Consolidated Kansas

[rittert3]

I don't know much about ducks, sorry justin. As for the subject of "unknown" kansas members there is another man thats one the quail thread a bit from oskaloosa (Fat Daddy) I don't know if he has anything else though. Back When I signed up for my account there was another lady IN wichita that had a small backyard coop and a couple laying hens, I remember she seemed to really know chickens but I don't remember what her user name was.

 

[Hawkeye95]

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and to the Kansas thread!

We've been out to Winfield lake a few times. Most everyone gets pretty excited over their first eggs! Let know know when they start laying! It's so exciting when we get new people! Hope you stick around!

Danz, I just don't know much about the pellet/granule Seven? I know it's safe for them to roll and bathe in the dust type. I wonder if they would eat it, though? If you sprinkled it into the deep litter... maybe they wouldn't eat much of it. Is it a fine granule or a big pellet? Never heard of anything like that. I'd be tempted to put it at the bottom of my deep litter, but just don't know if it's a good idea or not. My little chicks sure do scratch around a lot in the litter- do they do that when they're adult?

Justin, hope your duck is okay. Maybe she's molting? Do ducks molt like chickens??

I have a 'girls night out' (GNO) tonight and I'm pretty excited about it. We do it every month without fail. Been doing it for a couple of years now with the same group of girls. On any given night we can have as many as 15 of us. But usually, there are only about 10 of us that regularly come. We switch houses every month and bring snacks and 'drinks' and play cards or games. Sooooo ready for this one! I have taken a lot of chick pictures on my phone; going to share the fluffy love. ha!

 

[chicken danz]

Getting ready to head to Topeka to buy some more supplies for pens and stuff. I've got to get a move on these fall projects.
The sevin is about the size of a chick starter crumble. I may just try to sell it or something. I wasn't close enough to read the fine print on the bag when I bought it. It is like 95% inert ingredients so those shouldn't hurt them. I'd just hate them to ingest the sevin. Too bad I don't have a pen of chickens I hate. I could try it on them! I can't see me ever hating chickens of any kind.
One of my little silkie hens laid an egg this morning. I was very tempted to put it in the incubator but the first several eggs aren't usually fertile. I'll just have to wait I guess.
I'm loving this weather. It does feel good to wear jeans again. I can hide more fat that way.

 

[rittert3]

I agree that the tomatoes can't eat the sevin like chickens can, and whats this about experimenting on chickens? lol Good luck getting your projects done before the cold sets in. And hawkeye I hope you have lots of fun tonight, we have been needing one of those kid-less nights around here for a while but just don't have the money or time. I don't know when weekends got so busy...

 

[justinwrites]

I didn't get in to the house in time to get a hold of the duck and feel for any binding, but I'm reading that it isn't unusual for ducks to take a break from time to time. Heck, maybe she is about to molt. I've never had ducks before and she's about 6 months old.

The whole flock played keep away and tug-o-war with a baby rat snake tonight. Poor dude never stood a chance.

 

[Ivywoods]

Well, I am using my new stack of cages for the first time tonight. I had a bunch of free ranging roosters. My sister has decided she wanted some that we hadn't talked about, so I caught 4 tonight and put them in the cages. From there I will decide which ones go and which ones stay. It worked so nicely! The only problem is, I can see where I can fill up the whole set in no time.

Fortunately, none of these boys will have permanent homes in the cages.

 

[rittert3]

Time to build another set Ivy

. They look great if I had room I would try to imitate them.

 

[Ivywoods]

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Thanks. I probably won't build more... at least not yet. The first thing I need to do is make some modifications to my chicken tractor. I'm going to make the part under the little house a solid enclosure on 3 sides, and put a PVC feeder in there. The way it is now, the wind whips all the food out of the feeder. Hopefully this will keep that from happening, plus make feeding and moving the tractor a little easier.

When you add it all up, building one of these feeders is not that cheap. I had to buy new pipe, long elbow and 2 caps. It will be easy to build, but I need to do the enclosure part first and get it painted.

I had a wierd thing happen this morning. Last night was my night off work, so hubby and I woke up early. There was an owl outside that would hoot in reply every time a rooster would crow. We figured it was the same one that got my guinea hen, the ONLY bird we have lost to any kind of a predator. My husband went out and scared it away. After he came back in, I was looking out the window at the chickens foraging in the yard. I had put my last two free ranging lakenvelder roosters in the cages last night. I heard two roosters crow, then up walks a lakenvelder roo. I thought it was the one I had saved for breeding in my chicken tractor. I was afraid something had torn into the tractor, so hubby and I hurried out. I was fearing the worst, since there was one lakie rooster in the yard and no hens. When I looked in the tractor, they were all there and all were fine.

As it turns out, I had one more free range lakenvelder roo than I thought I had. I hadn't seen this guy in weeks and forgot he was out there. He wasn't in the hut when I went out and caught the other two last night, so I have no idea where he roosts at night.
Shortly after that DH was looking out the back window, and there was that extra lakenvelder rooster running for his life. ALL of the guineas were after him, chasing him all over the place.

Gee whiz... no wonder the poor rooster has been afraid to show his face for so long!

 

[Hawkeye95]

HILARIOUS Danz!! I love cooler weather too, because I love wearing jeans and jackets. But I just feel very comfortable in them. Feels good. Silkie eggs! WOW! I sure am hoping that my two little silkies are a pair. It will totally bite if I bought two roosters. I wonder if you can mix white with Lavender. Probably not a good idea, is what I'm thinking. The eggs I'm getting hatched are Lavender, and I'm hoping to get a pair out of them. It would be just my luck I bring home all roosters. I keep up with the silkie thread from time to time, and everyone there even has a hard time deciding who is a roo and who is a hen. They joke a lot about wait until one lays and one crows. Sigh. So I may not know what I have until spring! I'm counting on my silkies being broody!! ha!

Ivy, oh that is so exciting to be using your new set up! I love it and I want one!

I better not add any more projects until my coop is done. I'm crazy! We're going to work on it today. But it's in the 40's right now and I'm freezing my fingers off.

Had fun last night and ready to work today. As soon as it hits somewhere in the 50 degree area.

 

[chicken danz]

Wow that's weird. I just wrote a fairly long post and it didn't show up. Maybe the system is slow.
Loralee I really don't know why people have problems telling the difference. At least with some of both sexes I could tell the difference in the silkies at just a few weeks. The cockerels have a lot wider comb. I guess if they are all one sex it would be hard to tell. That would be an advantage to having at least one of each. Then you'd know for sure.