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

[chickisoup]

It's not fear. It's INFORMATION. And intelligent people respond to it appropriately and responsibly.

well said.

 

[FortCluck]

Yes I heard that mentioned on CTV news last night, which is a credible news source. There was little info available and I got the feeling that the only reason anything is being said about it is to give people hope.
I, personally, have seen entirely too many “end of world” flicks and part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop...when either the recovered people turn into zombies or the possible ‘cure’ turns them lol.
In that vein, let’s say the world does end: I, and you my fellow chicken keepers, want to keep our flocks, but what if we could no longer get commercial chicken food. How could we feed them? I’m in the bush, not a farm, so no access to grain but I do have plenty of meat, potatoes, apples and mountain ash berries. Thoughts?

I'd feed mine all the scraps I could. Do you have cat food? I know there's a couple who have fed that to their ducks and chickens when they haven't been able to get feed.

I feed cat feed to my meat chickens the ending weeks because it has high protein.

Wisconsin, not exactly a high density population state, went from single digits to triple digits in less than one week even tho our gov. took what were criticized for being overly aggressive measures early. Definitely did slow the spread down, at least at first, but it's spreading now none the less. They just life flighted a patient to California from Aruba!

We don't even know who is infected or not at this point. Any of us could have it and not even feel a thing. They should give out testing to every household to do then I'm sure we would see the numbers jump even more.

 

[Beer can]

I stopped at a small town grocery store yesterday. Must be they ran out of those sanitary cart wipes. They had a rack with a spray bottle of Windex and a roll of paper towels with a sign that said for customer safety....

 

[FortCluck]

I stopped at a small town grocery store yesterday. Must be they ran out of those sanitary cart wipes. They had a rack with a spray bottle of Windex and a roll of paper towels with a sign that said for customer safety....

Does Windex even kill Covid 19?

 

[chickisoup]

Mostly in the city, the state is very few. Wish they would stay down there but they are not...

Same problem here. If the city folks down south (Milwaukee and Madison) would stay down south instead of heading for their cabins etc. up here, it would not be spreading north but I totally understand why they are.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Good morning everyone!
Here's this mornings totals from Colorado

277 cases
38 hospitalized
22 counties
2,952 people tested
2 deaths

I have off work today, so it's nice to be away from the hospital. My plan for today is a full wipe down of the house. I've been wiping things daily, but I want to dig in deeper today since I have the time. I'll put on some good old 70's pop and dance my way around the house. Really need a break from all this stress. I do need to go get chicken feed, and may pop into the grocery store to see how things look there. I really don't need much, but someone did mention chocolateand I don't have any. I hope you all are well this morning and staying safe.

My daughter is a nurse at a hospital there in Colorado, I worry for her too! She's pulling extra shifts....

Definitely suspect! I can't imagine that ANY official correspondence in a crisis would use a funky font. It's hard to take a comic font seriously.

Funky font is my fault, that's my phone setting .

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I think people are starting to see that they're unprepared when they wish they were. I've had a recent influx of messages looking for breeding rabbit pairs and they have an urgent tone to them.

Like, folks, things take time. Any rabbit you buy from a breeder now will need another 3-4 months before you can breed them. And first litters fail a lot. No breeder is going to sell you their adult breeding stock unless something is wrong with it. (I'm always very sus of people selling breeding age farm rabbits.) Getting rabbits now won't help you with the pandemic, though it might help you with the next one.

 

[FortCluck]

I think people are starting to see that they're unprepared when they wish they were. I've had a recent influx of messages looking for breeding rabbit pairs and they have an urgent tone to them.

Like, folks, things take time. Any rabbit you buy from a breeder now will need another 3-4 months before you can breed them. And first litters fail a lot. No breeder is going to sell you their adult breeding stock unless something is wrong with it. (I'm always very sus of people selling breeding age farm rabbits.) Getting rabbits now won't help you with the pandemic, though it might help you with the next one.

People were asking my husband for POL pullets... Ummm NO. Pullets are all mine to use I'm sorry. Unless you want to pay $30 a piece then I'm not selling my layer flock.

 

[IamRainey]

Here's an explanation of why social distancing and isolation are our best tools for fighting this virus. It has a helpful visual.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...FMtalJM3wsEgRx5Bt2vQTYklYXxzGbNLg0irWAxj5XImc

 

[Beer can]

Does Windex even kill Covid 19?

I'm not sure can't find much info on it. I did read this on a NBC page, so it must be better than nothing I guess.

It’s not fancy, but soap and water work. The soap removes the viral particles that have attached themselves to surfaces — whether it’s your hands, face or countertops — and suspends them in the water, so they can be washed away.

Richard Sachleben, an organic chemist and a member of the American Chemical Society , said most of the cleaning products we call soap are actually detergents that not only remove the germs from surfaces, but also kill them.

“The virus has an outside coating, and the stuff inside — DNA or RNA — is what actually causes the disease. It's kind of like the casing on a bomb or torpedo,” Sachleben explained. “For a virus, that coating is a protein, and the soap or detergent break up that coating, so the virus spills its guts and falls apart.”