Consolidated Kansas

[JosieChick]

No roo.

I shouldn't have left him out there, he obviously didn't know where he fit in and he hadn't "bonded" to the coop area so I am sure he squeezed out the big gate and got scared and ran. I have looked everywhere, it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. We have a lot of big snakes out here so I am afraid he is gone for good. SO sad about it, I should have put him in a pen in the coop for a few days but it has been so hot I didn't want to worry about him knocking his water over.


Hawkeye- I laughed so hard at your horse falling off tales! I used to fall off all the time when I was younger but now I am so scared to get hurt that I pay super close attention to where I am going and I like to stay on the beaten path. When I went to test ride Jackson the guy who was selling him took us on a short jaunt down the road and when we got to the end of the field he just said follow me! and shot his horse off into the woods!!! We went down a steep embankment into a deep creek and the horses waded up the creek a ways. Scared me half to death, I never would have done that but he wanted me to "see what the horse could do" and I was thinking I don't need him to do this because I would never do this! Well on the way back up the creek it got real deep in a spot and the silty muck at the bottom must have been tough to get through because Jackson slipped a little and almost face planted it in the water with me on board!!! Geez, that was fun! Nothing like riding a lurching horse up out of a creek.

As for the weird conversation I will tell you it may be someone using a cell phone to send email and not all of the message is going through. On their end it looks normal but on your end you only get part of it. That has happened to me before. Also, I sold a bunch of silkie roos to a vietnamese gentleman a few years ago and I was so scared he was going to eat them but he kept telling me that they were pets and he loved silkie roosters. I didn't believe him and he had this awful cage to put them in and I was so sad when I got home because I thought I should have just butchered them myselves and spared them the trip in the terrible cage to their death. A few days later he contacted me about a serama I had mentioned to him and wanted to trade a bantam OE hen for it. He sent me all these pictures of this hen (that I didn't want and had told him I didn't need anymore chickens) but lo and behold in the background where my silkie boys scratching around on his patio. He had jap bantams, OE and silkies everywhere in the backgrounds of those pics so I felt better. Even if he did eat some (which he swore he didn't) they sure looked like they were well cared for and loved and well fed! SO I guess don't assume the worst just because someone doesn't speak good english.

HEchicken- OUCH!! Now that just all sounds down right painful!!

That reminds me of when I got my Quarter horse mare for christmas when I was a teen. We went for a ride (in Maine at the time) and there was about 2 1/2 feet of snow on the ground but one of the guys had gone down and pushed a trail with his snow mobile. Well my mare decided to step off the path and she got kinda stuck in the snow. The other horses were still going and it was a loop so I guess she decided she would cut across and meet them at the pass!!! That horse took me through the thickest stand of spruce trees and I got walloped in the face by evergreen branches for at least 5 minutes. Well we beat the other horses to the pass!! I got her papers when we exchanged gifts and we have this picture of me grinning ear to ear holding her registration papers with MY name on them and my whole face was a giant spruce tree burn welt!!

 

[HEChicken]

Ha ha! When I did it, I had been used to riding (bareback) a very large horse (16+ hh). Then, I changed to our pony (12-13hh). When I went to get on the pony, I over-jumped and ended up jumping OVER him!

I landed on my feet on the other side, uninjured, except for my pride,

because, of course, there HAD to be someone around to witness it!

I think I would have just said loudly enough to be heard "Oh good, I can still do that" and then calmly walked around the horse and jumped on.

 

[Trish44]

You all are making me laugh with your horse stories! I have always been intimidated by big animals like horses & cows & such. My first husband after we moved to the country decided he wanted horses, so we ended up with two. One was a fairly tall one that had been a barrel racer, but had gotten an injured leg & had to stop. She could still run very well though, I'lll save that for later. The other horse was shorter legged & had been on a working ranch, he had been worked hard. Neither of us knew that much about horses to know what to look for. I remember one time Go Go, the bigger one tried to run my ex into a fence & he ended up bailing off. Another time we were riding together & neither of us was an expert rider, I was a beginner for sure, anyway Go Go decided she wanted to run full speed down the road & my ex was on her. I was on Cocoa & he took off right after Go Go running as fast as his short legs would take him & believe me it was choppy riding. I was petrified & all I could think of was getting this horse stopped so I could get off. We finally got them stopped down the road about a mile & turned them back home at a much slower pace. I never did like riding much, I just didn't take to it. I'm kind of like Danz, I can hurt myself on the ground without being on the back of a huge animal, I'm better off down on ground level.

I just have no energy at all today, just none. I went out & did my chores & came in & had to rest just to make it upstairs. Then my DH said he wanted to go put the floor on the coop, so I had to make it back downstairs & out to where the coop is being built so I could take a pic before he did that. So here is the beginning, there is not much to see yet. I hope by Thurs. I will be well enough we can go back to Lowe's & get the wood for the walls & some more supplies. Here it is so far:



You can see that we haven't done any trimming up of the trees yet, that will have to be done before we build walls & put them up. This is in the wooded area in front of our house in a clearing in the middle. The pens will come out in front & I will have access doors on the back to each section. There will be 4 sections in there for 4 different breeds. Each will have a separate run. I still haven't gotten the whole floorplan through my DH's head yet, wish me luck with that. He is so dense sometimes I just wonder how he can be so smart like I know he is because he got straight A's when he went back to college recently, but yet not be able to understand simple language. We got through this on a daily basis with me trying to explain something to him & him just saying I don't understand what you're telling me. It makes me want to bang my head on a wall, it's so frustrating. I even draw him pictures, but he can't visualize things at all like I can. I can get a picture of something in my head & actually "see" how it's going to look, he just can't do that at all. So this endeavor is going to be a challenge folks. When we were getting my house ready to sell & we were going to get married we almost split up before it happened over working on my house, so wish me luck. My DH just missed the boat when they handed out patience, he got absolutely none. When he loses patience he gets angry & then it all goes downhill from there.

Josie, I hope the little roo shows up soon, that is so upsetting.

I have a chick loose in the garage again, it's an Ameraucana that I was saving to grow out & see if it's a rooster & it decided it wanted freedom today when I opened the brooder to change out their water. I tried to catch it, but it has evaded me so far. I have been picking up the little Swedish Flower Hen chicks & talking to them so they can get used to me. They're such curious little things & they have cute personalities. I think I'm really going to like them.

HeChicken, guess what, the little turkey I told you I think is a tom turned out today to show me he is. He displayed today for the girls, it was so cute! He's not that big yet, so it was kind of funny seeing him do that. So I know I at least have one tom in the group. None of them are gobbling yet, does anybody know at what age they do that? Where has IVY been maybe she would know?

 

[lizzyGSR]

I think I would have just said loudly enough to be heard "Oh good, I can still do that" and then calmly walked around the horse and jumped on.

Okay - that's hysterical. However, I don't think it would work for me. I"m only in my 20's now and the incident I spoke of happened back in college.

 

[prairie]

Hawkeye, You are some horse woman to survive all that !!! I broke the bone ( a little one in lower back) when I was attempting to roll a big round bale of hay by myself; was pulling hard with a hay hook and it came loose and I fell back onto my pelvis/back -- blacked out from the pain but then managed to get up and holler for hubby to help me. That was quite a few years ago!! because if I did it today I probably wouldn't be able to get up. But then I am smarter now than when I was in my 30's!! I wouldn't try to move a big round hay bale!

Prairie, yikes, you broke a bone in your back?!!? That's really bad! I don't know if I'd want to chance that again either. Okay, I've done some really dumb stuff, but I keep getting back on. But I have great horses, the dumb things are usually my own fault. I've walked my horse over a large fallen tree and he hit the tree with his hooves and out sprang like a million wood bees all wanting to kill me. He took off bucking and running and I dropped the reins. It ended well, but that was a scary ride for a while, I remember when he stopped I was so shaky I nearly fell off trying to dismount. Another time, we were out on a trail and the vines coming down off the trees were getting REALLY thick-- I kept pushing him on thru, even though I should have probably gotten down or started to cut them back or gone around, nope! He got his foot caught up in a vine and it wrapped tightly around his foot. Fortunately, he just stopped dead and refused to move. I had to get down and cut him free. Another time, I was at Kanopolis and we went right down into a sand pit that I KNEW I should avoid, I only went thru that trail because everyone else had in front of me, but he refused to stay to the outside of it and we went down the middle. He dropped to his knees and I nearly fell off! He struggled and I was starting to realize how dangerous a position *I* was in, when he dug his nose down into the sand and used that to help him lunge out of it. I just hung on! Another time, I got swiped off of my horse because idiot me wasn't paying attention and I was talking or singing or who knows what and we went under a tree that had a large limb that sprang out at me from the rider in front, and the next thing I know, my horse is still walking and I'm hanging on and I'm dragging the saddle down under his belly with me. As soon as I'm upside down, my horse realizes something is wrong and stopped. I fell off under him and he neatly steps over my head so he can turn around and look at me like-- "you idiot!". On the upside, I didn't hurt myself since it wasn't a very far drop from under his belly to the ground. There are many, many more. I have such good horses! LOL!! Other horses would probably have killed me in those circumstances or just flat ran off and kicked me. And you have to realize, I'm not usually an idiot-- these things have happened over several years span in between! LOL None of this happened all at once. There are more stories, but I could write a book of dumb things that didn't kill me.

 

[prairie]

They are shipping my door on Wed so will probably get it Saturday! Let me know how easy it is when you get to doing it!

OH OH OH - FedEx just delivered my door. I knew it was on the truck but didn't know whether to expect it early, middle or end of day. Now I can get it installed today - yay

 

[prairie]

That's a good one~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HeChicken!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I would have just said loudly enough to be heard "Oh good, I can still do that" and then calmly walked around the horse and jumped on.

 

[chicken danz]

Trish I do hope you're feeling better today. I had to laugh at your post. My DH does NOT talk the english language. We have a heck of a time communicating ideas to each other. I find myself getting irritated pretty easily because it seems to simple to me. He just thinks in a different way. We are both extremely analytical but in different ways so it can be a chore to make sense to each other. I am a doer and have no patience and he would postpone his own funeral to think it through.
Josie I put the orp eggs in the hatcher today. I only had development in only 5 of the lemon cuckoos. All but two of the lavenders were fertile, There were a couple that didn't develop but most did. I'm a little concerned because none of them look as far developed as I am used to for chicks this far into incubation. I couldn't see movement in any of them and normally it's pretty obvious by now. Anyway I plopped them in the hatcher and hopefully something will come out of them in a couple days.
This heat is really zapping my energy. I normally like hot weather but it is hard on me this year.
Got a text from my oldest daughter. My granddaughter is wanting to come stay with me. Puts me in panic mode. I've got a lot of moving and cleaning to do before she comes. I think we are going to meet on the 7th of July. It is a 5 to 6 hour drive each way for both of us to meet half way. So that puts me driving out into northwestern Kansas to pick her up. Then I'll have to do the same when she goes back. I wanted to fly her last time and they won't let anyone under 15 fly alone. She is only 11. It would be so much nicer than making two 10-11 hour road trips!

 

[chicken danz]

So after having those guineas stolen a while back I was down to just one lavender hen. When I went to feed them today she was dead. I couldn't find any marks on her so I assume it was the heat. They just don't have a good way to get out of it. There's no trees right there. I guess I'll have to save some lavender keets and hope I get a couple of females.

 

[medawinks]

Hawkeye, they are probably Asian and want to eat him.. My good friend who is older and from Hong Kong wanted to know if we would give her one of ours for a special healthy soup.

Josie, hoping your Ameracauna came home.. My blue wheaten pullet is so sweet and friendly that I want another. I understand why you like him so much.