Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

Hummm. I was thinking Hawkeye posted what she put with her chickens and someone else piped in and said how they normally treated. I have a bottle with dosages. I just thought I might find a faster way to treat. Or maybe I dreamed it. I swear I spend a ridiculous amount of time scanning back on old posts trying to find things and rarely do.

 

[Trish44]

Using a post driver is easy. Here are some step-by-step instructions:

1. Grab your 15yo DS
2. Direct him where you want the posts driven.

Voila!

LOL - seriously though, I do it the same way as Trish mentioned - tipping it over, putting the driver over it, then standing it upright and pounding it in. It certainly helps if it has rained recently. When DS and I drove the posts for my chicken yard, it was spring of last year and we came out here on a day it was raining so the ground would be soft enough to get them in.

Ha, ha HEChicken, you want to loan him out?

Hummm. I was thinking Hawkeye posted what she put with her chickens and someone else piped in and said how they normally treated. I have a bottle with dosages. I just thought I might find a faster way to treat. Or maybe I dreamed it. I swear I spend a ridiculous amount of time scanning back on old posts trying to find things and rarely do.

Danz, I found this post from checoukan:
Hawkeye, I use 1 TBLSof the Corid to 1 gal on water. That's what I have always used.

I knew I was going to pay in a big way for what I did yesterday & sure enough I hurt all night long & woke up today with my arms feeling like lead & my back & legs are sore too. This old body just doesn't take that kind of abuse very well any more. The worst part is I have to go out tomorrow & pound in 3 more posts yet. I guess the positive thing in it all is I got the biggest part of them done already. I couldn't get the panels close enough to the building for there not to be a gap back there, so I will have to attach some chicken wire to the building to keep the chickens from squeezing through to the pen next door. As soon as I get the pens all up then I have to cut my gates down & get them together. It's just a lot easier working on those in the garage where I have a concrete slab to lay them down on that is flat. There goes my back again, ouch.

The forecast is still saying snow today, but so far it's 38 here with the high supposed to be 41. I hope we don't get much, we can use the moisture, but we don't need ice or slick roads. My DH left saying he hopes I don't have to come get him with the old truck, me too. Ugh, I hate driving in that junk, I'm just not good on slick roads & it makes me very nervous every since I totaled my car on the ice years ago.

Well I hope you all can stay warm today. I have no plans to go out except to do only the minimum today.

 

[chicken danz]

Ha, ha HEChicken, you want to loan him out?
Not before she loans him to me!
Danz, I found this post from cheecoukan:
Hawkeye, I use 1 TBLSof the Corid to 1 gal on water. That's what I have always used.
That's what I was looking for. Thanks. It's a lot simpler that way.
I knew I was going to pay in a big way for what I did yesterday & sure enough I hurt all night long & woke up today with my arms feeling like lead & my back & legs are sore too. This old body just doesn't take that kind of abuse very well any more. The worst part is I have to go out tomorrow & pound in 3 more posts yet. I guess the positive thing in it all is I got the biggest part of them done already. I couldn't get the panels close enough to the building for there not to be a gap back there, so I will have to attach some chicken wire to the building to keep the chickens from squeezing through to the pen next door. As soon as I get the pens all up then I have to cut my gates down & get them together. It's just a lot easier working on those in the garage where I have a concrete slab to lay them down on that is flat. There goes my back again, ouch.

The forecast is still saying snow today, but so far it's 38 here with the high supposed to be 41. I hope we don't get much, we can use the moisture, but we don't need ice or slick roads. My DH left saying he hopes I don't have to come get him with the old truck, me too. Ugh, I hate driving in that junk, I'm just not good on slick roads & it makes me very nervous every since I totaled my car on the ice years ago.

Well I hope you all can stay warm today. I have no plans to go out except to do only the minimum today.

I have so much on my plate today that I don't think I am going to have a single minute for working on the hoop house. I have company coming...last minute plans. I need to go get feed. I need to tidy up inside because I haven't done a thing in here. I was going to make some bread and cinnamon rolls but that is off the scope for now. I need to shovel out the puppy pen. Lots of poop out there!! I feel like screaming. I hate days that I can't get even my basic stuff done because there is too many other things going on.
And it is cold out there!! I am so sick of winter. I guess I am in stress mode right now and need to get over it. Maybe tomorrow will be nicer.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Guys have to get a couple of roos out of here.. I have gotten all of them to finally settle downa nd be nice but some have to go..

I am going to start off with my barred.columbian rock boy

He is 9 months and truely handsome.
I also have a 7 week old phoenix cross from my stock that I will find a home for not positive on sex on it I need to snap a couple of pics of that one

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Whoa! I just wrote a big message and then it zapped off into the ether! Sorry guys, don't have time to re-do it and probably won't have time to check back in until tomorrow. We'll see. Hawkeye, sending you a quick PM re the Barred Rocks.

 

[Trish44]

Wow, it is snowing like crazy here, huge flakes!

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Wow, it is snowing like crazy here, huge flakes!

NNOOOOOO!!!!!

 

[Trish44]

It snowed really big flakes for awhile, enough to blanket the ground, then rained, now it's doing a combination of both but it looks like it might be getting bigger again. It's really coming down out there. I went out & got my head completely soaked. My chickens are just kind of looking out, not excited about coming out in it. One rooster did come up to the front porch, but I'll bet he heads back soon.

 

[HEChicken]

Wow - we haven't had a flake of snow OR a drop of rain here. It doesn't even look close to doing either, other than being overcast. In fact, I've just come in from working on my hoop coop. My camera is acting up - I'm really upset about it as it was not a cheap camera when I bought it. It won't auto focus at all and even when I manually focus it, it won't take a picture in auto focus mode. I've taken some pics in manual mode though, so I'll get those uploaded at some point soon.

DH and I were able to pull the panels over into a hoop that was almost 8' wide at the bottom - and that was without having to pull too hard - so I guess I can report that hog panels are not as hard to work with as everyone thought they would be. We even debated going out and getting some 8' lumber and saving our 10-footers for another project. In the end though, we decided the coop doesn't need the extra height for its purpose (or for me to walk into it), whereas if we make the base 10' across, it will add significantly to the square footage of the coop. So we stuck with the 10' end boards. Next I need to do the back wall (easy) and the front to include a gate (not so much). Overall though, this has been a really easy project so far.

 

[Trish44]

Wow - we haven't had a flake of snow OR a drop of rain here. It doesn't even look close to doing either, other than being overcast. In fact, I've just come in from working on my hoop coop. My camera is acting up - I'm really upset about it as it was not a cheap camera when I bought it. It won't auto focus at all and even when I manually focus it, it won't take a picture in auto focus mode. I've taken some pics in manual mode though, so I'll get those uploaded at some point soon.

DH and I were able to pull the panels over into a hoop that was almost 8' wide at the bottom - and that was without having to pull too hard - so I guess I can report that hog panels are not as hard to work with as everyone thought they would be. We even debated going out and getting some 8' lumber and saving our 10-footers for another project. In the end though, we decided the coop doesn't need the extra height for its purpose (or for me to walk into it), whereas if we make the base 10' across, it will add significantly to the square footage of the coop. So we stuck with the 10' end boards. Next I need to do the back wall (easy) and the front to include a gate (not so much). Overall though, this has been a really easy project so far.

I'm sure it's a lot easier doing it with two people, imagine doing it by yourself. I'm hoping I have help when I get ready to build the next one, but we'll see. Maybe I'll recruit you to come help me with it.

I'm surprised you're not getting snow up there, it's snowing like no tomorrow here, big huge flakes & it's coming down really fast. I just looked at radar & it's not moving much right now, kind of stationary over Wichita & south of there, us. My DH didn't take the old 4 wheel drive truck to work today, I think he'll wish he had by the time this is over.