Consolidated Kansas

[22qZoo]

awww, Josie, that's too bad ,that dog sounds like he's trying to find a better home. I love my little Heeler mix ,he fallows me around like a little shadow. He's never even looked cross-eyed at the chickens. I think he's half Chihuahua (snicker..) ie, the" Yoda ears" and he's less than a foot tall. All 4 of ours are strays or rescues and I love them all, not perfect by any stretch but neither am I.

Trish44- I just ordered some of that rooster booster wormer, ? did you mix it in with your FF and let it ferment with everything or just stir it in right before you fed it. I was wondering if the fermentation would change it's effectiveness at all ? By the way that cat is beautiful ! I have a real soft spot for longhairs.

 

[sharol]

awww, Josie, that's too bad ,that dog sounds like he's trying to find a better home. I love my little Heeler mix ,he fallows me around like a little shadow. He's never even looked cross-eyed at the chickens. I think he's half Chihuahua (snicker..) ie, the" Yoda ears" and he's less than a foot tall. All 4 of ours are strays or rescues and I love them all, not perfect by any stretch but neither am I.

Trish44- I just ordered some of that rooster booster wormer, ? did you mix it in with your FF and let it ferment with everything or just stir it in right before you fed it. I was wondering if the fermentation would change it's effectiveness at all ? By the way that cat is beautiful ! I have a real soft spot for longhairs.

Cute dog. He looks like a blue merle Corgi.

 

[HEChicken]

Cute dog. He looks like a blue merle Corgi.

Sharol, that is so funny you came up with the exact same thing I did. I was going to call him a "Blue Merle Corgi". No joke~!

 

[chicken danz]

Just a quick update on my experiments. I just went to the next stage of my apple cider making. I just screened out all the peels and cores from the apples. The results smell very apple-ey and the taste is sweet. Now just a few more weeks if all goes well and I should have a couple gallons of ACV that didn't cost me anything but the cost of a couple cups of sugar for processing. Makes me wish I had made more. I think I could probably add a little more pure water to it and still have ACV in the end.
It's not been a bad experiment cause I really haven't had to do much of anything to it.
I just have it sitting in a 5 gallon bucket in my kitchen.

 

[JosieChick]

Just a quick update on my experiments. I just went to the next stage of my apple cider making. I just screened out all the peels and cores from the apples. The results smell very apple-ey and the taste is sweet. Now just a few more weeks if all goes well and I should have a couple gallons of ACV that didn't cost me anything but the cost of a couple cups of sugar for processing. Makes me wish I had made more. I think I could probably add a little more pure water to it and still have ACV in the end.
It's not been a bad experiment cause I really haven't had to do much of anything to it.
I just have it sitting in a 5 gallon bucket in my kitchen.

Danz-Totally off topic but is there someone down this way that does npip testing?

 

[Trish44]

awww, Josie, that's too bad ,that dog sounds like he's trying to find a better home. I love my little Heeler mix ,he fallows me around like a little shadow. He's never even looked cross-eyed at the chickens. I think he's half Chihuahua (snicker..) ie, the" Yoda ears" and he's less than a foot tall. All 4 of ours are strays or rescues and I love them all, not perfect by any stretch but neither am I.

Trish44- I just ordered some of that rooster booster wormer, ? did you mix it in with your FF and let it ferment with everything or just stir it in right before you fed it. I was wondering if the fermentation would change it's effectiveness at all ? By the way that cat is beautiful ! I have a real soft spot for longhairs.

Cute dog! Yes I mixed it in with my FF the day I gave it to them. The FF was already mixed up the night before, I make mine every night from what is left in the bottom of the tub. Then that day I just distributed the amount I needed for the amount of feed I had over the top of the FF & mixed it in as well as I could. I tried to take feed from different spots for different pens. The pellets did break down, but I personally think all of the ingredients would still be there even though the pellet wasn't together any more. At any rate I had a big increase in egg production after I gave that. When you get the package you will see that it says to feed it for 5 days, but I'm just giving it to them in probably two doses since I have so many birds. If you had a smaller number of birds than I do you could feed it more often till it was gone. I'm giving them a little break & then I'll do the other dose.

It's chilly here today, at least the sun is out & it's not raining, but it's cooler than it has been. We got quite a bit of rain again last night & my tarp was down again over my growout pen. I've got to try to get that roof put up Sat. if I can rope my DH into helping me. It's just too big of a pen for a tarp, nothing we have tried thus far has worked, it just keeps collapsing when we have much rain at all & I can't imagine what snow would do to it. I've got to get it fixed before the pen railing gets bent & broken again since I replaced one already. I don't want to have a panel ruined. I sure have liked the other pen we put the tin over the top on.

Well our sick cat is very slowly getting some better, but still not eating. I'm going to go to the Vet's today & get the pills she said she would prescribe if she wasn't a lot better today. She is very traumatized from all the sticking with needles she went through yesterday, she has never had to have anything like that before, so she's not a bit happy with us for putting her through that. She came home yesterday & just hid behind the recliner all evening till my DH came home for the most part. I have to try to poke water down her too & she hates that. I hope these pills kick this stuff, I hate seeing her sick like this & now she doesn't like to see me coming because she knows I'm going to poke something down her throat, I have to be the bad guy.

 

[chicken danz]

Josie if you contact the Kansas Dept of Agriculture they can direct you to who can send you a list of local testers. Don't expect the person who answers the phone to have a clue. In my experience you kind of have to lead them by the hand since the Dept of ag and Dept of animal health joined together. It's a mess!!!
Trish I'm sorry your cat isn't better. Maybe the pills will help.
I went out to weigh some turkeys and decided to throw some fancy grains out for the birds. It is so freaking cold out there. I wasn't prepared for that. Burr!! I am so glad I'm not a bird today!!!
I moved the saw horses out of the bourbon reds pen and I could see that at least one of the turkeys had found a nice place to bed down in the straw in their new shelter. I had left the rest of the straw bale in there to get it out of the rain but it seems to be a nice wind break for them.
I have NO interest in being out there working today. I guess the birds will do with minimum care cause that is about what is going to happen. Reminds me I should order a new pair of fisherman's gloves cause my old ones are about worn out.
We got some really heavy rain last night for hours. Looking at the 10:00 weather it looked like we were in the band that was getting hit really hard. It is disgusting not to get rain for two years and then get two years worth all at once. Geez! And of course it is when we can't really use it. It's just keeping the crops from being harvested.
It makes me want to curl up with a blanket and a cup of hot cocoa!

 

[22qZoo]

Trish44- thanks , I gues I'll just mix in what is needed when I feed, I do my FF the same way ,adding some to the old each day.
I am supposed to be working at getting our place ready for company on Thanksgiving , and while I did get some stuff done I admit ,I kind of goofed off and did chicken stuff today. Cleaned out the old bedding and added nice warm new layer, put the kiddy pools away, took down the fan and closed up the windows some. I love this cool weather. I feel like I can get so much more done when I'm not hot.
Danz- how are you going to stor your vinegar? Is it stabil like the Braggs acv, or is it more active like kambucha?
Sharol & Hechicken - the shelter in Emporia said he was a corgi mix , he's built really funny, kind of roach-backed and real steep thru the rear-end. Who knows, the guy said he was dumped so its all just a guess.

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Anybody want some Roos ? I think I probably know the answer to that but just thought I'd throw it out there. I have a couple too many. :-(

 

[Trish44]

Josie if you contact the Kansas Dept of Agriculture they can direct you to who can send you a list of local testers. Don't expect the person who answers the phone to have a clue. In my experience you kind of have to lead them by the hand since the Dept of ag and Dept of animal health joined together. It's a mess!!!
Trish I'm sorry your cat isn't better. Maybe the pills will help.
I went out to weigh some turkeys and decided to throw some fancy grains out for the birds. It is so freaking cold out there. I wasn't prepared for that. Burr!! I am so glad I'm not a bird today!!!
I moved the saw horses out of the bourbon reds pen and I could see that at least one of the turkeys had found a nice place to bed down in the straw in their new shelter. I had left the rest of the straw bale in there to get it out of the rain but it seems to be a nice wind break for them.
I have NO interest in being out there working today. I guess the birds will do with minimum care cause that is about what is going to happen. Reminds me I should order a new pair of fisherman's gloves cause my old ones are about worn out.
We got some really heavy rain last night for hours. Looking at the 10:00 weather it looked like we were in the band that was getting hit really hard. It is disgusting not to get rain for two years and then get two years worth all at once. Geez! And of course it is when we can't really use it. It's just keeping the crops from being harvested.
It makes me want to curl up with a blanket and a cup of hot cocoa!

Well I had called the Vet's office & I didn't get a call back till I was out feeding from the Vet herself. She wants me to bring the cat back in tomorrow so she can give her a shot to try to reduce the swelling in her throat so hopefully she can eat. She just gags & chokes every time I try to give her medicine or water. I have thought all along she acted like her throat is sore. It makes sense to me since she has so much drainage, just like us when we have an upper respiratory infection & we have drainage down our throat. This shot will be a faster acting steroid than the other one she got that was a longer acting one. She is breathing some better, but still is really clogged up in her nose, poor thing. She also talked about maybe an antibiotic injection too since we don't know how much of the medicine she is really getting down at this point. I just hope something helps her get over this soon.

It sounds like your turkeys are settling into their new shelter.

I managed to get out there & get the plastic put on the north sides of all 3 hoop coops this afternoon, so at least the north wind will be blocked. I will go out & try to get the other sides done on all of them tomorrow & then I have a few tarps to get up yet. I guess this is what I'll be doing after I take the cat to the Vet & come back. I will need to buy one more roll of plastic yet to do a few other pens probably & the backs of the hoop coops, but it can wait a few days till I go to the store again. I just really wanted to get the north sides done today to block that wind first. I'm trying to get myself acclimated to the colder weather, so working out there is helping that. I just don't want to go out there one day & freeze because I didn't work up to it.

My next door neighbor came over tonight in his little truck like they have at companies just to drive things around, the really small ones that have the cab open. He & his wife came to get some eggs from me & my silly goats were still out because I was just starting to feed when they got there. Penny, the one I bottle fed that thinks she is a dog immediately as soon as they got out jumped into the truck & every time I got her out she would jump back in on the seat. Then when I finally got her out of there she started jumping up on the truck bed & wouldn't stay down, she is such a goofball. They got a big kick out of them, I'm just glad they like animals. I finally was able to talk to him about the GPs barking at night & he is totally fine about it. He is a really good neighbor, he watches what goes on & he was really good to come over for me & shut my run door & open it again the next day when I had to go out of town. They moved in after their aunt & uncle's trailer blew away in a tornado or straight line wind whatever it was & they moved to town. They have been better neighbors than the aunt & uncle were, lol!

 

[sharol]

Trish44- thanks , I gues I'll just mix in what is needed when I feed, I do my FF the same way ,adding some to the old each day.
I am supposed to be working at getting our place ready for company on Thanksgiving , and while I did get some stuff done I admit ,I kind of goofed off and did chicken stuff today. Cleaned out the old bedding and added nice warm new layer, put the kiddy pools away, took down the fan and closed up the windows some. I love this cool weather. I feel like I can get so much more done when I'm not hot.
Danz- how are you going to stor your vinegar? Is it stabil like the Braggs acv, or is it more active like kambucha?
Sharol & Hechicken - the shelter in Emporia said he was a corgi mix , he's built really funny, kind of roach-backed and real steep thru the rear-end. Who knows, the guy said he was dumped so its all just a guess.

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Anybody want some Roos ? I think I probably know the answer to that but just thought I'd throw it out there. I have a couple too many. :-(

If you get more takers than you have roos, you can send them my way. I have a couple that need rehoming, too.