Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[FortCluck]

I don't have a lot of people medical supplies but I sure have a whole tool box of chicken medical supplies!

I just have people medical supplies because I have a Hickman line that I have to care for daily by myself. I could probably put an IV in my arm by now with all the experience that I have in the hospitals.

 

[Shadrach]

I can't see a vaccine being the solution. One would need to get the vaccine to an awful lot of people and I don't believe there is the time, the will, or the money to mount such an endeavor.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I got real lucky yesterday. I placed an order online to Walmart and today I get to pick up $175 of groceries.

I did that too, multiple items substituted and 10 items out of stock so it ended up being a lot less expensive and a lot less effective for stocking my pantry with needed stuff. I hear Harps is doing delivery as well as online shopping, that's nice, there are a few pharmacies around here that already deliver to the home.

 

[igorsMistress]

I would not call this one (below) the best thread, but it is recent and in light of what is happening. The rest I think I did a "DIY feed" or "cheap feed" and "feed per day" type of search, but I didn't bookmark them. However I'll poke around some and post more links in a while.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/if-feed-stores-closed-and-you-can’t-free-range.1352377/

There are also a lot of threads on making one's own feed too.

In the mean time, I posted on the linked one above, like I did here maybe ....I dunno.....20 pages back? This thread grows so fast!

So I searched how much feed per bird per day and found general estimates to be about 1/4lb to 1/3lb per day for a laying hen to produce an egg. Or about 3lbs a day for my birds, and feed wise I'm ok for about 60 days.
But in the light of the changing situation (and that we are a family at risk) l decided to start rationing more strictly by the weights suggested AND I'm stretching what I do have adding in things like:
-Garden scraps (I do this anyway)
-kitchen scraps (again, normal here)
-small amounts of hand picked forages. My outdoor run is muddy right now because of record rains and flooding here. When things dry a bit I'll make a chicken "pasture" just for the girls to free range to boost nutrition.
-I've also started adding some eggs back to their feed. I've done this before in times of just too many eggs and did not notice an appreciable drop in egg production, however it did stretch my feed by about a third even though that wasn't my goal at the time.

Right now I have a dozen girls all currently laying, and in the mornings I've started adding 6 to 8 fresh eggs (shells and all) to a portion of the daily amount of dry feed. Mashing well so I don't encourage egg eating, and waiting about 10 minutes for the pellets to swell and soak up the moisture, then feeding it and some plain dry pellets.
I've basically taken the average daily amount of 3 to 3 1/2 lbs of just feed and reduced that to about 2 1/2 to 2 3/4lb per day with the egg addition alone. Every little bit helps.
I'm tracking production and condition and will assess as the grass comes in more and I'm able to free range them more. Grass is really starting to come in patches but the mud and flooding has set back forages here as many places are still in standing water. Or mud.

Note: I'm not stingy. I have given thousands of eggs away to friends and neighbors over the years. Some are thankful, most are not. In my current location ignorance abounds and I've not been treated well for my egg offerings, so since I'm WELL stocked in eggs right now I can easily give them back to the the birds.

ETA: Sorry... SnapdragonQ and "brief" are not syno

We have extra medication on hand at all times for emergencies. If I was just a normal person that got allergies once a year I probably would not have medication on hand... Since I am not a normal person my doctor has prepared me to be ready for all emergencies. He's a very good doctor.

I can't stand that people are buying large quantities of stuff that they truly do not need. They are leaving nothing for those who truly need it... When all the hand sanitizer went out of stock I was quite pissed because I had just run out and I had to do a sterile dressing change on myself, I cannot do it without antibacterial soap and hand sanitizer. It got to the point where I had to spray rubbing alcohol on my hands because that's all we had... Ridiculous

My husband got sent home from work one day a couple weeks ago because he had sinus issues and they told him they didn't need his sickness there. He left happily because he understands the caution people are taking with everything because of Covid 19.

When I went to go pick up my insulin needles at the pharmacy there was a woman coughing all over everybody... I don't care why she was coughing, a two year old knows how to cover their mouth but the 60 year old didn't She coughed all over the pharmacist that was on the other side of the counter. I found it quite disrespectful.

I don't do that for sure, people are so damn disgusting. I've been known to tell people off when they do that crap. I'm not a normal person who just gets allergies once a year, I have an autoimmune disorder and allergies make it much harder to deal with. However, I am a person who was laid off and has no insurance. When I went shopping because I needed to stock up on allergy pills, milk and toilet paper they were all gone so I had to ration what I have.

 

[igorsMistress]

I can't see a vaccine being the solution. One would need to get the vaccine to an awful lot of people and I don't believe there is the time, the will, or the money to mount such an endeavor.

As long as the rich and famous get it, the rest can eat cake.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

As long as the rich and famous get it, the rest can eat cake.

We've had a lot of mass vaccination programs before. Recently at that. I'm sure we can do it again.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I just read an account of a 31 year old normally without health issues who had to be put in ICU and would not have been a survivor without a ventilator. Take this seriously folks.

 

[FortCluck]

I don't do that for sure, people are so damn disgusting. I've been known to tell people off when they do that crap. I'm not a normal person who just gets allergies once a year, I have an autoimmune disorder and allergies make it much harder to deal with. However, I am a person who was laid off and has no insurance. When I went shopping because I needed to stock up on allergy pills, milk and toilet paper they were all gone so I had to ration what I have.

You should get a months worth on hand since you're not a normal person. My Dr taught me that years ago because of a hurricane we had that had everyone in a panic. Ever since then I keep stuff on hand so I don't have to deal with the people who buy it for no reason.

 

[FortCluck]

I just read an account of a 31 year old normally without health issues who had to be put in ICU and would not have been a survivor without a ventilator. Take this seriously folks.

So true there's a few that have been like this and people still say they're healthy and won't get any serious effects... It's honestly shocking to me how some people don't care or don't take it seriously.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I don't do that for sure, people are so damn disgusting. I've been known to tell people off when they do that crap. I'm not a normal person who just gets allergies once a year, I have an autoimmune disorder and allergies make it much harder to deal with. However, I am a person who was laid off and has no insurance. When I went shopping because I needed to stock up on allergy pills, milk and toilet paper they were all gone so I had to ration what I have.

I lucked out and had just ordered enough to last a year for my mom & me both about a month or so ago.