Consolidated Kansas

[Trish44]

Danz, well I do agree with you that they do make great firewood, we burn it in our woodstove every year & it makes the best hot fire ever. I just hate the darned thorns on it, I have to mow around them & just get around them all the time since we have them all over the place here. They tear up our mower tires & they're awful if you get a thorn in your shoe, I have to take pliers to them to get them out & even then it's a struggle. The hedge apples are a pain in the butt too, I mow over them all the time. The only thing those are good for is if the squirrels get really hungry in the winter they will eat them, otherwise they just lay there & rot.

I haven't gotten a thing done today. I'm trying to get a list together to run to the store, but I keep getting distracted. It will be time in a few minutes to go out & feed the chickens their treat & put them in & feed the pups. I had someone come this afternoon to buy something from me & they tried to pet those pups & they just walked off up the hill away from them. They want nothing to do with strangers, I guess that's good that they're so wary of people they don't know. They wouldn't even come down when my granddaughter came to see her.

 

[chicken danz]

OH and Hawkeye I think I would stock up on the bulbs for the easy bake oven. It is specifically going to only work with a bulb that is definitely being phased out. I might make a trip to wally world and buy as many cheap ones as you think you will ever use in that thing.I am sure they'll come up with another alternative design, but who wants to buy a brand new Easy bake just because you can't get the bulbs any more?

Oh well enough of that. I've been busy TSPing out my hatcher. Trying to get things ready for the upcoming hatching season. As soon as tomorrow has come and gone I am hoping to get back on track planning for spring hatching.
Sure wish I had a nice warm place to put the incubators without keeping them in the house. That chick dust is never ending.

 

[pikeman94]

Check out what my wife got me for Christmas!

Complete with dangling fried eggs!

This all stems from when my son got his monkey hat that is similar in design. I said that would be cool if the woman that made that could do a chicken! So my wife asked and here I am! My beloved thinks I am insane.

Have a Happy New Year everyone!

Pikeman94

 

[chicken danz]

Oh I love it! I want one! That is so cute, especially the dangling eggs!

 

[sharol]

Many of those hedge rows were planted just for windbreaks to stop erosion in the 30's. Don't we ever learn from the past?

Sharol

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[Trish44]

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all! May we all have a great 2012!

 

[Ivywoods]

AW, Trish! You beat me to it! I wanted to be the first one to say Happy New Year on the thread (in the New Year) but I will be the second to say it... HAPPY NEW YEAR CONSOLIDATED KANSAS! I hope everyone has a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year full of everything you hope for.

God bless.

 

[chicken danz]

Happy New Year all. I am so bad. I had forgotten it was New Years Day already! Time to start learning to write 2012. It only took me maybe 8 months in 2011 to stop writing 2010.

 

[Hawkeye95]

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!

Ivy, I hope you got your little serama's back in their pens! What about the little pullet that got grabbed by the rooster? Was she with a rooster in her pen? I'd probably be pretty upset if he got ahold of her and then you can't use her eggs for a while (to incubate). Or is she too young to lay yet? Either way, I hope she is safe and sound back in her pen.

Thanks Danz! I've always liked hedge rows and I see the beauty in their twisted trunks and limbs. Very true that their wood is termite resistant and weather proof! Their wood makes great fence posts that easily last up to 50 years without rot-- and they've had them go nearly another 50 without much damage. Anyway, I'm going to look into it and see about making this fence. I might look into making it with other trees, too. I wonder what other trees will make great living fences like hedge. We have a hedge row all along our back pasture, but they are just trees and not actually a fence. They do make a wonderful wind break, though. But the coyotes love living in there. I think it would be fun to make the tightly knit "fence". The oranges are supposed to be a deterent to bugs and ants, and they are an anti-fungicide which many think is the reason they are a deterent. I don't know if that is true, but it's always what I've heard! Are you having your family dinner today? I hope you have a really great time and enjoy yourself! Or if it was yesterday.. then I hope you all made lots of great memories.

Trish, the osage orange has a milky sap that a lot of people are allergic to. Supposedly that sap has been used as a glue and lacquer. It's not surprising that it would be toxic enough to cause an allergy or irritation. Congrats on your new bunnies! I love bunnies! But definitely don't need any right now! ha! I think if we ever got one, it would be just ONE and I'd probably just keep it in the house with the dogs and house train it.

Pikeman-- I LOVE your chicken hat!!! It is great and the best part are the eggs on each end! So funny! I would love one of those, too! How cute!

Well, not much going on here. We didn't get home until 2am this morning from our new years party. I drove us all home. I didn't drink anything. My MIL watched the kids for us, and then we picked up them early this morning and came home. It was nice not having the little ones with us. We missed church this morning- we were still sleeping. It was a long night/morning. Even after we got home at 2, my DH put the kids to bed and I ran out to take care of my neighbors horses and other animals while she is out of town. I was going to try to do it before we left for the night, but forgot. Either way, it got done, just a lot later than planned.

The chicks have been coming out of their coop most every day. But they aren't spending much time outside. Just enough to run around a bit and then go back in. But at least they are finally venturing outside. I'm still dragging in two or three chickens each night and teaching them to go back up the ramp. I'm not enjoying crawling under the coop, but I made it tall enough that it's not a big issue.

 

[Ivywoods]

Yes, not long after I posted on here that they got out my DH was looking out the window and saw the little rooster outside by the fence. We went out and caught him right away with the net. I looked around and saw the little hen over on the other side of the barn. She was still trying to avoid the ameraucana roosters. She had two of them chasing her, poor girl! As we were trying to get through the fence to get to her she ran over into the weeds and I lost sight of her. We looked around for a while then I gave up and went in the barn. In a short while here came my DH with the little girl safely in his arms. She had run in under some boards that were stacked up from the old barn that had blown down and was hiding in there to get away from the big roos. He looked in and all he could see was a couple tailfeathers so he drug her out by her tail.

Anyway, all are safely home. I don't know if any of the big roosters "got her" but I'm going to hatch her eggs anyway. I have no doubt that I could tell a chick that was half ameraucana, and it would be sold as a pet or barnyard chicken.

Okay, pictures as promised. Sure wish I could get some good ones, but maybe one of these days I can get these guys to pose!

I posted some pictures on the American serama thread of my seramas, if anyone is interested. They were posted between 3:00-4:00am. I can't remember exactly.

Here's my pair of silver duckwing old english. This little hen is the most aggressive, messy eater I have ever seen, but such a cutie when she's begging for food.

This little rosecomb cockerell I bought at the show in Sedalia. I don't like him as much as the one I got from my sister, so I turned him loose and he just gets to be a free range chicken. Barn ornament. He was standing up nice till I snapped the picture, then he stretched out goofy like this.

This is the cockerell I got from my sister. He is beautiful. Sure wish I could have gotten a beautiful picture. He wouldn't stand still. I think he thought I was going to give them more food or something.