Consolidated Kansas

[Prairie Fleur]

Grain Gypsy, There I go with the speed reading again -- comments still stand, but apologies for not getting it right.  I was born dingy so I can't blame it on old age, or my kids, or anything. Just the nature of this beast! Your daughter is just adorable.

Prairie Fleur, If it's one thing I understand, it is health problems. I am doing my best to get mine under control also. Chickens are very therapeutic for me. I was 41 years old when we adopted our first two children, a 4 yr old son and a 10 mo. old daughter. Eight years later, we had adopted 8 kids. Now that 10 month old is 17 and the 4 year old is in college. It just seems so weird that I thought I would never have children and I went from that to today where they are beginning to leave home already.

We're suppose to get some rain over the next several days, beginning tomorrow. I hope we get enough to fill my pond. Right now it is bone dry and the ducks have to content themselves with the wading pool even when I am outside. I am having the family reunion at my house this year so I would love for that thing to fill up on it's own without my having to use the well. DH is arranging for some sky-diving buddies to "drop in" at the reunion. Should be a fun surprise for everyone.

CHICK REPORT   4 chicks out, a ton of pips and a couple zips!!!!!  Yay!

Your kids are adopted? That's too cool! I'm adopted myself as is my younger brother. I always love a good adoption story! I hope we can someday try for kids of our own as well as consider adopting. Maybe in the next year or two if God blesses with improved health.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

@Grain Gypsy
 Nice to meet you.  We are South of Dodge City.  Nice looking Am, cute kiddos too, love her hair! 




@Prairie Fleur
  I sent you a PM, not sure if you got it with the site issues.  

I am trying hard not to candle the eggs until lockdown tomorrow.    That I get all 7 Lav Am into lockdown!

I got it and then things got busy and crazy and we decided to have plans on Mothers Day and I forgot I hadn't replied. I'll pm you.

 

[chicken danz]

Prairie, if you want to adopt you should, but you are so pretty and your DH matches your features so well. You're own baby would be a gorgeous,....male or female. It seems God granted those beautiful genetics so you could share them in a child. Just my personal observation.
BTW how is your MIL doing now? Hope she is tolerating treatment well.
I hatched 8 more pheasant over night.

 

[KsKingBee]

Why does all this all have to be so confusing just to get rid of some worms? UGH. I don't deal well with all this and am confused on what I should do now

It is confusing because of all the misinformation that is passed around as gospel, the internet is a powerful tool that can often backfire. "It works for me" is worthless without clinical proof. If you want to empower yourself with solid information about worming read this thread;

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-and-wormer-misinformations-graphic-pictures

The first picture in the thread is a peachick that I wormed, or thought I had, with the worn out '3 CC per gallon of water'. I went through a personal hell and a couple of thousand dollars because I listened to bad information that I got right here. Never again. You owe it not only to yourself, but to your flock to know the truth about worming.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

Adoption is such a special and important thing. I come from a HUGE family that is even bigger on adoption (I lost count of how many adopted cousins years ago). I also have a niece that was adopted out and her parents are amazing. She is going to stay with us for the summer, not sure how I'm going to handle a teenage girl but it'll be great!!!
With 3 boys I know I am done, but I have always had a dream of adopting from India. We hope to start the ball rolling (I am well aware it's a long hard process) in a couple of years when our youngest is in school full time.

 

[chicken danz]

Adoption is a wonderful thing for sure. Especially when a child with special needs or an older child who might not find a home other wise is adopted. My hat goes off to anyone who can take on a child and give him/her a forever loving home.

 

[Trish44]

For sure on the adoption of children, my hat is off to anyone who adopts but especially as Danz said for children with special needs or issues. That takes a world of patience & perseverance.

We got a bunch of rain during the night so I'm sure it's a mud hole out there. I haven't gone out yet but I know it's going to be slick on this hill. Danz now you know what I mean by having to deal with this hill on a daily basis. When it rains hard the rain just runs down the driveway like a raging river & washes down into the yard. I tried to divert it with a rock wall & the goats destroyed part of it that I haven't gotten fixed yet since my knee surgery. I need to work on it again & add more rocks. It does usually divert most of the water around my pens. I'm glad for the rain but we don't need it all at once. It seems like that's how it goes though, all or none.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Prairie, if you want to adopt you should, but you are so pretty and your DH matches your features so well. You're own baby would be a gorgeous,....male or female. It seems God granted those beautiful genetics so you could share them in a child. Just my personal observation.
BTW how is your MIL doing now? Hope she is tolerating treatment well.
I hatched 8 more pheasant over night. 

Aww thanks!!! That's so sweet of you to say. We definitely hope to have our own. Altho outwardly I blend into our community flawlessly, I'm definitely quite a bit different than the average run of 20 something girls in what I like to do and the things I'm interested in. I'm looking forward to someday having someone who actually 'gets' why I am the way I am because they're that way too. That maybe sounds weird. At the same time I want to adopt to sort of pay it forward because I'm so thankful for all I've been given.

Tara, I'm a little jealous of you adopting from India! I've dreamed of adopting from there or from Ethiopia. I think adoption is the greatest gift any child can receive. I'm so grateful my birth mom picked the family she did and that my Mom and Dad decided to adopt.

MIL is doing ok. She's been rather nauseous lately but she's done with radiation so we're hoping that will go away soon. Her muscle pain is much less and she's much more mobile than she was several weeks ago. They plan to go to Mexico for continued treatment in a couple weeks.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

For sure on the adoption of children, my hat is off to anyone who adopts but especially as Danz said for children with special needs or issues. That takes a world of patience & perseverance.

We got a bunch of rain during the night so I'm sure it's a mud hole out there. I haven't gone out yet but I know it's going to be slick on this hill. Danz now you know what I mean by having to deal with this hill on a daily basis. When it rains hard the rain just runs down the driveway like a raging river & washes down into the yard. I tried to divert it with a rock wall & the goats destroyed part of it that I haven't gotten fixed yet since my knee surgery. I need to work on it again & add more rocks. It does usually divert most of the water around my pens. I'm glad for the rain but we don't need it all at once. It seems like that's how it goes though, all or none.

We got rain yesterday too. Well over an inch I believe. I'm delighted because we'll have pasture for my goats and worried about all the spraying that's going to happen in the next while.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

LOL @Prairie Fleur
It's just a dream as of yet. Now my niece on the other hand is my main concern. She is going through all of the typical teenage stuff with the added confusion of feeling out of place, and then seeing her bio family and seeing where her height and features come from. She has finally seen how lucky she has been with her family, her bio siblings miss out on a lot that she is privaliged to have. I love my nieces, they fill the need for the feminine girly stuff, and make me thankful I have boys LOL

I just finished caponizing two males from my first hatch of this year. I decided to leave one fellow intact to see how he develops, he is a pretty fellow. I'll be doing the second hatch next week, I think I'll continue to do 2 to 3 at a time, it can be tiring hard on the back!