Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

I really need to start winterizing the pens for winter. I just dread doing it. I need about 30 bales of straw but the closest I've found it is over an hour away. I saw some at the auction but it was full of mouse holes and definitely not fresh. I don't need to drag any more critters home!
I mowed the goose pen yesterday which was really overgrown. I hadn't been able to get on the mower for months because of my surgery. I finally decided to do it regardless. I found a bunch of rats in the tall weeds. Now I need to figure out how to put out poison that the dogs and cats can't get. My pup is at that stage she grabs everything that weighs under 35 pounds and carries it off to chew on.

 

[Trish44]

@rlh1 are you on the FB swaps? Have you posted the birds there?

 

[rlh1]

@rlh1 are you on the FB swaps? Have you posted the birds there?

I am but I haven't posted them there yet.

 

[rlh1]

I really need to start winterizing the pens for winter. I just dread doing it. I need about 30 bales of straw but the closest I've found it is over an hour away. I saw some at the auction but it was full of mouse holes and definitely not fresh. I don't need to drag any more critters home!
I mowed the goose pen yesterday which was really overgrown. I hadn't been able to get on the mower for months because of my surgery. I finally decided to do it regardless. I found a bunch of rats in the tall weeds. Now I need to figure out how to put out poison that the dogs and cats can't get. My pup is at that stage she grabs everything that weighs under 35 pounds and carries it off to chew on.

There are bate traps that will anchor into the ground so they can't be carried off and the poison is inside them.

 

[rlh1]

Trish44 I still need to get some legbar eggs from you, maybe next year. I'm thinking of trying to find a home for my three silkies. They get beat up on a little and I don't like it.

 

[Trish44]

@rlh1 I just have 3 hens in the Cream Legbar pen now, I lost one while I was on vacation. Just send me a Pm in the spring & we'll go from there. I don't sell a lot of Cream Legbars any more because people have flooded the market with really bad examples of the breed, so bad you can't recognize some of them, & they sell them for a song. I can't compete with that. I have paid good money for all of my birds & am not about to sell chicks for hatchery prices or farm store prices. I also will be raising Sapphires as well, another blue egg layer that are a cross between a Cream Legbar rooster & white Leghorn hens.

 

[CayugaJana]

Hello Everyone! I'm pretty new to BYC and my ducks. But we are learning so much. It's great to see everyone on here from Kansas!

 

[Trish44]

Hello Everyone! I'm pretty new to BYC and my ducks. But we are learning so much. It's great to see everyone on here from Kansas!

Welcome! We like to see new members here. It's been pretty quiet here lately, I guess everyone is busy right now. Feel free to ask questions you might have or just tell us about your birds & setup.

 

[CayugaJana]

I have 8 ducks. A black swedish, pekin, and 6 cayugas. I really like them a lot more than I ever thought. I got them for my boys and I play with them more than the boys do. We bought a chicken coop online because we know nothing about them. And of course they never go in it. So I'm going to have to readjust it. But I'm planning on letting them go inside my greenhouse/shed for winter. It has electricity and a temperature controlled exhaust fan. My dog goes in there to sleep when it's cold and won't bother the ducks, but he will kill any other predators so it's great. They are all juveniles so I'm excited for eggs.

 

[Trish44]

@CayugaJana I raise Ancona ducks & I have a modified hoop coop they go in at night. It has a big tarp over the top so they stay pretty dry in there. In the winter I put a piece of plastic over the north end to block the wind but other than that they still have air circulation in there from the front & side & they do great in there. Once you train ducks or chickens either for that matter where to go at night they really are creatures of habit. I also have Sebastapol geese that live in a bigger hoop coop & at time to go in they often will just start heading to their coop like the chickens do.