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Nice to be reassured I'm OK, my sister and I are very different in a lot of ways. She has always been supper clean, and sterol. When her daughter was a baby my sister had 2 sets of toys, she boil them, she would come in from petting the dog with her hands up so my sister could disinfect them. But, when her son was born, my nephew, she couldn't keep up with him. LOL :lau can you picture her seeing her son stuff dog food into his mouth alone with a hand full of dirt. He was seldom sick, her daughter was. (You have to have a sense of hummer in my family).

My girls spent last night in their coop, it was nice having my dinning room back :weee
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, to night I worked late, I have a 12" midair saw on lone, need to get work done. My girls were out while I work, they are waiting to go in. They are in their coop, they are going to have to get used to it. Pure kids.
 
maryhysong said:
our society has become waaaaay too germaphobic. Makes me crazy. My kids played in the rabbit barn, ate worms, rolled in grass where chickens ran, squished poo between their toes..... none were ever very ill all the time they were growing up. No ear infections, no pneumonia, ect. The only time they went to the ER was if they got a cut too big for a butterfly bandaid that would really need stitches and the time my daughter was bit by a  dog. They were happy, healthy kids that got dirty every day, took a bath at night and did it again the next day. One of their cousins, raised in an apartment by an OCD mother who never allowed any dirt anywhere, let alone on her kid was in the hospital almost every winter with some kind of respiratory infection. I think because they were never exposed to anything so they could never develop immunity.

I do the same with my chickens. Chicks in the brooder get earth worms with the compost, fresh greens and weeds, with the dirt, all to help build up their immunity to stuff. Had a couple three or four months old and a couple two weeks old get a bit of a runny nose a couple weeks ago. I did nothing at all, just continued to feed fermented chick grower, worms, greens, they are just fine and not snotty at all now.
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Yes, same here.. I have favorite photos of our boys out in the dirt/mud having a great time..
 
I have nothing but caliche, and I don't think sand would do much with that much water, because the people who built the houses in my neighborhood built too fast and didn't consider monsoons. I just let the water dry on its own, then later on in the year, I sold the girls to a friend of my mom's because I wanted chickens that I could show. I ended up putting a whole bunch of dirt in my yard to level it, then I dug a shallow trench around the house to the street, and that works okay for now
 

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