Kris, I forgot to tell you. I had enrofloxacin prescribed by an avian vet at ~ 6.81mg/lb of chicken body weight twice daily for 7-10 days (depending on severity). Are you good with the math on that?
1: maybe I have been massively under dosing him? I was doing 0.05ml/lb at 10% solution based on what I had taken down for Tippie and friends reproductive issues. I doubled his does to 1mg twice a day and have started to see a little improvement on the swelling. I was going to just wait in seeing the vet now, which will be day 10 at this dose.

2: I do hope that’s not a mg=ml at 10% solution strength! That won’t happen at almost 70ml!!!

3: I am hoping the vet will do a direct injection at the site, as well as provide a more appropriate antibiotic for the infection. Hopefully in a pill form that I can get into him more easily! Bonus is, I’m going to get a super accurate weight for any medications. If the vet visit doesn’t go well, I will repost in emergencies (again) and tag Kathy on it with pic’s of all the medications I didn’t know the farm had hoarded! There’s a penicillin and at least two other antibiotics I was able to snap pictures of before my milk replacer heist was discovered. I will have to act soon, though before all the sheep are condensed in that area, they make a nighttime trip to quietly “borrow” anything almost impossible. Sheep are disgustingly high maintenance, non-hardy, filthy creatures that require a lot of medical intervention here.
 
I love seeing all your animals. Does the goat have a name yet?

Still nameless on the Goat front, and open to suggestions, though we have the bottle thing almost down now, and today she is in one of the Cat’s harnesses (from when we would walk them in the city). Potty training is going ok. Flower names here wouldn’t really suit, as the local Orchid names are a mouthful, snowdrops are the wrong color, clover and broom also don’t fit. She was in a cedar rootball or an alder one, old and rotting, she still smells of the earthy forest litter. She was near a creek, in a gully on the other side of the little swampy pond I’ve shown once or twice. She is obsessed with trying to eat plastic bags.
 
Still nameless on the Goat front, and open to suggestions, though we have the bottle thing almost down now, and today she is in one of the Cat’s harnesses (from when we would walk them in the city). Potty training is going ok. Flower names here wouldn’t really suit, as the local Orchid names are a mouthful, snowdrops are the wrong color, clover and broom also don’t fit. She was in a cedar rootball or an alder one, old and rotting, she still smells of the earthy forest litter. She was near a creek, in a gully on the other side of the little swampy pond I’ve shown once or twice. She is obsessed with trying to eat plastic bags.
I like Cedar as a name.
 
40° and Sunny in January!

It's coop cleaning time!

Of course my helpers threw all of the new straw out of the coop onto the porch. :barnie
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They did however enjoy digging in the new straw.
Wow. For a moment I thought you got a new chicken. That is Aurora looking sparkling white - right? Amazing transformation!
 
The “I told you that tree was leaning funny” table! My uncle wants a slab for just that the issue is for it to be stable it needs to be really thick 3” or so at least, or it splits alone the growth rings as it ages. So some 3/4” ply underneath might be needed. You’re right in the “not furniture quality” bit too those dark patches are pitch runs. But for an outdoor table? Definitely. Further up the tree where it is smaller in diameter there may be better wood for coffee tables or end tables... so many possibilities!
You should definitely do something! I regret I have no souvenir for the huge Black Walnut I lost.
 

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