Deep litter method

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Get better really quick Rose Marie. Hope your chickens and your family have a health new year. You have definitely had your fair share.

We started the new year off, with finding lice in my 7 and 11 year olds hair. Meanwhile my 4 year old was throwing up.
Hoping and praying for a healthy and safe new year for all.

Very interesting about the dairy. Have you tried goat milk? Just dairy, or store bought meat too were the problem?

We didn't have access to any raw dairy sources at the time, so we just went cold turkey on all dairy. At the time my folks were just starting a vegan diet, so we started really switching over to raw fruits and veggies, olive oil, garlic, raw honey and vinegar in a lot of our food choices. So dairy and a lot of animal by products were out unless we killed a deer or raised our own. We pretty much stayed with that except on special occasions like birthdays and such when we'd have cake and ice cream, but the youngest still couldn't have it.

With that kind of eating I worked in some of the most germ laden environments as a nurse and the kids were in school and no one got all the illnesses going around. That went on for years with good results. We just kind of dropped dairy and processed meats and foods from our diet except on occasion when eating out for pizza and such. Still doing that. We don't eat red meat unless it's deer meat and we grow/can up our own chicken and we just leave dairy alone. It works like a charm!

Our commercial food supply is pretty much poison, folks, and it is designed to make you sick and keep you that way. I'd start trying to wean away from it and see how much your health improves.

Lice???? You poor thing! I've never had the misfortune to have ever had it, nor have my kids, but I've heard how much money it costs to get rid of it from your house and kids....and then they just get it back from some kid at school again. Horrible!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

http://www.licefreee.com/products/licefreee-spray!/

This stuff is great for getting rid of lice! I taste good, evidently and, just as evidently, my husband is really bad at picking nits... This spray, if you saturate your hair and leave it overnight (it's basically very strong saline plus non-toxic herbs to make it smell good and keep the high concentration of salt from drying out your scalp) will actually kill the nits. Instead of shiny, plump and brown, the nits end up shrivelled and gray--and still distinct from the clear, flat empties.

I'm way too familiar with nits, aren't I?

 

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[niqueie]

Wow. I wish I would have found that before I paid $$$ for the poison treatment that was the biggest pain ever. After 20 loads of laundry and many nit combings I think we are louse free. Thank you!!! It's worth getting some for my 2 year old who won't let me fiddle very long with her hair.
We had never had lice before and had heard of friends with kids that had it, but never me. There is always a first for everything.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

My then-2-year-old was exactly why I gave that stuff a try in the first place. Even now, when she's nearly 5, I can barely get her to let me do anything with her hair. Between the won't-sit and the can't-pick-through-my-own-hair, we spent a summer passing them back and forth with my older daughter (would sit, but the girl has tons of hair--at least it's not curly!) (my husband got nary a bug, darn him--I mean, I'm glad he didn't, since it was one less head, but still...)

 

[Beekissed]

http://www.licefreee.com/products/licefreee-spray!/

This stuff is great for getting rid of lice! I taste good, evidently and, just as evidently, my husband is really bad at picking nits... This spray, if you saturate your hair and leave it overnight (it's basically very strong saline plus non-toxic herbs to make it smell good and keep the high concentration of salt from drying out your scalp) will actually kill the nits. Instead of shiny, plump and brown, the nits end up shrivelled and gray--and still distinct from the clear, flat empties.

I'm way too familiar with nits, aren't I?

Wonder if this could be used on a chicken?

 

[AmyPaperlady]

You'd have to soak the area, and that would use a lot. The spray, being salt water, dries kind of sticky--sort of as if you went in the ocean, got your hair wet, let the water dry, then did it again and again to let the salt build up. Theoretically, it could work, I guess, but I don't see it being really practical...

 

[MrsBachbach]

Another thing salt water is good for (I used Epsom salts) is for insect bites. If you every get a load of itchy, swollen bug bites on you ( I got in a nest of seed ticks, works on mosquito bites too) soak in Epsom salts. I did a salt bath for three days and it dried the bites right up and no more itching. As I said, I had dozens of bites on my legs and it was driving me nuts. One time I had a bunch of mosquito bites also that just itched like crazy. Salt water really does dry those bites right up and the healing is much quicker.

 

[armorfirelady]

You think that now...but when the power grid goes down and you can't flush your toilet....for weeks....that outside toilet begins to look pretty darn nice! We have both, as we have learned that we don't ever want to be without that backup. The power goes off around here if someone sneezes in the next county on a bright, sunny calm day...let alone in the winter time when trees are always falling across the power lines.

That family used poor planning....

I've used outhouses before so they don't bother me. I would have one as a back up of course & def would need those jammies with the trap doors for cold winter nights !

My power goes off quite frequently as well but thankfully the toilet doesn't need power to flush

Another thing salt water is good for (I used Epsom salts) is for insect bites. If you every get a load of itchy, swollen bug bites on you ( I got in a nest of seed ticks, works on mosquito bites too) soak in Epsom salts. I did a salt bath for three days and it dried the bites right up and no more itching. As I said, I had dozens of bites on my legs and it was driving me nuts. One time I had a bunch of mosquito bites also that just itched like crazy. Salt water really does dry those bites right up and the healing is much quicker.

Thanks for sharing the info I am a mosquito magnet. I found out last year that putting hydrogen peroxide on a bite right after you get bitten works awesome as well. But it needs to be right after your bitten. I used it camping last year and thankfully didn't spend my nights in a benadryl haze or scratching non stop

 

[Beekissed]

You'd have to soak the area, and that would use a lot. The spray, being salt water, dries kind of sticky--sort of as if you went in the ocean, got your hair wet, let the water dry, then did it again and again to let the salt build up. Theoretically, it could work, I guess, but I don't see it being really practical...

Maybe just dusting with a desiccant, like Borax, would do the do.