Consolidated Kansas

[Trish44]

The humidity was crazy out where I am. This far west, it's usually a little bit drier, but today it was air you could wear.

We never had the humidity we have now when I was growing up, but now it seems like our weather in the summer is more like the south all the time. They even moved our growing zone a half a number.

I started my first flock of chickens this Spring. It's amazing and exciting how fun it is and how my family has responded. I think our 8 chicks get more attention in one form or another than anything else now!! I never thought we would become attached to chicken! Glad to have found "Consolidated Kansas" for insight and questions!

Welcome to our thread! Feel free to jump in any time & tell us about your flock & we love pics.

 

[Oatbucket]

We never had the humidity we have now when I was growing up, but now it seems like our weather in the summer is more like the south all the time. They even moved our growing zone a half a number.

Welcome to our thread! Feel free to jump in any time & tell us about your flock & we love pics.

When we moved out here from Wichita ten years ago, it was much drier. Now it's sopping wet air a lot of the time and we don't get near the breeze we used to.

 

[okjenyp]

Wow. It's been a few days since I've been on. And a lot has went on. Today I finally moved my last group of chickens out of the brooder!! I have my kitchen back!! Unfortunately it is a sauna in the coop. I have a couple fans in there and all the windows are open. And some frozen milk jugs with water in them that the fan is blowing on. Lesson learned. Next year. If I get more chicks. I will only get one batch. It was easier to put a heat lamp in the coop than trying to cool it.

 

[milomac]

oh how naïve, I see how well you handled chicken math this year

 

[Buttercup902]

Hi All,

I am trying to touch base with any Guinea farmers In Kansas. I am new to the area and want to add Guinea Fowl to our land. I want to get some sooner than the hatch time on the big poultry sites. Id like freshly hatched keets. I know the chances are small but I thought I would check here!

 

[chicken danz]

I need to get some fans. I seem to burn up several a season using them in the coops. This year I haven't put any in because I just don't have any left that still work.
I did some mowing where the weeds were taller than I am but didn't get it near done. I did find a guinea nest. Apparently she was just laying them because none had started developing yet. That is the second nest I have found this year while mowing. I consider it lucky to find them since they no longer have a pen of their own. They started roosting in the trees so I just let them and used their pen for other birds. Often they lay in the hen house or the duck house though so I do find eggs otherwise.
Where are you Buttercup and how many keets do you want? I didn't intend to sell any but I have a few and have more in the incubators. In fact I even have a few hatching today. Not a lot though.
I got a load of feed and got it shoveled off. Let me tell you when it's humid like this I can sweat twice as much as I can drink.

 

[Buttercup902]

I need to get some fans. I seem to burn up several a season using them in the coops. This year I haven't put any in because I just don't have any left that still work.
I did some mowing where the weeds were taller than I am but didn't get it near done. I did find a guinea nest. Apparently she was just laying them because none had started developing yet. That is the second nest I have found this year while mowing. I consider it lucky to find them since they no longer have a pen of their own. They started roosting in the trees so I just let them and used their pen for other birds. Often they lay in the hen house or the duck house though so I do find eggs otherwise.
Where are you Buttercup and how many keets do you want? I didn't intend to sell any but I have a few and have more in the incubators. In fact I even have a few hatching today. Not a lot though.
I got a load of feed and got it shoveled off. Let me tell you when it's humid like this I can sweat twice as much as I can drink.

I am in Lawrence KS. Where are you?

 

[Trish44]

Hi All,

I am trying to touch base with any Guinea farmers In Kansas. I am new to the area and want to add Guinea Fowl to our land. I want to get some sooner than the hatch time on the big poultry sites. Id like freshly hatched keets. I know the chances are small but I thought I would check here!

Welcome Buttercup! I only have a few female guineas left myself, most of the ones I have now are males. I have tried to incubate some eggs recently but very few have been fertile, I don't know if it's the weather affecting them or what, so I don't have any extras. I have a lot of males running around free that used to be mine & then went down to live at the neighbor's place & now they're back. They hear my females in the pen & all of the ones outside are males including the 4 I let loose in the spring. I still have 5 males in the pen with the 3 females.

It was so miserable out there, you could cut that air with a knife! I went out to do chores & just immediately got soaking wet. When I got all of the birds & animals fed I decided to try to mow at least part of the jungle that was the lawn. The backyard was the worst, it had really grown a lot with these last two rains we got. I managed to get it cut & then did some of the rest of the yard. I think the mower is about out of gas though, so I won't be able to finish till we get more.

 

[chicken danz]

I am in Lawrence KS. Where are you?

I'm outside of Waverly so fairly close to you. About an hour or so if you take that new 59 down to Ottawa then west on I-35. I haven't even emptied my incubators yet to see what has hatched.
I'm once again out of places to put babies. With the new peafowl and having the mandarins and pheasants to raise I have no space. It's insane. I hope to get some more babies moved out of the brooder house soon. Grow babies grow!!!
We got a tremendous storm this morning early. The ducks are running around all excited. I have no idea how much rain there was but it was sure noisy.

 

[Oatbucket]

It poured and poured out here earlier this morning. No wind, hail, or thunder, just tons of rain. Which is actually a good thing because we are still in a drought out here. Or at least we were. There has been quite a bit of rain this year, so maybe we are inching our way out of the drought.