Consolidated Kansas

[revolutionmama]

Saying "Hi" from North Lawrence

 

[prairie]

Revolution, I am envious -- they are so cute!

 

[revolutionmama]

Thank You

I love freshly hatched babies! A sight I will never grow tired of

Here is one more...

 

[chicken danz]

So Jenn, did you get your excess chickens sold? Would have loved to have some, but it wasn't in the budget.
Prairie, guineas will often go broody but they need a private place to go. And when they do, you need to keep your distance. There is nothing worse than a broody guinea. Mine tend to try to go broody later in the summer rather than this time of year. Be patient, Prairie.
I am guessing the hens broke their broodiness with the move. Give 'em a couple weeks and they'll be back at it. Or maybe set up some artificial eggs for them to get them started again.
I've sold a bunch of my girls and need to decide how many more I can part with and still keep my egg production up.
I've been watering the garden all afternoon. Surely that will make it rain.
I got the lower branches on the cherry tree picked but need to get a ladder set up to finish. The cherries are so small this year it hardly seems worth it. I assume it is from lack of moisture. They really don't leave much if you pit them.

 

[sharol]

IF you pit them? That would be crunchy pie if you didn't.

Sharol

So Jenn, did you get your excess chickens sold? Would have loved to have some, but it wasn't in the budget.
Prairie, guineas will often go broody but they need a private place to go. And when they do, you need to keep your distance. There is nothing worse than a broody guinea. Mine tend to try to go broody later in the summer rather than this time of year. Be patient, Prairie.
I am guessing the hens broke their broodiness with the move. Give 'em a couple weeks and they'll be back at it. Or maybe set up some artificial eggs for them to get them started again.
I've sold a bunch of my girls and need to decide how many more I can part with and still keep my egg production up.
I've been watering the garden all afternoon. Surely that will make it rain.
I got the lower branches on the cherry tree picked but need to get a ladder set up to finish. The cherries are so small this year it hardly seems worth it. I assume it is from lack of moisture. They really don't leave much if you pit them.

 

[revolutionmama]

I got to keep pretty much all of my chickens and letting my broodies sit and enjoying seeing Mommies and babies together

Saves on incubator room! I had 1 guinea once, very loud, I stick to chickens and ducks lol Yum for cherries!

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Hi all! I'm still on low speed but managing. I hope and pray we get some rain tomorrow. I am watering morning and late afternoon because I am determined to get something out of this garden! Things are growing but sheesh. I keep visualizing an automatic sprinkler for the garden. I bet that's something I could do myself. Has anyone ever put in a sprinkler system? It would sure be nice.

Ah, revolutionmama, those are sweet little chicks. I only got 2 splash and 1 lav out of my Orp hatch. Sure glad you got to keep your birds, yours are so much more expensive than any of mine. I guess I'm just not confident enough about my ability to raise chicks that expensive. Although, since I managed to keep this pitiful turkey alive with an unabsorbed yolk, I'm more confident than I was a couple months ago.

Trish44, are you selling any of your Swedish Flowers? I would love to buy a couple, if you are. Sorry to hear your babies were out of water.

Thank goodness they were all okay, though.

Danz, Chopper and co. are still down at the pond. Time to bring them in. Normally, they come up when they're ready to go in but I took feed down there for them today so they're not too eager to get back. I know the feeling. I love working outside and only come in when I have to!

 

[prairie]

I have a couple of nest I set up with golf balls but the new ladies haven't had anything to do with them but they do keep checking them out. My little cornish banty has 4 eggs in her nest so I assume she may become broody at least hoping. I have 5 guinea eggs that I will swap for her if she does. I started letting the chickens and guineas free range this week but the guineas are not coming back to lay their eggs in the house so everyone gets locked up each day until after laying time. Hopefully I will be able to get some eggs that way.

I picked 5 apricots today but they are so small that there is nothing to them and not sweet either. Sure hope we get some rain or our apples and peaches and pears will never develop. The sweet corn is looking like toast -- never will develop unless we get some rain. The leaves are so curled they look like sticks. I too am watering the garden every day -- did manage to pick snow peas and pull beets today.

 

[chicken danz]

Actually I am not pitting these cherries. I got them washed up and I have them cooking on the stove. I have a Foley mill and I plan to run them through that. It'll take out the pits and skins and leave the good parts. Now what I am doing with them after that I haven't decided yet. I can make cherry jelly which I think would be scrumptious. Or thicken them into a pie like sauce to use on top of cheese cakes etc. I've never heard of anyone doing that but it seems to me I could cook it up, freeze it and add it to whatever I want. It will be pure cherries and sugar with corn starch or flour for thickening. Just like Cherry pie without whole cherries. I think it might come in handy.
So which would you all do? Make cherry jelly or make cherry sauce? At any rate I'll have to go buy some more sugar and finish it all tomorrow.

 

[cherwill]

Actually I am not pitting these cherries. I got them washed up and I have them cooking on the stove. I have a Foley mill and I plan to run them through that. It'll take out the pits and skins and leave the good parts. Now what I am doing with them after that I haven't decided yet. I can make cherry jelly which I think would be scrumptious. Or thicken them into a pie like sauce to use on top of cheese cakes etc. I've never heard of anyone doing that but it seems to me I could cook it up, freeze it and add it to whatever I want. It will be pure cherries and sugar with corn starch or flour for thickening. Just like Cherry pie without whole cherries. I think it might come in handy.
So which would you all do? Make cherry jelly or make cherry sauce? At any rate I'll have to go buy some more sugar and finish it all tomorrow.

I'd make jelly, but then I don't put anything on my cheesecakes. Then you'd have jelly and if you really wanted to, you could melt the jelly or thin it with something to use on cheesecake. Either way, it sounds delicious.

Saying "Hi" from North Lawrence

Cuteness!

I have some more duck questions if anyone can help me. My niece's ducks are supposed to hatch and be shipped tomorrow; should be here in a couple of days. She's planning on them imprinting on her. Then two weeks later her family is leaving for a 10 day vacation (ducks will be at my house) and then right after she gets back, off to church camp for several days or a week. Is that going to be a problem for the ducks? I have no idea how the imprinting works. Also, both ducks are supposed to be males. Do male ducks fight each other the way roos often will?