Consolidated Kansas

[Hawkeye95]

TNTBlake, I sure hope you get the color of eggs you are wanting from your new EE's! Hmm... Now I'm starting to think an EE would be a great addition to my own little flock. Good grief, but I think I have enough chickens for now! Especially after I pick up my new ones here next week.

Sharol, oh my, Lily is so pretty! I agree, I don't think I've seen a prettier white chicken! She has cute fluffy cheeks and just is adorable looking! I hope her feet will heal for you. Poor thing, I'm sorry about that. You said there are still little scabs in her feet? Are they really small-- could they just be pinched out after you kind of scrape off a bit the top part? And now with winter coming on fast, this is no time to be having bad feet.

Hopefully she'll be just fine. Okay, I want to know what kind of chicken do you have that made your brown egg with spots on it?! That is the coolest egg EVER!! I love that!!!!

Well, it's a preschool morning so I'll have to get the kids around here soon. It is so cooooold. Brrrrr... I'm smacking my forhead for not being able to get my coop finished in 4 months!? Geez, that should be PLENTY of time. I'm so glad we're in the home stretch, though. I just need siding and to finish the inside and I'm good to go! I'll work on details this coming spring. I was going to put on my cute shutters and other things I got for it. But I'm just going to call it good once I can get chickens into it if it's going to stay this cold. I'm thinking of putting my turkey in the barn in one of my horse stalls for the winter until my chickens get big and won't get trampled or killed by her. She's going to need more of a wind break protection. I'll still have to bring her in to sleep in her dog crate at night, though for protection at night. What a mess! But my turkey is a giant compared to my babies. I hope she can't fly over the top of my horse stalls. They are about 7 feet tall.

 

[chicken danz]

I'm so behind in posts. We stayed home last night because the cool front made me hurt miserable, so we'll be going to Emporia tonight instead. I feel a little better today so far.
Well poor people have poor people's ways. I have extension cords all over the place. Had them last winter and still have them. The grand plan is to run underground cable to all of the outbuildings. BUT, wire is so expensive and I don't have anyone nearby to trench it out for me. If we ever get ready I will probably just rent a trencher and do it myself. I wired all of my buildings and have them wired with the male end of an extension cord so I can plug into another cord. All I have to do is switch that cord from the junction box to a regular wire and I will be back in business. It works pretty good for now. Electrical wiring is simple with some basic knowledge. I've been hoping to stumble across a roll of underground wire on CL or some place so I can save some money. Hasn't happened yet.

 

[Ivywoods]

LOL! Sounds kind of familiar, Danz. The cold makes my arthritis hurt something awful. Guess I better get used to it.

When hubby and I ran electricity to the barn, he used the pallet fork on the end of the skidsteer to dig the trench.

It wasn't the best, but it got the job done and was a heck of a lot easier than digging it by hand or something. The problem was he stopped at the barn and didn't run it over to my coop! At least this year, instead of running an extension cord from the shop 100 feet over to the coop, I can run one out of the barn which will only be about 25-30feet.

This year, since I didn't get my poultry barn started, DH has agreed to let me use part of the barn for my chickens. Now it's just a matter of setting up a few individual pens for the ones I want to keep separate, as well as setting my cages in there. That is going to have to wait until I get back from my trip next week. Right now the new cages I built are still in the shop. I guess they could stay in there for the winter. It would just be one more place I have to go to do chores, but I usually end up going in there for something, so I think some of my bantams may just have to call that home for the winter.

 

[sharol]

The brown spotted egg is from my Welsumer (Lisbeth - from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). She hasn't laid an egg since her friend Misty died in early summer, but she has also been molting. She is hanging around the nest boxes again, so I'm hopeful she will start laying.

Again, this is an old picture.

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[tazcat70]

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Adorable!

I went a couple of weeks ago for a broody emergency and they told me they weren't getting anymore in.

 

[chicken danz]

I never have liked white chickens much either. Until I got my white cochins. They are gorgeous. Unfortunately my rooster died early in the extreme heat. My female is still here but she is molting. They amaze me how clean they stay. Ihave lots of light brahmas and think they are beutiful. Of course their neck and tail feathers break up the white on them.
I went out and got a piece of fiberglass put up on the side of the greenhouse where it had been removed. It was a pretty sloppy job but I was just trying to get it closed in. The wind was blowing so hard I couldn't control the thing. I had hoped to get my potted plants moved out there to protect them from the predicted frost. I am not prepared to bring them in for the winter yet. I just ran out of time.
I am going to be on gone all day tomorrow and won't have time to move plants until evening. I promised my Mom I would move hers tomorrow afternoon when I went to town. She isn't able, so hers come first. I hate having a tight schedule.

 

[Hawkeye95]

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Danz, the wind was NO fun yesterday. I went down to pick up my 7yr old at the bus stop last night and he got off the bus holding all his papers in his HANDS. He has a backpack... Anyway, one piece blew away, and so then he ran for it, but in the process he dropped all the other stuff he was carrying, so papers swirled everywhere and he even dropped his coat! His coat went flying one way, papers the other. I was so mad at him! I explained that his BACKPACK is for putting papers in and he is not to hold them. Geez. He has lost 2 checks I wrote for lunch this year because he takes them out of his bag and holds them on the bus. I'm assuming he wants to show the other kids or something. It makes me so mad.
I didn't know you have a green house up right now? What kind is it? How is it built? I'm still thinking about it for next year or the next. I guess I want to know what will hold up in our wind, and what will be easy to maintain. So.... are we having winter now?? Seriously, it went right from melting hot temps to cooooold. Geez. I sure hope it warms up for a while. Good luck with all of your plant moving and pen changing!
I'm going to go fire up my tractor and put out a round bale of hay for the horses this morning and see if I can't get something done on the coop later when it warms up a bit.


Tonya- btw, Atwoods has LOTS of chicks right now! And ducks and guinneas...

Of course, the only one I go to is in Derby, ks, don't know what kind of a drive that is. I was in there yesterday. They are all so cute!

 

[msjfrizzle]

Yep, Atwoods has chicks! The one near my school told me 2 weeks ago (when I bought 3 chicks) that they were only getting one more shipment the next day, and no more. By now, I thought it was safe to go in for some feed- but NO!!! THERE WERE CHICKS!! They followed me home......

My daughter was in town for a visit. She said, "Mom, the first thing you have to do is admit you have a problem."

Hi, My name is Jill, and I'm addicted to chickens!

 

[Ivywoods]

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Yup. I'd say you've definitely caught the disease!

My name is Susie and I've been a chicken addict for 45 years. I guess there's no hope for this illness!

 

[msjfrizzle]

Here are some of my new kids. The two little ones in front are Ameraucanas, I think. There's also a tiny gray silkie and a couple of BR's (I think). They're in my new brooder, which is a big ole' packing box a friend salvaged for me from Bombardier/Lear, where he works. It's painted a lovely periwinkle on the inside, because I found a can of gloss latex enamel in my basement, which apparently was too bright for use in a people room. The chicks don't mind a bit

Who needs a cure, anyhow???