Consolidated Kansas

[CowboysAngel]

We've had chickens almost 4 years now...EEs, RIR, Gold sex link, buff orpington...just got started this spring with banty cochins & frizzles...

I kinda wanna do custom hatching, and check out some seramas, silkies, get some more calico banty cochins, or mil fleur... I didn't have much luck with my blue frizzle, other than she was a great mother and went broody twice since she played her first egg in March...she absolutely hates me! Her eggs are hatching tonight...then I'll have day old chicks to sell...

Maybe a polish... I really want a lap chicken!! Lol

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Hi, August 21st Will be my last day in Eastern Washington...

We will be staying with mil in Lakin, KS temporarily till we get work and our own place, so I'm in the process of selling all my critters :-(

So help me get excited! I'll get to start a new flock! Unless I end up in an apartment :-(

But I'll still be looking to buy farm fresh eggs, and live vicariously through you!! (Gotta get chicken fix somehow!!)

Welcome!!! You'll be pretty close to me then! It's hard to sell off critters tho!

 

[Prairie Fleur]

@LavrisChica thanks for the kind words! I brought my first rescue horse home today. He needs lots of TLC and some vet and farrier work but I think he'll pull thru. Some friends and I are working on fundraising to rescue a mare with her foal at side. We have until tomorrow to raise the money. Sigh. This is sad business.. But knowing Warrior, as I've named the appy gelding I rescued, is safe and has a brighter future makes the grief and pain of knowing you couldn't save them all worth it. It was a long day going down to pick Warrior up. Over 8 hours of driving total. Thankfully I had a friend who came with me. Here's some pics of Warrior when I picked him up.

 

[CowboysAngel]

Welcome!!! You'll be pretty close to me then! It's hard to sell off critters tho!

As of tomorrow I'll have 2 pair of bantys and a banty roo, 1 lop earred bunny, and 3 baby bunnys left...

My blue frizzles babies started hatching today!! I've got to sell them quickly before I get attached And start hiding them in packing boxes with food and a tiny chicken canteen!!

Change is good sometimes though...things wouldn't be selling so quickly and the money for the trip be stacking up so quickly if we weren't meant to move...

 

[chicken danz]

Hi, August 21st Will be my last day in Eastern Washington...

We will be staying with mil in Lakin, KS temporarily till we get work and our own place, so I'm in the process of selling all my critters :-(

So help me get excited! I'll get to start a new flock! Unless I end up in an apartment :-(

But I'll still be looking to buy farm fresh eggs, and live vicariously through you!! (Gotta get chicken fix somehow!!)

Welcome to the CKS forum. You've got a while before you move here but feel free to join in our discussion. You'll be quite a distance from me as well.

Prairie I love appys. My daughter had a couple and they were my favorite of her group. They were high spirited but always so proud acting. And beautiful. I'm not a fan of horses but I appreciate those who are and those who rescue these poor creatures.
We've had rain and more rain and more rain. I am afraid I'll be loosing birds if it doesn't stop soon. It's still raining this morning and I really need to get out and move some birds around. I keep hoping it will clear out and the sun will come out.
I spent my afternoon in the building yesterday. I moved every one of the panels for the pens yesterday. I was trying to finish up the pens when I discovered I was almost 2 foot short for the end pen. So by moving each panel and setting them up so the fronts were in line North and South rather than in a straight line all down the front I was able to have plenty of room for the last pen. It doesn't look as tidy as it did with a totally flat front surface but at least all the pens are there. I was either going to have to do it the way I did or be one pen short. At the cost of having to do without one more breed I decided I could live with a zig zag front. I'd like to get the water system set up, which is what I was trying to do yesterday. But I need to play catchup with the other pens and birds cause I am sure they all have wet food and muddy water.
I've got to get the green house mucked out. It's so wet in there from young goslings that they started getting stuck down in the mud yesterday. It's going to be a really nasty job but it has to be done. I had to bring the three smallest ones in because they were stressed and too chilly. Hopefully I can get out there and get that done and put out new dry bedding for them.
I hope I haven't lost any more young birds to the mud and cooler temperatures. I had a couple yesterday that got too chilly. I had to put out some heat lamps last night which is insane for July. Who would think such a thing???
I have a couple people coming for birds tomorrow. Sure hope this rain stops so I don't have to slush around in the mud for them. Just a few hundred more to go after that!!!
I'm selling some extra breeders in this group. Bit by bit I'm getting the numbers down but in the meantime my feed bill keeps climbing.

 

[sharol]

I'm still wrestling with 8 chicks (5 weeks old) in a brooder IN THE HOUSE. July 8 and it won't get over 70 for them. Dang. They are bored and frustrated too. They are nice little birds -- 3 Breda fowl (it looks like one cockerel and two pullets maybe), and 5 Araucanas (I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but only one is showing any color in his comb (and he is showing a good deal of pink at this age). That would leave me with several pullets. Of course the one with the best tufts (two are tufted) is the boy. They like being out in the hoop, but 63 degrees is just too cold without somewhere to go to get warm and I have no heat in the hoop. July 8, for pete's sake.

 

[LavrisChica]

I'm still wrestling with 8 chicks (5 weeks old) in a brooder IN THE HOUSE. July 8 and it won't get over 70 for them. Dang. They are bored and frustrated too. They are nice little birds -- 3 Breda fowl (it looks like one cockerel and two pullets maybe), and 5 Araucanas (I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but only one is showing any color in his comb (and he is showing a good deal of pink at this age). That would leave me with several pullets. Of course the one with the best tufts (two are tufted) is the boy. They like being out in the hoop, but 63 degrees is just too cold without somewhere to go to get warm and I have no heat in the hoop. July 8, for pete's sake.

IKR?!?
After new hatchlings in the last few days and some due today and tomorrow, I've been scrambling today on a quick-build-brooder! Usually I just coral them in the coop in the summer heat, but needing heat, and the tub I was using previously too small, I am shaking my head, too!

 

[Trish44]

@LavrisChica thanks for the kind words! I brought my first rescue horse home today. He needs lots of TLC and some vet and farrier work but I think he'll pull thru. Some friends and I are working on fundraising to rescue a mare with her foal at side. We have until tomorrow to raise the money. Sigh. This is sad business.. But knowing Warrior, as I've named the appy gelding I rescued, is safe and has a brighter future makes the grief and pain of knowing you couldn't save them all worth it. It was a long day going down to pick Warrior up. Over 8 hours of driving total. Thankfully I had a friend who came with me. Here's some pics of Warrior when I picked him up.

Awww the poor guy, he's so beautiful. I hate it when people get animals & then don't take care of them. He's so lucky to have you to care for him now.

It's a muddy mess here too & we have more rain coming again, ugh. I hate slogging through the mud to do chores & I feel bad for the birds that are again standing in muck.

 

[Trish44]

IKR?!?
After new hatchlings in the last few days and some due today and tomorrow, I've been scrambling today on a quick-build-brooder! Usually I just coral them in the coop in the summer heat, but needing heat, and the tub I was using previously too small, I am shaking my head, too!

I guess you were posting when I was. I don't know how good you are at building but brooders are pretty easy to cobble together. I'm not the best builder in the world but I was able to build 3 of them. The two biggest ones are in my sunroom in the house. Yes, in the house because my garage is either too cold or too hot. It's not insulated & there isn't enough ventilation in there so it's not an ideal place for chicks. I just built a basic box from OSB I got scraps of & then I made two doors with hardware cloth in the middle for ventilation & they're on hinges so I can open both or only one to care for the chicks. I started to paint the outside of one of them & never did get finished with all of the hatching going on. Maybe when they're all outside I can finally get them both painted. I had to put silicone along the cracks in the bottom where the pieces join because I ended up getting pine shaving dust coming through. That seemed to stop the problem. I don't use heat lamps, I use sweeter heaters in the house & they work great. I have two smaller ones in one brooder hanging side by side & one longer one in the other one. I replaced all of my other heat sources with those because I really like them.

 

[chicken danz]

I'm still wrestling with 8 chicks (5 weeks old) in a brooder IN THE HOUSE. July 8 and it won't get over 70 for them. Dang. They are bored and frustrated too. They are nice little birds -- 3 Breda fowl (it looks like one cockerel and two pullets maybe), and 5 Araucanas (I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but only one is showing any color in his comb (and he is showing a good deal of pink at this age). That would leave me with several pullets. Of course the one with the best tufts (two are tufted) is the boy. They like being out in the hoop, but 63 degrees is just too cold without somewhere to go to get warm and I have no heat in the hoop. July 8, for pete's sake.

This is insane. I was wishing for cooler weather a few days ago but I was thinking more along the lines of 80 degrees. Trish, I think I need to go out and dig channels so the rain can drain from the pens again. It's a sloshy mess out there. The poor young birds don't have a chance!!!