Alaska Chicken Lover's Soup for the Cold!!

[MrsDeb]

Donna,

I give mine a slab of salmon from time to time, of course it's usually left overs from dinner that they get, since F&G forbids us
to feed sport caught fish to our livestock....

Today they got leftover halibut from 3 days ago, they loved it!

 

[MrsDeb]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Pandora, stretching out to see what's up...
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Bunny/IMG_7527.jpg

Zena... should make beautiful babies with Thor...
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Bunny/IMG_7526.jpg

Denali... happily munching on fireweed.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Bunny/IMG_7524.jpg

That Denali is something else! I see some future dates for him! lol​

 

[Ban seabhag]

I've usually got a few of those from past years and some that the vacuum seal gave out on... So that's good. And I'm not informing anyone about who I feed leftover salmon to, or the freezer burned stuff. ( aren't my kids "livestock" LOL?)
Kaasan has pointed out that on occasion, she has thought the banty eggs were slightly fishy.. You had that experience once and it could be a problem from time to time clearly. If I mix my own feed like LS does I'd prefer alternate sources for protein. I do think the meal is way fishier than fresh fish would be, it smells really strong to me..

 

[MrsDeb]

Yep! I agree, it all depends on how the fish is handled. If you take great care to bleed your fish out
right after you catch it and don't store/clean it in the water you caught it in (river, ocean etc)...Then you shouldnt have
a fishy taste to your fish at all.
When we catch fish, it gets "gilled and bled out" then it goes directly into a cooler full of ice. All fish is processed at home with
fresh water being careful never to get water on the meat.

 

[Alaska animal lover]

Here are a few shots of my leg.

Surprisingly, there is no real bruising where the actuall lump was.

Inside of calf, and down the shin;

Outside the calf;

And it's bruising the back of my leg too! I swear I only hit the one spot under my knee.

 

[Mrs MIA]

You can also get soybean meal to mix with their food. I add it to the sprouted barley.

But they eat salmon, halibut, leftover bear meat, chicken (shhh... don't tell them!), pork, eggs, whatever the pig doesn't eat.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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I think that you might have had some internal bleeding going on there.

But it's a good excuse for a good leg massage.

Keep your foot up, and massage towards your body, and it should help move it out. Did you try the arnica montana?

 

[MrsDeb]

If Tori can do it so c an I!....I'll join in on the 'rub it in clan"......

This is a little 5 week old Sandy doe who is my pick out of "Snots" litter....

This is Ellie (CH Trolls Ellie)

And this is my newest out of state girl, No name, She's 4 months old.....

This is Mr, Ice...Iceman, Awesome, Chugiak and Stormy's dad....

This is the not so little black fuzzball that Kaasan is eyeballing....

This is Awesome (buck) and Chugiak(Doe) both out of "Mamma and Ice"

Last but not least, here is Stormy. She has a head and ears to die for. She is mine and Sheryl's pick
but I think we'll be placing her. She will be large.

 

[MrsDeb]

Aimee, you need to tell Joe to stop beating on you! hehe......

Kidding aside, that looks awe-full!


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[Mrs MIA]

OMG... Deb... that first one has the prettiest face!! I don't normally go for the sandies or fawns myself, but I LIKE her.