Consolidated Kansas

[OkieQueenBee]

Chicken Danz - I found your poem. Lodged by Robert Frost
The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.


There are those days. Being a true Leo I need the sunshine to function myself. Had another 1/2 inch last night and still overcast.
Lost 1 of my Americana roosters to the roll over accident, he had been acting kinda listless ever since but no visible injuries. One of my Buff pullets just isn't normal and hasn't been since the day we brought her home. From the start she couldn't roost and does a lot of left turn circles. She isn't as filled out as the other one and has a bare face. Here is a pic of her. Any ideas?

 

[sharol]

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost/poems/730 here you go. It is Robert Frost. He has a way of capturing human emotions in a few words, doesn't he.

yeah, when I wrote that I thought of your complicated setup. Makes mine look pretty easy in comparison.

Cleansquared the ivermectin is the injectable kind, 4cc in one gallon of water. You can use the pour on kind 2-5 drops on the skin at the back of the neck for mites. I honestly don't think they absorb enough of the pour on kind to help with worms. Actually I do believe it is typical chicken behavior. I know I have girls that take breaks even when they aren't molting but it is hard to tell who is doing what around her other than just seeing which eggs are laid. Are you sure just one bird is laying? I never had them lay every day. They could be sharing a spot.
Sharol you are starting to understand my world divided by a couple hundred. It's a constant shuffling moving etc around here. Some of my birds get really old before they get put out simply because I don't have a place to put them. I've got some now that are about to that point but it will have to wait until I make room.
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It is so dark and dreary today. Makes me feel depressed. There is an old poem I have searched for for years but can't find it. It was by a well known poet. I remembered it from college. Sharol maybe you can help me out with it. I kind of identified with it because I have a terrible case of SAD when I don't see the sun.
It was called Lodged. It went something like:
The wind blew
And the rain pelt
On the garden bed.
And though they lay lodged;
And not dead.
I knew how the flowers felt.

 

[Trish44]

What a morning. I never thought I would be tired of rain in August in KANSAS.

I moved the hoop again this morning during a break in the rain. I can only leave it in one spot for about 2 day because the grass under the coop part will die, and Marlena tears up the area in the run to get to bugs (I suppose) for the babies. It isn't hard to move, I just hook up the mower and tow it where I want it to be, but now I have a run rigged up to the side of it for my 6 week olds, and that has to be removed and then re-attached and the netting put back in place, so it is an hour or so job. I haven't gotten the little run up yet, but it is raining again. I figure the 6 week olds can't be out in the rain without shelter anyway, so I'l just wait to get it finished until the rain lets up again.

I'm hoping the 6 week olds will be able to join the main flock in a week or two. They are getting fairly big and they look like real chickens now. I dont' think I integrated the last batch that young -- maybe 12 weeks or so, but this is getting messy and difficult. Having them out of the hoop run will simplify the problems considerably.

I let Marlena out with her babies after the other adults went in their run last night, and that went well (they are 2 1/2 weeks old), so maybe she will want to take them back with the flock before too long. I hope so because I'm going to need the hoop for the other 3 2 week olds.

I have a new indoor ramp in the works and plans for a couple of more nest boxes that I need to get done, too, so I have some projects.

OK, rain, 40 days and 40 nights are enough already.

Oh boy do I agree with you about the rain, it's starting to depress me. My hens are being adversely affected by the lack of sunlight, they've really cut back on laying in the last two or three days. Wouldn't you know it when I just got 3 new egg customers in the last week or so & now everybody wants eggs. I had to tell one of the new people today he will have to wait till Monday for his eggs because I needed to fill another order first. This is a first for me to make anybody wait for eggs, they've been laying their little hearts out but I think they think it's fall with all of this dreary weather. I turned their coop light back on last night, so maybe that will help.

Chicken Danz - I found your poem. Lodged by Robert Frost
The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.


There are those days. Being a true Leo I need the sunshine to function myself. Had another 1/2 inch last night and still overcast.
Lost 1 of my Americana roosters to the roll over accident, he had been acting kinda listless ever since but no visible injuries. One of my Buff pullets just isn't normal and hasn't been since the day we brought her home. From the start she couldn't roost and does a lot of left turn circles. She isn't as filled out as the other one and has a bare face. Here is a pic of her. Any ideas?

I'm a Leo also & I don't do well when we have so many dreary days for so long, we are under a sun sign after all.

Man today just didn't go well at all, I think people are starting to get grouchy from so much dreary weather. My DH started off my day by chewing me out for accidentally forgetting the ladder outside. It's not like I leave it out there all the time, just this time. I was rushing to get chores done last night & forgot to bring it in. Then I totally spaced on the time for my dentist appt. & had to reschedule it because we weren't going to make it in time. We had to drive to Wichita anyway for some other things, but I felt awful for having to do that at the last minute. I'm sure it caused them to have to re-shuffle appointments. So now I have to go in a week instead. It was an appt. I dreaded going for anyway, so now putting it off is worse. My DH didn't have anything positive to say today either & that didn't help me when I already wasn't feeling well due to a headache from the weather that was upsetting my stomach. I sure hope this rain gets over with soon, I'm just sick of it. I didn't think last year at this time when it was 110 in the shade & we hadn't had any rain forever I would be saying this but enough is enough for awhile.

Well my pieced tarp didn't work last night, it collected water & collapsed, so I'm going to have to go get a bigger tarp so I only have one piece. I figured it wasn't going to work, but it was what I had. At least it held the water & didn't bend my pen I just fixed. Housing chickens can be a real challenge sometimes. I wish I could just replace every one of the dog runs I have with a hoop coop, but then I would have to build 3 more instead of the one I plan to build yet.

HEChicken, get busy building that hoop coop! Just kidding, it's a terrible time to be building anything right now in this weather. I will need one more for the other two peafowl I have that are getting pretty good sized now, but I have to save up the money first for more wood.

Danz, I guess you're getting that other GP faster than you thought. I wonder if dogs remember their babies after they have been gone?

 

[ChickenPeep]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!
​

I have a breath-takingly beautiful, purebred Crele Old English game bantam that we can't keep anymore. We have a terrible ratio of 3 hens to 3 roosters and we can't have him. If you are willing to take him I would like to know that he would be going to a good home. If you are interested PLEASE let me know! We really can't keep him anymore! He is great to his hens and to people. He is a little protective but not badly. We love him to death and he is an AWESOME dude but we have too many roosters. PLEASE PM ME!!! He is amazingly beautiful and he is purebred.
PLEASE!!
If you need more details just let me know!!

 

[chicken danz]

Thanks Queenbee and Sharol. I thought that was who wrote it, but in previous internet searches I hadn't come up with it. It seems like that poem has sung to me not only during cloudy days but many times in my life when I was down and out. I didn't have the words just right but the idea was there. I always wanted to print it nicely and hang it in a frame. Surprisingly it always cheered my up because I had seen so many flowers beaten down and lodged by the rain that perked back up when the sun came out.
Queen Bee you need to give that girl some vitamin E. Just buy some regular vitamin E capsules, puncture one and squirt it in her mouth. This is usually caused by a brain injury or neurotic issue. You will need to give her some for up to a couple weeks for it to correct her. She may still act strange in times of stress.
Give the Ivermectin for 2 days.
Us poor Leo's girls!!! It's so hard to stay positive when we don't have our life giving sun!!! I never shut curtains on the main part of the house because I need sunlight so bad. The bedrooms on the road side of the house have curtains but I leave the rest of the house open. This house is way too dark for my tastes but it is what I am stuck with. I've added more windows and two French doors where there weren't doors before just to add light.
I've been cleaning again. Got two more rooms done. It sure isn't moving very fast. I haven't been out to feed yet either. Tomorrow I am going to have to get in gear and go get feed and make a trip to town. Plus get some groceries for whatever I decide to cook for Saturday. I'll need to mop floors tomorrow but there isn't any point in doing so before then. I still have this one English Orp pullet in here that almost died in the mud the other day. She is doing really well but I'm afraid to put her out as long as it is still raining. We have water sitting on the ground now that won't drain. It is about a half inch deep every where.
Yeah Trish I told Ivy I would take Britt when Cloud got killed. And when I had all those birds I could have used three dogs. I'm really thrilled I can keep the blood line going. Now I need to locate a male to use some day. I hope to keep her open for at least another year. I don't want puppies right now.

 

[cherwill]

I'm sorry for the rant today, but I had to get it off my chest, sometimes you just have to.

Yep, sometimes you need a good rant!

It is so dark and dreary today. Makes me feel depressed. There is an old poem I have searched for for years but can't find it. It was by a well known poet. I remembered it from college. Sharol maybe you can help me out with it. I kind of identified with it because I have a terrible case of SAD when I don't see the sun.

I have trouble with depression anyway, and lack of sunlight makes it so much worse. I don't know how those people who live up north with 6 months of darkness do it.

There are those days. Being a true Leo I need the sunshine to function myself. Had another 1/2 inch last night and still overcast.
Lost 1 of my Americana roosters to the roll over accident, he had been acting kinda listless ever since but no visible injuries.

That's too bad about your roo.

More rain last night, just like every night. The thunder was so loud and hard it shook the house. My poor Gypsy had to climb into bed and snuggle next to my legs.

 

[Trish44]

Yep, sometimes you need a good rant!


I have trouble with depression anyway, and lack of sunlight makes it so much worse. I don't know how those people who live up north with 6 months of darkness do it.


That's too bad about your roo.

More rain last night, just like every night. The thunder was so loud and hard it shook the house. My poor Gypsy had to climb into bed and snuggle next to my legs.

It seems to start raining every night about the time my DH comes home from work. We didn't shut down the computers last night & then he had to get up & shut them down because we heard thunder & saw lightening. We never leave them on if there is lightening, I have lost two computers previously from lightening strikes. Even though we don't have a phone line any more we don't take chances, computers are just too expensive to replace all the time. We have desktops we use on a daily basis. We do have a laptop & a tablet, but they're just not as easy to use as the desktop for daily use.

My poor chicks in the growout pen. I moved them from one mudhole to another one. I found one little barred rock chick mired in the mud this evening. I pulled it out & sat it up on a pallet to dry out, it just couldn't get out after it got stuck. I feel so bad for all the birds that have to stand in that nasty mud right now, it's just terrible. I'm going to try to go out tomorrow & put some straw out for them to have something better than mud to stand in. The roosters I'm growing out have just soupy nasty stuff to stand in. I just don't know what to do for all of them as long as it's going to rain every night.

 

[ChickenPeep]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!​

I have a breath-takingly beautiful, purebred Crele Old English game bantam that we can't keep anymore. We have a terrible ratio of 3 hens to 3 roosters and we can't have him. If you are willing to take him I would like to know that he would be going to a good home. If you are interested PLEASE let me know! We really can't keep him anymore! He is great to his hens and to people. He is a little protective but not badly. We love him to death and he is an AWESOME dude but we have too many roosters. PLEASE PM ME!!! He is amazingly beautiful and he is purebred. PLEASE!! If you need more details just let me know!!

Anyone??????

 

[cleansquared]

Here is a good link if any one is interested in reading about increasing the blue of the blue egg its a study some scientists did don the blue footed boobie bird but applies to all blue egg layers http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-010-1025-x

 

[22qZoo]

Any one growing gills yet ? So sorry if any of you are getting flooded.We're not flooding up here but it sure is damp,moldy, slimy,feels like we moved to the bayou. I'm a Leo too and I don't always like sun but we sure could use some now.