Consolidated Kansas

[ChooksChick]

Ah! Sunshine again! A bit breezy, and I know it will get cooler again as the day moves on, but I hear we'll have upper 70's by Friday!! Joy!!

If anyone is looking for birds in the NE area, I have about 10 breeds of chicks ages 2 days to 9 weeks that have to go! Silkies (pet quality); Silver and Gold Laced Wyandottes; White and Light Brown Leghorns; Blue, Black and Splash Banty Ameraucanas; Blue, Black, Splash, Buff and Pencilled Easter Eggers; Cuckoo Marans (clean-legged); Buff Laced Polish; Golden Lakenvelders; Spizhaubens; Blue and Black Andalusians; Jersey Giants, and Heaven knows there's some stuff I've forgotten.

I've been on a hatching spree and these are the results that I'm not keeping. Looks like I'll be moving my breeding facilities, so a bunch of birds I was going to breed will be going out into the world!

 

[schellie69]

i would love to have some but almost at my limit can only have 15 in town and i have 11 would love the bantams and some of the EE's

 

[EweSheep]

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I've tried it and it came up with very little information. I was able to find family members in there some time ago but not for places or locations I need to pinpoint.

I also used Ancestory as well! Neat site!

 

[fitzy]

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this probably won't help, but i'm gonna throw it out there anyway....i'm originally from the south, and my first thoughts when i read "turpin station" was that ol' southern draw....that's how my grandfather would say "terrapin". since the time frame you're working with had many "uneducated" people, this could possibly be a misspelling of terrapin...just a thought.

 

[HEChicken]

Thought I'd post a link to an incubator on Craigslist in the Wichita area. Looks like a pretty good deal for anyone who is interested:

http://wichita.craigslist.org/grd/1454120131.html

 

[Kansaseq]

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this probably won't help, but i'm gonna throw it out there anyway....i'm originally from the south, and my first thoughts when i read "turpin station" was that ol' southern draw....that's how my grandfather would say "terrapin". since the time frame you're working with had many "uneducated" people, this could possibly be a misspelling of terrapin...just a thought.

Have to admit I thought the very same thing.

 

[EweSheep]

Fitzy, it may have been well the case of misspelling and so forth. Back in those days, they are not too focused on specifics LOL!

I have found a few census stating that they were located later in Owantonnie (sp) KS for a good ten years before they moved back to Illinois.

 

[Nana2KJS]

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Osawatomie? That's in Miami county.

 

[EweSheep]

I am going to double check it to make sure we got the right Johnson family. Sometimes it comes up with nothing and others come up with something else.

 

[ChooksChick]

Have you Central Kansans had rain today? They're calling for it here tomorrow, and I'm grumbly about it...I want it to continue being nice, darnit!