Consolidated Kansas

[cherwill]

HOLLY-COW! Danz what kind of coffee are you drinking and where can I get some? ...Dusting? if I really dusted it would be called re-decorating.

I'm going to have to "redecorate" this week because the Tuesday family meal is at my house. I used to enjoy cleaning, and would clean my house top to bottom each week. Now I scramble to get a quick cleaning in before company comes over. It's a little better in winter when I'm not running around outside so much.

 

[chicken danz]

Josie, sending you a PM.
I got that pair of mini-Sebbies for Trudi. Pat's son said they could fly so I just trimmed their wings. I have 5 adorable little Sebbies here in addition to that that are going to be Trudi's as well.
I got a Lavender male and a gray female for myself. The female is actually very pretty. Surprised me, after not caring for the grey guy. You wouldn't believe the beautiful colors I got from that gray guy though. He threw some awesome babies. I have 13 sebbies I hatched this spring and I still have one goose sitting on 6 eggs. She waited until everyone else was done and then decided to lay.
I sold some chicks today to pinks4girls and one of her friends ended up buying a couple at the last minute. She fell in love with the lavenders. They are gorgeous.
I worked on the hoop coop some. I got the ends of the hut part finished on both sides, and got a frame work built to divide the two sides of the hut. Then I got the netting over the top.
Basically I just need to make some doors and put wire in the middle and on both ends. If I decide to put in a floor I need to do that as well. I have to inventory scrap lumber to see if I have enough to do it. But it is finally taking shape so I can get it done. It seems like it has taken me forever. I still need to buy a tarp for the top. But at least there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I think when I get it done I'll be wanting to go buy more livestock panels to make another one. I really like the divided idea for small breeding groups. I have so many birds that need a place to be separated.
I am exhausted but it has been a good day.

 

[Trish44]

Josie, sending you a PM.
I got that pair of mini-Sebbies for Trudi. Pat's son said they could fly so I just trimmed their wings. I have 5 adorable little Sebbies here in addition to that that are going to be Trudi's as well.
I got a Lavender male and a gray female for myself. The female is actually very pretty. Surprised me, after not caring for the grey guy. You wouldn't believe the beautiful colors I got from that gray guy though. He threw some awesome babies. I have 13 sebbies I hatched this spring and I still have one goose sitting on 6 eggs. She waited until everyone else was done and then decided to lay.
I sold some chicks today to pinks4girls and one of her friends ended up buying a couple at the last minute. She fell in love with the lavenders. They are gorgeous.
I worked on the hoop coop some. I got the ends of the hut part finished on both sides, and got a frame work built to divide the two sides of the hut. Then I got the netting over the top.
Basically I just need to make some doors and put wire in the middle and on both ends. If I decide to put in a floor I need to do that as well. I have to inventory scrap lumber to see if I have enough to do it. But it is finally taking shape so I can get it done. It seems like it has taken me forever. I still need to buy a tarp for the top. But at least there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I think when I get it done I'll be wanting to go buy more livestock panels to make another one. I really like the divided idea for small breeding groups. I have so many birds that need a place to be separated.
I am exhausted but it has been a good day.

Wow, it sounds like you got a lot done today. I need to hire you to come down here & help me build one of those fancy hoop coops you build. I'm not nearly as good at it as you are. I can build the plain ones, but mine don't have coops inside. I can't wait to see these lavender Orps from you grown, they're already pretty even as chicks. They're growing really fast though & I'm kind of hoping one of them will turn out to be a rooster. I just loved the other lavender Orp rooster I had before, he was huge & so nice & calm. I know where to get some geese next year if I decide to get some, you're getting quite a collection there.

 

[pinks4girls]

The birds are georgeous! It's 0237 now, so I will be home to mess with them more in 4 hours. So Glad we found you! thanks again.

 

[pinks4girls]

Josie, sending you a PM.
I got that pair of mini-Sebbies for Trudi. Pat's son said they could fly so I just trimmed their wings. I have 5 adorable little Sebbies here in addition to that that are going to be Trudi's as well.
I got a Lavender male and a gray female for myself. The female is actually very pretty. Surprised me, after not caring for the grey guy. You wouldn't believe the beautiful colors I got from that gray guy though. He threw some awesome babies. I have 13 sebbies I hatched this spring and I still have one goose sitting on 6 eggs. She waited until everyone else was done and then decided to lay.
I sold some chicks today to pinks4girls and one of her friends ended up buying a couple at the last minute. She fell in love with the lavenders. They are gorgeous.
I worked on the hoop coop some. I got the ends of the hut part finished on both sides, and got a frame work built to divide the two sides of the hut. Then I got the netting over the top.
Basically I just need to make some doors and put wire in the middle and on both ends. If I decide to put in a floor I need to do that as well. I have to inventory scrap lumber to see if I have enough to do it. But it is finally taking shape so I can get it done. It seems like it has taken me forever. I still need to buy a tarp for the top. But at least there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I think when I get it done I'll be wanting to go buy more livestock panels to make another one. I really like the divided idea for small breeding groups. I have so many birds that need a place to be separated.
I am exhausted but it has been a good day.

Thanks again for the chicks, love them, so glad we found you. Think I get the responding to comments now...

 

[chicken danz]

pinks4girls, it was so nice to meet you. I thank you for your business and hope you and your son really enjoy the chicks. Like I said, feel free to pick my brain if you need any help. And do send me more business!

Trish, if you don't have a rooster I am sure I will end up with one or two. I am actually trying to save a few of the older chicks because I lost my biggest rooster in a cock fight with the other one. I need a back up boy.
I ordered 100 pinless peepers yesterday. I decided I am going to have to make a rooster pen eventually regardless, for my back up boys. If they want to fight I hope the peepers will keep some of that to a minimum. I also have some pheasant boys I want to put together and hope it will keep them from fighting. I will have some young birds and don't want them getting beaten up. I have a few red star girls that are feather pickers regardless of diet. They look awful and they don't even have a rooster. So I'll try peepers on them to see if that helps keep it to a minimum. If not I guess they'll just have sunburns this summer. They're just for eating eggs anyway but I like the girls to look decent.
I also ordered 300 hundred legbands in different colors. These are permanent metal ones. I have plain metal ones but they don't show up well. My plan is to use a different color for the year the birds were hatched. That means I'll have to buy more every year but I need to keep track of birds and ages. I need to start recording all this stuff and it will help me keep track of who has been vaccined and who has been NPIP tested. I've depended on memory so far and in some cases that just doesn't catch it. I got some larger ones to put on the geese and peafowl as well. I mainly wanted those to mark the girls from the boys. When it isn't breeding season it is so hard to tell them apart.
I'll probably sell most of my male Sebbies hatched this spring unless they happen to be some of those with really pretty colors. I have 4 white boys in the adult pen and really only need a couple of them. So I'll have to decide which two have the best curls and save those and sell the others. I'd really like to get to having trios but I love these beautiful guys and can't seem to let them go like I should. If they were nasty I'd have a lot easier time selling them, but they are all sweet.

 

[Polishpal]

Im so excited I'm getting my gunneas on Monday or Tuesday!!!!

 

[Trish44]

Danz, I was looking at the little lavender Orps just a bit ago & it looks like at least one probably is a rooster, it's getting a bigger comb already. I was hoping for only one rooster, but we'll see. I just really liked the other one I had, he was so nice & they're so pretty. Lavender anything is really my favorite color.

We had the company come back today that did our roof two years ago & wanted to do it again, my DH didn't fall for it. They do insurance work only, which means they turn in a report to the insurance company & get paid by them. My son used to work for them when they did the work for us, but they did him really wrong in the end, they owed him a bunch of money that he never got paid for his work. He did the estimating & contracts for them & got them work. He wasn't pleased they came back here. Did you all know that those guys will go up on your roof & actually cause damage so they can do your roof? It's not something most people know, so if someone wants to look at your roof you should have someone go up with them to look.

It's really cloudy here today, we haven't had any rain, it's just dreary looking.

I just put a big bunch of eggs in the hatcher yesterday that are due on Tues. Most of them are Swedish Flower Hen eggs, but there are some Ameraucanas in there too. I just ordered my new hatcher last night, so I can't wait to get it. Even if I don't use it that much more this year I will have it for next spring. I'm excited about getting it.

 

[chicken danz]

Trish don't count on that chicken being what you think. Orpingtons are notorious for fooling everyone with their sexes. I've had them 8 months old before I could tell they were a rooster! I thought one was laying but he crowed one day. I guess he was just a good calm daddy and liked to help the girls sit on eggs. It seems like after that he finally got a nice comb and started growing.
I can't wait for them to produce home DNA tests so you can sex your birds. You can have it done now but it costs more than the bird is worth.
I spent my whole afternoon mowing. Stuff around here had gotten so tall I had to go over it two or three times just to get it knocked down. I haven't been able to find duck eggs for a couple weeks. I can't count the nests I found today that I ran over with the mower. The lot out back had 6-7 foot tall Queen Anne's lace growing in it. I was trying to knock it down with the mower. The ducks loved laying in that. I found a nest of 17 eggs. All of them partially developed but everyone of them had died, but not long ago enough to start stinking. And then I found something worse. I cuss the people who used to own this place. They left the baling twine all over where they fed cattle. I've been pulling it up out of the ground for over 5 years. Well I found the hen that had been on those eggs. She had gotten her foot caught in the baling twine and apparently died cause she couldn't get away. Because of the tall weeds I never knew she was there.
The snakes were every where. I honestly lost count. My next goal is to get roundup on everything that I can't get the mower into and hopefully reduce some of the snake population.
I didn't have any time to work on the hoop coop or anything. I sure hope tomorrow is more pleasant. I usually enjoy mowing but today was one of those days that wasn't fun at all.

 

[Trish44]

danz, I sent you a PM. Well that one lavender Orp really does have a lot bigger comb, so if it's a hen it will surprise me.

My granddaughter was here for the evening & it was nice to see her again. It seems like we don't get to see her nearly as much as we would like to. She is growing up so fast, gosh where does the time go?