BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Thanks for the coffee, Shad.

My BIL and two nephews came over yesterday to help with some planting and organizing. I removed three blue point junipers from where they were in my landscape and planted them around the base of my Alaskan Weeping Cedar to mask the bottom where the deer munched off the branches.

One of the junipers was in an arrangement in the chicken pen. We planted a choke berry in its place.
Fabio was rather in the way but refused to budge during the digging up and replanting of the choke berry. Not one inch did that boy move.
I found a grub in the hole and tossed it to him and he proceeded to call in the girls. After we left, he and his gang of landscape destroyers proceeded to dig up the choke berry.

I'm going to rescue it today by putting a ring of chicken wire around the base and covering the edges with big rocks to make it much harder to dig it back up.

 

[N F C]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks Shad.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee Shad!

Another beautiful day here and my last two seedling dahlias are opening their first flowers (all of the tubers have been dug and stored except for these two).


Back to work for me, but hopefully I'll have time to go on a walk and enjoy the beautiful weather!

And fresh jalapeño cheddar sourdough is out of the oven

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning! Hot coffee is needed with sun and 24F! One of my new grandson's biological grandmothers passed away yesterday. I hope she got the chance to write down some family history for him but there are other family members around if not, so I just hope they all can heal and turn things around. We also had to euthanize the old sheep from our flock as she was going down quickly and the weather is about to change for the cold and nasty. A "changing of the guard" in a way. Today, I am heading down to the flatlands to do some shopping that is not available up here in the clouds, so enjoy the day and stay safe!

 

[DobieLover]

Lucky me, one of my co-workers has a girlfriend who is a PhD in parasitology that works at Cornell University as a professor. For those of you unfamiliar with Cornell it is an ivy league level school and their veterinary science division is top notch.
I asked him if she would consider analyzing a mixed fecal sample from my flock. She agreed. This is a result.

I started the flock on a 7-Day course of flubendazole last week that will be finished this Wednesday. I'll pull another sample on Thursday to see what it did to treat the worms species found on the slides.
I'm also considering starting a low-level infection treatment with Corid based on the coccidia results in the first slide.

 

[aart]

I asked him if she would consider analyzing a mixed fecal sample from my flock. She agreed. This is a result.

SWEET!! (for the excellent analysis not that they do have some things)
Did she recommend treatment for those numbers?

 

[DobieLover]

SWEET!! (for the excellent analysis not that they do have some things)
Did she recommend treatment for those numbers?

She did not. But I do preventive deworming every 10 to 12 weeks with the flubendazole because of how wet their pen is. There are mud puddles everywhere that tend not to dry up especially this year which was a record year for rainfall. So they would usually get loaded up with roundworms and I'd see big gobs of them on the boards occasionally.

 

[LaFleche]

Good evening everyone!

I brought a fresh pot for all in need, so help yourselves to it.

It is still raining and storming for most part of the day and it feels really "novembery" with most of the trees bare and grey to even darker grey sky all the time.
Time for a cozy fire in the wood burner to warm up again after all the yard work is done for today.

Lucky me, one of my co-workers has a girlfriend who is a PhD in parasitology that works at Cornell University as a professor. For those of you unfamiliar with Cornell it is an ivy league level school and their veterinary science division is top notch.
I asked him if she would consider analyzing a mixed fecal sample from my flock. She agreed. This is a result.
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I started the flock on a 7-Day course of flubendazole last week that will be finished this Wednesday. I'll pull another sample on Thursday to see what it did to treat the worms species found on the slides.
I'm also considering starting a low-level infection treatment with Corid based on the coccidia results in the first slide.

What is the dosage you normally use for deworming your flock?

You might consider switching to a dewormer containing praziquantel for the tape worms once in a while, as they might develop a resistance if the same kind of dewormer is used every time.

 

[LaFleche]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee Shad!

Another beautiful day here and my last two seedling dahlias are opening their first flowers (all of the tubers have been dug and stored except for these two).


Back to work for me, but hopefully I'll have time to go on a walk and enjoy the beautiful weather!

And fresh jalapeño cheddar sourdough is out of the oven

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They look delicious!