Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

Just got notice my Orlandsk Dwarfs shipped yesterday. I sure hope they make it by the weekend. I really hoped he would keep them and send them Monday so they for sure would get here. Now I'm a nervous wreck! Since I have company Saturday AM it could be really inconvenient to have to drive 25 miles to the post office and then have to get them set up and settled in. Ugh! But better than than not making it here at all!

 

[Trish44]

Josie I don't have much time, I have an appt to get to, but I'm sorry about Lucie. There are people on the KS Farm Animal Swap looking for an LGD for goats & such, so you might put an ad on there on FB. There were a couple people looking last I saw if they haven't found one yet.

 

[lizzyGSR]

At 10am today, it was 63 degrees. The forecasted high is only 77. This is fantastic! We've had the A/C off for almost a week now, despite it being 100+ yesterday. It has been getting down into the 50's at night. This weather is wonderful! Now, if only it would rain... With all this cooler weather, I thought my flock (7 ducks and one goose) would spend more time free ranging. They've still been spending quite a bit of time hiding underneath their favorite spruce tree.

And for those of you who answered my question about the duck (I think he's a drake) that wasn't keep up with the rest of the flock - thank you! I still have no idea what was wrong. I didn't do anything to help, but he seems to be acting better and is keeping up with the flock, even when they run across the yard as fast as they can! My birds did find the dog food bowl recently, and have been helping my husband's dog eat his food. So, maybe that helped somehow??? I hope the birds don't get themselves in trouble with that. I've seen the dog growl at one of my birds for getting too close to "his" food (I was outside giving the birds a handful of dog food as a treat and the dog was guarding some of it). He did get in trouble for it, but I am a little concerned about what will happen when I'm not there...

When we first started letting the birds outside, I was really worried about how the dog (his name is Jake, and he's a chocolate lab that my husband uses to hunt pheasants and such) would handle it. He's been doing really good so far, but I worry that the food issue could create a problem. Jake doesn't eat his food immediately, and I feed the birds a little less than I think they COULD eat to help encourage them to free range. They free-ranged all right

...right to Jake's food bowl!

I do see them out grazing and chasing bugs as well.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

I went out and picked an apple today, it was soooooo good!

We set up some of those dog stakes that swivel in our pasture for the goats today. They had a great time.

Now the bad news. Our well went dry. My parents left to go prep for the restaurant today, so we're just conserving as much as we can, and my dad is coming home in a few hours to haul some water from the Government well a few miles down the road. I ran some rain water from my garden water buckets through a homemade filter (2 liter bottle with sand, rocks, Denim, and A cotton ball) so that they had something to drink, and thankfully we had our Brita pitcher (not running rainwater through there, seems like it would just backfire on me) for us. But we are washing our hands in a cup that has bit of water in it and germ-ex. We're living like savages here, it's horrible.

 

[sunflowerparrot]

I went out and picked an apple today, it was soooooo good!
We set up some of those dog stakes that swivel in our pasture for the goats today. They had a great time.
Now the bad news. Our well went dry. My parents left to go prep for the restaurant today, so we're just conserving as much as we can, and my dad is coming home in a few hours to haul some water from the Government well a few miles down the road. I ran some rain water from my garden water buckets through a homemade filter (2 liter bottle with sand, rocks, Denim, and A cotton ball) so that they had something to drink, and thankfully we had our Brita pitcher (not running rainwater through there, seems like it would just backfire on me) for us. But we are washing our hands in a cup that has bit of water in it and germ-ex. We're living like savages here, it's horrible.

When it's all over and done with and you have running water again, you'll back on this and have wonderful memories and stories to tell! I remember when I was very young and we had a little baby and hardly any money. Our TV broke! A neighbor let me borrow her sewing machine and I learned to sew then.. I also spent so much time with my baby reading and my husband at the time we played board games, etc.. the tough times usually have a lot of good that come out of them

Hope your well gets to working for you again... Keep us posted!

 

[chicken danz]

I went through a time like that many years ago. Our well collapsed so we hauled water in 10 gallon milk cans. I don't think they even made those big plastic water tanks back then. And we had to go hand pump what we did get from my mother in law's well. We flushed our toilet only once a day. We took baths by boiling water on the stove because there of course was none in the hot water heater. And we had to share water. And to top it off I had a new born baby. I NEVER want to live like that again.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Oh, yeah, a baby would make this 10 times worse. The same thing happened last year too, and we hauled Oct. To Mar. I think we just never got the rain it needed to recover.

Sunflowerparrot, my time was every Christmas, when a snow storm would reliably take out our power and well(electric pump). My mom made the best stew on top of our wood stove, and it took a full 24 hours, the house smelled so good. I think I remember that stew more than what presents we ever got.

What I'm really upset about is that with my parent's running a restaurant Friday through Sunday, plus Thursday to prep, no one will be around to haul water. I was thinking about just calling our neighbors to see if they would adopt us(jk, it's usually not too bad).

 

[Hawkeye95]

Just got notice my Orlandsk Dwarfs shipped yesterday. I sure hope they make it by the weekend. I really hoped he would keep them and send them Monday so they for sure would get here. Now I'm a nervous wreck! Since I have company Saturday AM it could be really inconvenient to have to drive 25 miles to the post office and then have to get them set up and settled in. Ugh! But better than than not making it here at all!

OH wow, that might be a bit of a hassle, but it will be fun to get your babies! I hope they arrive by tomorrow! I've only dealt with a few breeders myself-- shipping chickens and eggs, and NO ONE will ship any later than Tuesday. I think it's a good policy so that your stuff doesn't accidentally wind up frying/or dying over the weekend.

I went out and picked an apple today, it was soooooo good!
We set up some of those dog stakes that swivel in our pasture for the goats today. They had a great time.
Now the bad news. Our well went dry. My parents left to go prep for the restaurant today, so we're just conserving as much as we can, and my dad is coming home in a few hours to haul some water from the Government well a few miles down the road. I ran some rain water from my garden water buckets through a homemade filter (2 liter bottle with sand, rocks, Denim, and A cotton ball) so that they had something to drink, and thankfully we had our Brita pitcher (not running rainwater through there, seems like it would just backfire on me) for us. But we are washing our hands in a cup that has bit of water in it and germ-ex. We're living like savages here, it's horrible.

Yeah, we've been picking apples off our trees too. I only pick about 6 at a time. Eventually I'm going to have to get the rest of the apples all off. But they taste better the longer I wait. Totally sucks about your well being dry. Wow. We all seriously need some RAIN!!

At 10am today, it was 63 degrees. The forecasted high is only 77. This is fantastic! We've had the A/C off for almost a week now, despite it being 100+ yesterday. It has been getting down into the 50's at night. This weather is wonderful! Now, if only it would rain... With all this cooler weather, I thought my flock (7 ducks and one goose) would spend more time free ranging. They've still been spending quite a bit of time hiding underneath their favorite spruce tree.

And for those of you who answered my question about the duck (I think he's a drake) that wasn't keep up with the rest of the flock - thank you! I still have no idea what was wrong. I didn't do anything to help, but he seems to be acting better and is keeping up with the flock, even when they run across the yard as fast as they can! My birds did find the dog food bowl recently, and have been helping my husband's dog eat his food. So, maybe that helped somehow??? I hope the birds don't get themselves in trouble with that. I've seen the dog growl at one of my birds for getting too close to "his" food (I was outside giving the birds a handful of dog food as a treat and the dog was guarding some of it). He did get in trouble for it, but I am a little concerned about what will happen when I'm not there...

When we first started letting the birds outside, I was really worried about how the dog (his name is Jake, and he's a chocolate lab that my husband uses to hunt pheasants and such) would handle it. He's been doing really good so far, but I worry that the food issue could create a problem. Jake doesn't eat his food immediately, and I feed the birds a little less than I think they COULD eat to help encourage them to free range. They free-ranged all right

...right to Jake's food bowl!

I do see them out grazing and chasing bugs as well.

Glad your duck is doing better. We are supposed to have a high of 85 here which is going to feel like Fall to me! LOL Unfortunately, I just checked the temp and it says 91 right now, so I'm not too surprised, BUT the wind is blowing in a cooler air and it's just gorgeous out there! I LOVE IT! I wish all of summer could have been more like this. Except with rain...

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

STORM CLOUDS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sunflowerparrot]

STORM CLOUDS!!!!!!!!!!!

go outside and blow west!!