Consolidated Kansas

[Deerfield Acres]

No pics here. Karen that guy is just beautiful!
My darned sinus infection has taken a turn for the worse and I feel like crap. Guess I'll call the doc tomorrow and get some antibiotics. I've been running a fever all afternoon that doesn't want to break.

Thanks Danz! I'm about finished with my antibiotics and am thinking you better get some. Sinus infections can get really wicked. I'm sure sorry to hear you're feeling so crappy. Also sorry about your little MW.

This is when one of our ducks got her foot attacked by a predator and she had to go into the bathtub to recover.



This is my porcelain d'Uccle hen, she is my favorite chicken and her name is Pastella.



This is one of the barnyard mix chicks that we hatched this year.

Oh Wow, SilkieChick, loved your pics. That porcelains face cracked me up -- so cute!

Karen, Suzette is really pretty. I do like the EEs just because they come in such pretty colors. I really like that Aloha too, very nice! I have a suspicion that the only Welsummer that I hatched so far may be a roo, if it is darn, I don't need any more roos. I have 6 eggs from a friend in the bator, but I don't want to candle them till Thurs. I have peacock eggs coming soon, have any of you hatched them before? I have one set on the way here & more coming next week. Hopefully I will get a few out of them. I have always thought they were really pretty.

Thanks Trish44. I do too. I'm a sucker for lots of color! Sorry about your Welsummer. Murphy's Law strikes again.


I'm back out to finish up chores!

for a bit of rain tonight!

 

[Trish44]

Prairie, The pen is about 5 ft long by 3 ft wide and about 3 ft tall. There is a gate at the opposite end from the outside wall of the run. I put two hooks on there with safety latches. I built it all out of salvaged wood & pallets. I had to buy the hardware cloth & chicken wire, but that wasn't so bad after getting the wood free. I need to get busy on the turkey pen now as soon as I can get a shoe on my foot. I will have to build them a little shelter though because their pen will be outside behind the pen the Ameraucanas are in, at least until they outgrow that one.

Well better try to get something on my foot & go do chores.

 

[Ivywoods]

I'll get some pics here after a while. We have some new additions here today.

I need to put my foot up for a little while first.

Trish44-That foot does not look good! I hope you are wrong about it being a brown recluse bite. Those can really necrose a big area! I hope it is just something that "looks" kind of like it but is not!

Love all the pics, too. The EE pullet is very pretty.

I had one tiny little BB red OE bantam chick that somehow got dunked in the water. It was upside down, cold and gasping for breath. I picked it up and held it in my hands (I have very warm hands) and rode around in the JD Gator with DH while he did his chores. The chick dried off, warmed up and I put it back in the pen with the others. I went back a little while later and I couldn't tell which one it was so maybe all is well. I need to get some of my ameraucanas out of that pen. I think some of those probably shoved the little OE into the drink.

I've got one turkey poult out of 10 that hatched that is not doing well. I had 10 out of 11 hatch. The one that is not doing well looked like perhaps the others stood on it while it was in the hatcher. I just don't know, but I don't expect that one to live. I gave it a drink and some vitamin E but it doesn't look like it is getting any better. Time will tell.

 

[Silkie Chick]

karenS- Thanks. Pastella has quite a personality. She is my little pirate bird; has a lot of fun riding around on my shoulder. Argg, ye scalawags!

 

[Ivywoods]

Pictures as promised. One of DH's goats had two babies. Both doelings. He has had really good luck this year. 16 little doelings and only 3 bucklings.





One of the barn cats had 3 kittens. Again, kind of dark and hard to see back in that corner.



Here's Brittany (Britt) keeping and eye on chickens and turkeys. She has grown so much and is so gentle with Lizzy the pup and doesn't bother the little kittens. I think she is beautiful.



Some of my turkey poults. Royal palm, blue slate and a couple mixes of the two. So far they have been very hardy.

 

[Silkie Chick]

I was wondering if anyone was planning to have some guinea keets hatching on the week of the eighteenth of June. We would like something besides pearl...

 

[Silkie Chick]

Ivywoods- I have a small herd of goats, and the kids are just so cute! Do you ever milk goats? We have been waking up in the early morning to milk a doe, and we have found that we love goat's milk.

 

[Ivywoods]

How about some chickens? Here are some of my young (not fully colored up) silver duckwing old english.


Some juvenile rosecombs just about ready for bedtime.


Turkeys not wanting to go back to the pen because one hen is stuck over in the goat pen and hasn't figured out how to get out. Do you suppose they feel as stupid as they act sometimes? Ya gotta love 'em anyway!






My turkeys had their feathers really messed up when I got them, and messed them up even more in the crate on the way home. Then we clipped their wings. That was an exercise in futility. They promptly flew up and roosted on the 6' fence that very night. They have always stayed in the pen, though, until just recently when I started letting them out to free range. They are slowly getting so they will move away from the pen a bit, that is if Britt doesn't herd them back in. She thinks they are supposed to be in the pen, but I think she is starting to get used to them being out, especially when I am out there with all of them.

 

[Ivywoods]

I was wondering if anyone was planning to have some guinea keets hatching on the week of the eighteenth of June. We would like something besides pearl...

Where are you located? I have a friend who will probably have some. I haven't hatched any for some time because the hens started laying their eggs somewhere that I haven't discovered. I like to let mine free range, so finding eggs can be a challenge.

 

[Ivywoods]

Ivywoods- I have a small herd of goats, and the kids are just so cute! Do you ever milk goats? We have been waking up in the early morning to milk a doe, and we have found that we love goat's milk.

Yes, we have milked. My step son couldn't drink cows milk for a long time. He still loves goat milk. When he is here we try to have some for him. Goats milk is a lot healthier for you than cows milk.