BYC Café

[CapricornFarm]

It took me about 10 minutes to carefully cut away the old bandage.
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This is how I had to look at it. It's not too bad.

Looks good!

 

[pennyJo1960]

It took me about 10 minutes to carefully cut away the old bandage.
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This is how I had to look at it. It's not too bad.

Looking great.. They did great work !

 

[DobieLover]

Looks good!

Looking great.. They did great work !

He's now acting completely normal.
I was told I could leave the bandage off but I'm just going to change it every other day for a week and leave it off between changes for several hours. Just to make sure it stays very clean and he doesn't mess with the stitches.
I have an old IV bag with a long length of gauze run through slits in the top of it that I tie on his foot to keep the bandage clean and dry when he goes out.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

One more half day of work and I'm all paid in full for the week. It's kinda fun working from home.

 

[aart]

Got the first round cleared between house and coop.
5-6" of wettish snow on warm ground hard to shovel.
Got the run path and roof all cleared.
Now to sit back and see what falls today.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks for the coffee. Any snow there, DL?

 

[DobieLover]

Any snow there, DL?

Just a light dusting. There's a chance for a little snow later today but it's sunny out ATM.
You?

 

[sourland]

Just a light dusting. There's a chance for a little snow later today but it's sunny out ATM.
You?

Lots of rain, but no snow here. Windy and high 30's right now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe 47 here .. last 4 boards to paint.

 

[Sally PB]

Made it home from NC in just over 12 hours. Much better trip than going down!

We have about 3-4 compacting inches of snow on the ground. I broomed off the roof of the run twice today. I hadn't asked my chicken sitter to do that, because it didn't occur to me that it might need to be done. So there's some hardened snow/slush that will have to melt off. No biggie.

I got the water heater and the lights in the run put up. The coop and run are winterized now. Check that off the list.

When we got home, the furnace had probably been off all day. It was set at 64, and the house was 46 degrees. My chicken sitter would have noticed if it had been that cold in the morning and called us, so it had happened sometime while we were coming home.

DH had unplugged the sump pump for the summer, so that we could use that outlet to run the dehumidifier. He figured it out easily enough, but the furnace ran for 3 hours to warm up the house. Aided by the wood stove, though, so it is now nice and toasty in here.

Thank goodness for electric blankets.

My MIL is a horse nut. Standing in her living room, guess how many horse/horse related knickknacks/decorations I could count?
75!