Consolidated Kansas

[ChooksChick]

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That's terrible. Wrist pain is not fun.

Around here, they don't count anything as a building until it's over 150 square feet in the county and 9'x9' in town. Also, if it's not permanent, they don't count it even if it's bigger, so if it had wheels...etc, it wouldn't count against you as an improvement on taxes. Certainly a greenhouse wouldn't unless it had its own foundation.

 

[ck_dunham]

<======= Is Now a first time Home owner.

So glad that this is done! Now we just have to move all our crap in!!!!!
Brake out the wine!

 

[Ivywoods]

congrats on the new house!

I've got a FEW extra roos left right now, including:

black ameraucana
lavender ameraucana
golden lakenvelder
a set of 4 bantam partridge wyandottes, 3 pullets and one rooster

Anyone interested can PM me.

 

[Ivywoods]

Well, I didn't get the cage all painted, but I did finish getting the top on and all the small pieces that I had to paint separate are now painted, first coat, anyway.

My DH came home from work with a surprise for me. I had asked him to get me some smaller staples so I could put the hardware cloth on these doors I am building without splitting the wood. He came home with some smaller staples AND an electric staple gun!

It worked GREAT! I highly recommend one to anyone getting ready to build more runs or cages that need to have the wire stapled to wood.

 

[Ivywoods]

Oh, another thing.. (sorry about the multiple posts!)

We had the county appraiser out yesterday. They looked at all of our buildings, and of course we have the new barn now. I am wondering, too, if it is going to be worth it for me to build another barn for the chickens. I don't make any money on these chickens. It is just a hobby for me. It may cost more in taxes than what it would be worth to me. I wonder just how much it will cost us. I'm also going to go see just what all they wrote down for us. If they tax my coop I may protest. It is an old horsedrawn blacksmith wagon that I converted into a coop. It is sitting on it's frame, but it is not permanent by any means. Also, I have a portable storage container. I wonder if they tax that! I wonder if they tax our 100+year old barn that is tumbling down!

I guess a trip to the county office would be a good idea for me.

 

[ChooksChick]

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Congrats!! What fun! We'll have to have a housewarming where Ivywoods and I gift you with presents of extra roos!!

Just kidding- we will have to have a pictoral tour, though. So happy for you guys!

 

[rittert3]

Congrats on the new house ck! Ivywoods those golden Lakenvelders and chooks gold laced orps sound beautiful but I don't room for chickens.

 

[chicken danz]

I was also under the impression that a moveable building isn't taxable but I guess these jerks are making new rules as they go along. Every one of my chicken buildings are up on blocks and can be moved, but they've come out here and measured every last one of them. Even a little 3 X7 lean to I made from a drafting table that I can scoot across the yard if I want.
I wish there were some place I could research tax laws and dispute their decisions. I can't really afford to build a new building so that is probably out of the question for now.
Went to Wichita and got a couple tons of flag stone. I got Colorado rose stone. It probably will look out of place here but it was a thinner cut stone which is what I wanted for my duck aviary.
I am making arrangements as we speak to get my cockerels picked up later this week along with a few ducks. That should lighten my feed load considerably. I am holding back all my standard cochin cockerels. They are just too awesome to go into someone's soup. I will try to sell them elsewhere. I have many young salmon faverolle LF. If anyone is interested let me know by Wednesday evening.
Rittert,I tore all the ligaments in my right wrist 20 some years ago. I had surgery to repair it but it never really got better. It just made me loose movement. It always hurt, especially in cool or wet weather. Then I got arthritis in it to the point it was bone on bone and every tiny movement caused a nerve pinch and extreme pain. I couldn't even lift a coffee cup and if you knew me that is disasterous!

Anyway I ended up having three surgeries and the last one finally did the most good. I have a titanium plate in my wrist up to my middle knuckle. I have absolutely 0 wrist movement in any direction. It's a bit cumbersome. And yes I am right handed to. But it did the most to stop the pain. Those tendon cysts are painful but I certainly wouldn't recommend surgery until it gets to the point that you are unable to use your hand at all. Not to be a downer but I've been there. Hang on because they are making strides in improving health care for wrists. There is a wrist replacement but it isn't lasting but a couple of years. I'm told by my surgeon that they will improve things over the next few years. My left wrist has a great deal of arthritis as well and I am hoping for something better as an option.

 

[chicken danz]

Congrats CK on the house!

 

[rittert3]

I did jump through the hoops to have an orthipedic ? drain my sist once and that took about three weeks before it happened and even then it never went away totally and was back to it's original size in about 6 weeks. The orthipedic guy that drained my sist didn't do a great job of explaining it to me, and please excuse my spelling, but... I in some way injured to carple tendons? in my right wrist and caused the joint fluid to float into a hard lump on the top of my wrist (forming the ganglion sist). Having to use my left wrist more has caused me to overload it and now I'm getting much of the same pain there. I've forced myself to do alot more with my left but there are just somethings I can't. I do get alot of that "pinched nerve" feeling in the right wrist and just a feeling of extream tension in both. My job required me to work with a sorting stick, shovel, or manure scrapper alot and that became very difficult. I quit cleaning, and I even went and spent a 10 hour days pay on a hotshot to try and ease the load on my wrist but it keeps getting progressivly worse. Now it is painfull to try to type faster than a slow chicken peck, wisk some instant gravy, or pick up my kids. Part of me wishes I could just collect disability on it, which I doubt the government would let happen anyway, but over the last year my vues have changed regarding work and I can stand the thought of not being able to. But then again if I can't work I would rather have some money coming in than none at all. Sorry again for my rant and thank you all for your concern and help.