant' find them. Dumb Cat!!!
I just got 4 trays of eggs ready to put in the incubator. Sure glad I'm taking a break from hatching! LOL. I did put a few hatching eggs up for auction again for today. If they don't sell due to the holiday I'll jsut put them in the incubator.
I imagine people have purchased tons of chicks for easter presents. It is so cruel. I remember we use to go buy chicks at Easter and they never lived because we had no idea how to care for them. I am sure my parents secretly hoped they would die. We lived in town and didn't have chickens ourselves but had neighbors that did. But chicks were like 3 cents each back then. Much different than today. We used to have an Easter egg hunt in town where you got like 5 numbers. Every business in town had a number. So if you got the number for our local hatchery you would get a baby chick as your prize. Most of the other stores gave out a piece of candy or something. I remember one year they had died them pastel colors. Stuff like that would never happen in today's time but it was a time I looked forward to each year.

I read about the "Chick Days" at the local CO-OP's and feed stores, but I never go. I remember when they use to give away 25 baby chicks with a purchase of 25 # sack of chick starter. That was a good way for hatcheries to get rid of cockerels, and feed stores to sell more feed; until the "hens" start crowing.

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[Deerfield Acres]

I read about the "Chick Days" at the local CO-OP's and feed stores, but I never go. I remember when they use to give away 25 baby chicks with a purchase of 25 # sack of chick starter. That was a good way for hatcheries to get rid of cockerels, and feed stores to sell more feed; until the "hens" start crowing.

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Ralph, very clever of them and how disappointing for the unsuspecting newbies!

I only go to "Chick Days" when I pick up feed and I always look but don't bring them home. The interesting thing this year was there weren't nearly as many chick bins set up at Atwood's in Derby and Andover or the TSC in Augusta from the very beginning. I guess things didn't go all that well last year, so this year is a little lean.

Danz, sorry I missed you this round too. What a mess around here. I finally got the hang of not flipping on the useless light switches right before the lights came back on.

Thank heaven for gas water heaters, stovetops, and ovens. We would have been in a world of discomfort without them. The kids wanted to light candles during daylight hours -- uh, no.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

I hope your cat is okay. My mamma cat moved her kittens night before last. I don't know how I am going to tame them if I cant' find them. Dumb Cat!!!
I just got 4 trays of eggs ready to put in the incubator. Sure glad I'm taking a break from hatching! LOL. I did put a few hatching eggs up for auction again for today. If they don't sell due to the holiday I'll jsut put them in the incubator.
I imagine people have purchased tons of chicks for easter presents.  It is so cruel. I remember we use to go buy chicks at Easter and they never lived because we had no idea how to care for them. I am sure my parents secretly hoped they would die. We lived in town and didn't have chickens ourselves but had neighbors that did. But chicks were like 3 cents each back then. Much different than today. We used to have an Easter egg hunt in town where you got like 5 numbers. Every business in town had a number. So if you got the number for our local hatchery you would get a baby chick as your prize. Most of the other stores gave out a piece of candy or something. I remember one year they had died them pastel colors. Stuff like that would never happen in today's time but it was a time I looked forward to each year.

It looks like she's gone for good, unfortunately. a friend came and got the kittens this afternoon and is going to try to save them. I was very grateful. Hopefully at least a couple will survive. I haven't had success saving orphaned kittens and she has so I was very grateful that she took them.

 

[Anderson Lowe]

Ok everyone it's your newbie in again, however it's not exactly chicken related just passing on info. I'm the EMS Director in Halstead and were monitoring severe weather building for Wednesday and for eastern part of the State Thursday. As it looks now these are going to be ugly storms. Hope the atmosphere shifts and doesn't develop, the boys and I just finished the coop today and the girls are doing good unit so far.

 

[MsDebD]

I remember the bins of colored Easter chicks. I admit that I got a couple as a kid and neither survived. I also got a baby duck that we ended up giving to our local park in OK. I got my kids baby chicks once and, of course, they didn't live. All I can do at this point is appreciate the lessons learned and be glad that we're going to be able to give our grandkids a better learning experience with chickens and (eventually) baby chicks.

 

[sharol]

One of the 4 remaining original hens (from 2010) died overnight. Angel was a hatchery Deleware who laid practically an egg a day the first year after she started laying. It has been at least a year since she laid an egg, though. She has been moving pretty slow for the better part of a couple of months, and yesterday I carried her back to the run. When I checked in with them about 8:30, she was sleeping in a nest box, so I figured the end was near. At 5 years old, she was just old, I guess. No illness, no symptoms except the slow moving.

I'll miss her, she was the friendliest of the original birds and still would hop up on my lap for a scratch when I sat down in the run.

 

[spree56]

One of the 4 remaining original hens (from 2010) died overnight. Angel was a hatchery Deleware who laid practically an egg a day the first year after she started laying. It has been at least a year since she laid an egg, though. She has been moving pretty slow for the better part of a couple of months, and yesterday I carried her back to the run. When I checked in with them about 8:30, she was sleeping in a nest box, so I figured the end was near. At 5 years old, she was just old, I guess. No illness, no symptoms except the slow moving. I'll miss her, she was the friendliest of the original birds and still would hop up on my lap for a scratch when I sat down in the run.

I'm sorry for your loss, but what a sweet chicken mama story.

 

[chicken danz]

It looks like she's gone for good, unfortunately.

a friend came and got the kittens this afternoon and is going to try to save them. I was very grateful. Hopefully at least a couple will survive. I haven't had success saving orphaned kittens and she has so I was very grateful that she took them.

So sorry about your cat. Your post made me smile and tear up at the same time. My all time favorite cat was an orphaned kitten who's mother was killed. I hand fed her and her two siblings because they were too young to eat on their own. I had one disappear at a young age. Another killed later by a neighbor's dog, and the one survivor which I swear was a human in a cat's body. I lost her at 13 years old to kidney failure. She literally responded to and understood whatever I told her. Everyone loved her... even people who don't like cats. She's been gone nearly two years now and I still tear up when I think about her passing. If I ever find another cat that looks like here I will take it without question. And I really don't want any more cats.

Ok everyone it's your newbie in again, however it's not exactly chicken related just passing on info. I'm the EMS Director in Halstead and were monitoring severe weather building for Wednesday and for eastern part of the State Thursday. As it looks now these are going to be ugly storms. Hope the atmosphere shifts and doesn't develop, the boys and I just finished the coop today and the girls are doing good unit so far.

It's Kansas. You just never know what the weather is going to do.I saw we are forecast to have rain every day this week and we're getting this fine mist today. Doesn't make me happy at all.

I remember the bins of colored Easter chicks. I admit that I got a couple as a kid and neither survived. I also got a baby duck that we ended up giving to our local park in OK. I got my kids baby chicks once and, of course, they didn't live. All I can do at this point is appreciate the lessons learned and be glad that we're going to be able to give our grandkids a better learning experience with chickens and (eventually) baby chicks.

I lived in a small town and the hatchery was downtown. I remember the huge incubators with big trays that turned like a squirrel cage fan (slowly) being completely full of chicks. They must have had their eggs shipped in because there were no chickens. They just hatched the eggs. I'm proud to say I never did get chicks for my kids. I got chicks when my girls were young but those were for us to butcher and use for layers. I once had a dog get in and slit the throats on nearly 100 baby chicks. We had maybe a dozen that survived the attack. When my second daughter was little she used to pull a little wooden wagon around and the chickens would ride in it. Somewhere I have a picture of her with a chicken riding. She was still a tiny kid herself.
Sharol so sorry you lost your hen. I do wish these girls had a longer life.

 

[Trish44]

I remember the bins of colored Easter chicks. I admit that I got a couple as a kid and neither survived. I also got a baby duck that we ended up giving to our local park in OK. I got my kids baby chicks once and, of course, they didn't live. All I can do at this point is appreciate the lessons learned and be glad that we're going to be able to give our grandkids a better learning experience with chickens and (eventually) baby chicks.

I remember going to Kiddie Land in Wichita when I was little & they gave away baby chicks every year at Easter. They either never lived long or when they got big enough they became dinner because we lived in town & they would start running around the neighborhood or crowing.

One of the 4 remaining original hens (from 2010) died overnight. Angel was a hatchery Deleware who laid practically an egg a day the first year after she started laying. It has been at least a year since she laid an egg, though. She has been moving pretty slow for the better part of a couple of months, and yesterday I carried her back to the run. When I checked in with them about 8:30, she was sleeping in a nest box, so I figured the end was near. At 5 years old, she was just old, I guess. No illness, no symptoms except the slow moving.

I'll miss her, she was the friendliest of the original birds and still would hop up on my lap for a scratch when I sat down in the run.

I'm sorry for your loss sharol, those hens can be hard to lose that you have for so long. I know I have some that I will miss when they go.

Anderson Lowe thanks for the heads up, yeah it's that time of year for unstable weather. I hope it doesn't get as bad as they're saying either.

I really have some things I need to be working on but it's just cloudy & windy out & it's making me not want to go out & do anything. We got a few little drizzles of rain this morning but still not nearly enough to help much.