Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

[ronott1]

My husband, Jerry, and I have the physical damages to prove farming is dangerous.....
Once we found a week old calf stuck in the field fence. As we were untangling the calf, Momma cow decided we were hurting her calf and tried to kill us. Jerry has 2 compressed disc's in his lower back because of the Mommas charge.....
In 2018 some how I got tangled up in a chain and flipped. It took a year and four surgeries to repair the fractured shoulder and reconnect the muscles.....
Farming, like growing old, it's not for wimps.....

I grew up on a Prune orchard-- Our house was inside the first rows.

We have a lot of evidence of the danger! Fractures in my foot when I broke a bone and did not know it for example.

It was a good way to grow up though!

 

[Love Donkeys]

That's why we got out of dairy farming. Unfortunately we both have arthritis from all the farm work. As a kid I was gored in the back by a steer, and was chased daily by the bull. I won't even mention how many times I've been kicked by cows. We switched to hobby farming which isn't always easy, but isn't as dangerous.

That's why we have Donkeys and Chickens now.... They are all happy to see us and they don't come looking for a fight..... They come looking for snacks instead.....❤

 

[Mmanist]

Tendons don't often heal in horses. Glad yours is doing better. I appreciate you took the time to rehabilitate him. Give him a good scratch from me.

I went from 3 Nigerian goats to 33. They are addictive. Now I just have 4 old dairy wethers.

I am happy to see the end of summer in sight. It's always busy here with yard work, big projects, and making hay.

He severed his clean in half. He has no front tendon now at all in that leg. There was no healing or fixing it. Even with surgery it wasn't a guarantee. I opted out of doing the surgery, it was 10,000 I didnt have to spend anyway. I kept him on strict stall rest for 9 months. I used huge sterile disposable leg bandages, with vet wrap over those, with part of pvc pipeduct taped from the hock to the ground, to brace his foot from knuckling under him during healing. Getting the wound to heal was the worse part. When his wounds healed. I kept a support wrap with no bows and wraps for the remaining time on stall rest. My stalls are huge birthing size stalls so it worked out. When he was ok'd to go back out on pasture, I put him in a small flat lot with support boots. Then eventually worked his way to having the entire pasture back. Watching him move today, you can barely tell he was so badly injured.

 

[Mmanist]

Tomorrow starts September. My one year anniversary is coming up in 11 days. September 11th will be the anniversary of my broken hip.

My husband was loading round bales into the hay barn. I was acting as the spotter for the bales because Jerry can't see around the bales. The temperatures were in the upper 80s with high humidity. After stacking the bales we moved on to unloading the 200lb mineral buckets out of the pickup.

I hadn't bothered to drink water even though the bottle was on my tractor. (I was too busy) When I stood up in the bed of our pickup, suddenly I realized I was going to pass out. I tried to kneel down but I fell off the tailgate. I fell to the Chert driveway and landed squarely on my right knee. The impact broke the neck of my Femur. (Broken hip) I HAVE NEVER FELT SUCH INTENSE PAIN!

After surgery and 5 days in the hospital, because of my age (I'm 78) I was to spend 4 months in a nursing home for rehabilitation. After one week I had enough of the nursing home, with the help of my husband I escaped. Being home never felt so good!

Except for the surgery scars, I'm happy to say I'm still farming and there's no evidence of a broken hip.

Hope everyone stays safe and happy.

So glad to hear you healed well from a broken hip. I recently lost my grandmother after she fell and broke hers. The nursing home is what did her in..... I feel like if she would of just been brought home, she would still be here.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

He severed his clean in half. He has no front tendon now at all in that leg. There was no healing or fixing it. Even with surgery it wasn't a guarantee. I opted out of doing the surgery, it was 10,000 I didnt have to spend anyway. I kept him on strict stall rest for 9 months. I used huge sterile disposable leg bandages, with vet wrap over those, with part of pvc pipeduct taped from the hock to the ground, to brace his foot from knuckling under him during healing. Getting the wound to heal was the worse part. When his wounds healed. I kept a support wrap with no bows and wraps for the remaining time on stall rest. My stalls are huge birthing size stalls so it worked out. When he was ok'd to go back out on pasture, I put him in a small flat lot with support boots. Then eventually worked his way to having the entire pasture back. Watching him move today, you can barely tell he was so badly injured. View attachment 3933637

He's gorgeous.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

So glad to hear you healed well from a broken hip. I recently lost my grandmother after she fell and broke hers. The nursing home is what did her in..... I feel like if she would of just been brought home, she would still be here.

I'm so very sorry for the loss of your grandmother.

 

[Austin81]

Busy all the time here. We got out of birds for a bit but we’re back into it again with a whole new flock. We now have a trio of Silkies, a pair of Lavender Orpingtons, a pair of starlight Easter eggers, one hen that was supposed to be a golden laced Wyndotte (but it’s not), one small pure white hen breed unknown and new to us for the first time a trio of Guinea Fowl.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Busy all the time here. We got out of birds for a bit but we’re back into it again with a whole new flock. We now have a trio of Silkies, a pair of Lavender Orpingtons, a pair of starlight Easter eggers, one hen that was supposed to be a golden laced Wyndotte (but it’s not), one small pure white hen breed unknown and new to us for the first time a trio of Guinea Fowl.

That's the great thing about the poultry hobby, always something different to try. Sounds like you have a nice variety of birds to enjoy.

 

[ronott1]

Busy all the time here. We got out of birds for a bit but we’re back into it again with a whole new flock. We now have a trio of Silkies, a pair of Lavender Orpingtons, a pair of starlight Easter eggers, one hen that was supposed to be a golden laced Wyndotte (but it’s not), one small pure white hen breed unknown and new to us for the first time a trio of Guinea Fowl.

Nice!

How are you doing with the Guinea Fowl?

 

[Boots777]

We have such a vibrant community here at BYC... tons of active friendly members. Of course, life gets busy, so I was thinking it would be fun to start a thread welcoming some of our peeps we haven't heard from in a while.

If that's you, come say hello and let us know what you've been up to.

(if that's not you, feel free to invite peeps you haven't seen in a while and say hi to those that post here)

Hi! I have been off FB and I'm having some health issues that are being addressed.
Still have my sweet pet chickens!
HOWEVER....
Yesterday while doing some work on the pens, there was an accident.
My VERY TINY SILKIE HEN had something fall on her and now she is limping. I hope some one can help me figure out if her leg is broken or if her hip is dislocated or ??????
This happened yesterday 9.7.24.
Where should I post to see if anyone can help?
Than you!!!