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[Hawkeye95]

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I wanted our newest (now 7 months) to be a cloth diaper baby. My wife did some research and found the diapers to be very expensive so we are using disposable right now. Do you have a website for your diaper business?

This is a blatant plug for my daughter, but I try to help her out whenever I can. She is expecting her third son this fall and has cloth diapered all along. The boys potty trained faster too, so in the long run, by the time you reuse the diapers and get them out of diapers sooner, it works out less than disposables.

She's on Facebook and Etsy and at www.littlestarcreations.com

Oh those diapers are just ADORABLE!

Is your daughter in Kansas as well? Honestly, the whole thing is fun! ha! I know I have my own brand and love them best, but I am fond of many others as well and it's so nice to see other WAHM's doing this! I've often thought it would be fun to have a Congo and go in with someone else.

About my chicken/turkey question, though... anyone had chickens die in this heat? WHat are you doing special for them? I'm having to bring my turkey in about mid day so he doesn't die on me. He is lasting up to about 92 degrees... maybe a bit more, but I'm not chancing it now. I put ice in his water, and he is in shade, but he still can't handle it. Once he got sick, he's just not able to go back out in the high temps. Will he get over this? Once the heat breaks.. think he'll be fine???

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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This is a blatant plug for my daughter, but I try to help her out whenever I can. She is expecting her third son this fall and has cloth diapered all along. The boys potty trained faster too, so in the long run, by the time you reuse the diapers and get them out of diapers sooner, it works out less than disposables.

She's on Facebook and Etsy and at www.littlestarcreations.com

Oh those diapers are just ADORABLE!

Is your daughter in Kansas as well? Honestly, the whole thing is fun! ha! I know I have my own brand and love them best, but I am fond of many others as well and it's so nice to see other WAHM's doing this! I've often thought it would be fun to have a Congo and go in with someone else.

About my chicken/turkey question, though... anyone had chickens die in this heat? WHat are you doing special for them? I'm having to bring my turkey in about mid day so he doesn't die on me. He is lasting up to about 92 degrees... maybe a bit more, but I'm not chancing it now. I put ice in his water, and he is in shade, but he still can't handle it. Once he got sick, he's just not able to go back out in the high temps. Will he get over this? Once the heat breaks.. think he'll be fine???

I had one chicken die and two others were close. Since then I have been putting two liter bottle of frozen water in their watering bucket. I have noticed since adding the ice they are drinking more.

 

[OzawkieBantams]

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Are you on SufficientSelf.com.

We would like to be self sufficient also.

Actually, no. I have never heard of it. I'll have to check it out.

Another thing we do is hunt. I guess we have an advantage there because we live own land that has quite a few deer. We are feeding up a bottle calf for beef. So with all the animals we always have plenty of meat.

It's the veggies I'm behind on . My garden is small, and right now the weeds are getting ahead of me in about half of it. I just put this garden in this year, and it is not on the best soil on the place. Fortunately, we do have good soil on the farm, it's just that when they put the house in we had some areas that we had to level out and some of that is down to the fill dirt. With mulch and chicken poop I hope to get some of that soil into better condition over the next couple years.

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8405

 

[Nana2KJS]

My daughter is in Kansas as well, in Crawford county.

We have been putting ice packs out for the chicks/hens to stand on. And I have fans blowing over water pans around the yard. Picked up a couple of feed pans at walmart and keep them full of water also. The ladies like to stand in them to cool their feet. Watering one corner of the yard where things have gotten a little over grown gives them a little "jungle" to hang out in.

The one I feel the worst about is a little stray kitty that showed up in the neighborhood a few weeks ago. Then last week she turned up with 5 baby kittens! Wild as march hares but grateful for the water and small fans we are keeping out for them. Mama Kitty keeps everyone hidden during the day, but they get out from somewhere when it cools off of an evening. Poor babies are all just so hot!

 

[Hawkeye95]

my family is from Crawford co! I even spent a year going to school in McCune, and my dad is from Girard. My entire family are all farmers down there. Much prettier country there, and they get a whole lot more rain than we do here.

OKay, so low water dishes they can get into. That is a good idea! I can NOT wait till it gets a bit cooler, having the turkey in the house for a few hours during the heat of the day is not fun. He can stay out until about 12:30 and then he gets kind of limp again. I wonder if turkeys just don't handle the heat as well as chickens? I'm wanting to get one of those water misters from Atwoods and set it out for him, but I'm not sure right now it would help. This has convinced me to plant thick bushes and vines around the run when I build it. My honeysuckle grows like CRAZY and gets thick, heavy and can be trained to grow up pretty high. That should suffice in place of the lack of trees for offering them shade, I hope.

BTW, how big are the kittens? It does seem sad that they don't have a safe home.

 

[HEChicken]

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I wanted our newest (now 7 months) to be a cloth diaper baby. My wife did some research and found the diapers to be very expensive so we are using disposable right now. Do you have a website for your diaper business?

Its honestly hard for me to imagine how using disposable could possibly be cheaper! Sure, there is an up front investment in cloth diapers but once you have them, that's it. I've always used an outside clothesline so the only ongoing expense was washing them. Compare that to the regular expense of buying disposables and there is no comparison. Not to mention all those disposables ending up in landfills for decades to come. And - for each child you have you have to buy another mini-mountain of disposables, whereas the one investment in cloth might take you through your whole family, depending on how big it is.

I used cloth for my kids and didn't find it to be any hassle at all. And, my son potty trained himself at only 19 months old, which was a bonus.

 

[Nana2KJS]

The kittens might be two or three weeks old. Maybe a little older. Miss Kitty is just a stray that showed up a couple months ago and the kittenst showed up last week. They are really small, but wild and active. They hang out under my daylillies and barberry bushes (when mama lets themt out) .... we've been watering the border garden and it's nice and cool under there.

Will your turkey stand on an ice "block"? I got some of those blue freezer paks like you put in a lunch box. I find my ladies hanging out on or around them frequently.

 

[msjfrizzle]

Hey all- thanks for the good ideas and kind words. I called the stable where I got one of the roosters as a little chick, and they were very sympathetic. They said they didn't want me to be in trouble, and I could take all three roosters out to their petting zoo/barnyard!! So now they have a safe home where they'll be admired and not cooked for someone's supper! It's not that I'm opposed to eating chicken, just not ones that I know personally. These are babies that climbed into my lap to 'roost' and flew up to my shoulder or head for safety. Happy ending!!

 

[tntblake]

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I knew they would help you out! They are great people!

 

[OzawkieBantams]

I have been so darn sick since Michelle and I went swimming in perry lake last weekend that I havent been able to finish predator proofing and I lost two more pheasants lastnight. I need a box trap or two or someone who just wants to help me rid this jerk of his life. In the last week it has taken almost ten birds.
think I am gonna have to go to the Dr. Today before I die. BtW dont swim in the lake. This is the sickest I think I have ever been that I can remember. Hope none of you ever experiance this EVER!