Consolidated Kansas

[Ivywoods]

Hawkeye- That is one of my FAVORITE songs. You bet that song goes through my head when I set my mind to doing something and just need to keep going. It does help me keep my stride.

That is exactly what was happening at work. One persons negative, sour apple, depressed attitude affects everyone. It just seems to snowball. Okay. I'm done ranting and raving... again!

It's time for some

 

[chicken danz]

Susie, you are always so funny! Love ya girl! Peter Pepper picked a pack of pinless peepers, pick a pinless peeper for Peter Pepper's pickers
I hope I haven't sounded like a downer these past several days. If I have I am so sorry. I'm dealing with a lot of grief these days. It is very hard. Yesterday I was just angry at the system. I guess it's all part of the process. I think today I am ready to face facts and although I am still upset and tearful it's time to just go with what I have to go with. I got home after 10:30 last night from the hospital. My Mom had taken about 4 and half hours to eat just a few bites of food but she was determined she was supposed to eat it. I'm sure she used more energy trying to force down a little food than she got out of it. At 9:30 I took her tray away and felt awful but she was far behind on her breathing treatments and really has to have those to survive. it made me feel mean. Looks like she will be transferred to the rest home sometime today. When she gets tired she can't think and she was way beyond that.
Anyway I normally a person who sees life as a gift and am always happy, so I am sorry if I have sounded like a downer. I do appreciate your thoughts and prayers.
You guys wouldn't believe all the eggs I picked up under my front porch and in the barn yesterday. There must be at least 15-20 dozen. My bators are full. I have another one but don't really have a place to set it up right now. I've got to get that siding on the porch! There are two buckets full plus this huge bowl I bought to set a big flower pot in when I couldn't find a saucer big enough to fit.
What do you do with that many eggs when they aren't safe to sell to customers?

 

[chickmama1662]

My goodness, what a lot of eggs! I want to say, we all feel for what you are going thru and I for one realize that we all need to vent once in a while, if we didn't we'd be loonie toons for sure. Now you're at the point where you just pick up and do what needs to be done so the venting has helped you. We went thru this with my FIL and MIL last year and it's all worked out OK in the end. Hang in there!

 

[HEChicken]

What do you do with that many eggs when they aren't safe to sell to customers?

Are they not safe just because you don't know how long they were sitting? I don't get THAT many excess eggs at a time but I certainly get to the point I have more than I can comfortably store. Do you like pickled eggs? When I have eggs that are getting older, I figure that is a perfect time to hard-boil them since they're easier to peel than fresh eggs. So I'll boil up a couple dozen and then pop them all in a large jar with some vinegar and pickling spices, and after a few weeks they are delicious. The nice thing about this is due to the vinegar they don't have to be stored in the fridge, so I can put them in the pantry.

I would also consider cooking up some and feeding to the dogs and back to the chickens if I had a bunch that I couldn't sell and didn't want to eat. I figure that way I am at least reducing my feed bill for a few meals.

 

[Ivywoods]

Susie, you are always so funny! Love ya girl! Peter Pepper picked a pack of pinless peepers, pick a pinless peeper for Peter Pepper's pickers
I hope I haven't sounded like a downer these past several days. If I have I am so sorry. I'm dealing with a lot of grief these days. It is very hard. Yesterday I was just angry at the system. I guess it's all part of the process. I think today I am ready to face facts and although I am still upset and tearful it's time to just go with what I have to go with. I got home after 10:30 last night from the hospital. My Mom had taken about 4 and half hours to eat just a few bites of food but she was determined she was supposed to eat it. I'm sure she used more energy trying to force down a little food than she got out of it. At 9:30 I took her tray away and felt awful but she was far behind on her breathing treatments and really has to have those to survive. it made me feel mean. Looks like she will be transferred to the rest home sometime today. When she gets tired she can't think and she was way beyond that.
Anyway I normally a person who sees life as a gift and am always happy, so I am sorry if I have sounded like a downer. I do appreciate your thoughts and prayers.
You guys wouldn't believe all the eggs I picked up under my front porch and in the barn yesterday. There must be at least 15-20 dozen. My bators are full. I have another one but don't really have a place to set it up right now. I've got to get that siding on the porch! There are two buckets full plus this huge bowl I bought to set a big flower pot in when I couldn't find a saucer big enough to fit.
What do you do with that many eggs when they aren't safe to sell to customers?

Danz, I wasn't talking about you when I was ranting and raving. You are dealing with circumstances that have been forced upon you, but that is exactly what you are doing..dealing with it. It sure sounds like your mom is going to need lots of help for a while. I'm sure it is very hard to watch your parents go through this. Some of it I have trouble identifying with because my folks were never close to me. I always wanted that to be different, but that's the way it was.

That's a lot of eggs! When I get some that get left out or are "age undetermined" I scramble them up and give them back to the chickens. They go nuts over them. I add a little of this or that, if I just happen to have something in the refrigerator that I want to get rid of, and I add some hot sauce or whatever suits me. I did this just yesterday. Ended up adding a little salsa that had sat in the refrigerator too long. They loved it.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Danz, I wasn't talking about you when I was ranting and raving. You are dealing with circumstances that have been forced upon you, but that is exactly what you are doing..dealing with it. It sure sounds like your mom is going to need lots of help for a while. I'm sure it is very hard to watch your parents go through this. Some of it I have trouble identifying with because my folks were never close to me. I always wanted that to be different, but that's the way it was.

That's a lot of eggs! When I get some that get left out or are "age undetermined" I scramble them up and give them back to the chickens. They go nuts over them. I add a little of this or that, if I just happen to have something in the refrigerator that I want to get rid of, and I add some hot sauce or whatever suits me. I did this just yesterday. Ended up adding a little salsa that had sat in the refrigerator too long. They loved it.

X2!! Oh Danz, I know everyone here feels for you and your situation is beyond the typical moodiness a person deals with on a every day basis. I don't know how I would be handling it if my mom or dad were so ill. I think you are doing a great job keeping it together, BUT you have every right to be sad and it's great that you have us to use as an outlet. I'm keeping you in my prayers, there is no way you can do it alone.

Can you scramble it all-- or throw them in a casserole dish and bake them for the dogs? I bet she could use a boost of protein?? I have no idea-- I've NEVER seen that many eggs "just laying around"!!

That's an insane amount of eggs.

I'm a little annoyed, my coop is pretty much done, but I ran out of roofing nails. I got the entire roofed except for the last run on the very tip. Sigh. Anyway, yesterday my mom and I went out and got the lumber for my brother's coop that I'm building for him. I thought out the material list and tried to think of the cheapest way to build it. We spent $88 and that included the hinges and locks! I'm going to use treated pine fence pickets for the siding. I think it'll be pretty cute. I'm going to try to put the dog ears at the bottom so it looks like it has a scalloped edge along the bottom to make it a bit cuter. I saw someone else do that on BYC and thought if I ever used pickets, I'd do that too. Well, here's my chance! I'm inside because I was hunting down my drill and finally had to call my DH. Apparently he used it last night and didn't put it back. I found it. But of course, I couldn't walk by the computer without checking it. Sooooo addicted. Geez.

 

[Trish44]

Danz, that is a lot of eggs, more than I think I've ever seen at one time! I agree, feed them back to the chickens & some to your dogs, I'll bet they would love it. I came home from being gone for the weekend & found about 2 1/2 dozen waiting for me in the nests & I thought that was a lot. We all do empathize with you & all you're going through right now. Just vent all you need to, that's what we're all here for, to share good & bad things.

Hawkeye, I'm glad the pinless peepers are easy to use. I haven't had to deal with that problem, my main one is the roosters pulling the hens feathers out. I need to get some more hen saddles, those have worked out really well, that is until they get them loose & they fall off, but most of them have stayed on great. I have a few hens that have bare spots on their backs from these two main roosters I have. I'll be glad when I get my breeder coop done so I can put one of them in a pen. When you get the other coop done we want to see pics! I'll bet it's going to be cute, you're so talented.

Speaking of that, I got a PM on FB last night from a guy I sent a message to probably 2 weeks ago about his offer to one gal on there for some wood windows he was replacing on his house. I had told him that if she didn't take them all I would be interested in some. Well I'm going to go get them today, he has 7 right now for $20 & I'm going to take them all, I figure even if I don't need them all for my coop I can use them for something. I may even end up putting one in my other coop, there just doesn't seem to be enough air circulation still in that thing, even with three small windows & two vents. Anyway, that is the first pieces of material for my breeder coop, yay! Now if only I could find some wood cheap that would be great. Since I don't know if my DH is going to help me buy wood for it I may have to go the cheap route & find used stuff, we'll see.

Oh, Danz my little hen that I got in Yates Center is now integrated into the flock & it's just like she's always been there. DH finally heard the sound she makes this morning & he said it sounds like a rusty swingset sort of sound. I was thinking rusty hinge, but sort of the same thing.

 

[chicken danz]

I normally give the dogs and chickens all the eggs I break and I've cooked a ton of them.
DH being braver than I cracked some out of the buckets. The buckets came from the barn. And cooked them. We just ate a meal made with them. I didn't die. I know those were pretty fresh cause I check in there often. One of the two big nests was one I haven't found before so it made me nervous. The ones that were under the porch which are the ones in the bowl I would be leary of. I may pick out some of these and fire up the 3rd incubator. I am sure a good number of those would be purebred brahmas cause a group of those hens and a roo hang around out front most of the time. I think I can fairly well pick out their eggs. I just need to figure out where to put this other bator and not overload any circuits. Between the other two GQFs and the GQF hatcher, if I add the other GQF that is pulling a lot of amps. Sure wish I had a climate controlled outbuilding to do all this in. It would be great. One place I went had an old concrete wash house. It was perfect for hatching. They had electricity and running water. It could all be closed up as necessary heat put in as needed. They had 4 incubators and an electric brooder in there. The big thing this property is missing is outbuildings. We tore down a huge chicken house cause it was full of pack rack nests when we moved here. And there was once a big metal barn here but a tornado took it down before I bought the place. Sure wish I had that now. It just had a gravel floor unfortunately or I would definitely be reusing the flooring.

 

[tazcat70]

Congrats Tweety!

 

[tntblake]

Hey Verna, There is a guy on the swap page that wants from Seramas from you. He said he sent you a message but you haven't responded. I told him you have been dealing with a family emergency and that you would get back with him.