Consolidated Kansas

[sharol]

I have 2 questions for someone with experience.

I'm going to worm the chickens tomorrow with Wazine. Then in 2 or 3 weeks with Ivermectin (sp? -- I bought it today, but I'm too lazy to go out to the laundry room to look it up). Half the girls are almost 2 and the other half is right at 1 year old. They have never been wormed.

Wazine says not to use with laying hens, but I'm going to anyway. I have read that you shouldn't eat the eggs for 14 days. What happens if you do? Is it dangerous? Does everyone really throw out the eggs or feed them back to the chickens? Just askin'

Does Ivermectin (pour on) also kill mites and lice? They don't have any symptoms, but I'd like to know for future reference. Is there an egg withdrawl with Ivermectin?

sharol

 

[Trish44]

IVY, those are some cute doelings. I wanted to get some this year for brush control down in the front acreage where we don't mow, but I couldn't convince my DH to let me get them. He's just not into the farm animals at all, even though he grew up helping out on some of the family farms.This experience with the chickens is new to him. I love the turkey pics too, I can't wait to see mine grown. Wow, Britt sure has grown fast!

Well my DH went out this afternoon & put down the other end of the coop foundation & then came up & told me one end is off 6 inches, so now I guess we have to go back & get things squared up. Oh well, nobody said we're builders.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Ivywoods, loved all the pics! Your poults look so healthy I could just cry.

Those RP's are beautiful creatures and apparently very determined flyers! It's kind of funny to think you went to all that trouble to clip their wings and then off they go -- it's almost as if they were mocking you! Those little goats are just so cute and I've never seen those kinds of chickens. Britt's a beauty and the baby kitties are adorable.

SilkieChick, I drank goat's milk when I was little but I was a fussy brat and all I remember about it is throwing a fit about not wanting to drink it because nobody else was. Is some better tasting than others or is it something you get used to? I've heard some people rave about how good it is and others just go yuck. What kind of duck is that recovering in the bathtub, it's really pretty.

Trish44, sorry you are having such a time getting that thing built. Hope your poor foot gets better very soon! That truly looks painful.

I keep hoping we get some rain tonight. So far it grazed us ever so briefly as it raced off to the east. Bummer!

We moved my Alohas into the unfinished part of the shop just in case of bad weather. That was a circus but we got it done. The other ducks and chickens are all tucked in the hen house so the coyotes can visit tonight and I won't even care. I plan to sleep very soundly tonight with earplugs in my ears!

 

[medawinks]

I love the pics of all the dogs and birds!!! The Aloha's are very pretty! They remind me of my Mille Fleur. I can't let my kids see the Pyrynese... Brittany is just a gorgeous as Lizzie is cute! They want one so badly after falling in love with Marshmallow

Here are a few of mine


The black thing is a yorkie poo who thinks she is a chicken! Or maybe she aspires to be a Pyranese? The buff Orpington there tries to keep her away from me when ever she can and herds her around the coop most of the time....

Or is it the the chicken who thinks she is a lap dog.....?

One of my D'Uccles has the cool beard like SilkieChicks.My other one doesn't..... but she is the one who also loves to fly up and ride on my shoulder too This is my dd's favorite activity. Someday she really needs to live on a farm. She just adores and connects with every animal she encounters, but has no aspirations to be a vet like many little girls. She still wants to be a teacher And this is our oldest white silkie Katniss.. I just love this breed!! I really wish this little one would let us hold her more. We got her at a month old, and she was petrified of us. Now she will let us hold her if we can catch her.... but really doesn't relax or trust us yet. I am hoping she takes lessons from Bloom I will try to get some photos of the littlest one. I am hoping that she is starting to grow..... and hoping she is a SHE...... She is now 2.5 months old, but is much smaller than our splash silkie who is just a few weeks older than she is..... Neither one have a comb of any kind so we are still hoping! If they aren't I will be looking for more Silkie hens. We are hooked!

 

[cherwill]

I love all the photos. I often can't get good pics of my shyer birds because they have so much to hide behind in their yard.

Trish, your foot looks painful. Keep a close eye on it.




The older girls: Willow, Penny and Daisy (or Daisy and Penny

), Old Sophia, Hazel is wallowed in a dirt hole behind Old Sophia, and Ruby.



Ruby



I don't know why they're all lined up forward, backward, forward, backward, forward ...



Dorothy, New Sophia, Blanche and Rose, who was more than happy to pose for the camera.



The kids spent most of the first day in the coop or in the doorway.


And some pictures of my niece's little girl, Zoey. She liked having a chair made for someone her size, and she spent a lot of time watching chickens.

 

[HEChicken]

I'm going to worm the chickens tomorrow with Wazine. Then in 2 or 3 weeks with Ivermectin (sp? -- I bought it today, but I'm too lazy to go out to the laundry room to look it up). Half the girls are almost 2 and the other half is right at 1 year old. They have never been wormed.

Wazine says not to use with laying hens, but I'm going to anyway. I have read that you shouldn't eat the eggs for 14 days. What happens if you do? Is it dangerous? Does everyone really throw out the eggs or feed them back to the chickens? Just askin'

I wormed with Wazine once and then just....totally forgot. It wasn't until I started thinking about "Oh yeah, I need to give them that second dose at 10 days..." that I realized we'd been eating their eggs all along. We all survived. Didn't even get sick. Don't have worms either

Nice pics everyone. My only pic today was the one of my broody sultan with her first chick. She now has 2 chicks and the second seems to contain about every color I've ever seen in a chicken! I'll try to get a pic of it today. It came out of a green egg, and the daddy was an Ameraucana roo (or was he an EE - now I can't remember). Anyway, I'm hopeful it will be a pullet that will lay green eggs herself. Her hatch is over. She started with 4 eggs but I never saw the fourth after the first day - no idea what happened to it. I kept looking for remnants of the shell to indicate it might have been kicked out of the nest but never found a trace of it. The third egg quit fairly early on, which I determined by candling it this afternoon. After I took it away from her, she popped out of the nest, ready to get on with the job of parenting.

 

[cherwill]

Some recent pics of our community garden. The harvest so far has been wonderful, especially considering how terrible it was last year. We've picked and eaten the first planting of radishes and are almost finished with the first planting of beets. We've picked peas three times. I've learned that we need to plant about three times as many peas next year if we want a good amount of peas ready at the same time. We've picked about 6 of the Little Fingers eggplants and eaten the baby turnips from thinning the rows. We've harvested about half of the radishes planted at the bonus garden. DH killed all but 5-6 of the 60+ leeks we planted and I think rabbits are getting most of the carrots. The heirloom tomato plant has some nice sized tomatoes on it already, though. At home, I've cut arugula and chard. Something is eating the arugula now, though, and has eaten most of the kale as well. Only 2 of the spinach seeds germinated, and I may only get one cutting of lettuce before it bolts. The mache and sorrell never came up, just like last year. I think I'm done trying to grow those.

We're trying a rotational plan where you divide the plot into quadrants, then rotate the crops a quarter turn each year. Since we're not growing corn, the one plot is in thirds instead of quarters.

I've heard that if you plant beets when it's too warm, like probably now, they will be pithy and not good to eat. Has anyone planted beets later in the season and found them good? Is it the same with radishes and carrots?


Look at those tomatillos! I can't believe I actually have living, growing tomatillo plants! There are tomatoes planted to the left of them, out of the picture.


Eggplant, peppers, beets, beets and shallots, which are hiding the 5 radicchio that came up.


Various types of squash, cucumbers, pole beans and peas.


Carrots, onions, fennel, the third planting of radishes, turnips and rutabaga. And DH, watering while I mess around taking pictures.

 

[sharol]

Cherwill, that garden is lovely. I'm ashamed of mine this year. The early stuff went in late, and the weeds are driving me to drink. I have some immature snap peas filling (Rain, please, rain), and the squash and cukes are looking pretty good too, in spite of my neglect.

I should be out there weeding even as I type.

Sharol

 

[Silkie Chick]

Ivywoods - We are right around the Topeka area. Do you know what kind your friend has? We only need a couple, to grow up with and defend a bunch of chicks that are going to be coming in. Our guineas have either not started laying yet or are hiding them somewhere on the five acres (we let all our chickens free range too).

 

[Silkie Chick]

karenS - Goat's milk tastes exactly like cow's milk when it is fresh. If it tastes funny then it most likely had bacteria of some sort in it. The duck (her name is Drip) is a fawn and white runner. We have a drake too, and his name is Dunk.