Consolidated Kansas

[Deerfield Acres]

I'm glad you have a patch of high ground available for the chicks. I have higher ground here but right now the land around us is draining all over it on the way to our pond. I'd forgotten what heavy rains were like!

Vic was beautiful!

I imagine Danz and Trish are having a heck of a time at their places. I haven't looked at the radar but I'm betting they're both getting more rain, even though they don't live close together.

 

[chicken danz]

Oh you are so right. I live in a creek now. I had customers here and the water was coming in the building like crazy. The guy said if he had paid for that work he would be calling someone and really raising a stink. I just need to do some grading he didn't do and try to get the water to take a different path away from the building. I am sure my basement is flooding again as well. My already saturated yard is just one big lake.
My customers were here for 3 1/2 hours partly because of the rain but I made $350 on chicks. The guy who referred my customer called him while they were here. Since he was here already, the previous customer asked for 5 white orpington chicks. I gave him 6 and told the customer to tell him the last one was for the referral. I wish I could make that kind of money every few days. Only a few hundred more chicks to sell!
At any rate this guy said that he would be back at a later date to buy peafowl and turkeys. He fell in love with my pet turkey and he has a resale market for peafowl. I really don't care if people resale what they buy from me as long as I make the money I need for them. As long as they put my name out there that just makes more business for me.
Prairie, I hatched 11 red golden pheasant chicks today. I always think about how much fun your DH would have with them.

 

[MrsProf]

The poor farmers here might need to consider growing rice instead of corn this year if the rain continues. Maybe I should just plant mushrooms in my garden since they are flourishing all over the yard. I wish I knew which ones are edible and which ones would kill us.
The one chick that made it is in the coop with the older birds, they have definitely showed "little bit" that she is low man on the totem pole. But she has places to hide and they are not being mean, just firm.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Oh my gosh, Danz, that's great that you made some sales but I was afraid you were back in the lake again.

My pond has finally filled and is on the brink of overflowing. There is a spot where this happens and the overflow runs to the ditch, the ditch takes it to a much larger pond west of here. The previous owner's planted Bermuda grass where it overflows and it holds up really well to all of it. There's about an inch and a half in the chicken yard but the coop is dry. The birds are all up off the floor, so in case of flooding it won't be a problem.

MrsProfB, Great suggestion!

Rice would be a great replacement.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

I have lived in Kansas most of my life, and know about the constant changing weather, but lately it has only changed from bad to worse!

I'm not complaining about the cool weather, but just turn off the water! I know some places in Kansas were in need of rain, but this is getting ridiculous! The grass is so tall in my pasture that I only see my goats when the come in for the night, and Nubian goats are not short! I have someone to bale hay for me, if it ever dries out enough to get it cut. It is a good sign that it has been too much rain when the ducks go in to shelter.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

That is definitely a sign!

 

[Grain Gypsy]

@sharol , one of my month-old chicks from My Pet Chicken is a Golden Laced Wyandotte. It will be interesting to see how she turns out as far as coloring goes. I'm guessing since she's from the same place your Vic was from, she'll probably look similar. I'm not too worried about show quality as of now, because we're showing for 4-H and it is our first year. If the kids get serious later, we'll learn more about where we want to go for "show stock," but the chicken-raising education and eggs are just as much part of our chicken experience as the show part for now.

We haven't floated away, yet, but that's just because the canoe is hung up in the shed and not in our yard lake. We've had tons more rain in the Wichita area today. One good thing is that our sandbags have kept the water from entering the coop from under the door and filling it like a bathtub this time!

This is a picture I took from inside the coop.




I about wet myself when I was out in the coop earlier and was collecting eggs and checking to make sure the water was staying out. I blindly reach my hand in, like I always do, and retrieved two eggs. I reached my hand back in to sweep the nest bucket to make sure I didn't miss any, when something alive bumped my hand. I immediately pulled my hand out, surprised, and started talking to our little Tina, thinking she was in the back of the box trying to lay an egg and had pecked me. Then I realized all 14 chickens were on the roost and accounted for.

I timidly bent down and shined my cell phone into the box, only to find a little toad that was trying to stay dry, I guess. I'm not scared of toads, but I will not be gathering eggs without a flashlight from now on. We have a good-sized resident garter snake, and I thought for a second that he was my nest bucket resident who didn't belong!



Finally, just before the sun went down, we got a little peek of sun. Just enough sun was peeking through, that it turned the sky beautiful shades of pink and purple and left us with a pretty rainbow scene. I'm taking God at his word--that rainbow promise--that this world won't be destroyed by flood again! I'm also thankful, despite the fact that it is inconvenient and kind of messy, that our state is coming out of is drought. Especially western Kansas, where my family and farmer friends there there need it most!

 

[chicken danz]

I have lived in Kansas most of my life, and know about the constant changing weather, but lately it has only changed from bad to worse!

I'm not complaining about the cool weather, but just turn off the water! I know some places in Kansas were in need of rain, but this is getting ridiculous! The grass is so tall in my pasture that I only see my goats when the come in for the night, and Nubian goats are not short! I have someone to bale hay for me, if it ever dries out enough to get it cut. It is a good sign that it has been too much rain when the ducks go in to shelter.

I have to agree. I haven't been able to mow the yard at all because it's too wet even when it hasn't been raining. It should be a good year for hay though. My field isn't planted yet. My farmer can't get in. Maybe with luck he'll still have time to plant beans. The bean crop usually pays a little better than corn anyway.
My ducks and geese were all trying to take cover in my green house last night and arguing over space. The broody hens with their chicks were also fighting for space. I sure hope no one was injured or drowned. The barn is open but I don't think they wanted to try to get out that far. I don't even see the ducks and geese in the yard this morning and they're always in the yard.
After all this rain last night the water isn't really subsiding like it did before. It kind of ran off other than the big catch areas. This time it's still sitting on the ground. I guess all the wells and the creek and any lower spot must be too saturated and there isn't a place for it to go. I hope the birds got used to it enough the last time to take shelter and stay out of it. They are going to have foot rot if it doesn't start drying up. We really got slammed again. It started about 3:30 PM and rained hard until well after 11:00 pm when I went to bed. It was already very flooded by 6:30. I did walk down to the basement just enough to see water flowing across the floor again and listen to hear the sump pump. It was running so I just went back upstairs. I guess as long as it keeps running there's nothing else I can do. I am thinking maybe my next major purchase should be a back up sump pump. If that one quit we would be in a world of hurt.
I sold birds really cheap yesterday but I need to get numbers down as much as I need to make money. The people ended up taking some younger birds than they asked for so that helped me charge less. Also hopefully although we did try to sex to some extent I am sure I managed to sell a few more cockerels that way.

 

[ashncarson]

I think we saw the same rainbow at 8:32, we where up around Yoder for a memorial b-day party!

 

[ashncarson]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153292122377716

I wanted to see if this link would work! Alll 11 chicks where taking their Sunday bath while mommy was out for a bit!