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

[SnapdragonQ]

I've done the equine electric fences, which is why the smaller scale and multiple, linked lines of the poultry netting confuse me.

In terms of connecting one whole fence section to another (as in bought sections, not resected cuts) each fencing "bundle" comes with an extended connector wire that sticks out. It has special clips. Those clips can connect to your charger connections, or...as the directions
say- when connecting bundles, use the extended wire to hook up to the next section.
It that way it's just like Christmas tree lights.

If you are closing off a section, like making a giant circle, the end piece and the beginning piece do not need to touch. The fence in and of itself is a complete circuit. In that regard it is not like horse fence.
You can run your fence in a complete straight line and it will just as hot at the end as it is at the beginning (where the current comes from)

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's rough. I'm so sorry, but at least you know. And remember, House Arrest isn't really pre-determined. You have to be a couple of days past the fever before you can even think about heading out and about, and that can vary for different people. DS was ready to break out of quarantine almost a week before me, and he was only two days behind me in symptoms. Pay attention to what your bodies tell you - and take advantage of the time to just rest.

Thanks, MROO. I'm already pretty much housebound, but DH has to go back to work at some point. They won't welcome him before he's ready, though! It's GirlChild who'll suffer the most. She would not curtail her socializing before and now she has no choice. She doesn't have a fever or cough, but is very achy and "mizzerble" as I put it. She won't feel like socializing for a while, I don't think.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

In other words, "Don't let the horror stories intimidate you." If you put on your "Dr. Mom" hat and use what you already know about treating illness and keeping your kids (and yourself) comfortable, you'll get through this. The only real difference is that the virus "feels" different from what we're used to, and that's scary. I'm not trying to minimize it, not by a long shot, but if I'd known then what I know now, I would still have been as sick and miserable, but I wouldn't have been as frightened ... and that would have made healing much smoother!

MROO, did you end up in the hospital? Or were able to just treat at home with rest, fluid and supportive care?

 

[Beer can]

Good morning. We are positive for Covid. DH is coughing pretty good but has no fever. I have headache, body ache and fever (100.0), but not much coughing. Very tired, low energy. House arrest coninues for another week. Hopefully it doesn't get any worse than this!

Hopefully it doesn't get any worse than most I've known that's had it for them not much worse than a bad cold.
Worst one I've heard was the only one so far where I work, around 150 employee dairy plant. Worst not as far as symptoms but she kept testing positive for over a month before she could comeback to work.

 

[Beer can]

I have part of the poultry yard with 7 of the 100' e nets. Coyote jumped it one night. Deer strangled itself in it this fall. The squirrels jump through the larger holes and some of the chicks learned from them.
Other than that it works great

I've always wondered about them, the electro netting (low voltage, actually wonder about any electric fence with low voltage not just netting) I have considered running real layers of runs of electric fence every time I've lost some birds to predators but the losses have been few and I eliminated them by other means. Still it is something I would like to add guess I better stick with the thought of electric that will 'bite' hard lol.

 

[electrycmonk]

Can you cut access breaks in poultry netting?

These pics are freshly cropped for you to see and compare to the upper half of all the run and coop use of the avian netting.





For comparison the "door" had Hardware cloth on it from use out in the run area in a previous wall that's no longer in use.

 

[Beer can]

Funny predator story, DW and the kids have for the first time been taking care of the birds. She isn't working, kids are home 'virtual learning'... Didn't make sense for me to feed and water birds at 4am when it's freezing weather. DW sends me a message while I'm at work that there is tracks all around our duck coop wants to know if racoons hibernate in the winter (pretty sure they do), sends pics, hard to tell what the pics are in the snow.
I have trail cam video's of a fisher way back in the woods behind us, really hoping it's not a fisher.....
Get home and check out tracks, lol, yeah claws on the big back feet but the pattern was a giveaway. I picked on her a little bit, it was kinda obvious beings not much different pattern wise to a rabbit. I see them sometimes on state land big pine forests around us but have never come across them anywhere else here and never near our house. It was just a snowshoe hare

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Raccoons are not true hibernators, meaning they do stay active year-round. That being said, you may see fewer raccoons in winter. This is because some raccoons, especially those in more northern states, may store up body fat in the spring and summer so they can spend most of the winter sleeping in their dens.

According to Terminix blog. Sorry if I did not cite that properly.

 

[Beer can]

Raccoons are not true hibernators, meaning they do stay active year-round. That being said, you may see fewer raccoons in winter. This is because some raccoons, especially those in more northern states, may store up body fat in the spring and summer so they can spend most of the winter sleeping in their dens.

According to Terminix blog. Sorry if I did not cite that properly.

I've never seen a racoon, or opossum, or skunk, in the winter here. I have seen bears though... and bears are suppose to hibernate also...

 

[Aunt Angus]

In other words, "Don't let the horror stories intimidate you." If you put on your "Dr. Mom" hat and use what you already know about treating illness and keeping your kids (and yourself) comfortable, you'll get through this. The only real difference is that the virus "feels" different from what we're used to, and that's scary. I'm not trying to minimize it, not by a long shot, but if I'd known then what I know now, I would still have been as sick and miserable, but I wouldn't have been as frightened ... and that would have made healing much smoother!

So well said. And it seems to affect everyone differently. I am STILL sick a month later (it led to a secondary infection that is really kicking my a**), and I had no fever or cough. My son had what he described as a bad cold. DH had fever and cough, but was feeling better within about 10 days. My coworker has it, and she has ZERO symptoms. Her dad was in the ICU on a ventilator, but other than the low blood oxygen, he felt fine - no cough or fever. That's the scary part, too. You get it, but you have no idea what to expect. I am VERY VERY VERY lucky that I have paid leave accrued or missing a month of work would have been disastrous. I thank my lucky start every day! I will start working again on 1/19. I work from home, but talking HURTS. Other than that and my muscle fatigue, I am not feeling too badly.