Consolidated Kansas

[Ivywoods]

Finally got some pics loaded.

i just got my laptop back from the shop and some of the programs were kind of messed up. I love my computer when it works, but when it doesn't I'd just about throw it through the window. Thank goodness Mike likes to fix the problems. Here is Brittany or Britt. I just love her "happy dog" face!

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Here she is with Mike. Notice his other best friend on his arm. That's Johnny.

 

[draye]

Is there anybody on here that lives in Sublette?
Lived there back in ??1974-1975?? for about 9 months.
Just wondering!!!!!

 

[HEChicken]

Awww...Ivy - Britt is adorable.

 

[Ivywoods]

Is there anybody on here that lives in Sublette?
Lived there back in ??1974-1975?? for about 9 months.
Just wondering!!!!!

There aren't very many people on here from the western Kansas area. I can recall there was one person on here a while back, but I can't remember which town he was from or what that person's name was

Where are you now? I have family out in the Garden City, Lakin area.

 

[draye]

There aren't very many people on here from the western Kansas area. I can recall there was one person on here a while back, but I can't remember which town he was from or what that person's name was

Where are you now? I have family out in the Garden City, Lakin area.

Thanks for answering for me.

I'm back in Arkansas where I originally came from.
I liked it there in Kansas, but we missed the family back home so we came back in 1976 ( i was around 13 at the time we came home).
Well regards,
draye

 

[chicken danz]

This stupid weather has me miserable. I ache and feel like doing nothing. I went out to feed but it was pouring down rain so I just did what I had to right now. I'll have to go finish later. I need to free up a couple of heat lamp holders. I need to move some chicks out to the brooder house. It stinks in here.
I just fired up a second GQF. I didn't have any room left in the one I had going. Wow! It's going to be crazy here when I really start hatching.
So this guy showed up to do the estimate and I didn't get it yet but he was talking April before he could do it. I can't wait that long. I am thinking I'm just going to have to build a new shed for the peacocks and forget about having something decent for the birds. Poop! Maybe I could find them some room in the chicken trailer if I plan right. I am pretty stubborn when I set my mind to something. I normally figure out a way to make it happen.
Draye, no never even heard of Sublette. Now IMO Arkansas is beautiful. My son and DIL lived at Ft.Smith for a while. It was such a beautiful area. I love the trees and the hills.

 

[heidi73931]

I live in Garden city and have pretty much all my life. The wind and dirt is unbelievable today. At certain times I can't even see 200 yards. Let me just say GROSS,!!
There are not many people that raise chicken out here at all.

 

[HEChicken]

I live in Garden city and have pretty much all my life. The wind and dirt is unbelievable today. At certain times I can't even see 200 yards. Let me just say GROSS,!!
There are not many people that raise chicken out here at all.

Welcome Heidi!

 

[Marty1876]

 

[Ivywoods]

I just read an email from my sister out at Garden City. She was telling me exactly that. She said the dust was so bad out there that she couldn't see Garden City at all. She said all she could see was one of the water towers on the west side. It sure didn't sound like fun.

Here's another (not so pleasant) thought. Much of that dust and dirt blowing around is from the nearby feedlots and the cattle stirring around. I've been at my sister's place when that happens and the dust smells just like cow stuff.

Anyway, welcome and we are glad you are here (both of you new members) I will be moving sometime in the next year, and northern Arkansas is one of my considerations. It sure is beautiful there.

DANZ-Sorry you are having one of those days. We are feeling the same way today, too. I have a question for you or anyone else that hatches a lot of chicks. I am having trouble with a few chicks with spraddle legs. I can fix them with the vet wrap and have had 100% success getting them up on their feet, but they are spraddled when they come out of the hatcher. Generally it's the marans that have the problem. The marans are my biggest chicks, and I'm thinking my hatching trays are just too short and they can't stand up in them. I have stuff in there so they can get their footing, but they do seem rather squatted in there. Do you think the short trays are the problem? If so, I may be building some different hatching trays one of these days.

Oh! I hatched what I believe is a melanistic chick. It is coal black. I believe it is a black ameraucana, but all of my black ameraucana chicks are black with white tummies. This one has shiny black fuzz, beak, legs, everything! I have never seen as chick as black as this thing. I'm going to post a pic of it... maybe tomorrow on the ameraucana breeders thread to see what some of the breeders think. In the meantime, it sure is easy to tell which one it is!