Consolidated Kansas

[tazcat70]

Who is ready for a couple of pictures?


Silkies- Sorry only one I could get, my toddler was in love with the new arrivals and kept catching the dark one. BTW: Renee I think my other dark one might be a boy too, no crowing, but his hackle feathers are really shiny, and his poofy head not so round.

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The pea chick!

 

[tntblake]

I'm trying to figure out a name for the pup I kept. She comes running when I yell puppy, but she needs a name of her own. I'm open to suggestions.

I like Aspen, Bianca, Isis, Opal, Pearl, Tundra, and Snowflake.

 

[Asweet23]

I joined the BYC board a few years ago and haven't posted in forever. I had a question and decided to join in again and am addicted. Had to create a new account since I couldn't get my other one to work.

I'm from the Abilene, KS area.

Angela
***2 yellow labs, 6 kitty cats, 15 chickens, 2 newly hatched chicks under mother hen & waiting on 4 more, 2 horses, 2 beautiful daughters (7 & 10), 1 betta fish, & a totally awesome husband who helps me out with my zoo. **

 

[JosieChick]

Danz- So sorry to hear about your mom. My thoughts are with you. Love the duck egg in the pocket!!

Daylight savings time and it is drizzling and grey on top of it! Yuck.

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

[ChooksChick]

I joined the BYC board a few years ago and haven't posted in forever. I had a question and decided to join in again and am addicted. Had to create a new account since I couldn't get my other one to work.

I'm from the Abilene, KS area.

Angela
***2 yellow labs, 6 kitty cats, 15 chickens, 2 newly hatched chicks under mother hen & waiting on 4 more, 2 horses, 2 beautiful daughters (7 & 10), 1 betta fish, & a totally awesome husband who helps me out with my zoo. **

Welcome! Glad to have you!!

 

[Hawkeye95]

Tweety- great videos! I watched them all. Love swimming ducks!

Danz, funny about having a duck egg in your pocket at the hospital. Ah well, it is what it is. I'm with you on that one. I think I could rehab coons and opossums-- I've saved babies. I love their great big yawing mouths full of teeth. It's actually kind of cute when you raise them. I really like the name Lydia and Daisy and Sophie.

Renee, good luck with all your repairs. Doesnt sound like much fun at all in the rain!

I'm not a fan of the time change either-- but I've always thought I'd like more daylight in the evenings so that I can get more stuff done before it gets dark. I hate running out of daylight hours. Spring and summer is spent working in my garden, lotd of watering of the trees and shrubs I've started the last few years... then all the projects I do trying to make it nicer out here. I put in a little paver path last year, several trees that now have to be watered.. it goes on and on. I'm very outdoorsy; I appreciate the extra light. I'd just want to leave it like that!

Went to church this morning and my son sang in the children's choir. Got a few pictures taken of him up there. Sat thru two services since he had to be there. Makes for a long morning, but since it was raining, it's not like I was wanting to hurry home and work on anything anyway.

 

[Hawkeye95]

OMGosh--- silkie cutness overload!! LOL!!! You have a great looking bunch! I really love the Splash-- think that's pretty much my favorite color. Thank you for the pictures!! Oh and your peachick is CUTE! What color is she going to be? I think it would be so fun to have them. HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!!

Who is ready for a couple of pictures?


Silkies- Sorry only one I could get, my toddler was in love with the new arrivals and kept catching the dark one. BTW: Renee I think my other dark one might be a boy too, no crowing, but his hackle feathers are really shiny, and his poofy head not so round.

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The pea chick!

 

[cherwill]

Welcome Mandilynn; those partridge rocks are pretty.

Hawkeye, I keep calling the screamer a roo; it aggravates my husband no end!

Danz, the cayugas are so pretty. I'm pretty sure a family member would kill me if I added ducks. LOL I'm sorry your mom's still having problems; sounds like she's got a good fighting attitude, though. I'm the same as you about butchering an animal because it isn't perfect. I have the room and enough money to keep them around. My in-laws think we should butcher the 2 year olds when the laying slows down. I know they think I'm nuts, but that doesn't seem like a very nice thing to do to birds who've done so much for me and, as I've said, I can afford to keep them. We're not in business where something like that might make sense or be necessary. They're not exactly pets in the way my dogs are, but they're not NOT pets, either.

Taz, I love the chick in the car, like you're all just out for an afternoon drive.

DH found a guy online who made chicken tunnels for his birds. They're just tunnels made of wire and placed on a stable base at the edges (wood, I think). He lays them between the rows in his garden and lets the chickens in to eat the weeds. He puts them in a different place each day. Ingenious! We can't have animals out at the community garden or I think I'd do this for sure. Then you could rake the poop in the rows for fertilizer, as well.

I also thought about being a vet, but I realized I couldn't bring myself to euthanize animals. I'm glad others can because I've had to have it done, but I couldn't do it myself. Especially not when people bring in an animal to be euthanized that I don't think needs to be. My niece wants to be a vet and currently volunteers for one because she's not old enough for them to officially hire yet. She has seen animals brought in because they were old, though healthy, and even one brought in because the owners said they just didn't want it any more but didn't want to have to find another home for it. Never mind that we have a city animal shelter and a humane society right here in town ... I wouldn't be able to do the job. We once got a little dog that was 16 years old and mean. It was my SIL's and she was going to have him put down because she had two toddlers and he'd bit one. Then she called me in a panic because she couldn't stand the thought of having him killed. DH reluctantly agreed we'd take him because, at 16, how much longer could he live? Two years, that's how much longer! With a little work, he wasn't so vicious but we still had to keep him away from our male dog and our niece. I told my parents I couldn't kill him just because he was old and grumpy. Dad said he was relieved to hear it, since he was getting up there in years himself ...

I'm in! Let's get that daylight savings petition going. It's a remnant of a way we don't even live any more. According to the docs on TV, it takes three days to get fully adjusted to losing that hour, and every time some people forget and are late for work and appointments. It's not worth it. I'm not even grateful for the "fall back" because they're just returning the hour they stole from me six months earlier!

 

[Hawkeye95]

I joined the BYC board a few years ago and haven't posted in forever. I had a question and decided to join in again and am addicted. Had to create a new account since I couldn't get my other one to work.

I'm from the Abilene, KS area.

Angela
***2 yellow labs, 6 kitty cats, 15 chickens, 2 newly hatched chicks under mother hen & waiting on 4 more, 2 horses, 2 beautiful daughters (7 & 10), 1 betta fish, & a totally awesome husband who helps me out with my zoo. **

Welcome to the Kansas thread!!! and

(again) What kind of birds do you have?

 

[Ivywoods]

I joined the BYC board a few years ago and haven't posted in forever. I had a question and decided to join in again and am addicted. Had to create a new account since I couldn't get my other one to work.

I'm from the Abilene, KS area.

Angela
***2 yellow labs, 6 kitty cats, 15 chickens, 2 newly hatched chicks under mother hen & waiting on 4 more, 2 horses, 2 beautiful daughters (7 & 10), 1 betta fish, & a totally awesome husband who helps me out with my zoo. **

Welcome back. Feel free to join in. We don't peck, bite, scratch, kick or flogg. Grumble maybe sometimes.

Speaking of grumble. Gees. What a morning. I haven't even fed birds outside yet. I was just finishing taking care of the chicks and incubator in the basement and DH came in and said Freckles had triplets. She wasn't even due. We weren't expecting it. She had them out in the rain and they were soaked with mud, 1/4 inch thick. One was obviously dead. One one looked like it would make it and one was pretty questionable. We brought them in and started soaking and spraying them with warm water. The bigger one was pretty vigorous and crying. The one I was working with wouldn't even hold it's head up. DH put the energetic one in the bathroom where it is very warm and started drying it. All of the sudden it stopped breathing. It had aspirated a HUGE amount. The one I was working with was able to hold it's head up finally and I put it in front of the warm air to dry. Then started working on the big one. It wouldn't breath and copious amounts of mucous were coming out of it's stomach and lungs. No heartbeat, so I started CPR, giving it breaths through a tube from a turkey baster (quickest thing I could find.) Worked and worked, but all I was able to get were a few gasping breaths and never got the heart started again.

That's the pits. Second set of triplet does and we lost 2 of them. Our first set of triplets is doing well.