Consolidated Kansas

[sharol]

I am trying to become more self reliant I want my kids to eat healthy home grown food as much as I can provide! Thanks for all the welcomes!
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Excellent goal. I'm convinced that all the hormones they are feeding cattle are affecting our kids in negative ways. Same with milk and mild products. Eggs not so much, but they are so much better than those tasteless things in the store that it is worth the extra work and expense.

Not to mention the poison we ingest from that used on vegetables and fruits.

 

[chicken danz]

You're right Sharol. What is really sad is that during the child raising years most Mom's have to hold a full time job. It makes it really hard to take care of gardens and livestock and such. My kids were raised in town and I worked full time +, but we had a garden most years. Just enough for a few things. And people at work often brought in some of the their extra produce. I've always had home grown beef and pork though cause I continued to seek out locals who I knew raided them without hormones etc.
Now as I am older and have all kinds of skeletal and joint problems its hard to keep up with the work. But when my kids and grandkids come they eat home grown beef, turkey, chicken, eggs, or veggies. And often home made bread, however I can't claim to grow the flour and sugar etc.

At least it's not packed full of preservatives. I wish I could say all my bread was homemade.
It's supposed to be a beautiful day today so I have hopes of getting more work done outside. I had sprayed roundup the other day and got rained out but I'm beginning to see that at least some of it is starting to work. We have some 6 foot tall queen ann'es lace out there already with all this rain. I hope to get some mowing done and spray more roundup to get these broad leaf weeds down the birds won't eat. We've got clover coming back up here and there this year for the first time since the drought so I am very careful to avoid any areas it is growing. Gotta keep the honey bees working and the birds all love clover.
I need to take some pictures if I get a chance and put some bird adds up as well.

 

[HEChicken]

I wish I could say all my bread was homemade.

You and me both! However none of mine is, sadly. I have a bread maker and have used it a few times but I find these days I am totally exhausted with producing eggs, milk, cheese, veggies and meat and just don't have time to add bread making to the list.

We have some 6 foot tall queen ann'es lace out there already ...

You need goats. I vaguely remember the day we had Queen Anne's Lace - I haven't seen it for quite awhile. No compass plants either. Or many of the other weeds that used to be abundant. Goats especially love bindweed and have cleared it from everywhere they have access to.

 

[chicken danz]

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NO NO NO! I had goats and never again!! I'd rather spray roundup in this area. It isn't being used for anything cause it's not planted in grass or planted as field. It was an old cow lot and it is just worthless. We tried farming it but nothing but Johnson grass, horse weed, hog weed, or Queen Anne's Lace will grow there. If I could ever get rid of the weed seeds I'd try growing melons there for the birds but after 10 years of trying to clean it up it is still waste land.

 

[Trish44]

Excellent goal. I'm convinced that all the hormones they are feeding cattle are affecting our kids in negative ways. Same with milk and mild products. Eggs not so much, but they are so much better than those tasteless things in the store that it is worth the extra work and expense.

Not to mention the poison we ingest from that used on vegetables and fruits.

I agree with you sharol, the hormones are definitely not good for children, but not good for anyone else either. I wish I could raise more of our food here but with my arthritis now I just can't handle it by myself & my DH is not onboard. At least we do have the lamb meat now & my DH who was so against it at first is really coming around. I told him last night we were getting low on lamb meat of some kinds & he actually looked kind of sad, a total turnaround. He had only had lamb once or twice before we got our first lamb from the locker & he is really liking it now. We're having grilled lamb chops today for lunch. I did get the VegTrug I told you all about planted with a lettuce garden this year. I was kind of disgusted after paying so much for it & buying the bug cover to keep the chickens out I found out I now had to buy another cover to get the frame that holds it up. They don't sell the frame separately, it only comes with the greenhouse cover, ugh that was another $60. This thing has cost me quite a bit of money but hopefully it will last a few years & we'll get some use out of it.

@HEChicken I know you like snakes, but I would have had a heart attack if I came upon that pile of snakes, eeek!

@lizzyGSR I would just watch the new pup closely with the birds, it is still a pup & even if it is fine later you have to get through that puppy stage. They tend to "play" too hard sometimes.

@Patriciaallison that's great that you're enjoying the country life, I left the city after growing up in one in 1976 & haven't lived in one since. I've always had a country girl heart & I'm right where I want to be.

 

[Patriciaallison]

What is queen Ann's lace?

 

[lizzyGSR]

@lizzyGSR I would just watch the new pup closely with the birds, it is still a pup & even if it is fine later you have to get through that puppy stage. They tend to "play" too hard sometimes.

Yep, that's what I was trying to say.

 

[chicken danz]

What is queen Ann's lace?

It's a very invasive weed that grows really fast. It has carrot like foilage on it initially. The foilage looks fine and lacy but it can get 8 feet tall. When it blooms it has big flower heads with lots of tiny what flowers on it. Nasty weed for sure.

 

[Patriciaallison]

It's a very invasive weed that grows really fast. It has carrot like foilage on it initially. The foilage looks fine and lacy but it can get 8 feet tall. When it blooms it has big flower heads with lots of tiny what flowers on it. Nasty weed for sure.

I have tons of that around my place. No idea it was bad. Are there any known uses for it? Can it hurt livestock?
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[chicklover56]

Congrats everybody on the hatches, puppies, and lambs!

My chicken that had the sneezes is still sneezing. Treated with the tylan but it hasn't stopped. Otherwise she is fine, eating and drinking well.

My neighbors have a sick chicken. They asked me to come down and take a look at her, but I don't know much (as you all can probably tell by how many problems I have and have no idea what to do). She is lethargic and not moving around, just laying there. I gave her some yogurt, which she didn't have any interest in. I put some ACV in her water and she drank it up, she was very thirsty. (They had the water too high and she couldn't stand up to reach it). I took a few pictures.

This is her. She is not getting up at all, just laying down.


The part where my fingers are is squishy (for the lack of a better word). I'm not sure if that is normal.


Her vent is a little red and crusty.


Any help is appreciated!