Consolidated Kansas

[TattooedChicks]

You don't know how tempting that is to drive 4 hours... Such pretty birds, those lavenders.

Also, if anyone wants two free black cochin bantam roos I will gladly offer them to someone here.

 

[Mezleona]

Can you mail them? I live in Houston Texas

 

[Trish44]

Yes I can. Shipping is pretty steep for live birds but if you're willing to pay it I can ship them.

 

[chicken danz]

I also have a ton of chicks available. I have messages out to a couple people who have asked for some but have lots of them. I have lots of Icelandics, English Orpingtons, Partridge, blue partridge (no color choice), gold laced, BBS, mottled, jubilee, lavender. I also have imported Brahmas, partridge and blue partridge ( no color choice) , Black , Blue or splash, and blue laced gold ( my own color project and not available any where else unless someone who bought some from me has raised some.) Also have speckled sussex and a few Breda fowl.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Hi, everyone. Haven been on in ages seems like. It's been a crazy year. Lost MIL last fall and been busy trying to keep our heads above water otherwise.
Enjoyed reading everyone's posts about the storm. We had about 7" of snow and probably 3 " of rain with that whole storm system. We live in the sandhills so we do dry out faster than a lot of areas. My poor horses, goats & chickens didn't appreciated it tho. Snow finally thawed out the second of May. Looked pretty strange to see the summer green poking out of the snow. Everyone seemed to manage ok tho and the moisture did seem to do some good things. We've been transplanting trees and working on the yard since.
I finally have my BLRW breeding pen set up and the girls have been in it about 2 weeks now. Just added the roo a day ago or so. Planning to do a test hatch here shortly. Have plans to get some more pens going but the weather hasn't cooperated so well so far. Hopefully soon now.
We had a fabulous kidding season. We had a total of 15 or 16 kids born here (I can never remember which! Lol) My yearling buck from Dills a Little Goat Farm outdid himself. I got 5 doe kids out of him. 3 registered and 2 from my mini Nubian girl. I got a lot of bucks too out of him and my very best yearling doe had a single buck kid but I can't complain. My oldest doe kidded a set of quads this year. Ended up giving the biggest buckling away to a friend to bottle feed because she couldn't keep up with feeding 4. Anyone want some cute weed eater pets? Lol Haven't had much luck selling goats this year. I think the corn prices are really affecting the market in our area. I can't keep them - no use for all those boys- so I'll have a bunch to take to the sale in Dodge here shortly.
I'm really excited because my Mini Nubian doubled her milk production from her last freshening and I got 3 lbs from her after separating kids 12 hours. I'm estimating peak production at 3/4 gal a day and she's only a second freshener!! I couldn't be happier!! I'm definitely keeping one of the doe kids!!!
Anyway just thot I'd check in again and see how everyone was doing.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

A few storm pics and babies from this year.

 

[Trish44]

Hi, everyone. Haven been on in ages seems like. It's been a crazy year. Lost MIL last fall and been busy trying to keep our heads above water otherwise.
Enjoyed reading everyone's posts about the storm. We had about 7" of snow and probably 3 " of rain with that whole storm system. We live in the sandhills so we do dry out faster than a lot of areas. My poor horses, goats & chickens didn't appreciated it tho. Snow finally thawed out the second of May. Looked pretty strange to see the summer green poking out of the snow. Everyone seemed to manage ok tho and the moisture did seem to do some good things. We've been transplanting trees and working on the yard since.
I finally have my BLRW breeding pen set up and the girls have been in it about 2 weeks now. Just added the roo a day ago or so. Planning to do a test hatch here shortly. Have plans to get some more pens going but the weather hasn't cooperated so well so far. Hopefully soon now.
We had a fabulous kidding season. We had a total of 15 or 16 kids born here (I can never remember which! Lol) My yearling buck from Dills a Little Goat Farm outdid himself. I got 5 doe kids out of him. 3 registered and 2 from my mini Nubian girl. I got a lot of bucks too out of him and my very best yearling doe had a single buck kid but I can't complain. My oldest doe kidded a set of quads this year. Ended up giving the biggest buckling away to a friend to bottle feed because she couldn't keep up with feeding 4. Anyone want some cute weed eater pets? Lol Haven't had much luck selling goats this year. I think the corn prices are really affecting the market in our area. I can't keep them - no use for all those boys- so I'll have a bunch to take to the sale in Dodge here shortly.
I'm really excited because my Mini Nubian doubled her milk production from her last freshening and I got 3 lbs from her after separating kids 12 hours. I'm estimating peak production at 3/4 gal a day and she's only a second freshener!! I couldn't be happier!!

I'm definitely keeping one of the doe kids!!!
Anyway just thot I'd check in again and see how everyone was doing.

It's nice to see you back here. Congrats on the goat kids. Those are some adorable kittens in your pic, nice photos by the way. I got BLRW myself & have been waiting on the eggs to get big enough to incubate since I have people waiting on them. I also got Isbars & they're laying tiny little eggs as well. The eggs from those are interesting, I get all the way from mint green to army green in color. I have two pullets not laying yet so it's just the oldest ones right now. I also got some more BLRW eggs & hatched a few more babies the other day, not a great hatch but they were shipped eggs. If I can get a few to add to my group I'll be happy. Right now I have a splash rooster over two black laced hens & a blue laced one. I think it may just be the animal market in general, I had trouble selling the extra sheep I had to sell this year. I had a hair sheep ewe I was switching out for a non-related one & it took me quite awhile to sell her. She was Dorper/Katahdin, which is a nice meat cross & the ram sheds off excellent so I think she will too. Then I had a wether that I had planned to take to the locker but we had just taken 4 a few months before & we really had all the meat we needed for this year for just two of us. It took me a long time to sell him as well. I got the new ewe & she has integrated into my little group really great. She kind of adopted my ewe as her momma since she missed hers really bad after coming here. She was upset for a couple of days but my ewe is such a good momma & tame as can be so she got comfortable with her pretty fast. I can't keep a lot of animals here due to the amount of grazing area I have so I just have two ewes & a ram plus two boer goat does for brush control. When Oreo, my oldest ewe has lambs again we will have a couple more because she always has twins.

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

Yes yes yes my first time shipping eggs did great only 2 had broken aircells the other 11 are great and are already under warm butts can't wait to see how many hatch would be sooo cool for them if all 11 hatch.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

Hello! anyone out there?

 

[Trish44]

I just saw the site is back up. We'll have a lot to get used to here with the new site.