Granny's gone and done it again

[CSolis]

ugh need MUCH MORE coffee will bbl when I am "alert" as Lena got me up for the day around 7:30 am.

Must be tough getting up at the crack of noon most days.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Morning Pert and Cap, everyone else too!

I need to do the feed run today also. Amazing how much they waste....er.....eat.

@Granny Hatchet I teared up when I saw the picture of your dog. My Bunny, who died three years ago, could have been a twin to your dog only she was black and grey. Such a sweet girl. Her passion in life was her 'cookies' and she never met a person she didn't like. Our first year here on our farm, she fell into the creek when it was at flood stage and got stuck on a ledge. I tied a rope around my waist that my husband had control of and went in out after her. I was able to snare her by her collar and the scruff of her neck and told her to swim to daddy. She did with me hanging on to her.

I miss her to this day.

I found out that if I moisten the chick starter, they waste less.

 

[CSolis]

I found out that if I moisten the chick starter, they waste less.

That's what I discovered too. Found less in the shavings, and bigger crops.. Plus they are drinking less water since it's already in the food.

 

[microchick]

I switched the big birds food to game bird finisher which they generally like to take dust bathes in but they are molting and hey, eat it or go hungry because it has higher protein. I may try to wet it before I feed them. They love wet mash when I give it to them so that may be a way to stop the waste.

I just made the feed run and stopped by the pharmacy's drive up window to pick up my prescriptions. The pharmacy assistant had to glove to take my check through the outside window. We were both wearing masks, I used hand sanitizer after taking my bag of legal drugs from her and asked her if she thought things were ever going to get back to normal. She just signed and said, I wonder.

God I'm so glad we are retired from the medical field. I was talking to a friend who works with her husband as I did with mine in an optometry office. She said that every time a patient tried on a pair of glasses from their inventory, they had to wash it before it could go back on the desplay bars and then they had to sanitize the office every time they saw a patient.

In 25 years I see a whole new generation of germaphobes...and a lot of clean offices and houses...except for mine, LOL

 

[CSolis]

I switched the big birds food to game bird finisher which they generally like to take dust bathes in but they are molting and hey, eat it or go hungry because it has higher protein. I may try to wet it before I feed them. They love wet mash when I give it to them so that may be a way to stop the waste.

I just made the feed run and stopped by the pharmacy's drive up window to pick up my prescriptions. The pharmacy assistant had to glove to take my check through the outside window. We were both wearing masks, I used hand sanitizer after taking my bag of legal drugs from her and asked her if she thought things were ever going to get back to normal. She just signed and said, I wonder.

God I'm so glad we are retired from the medical field. I was talking to a friend who works with her husband as I did with mine in an optometry office. She said that every time a patient tried on a pair of glasses from their inventory, they had to wash it before it could go back on the desplay bars and then they had to sanitize the office every time they saw a patient.

In 25 years I see a whole new generation of germaphobes...and a lot of clean offices and houses...except for mine, LOL

Funny about those germaphobes.. They get sicker more often than those of us who get dirty, don't mind it, and stay healthier. I ate dirt as a kid, my kids ate dirt, and we are all relatively healthy. Even worse is bathing daily. I kid you not. People are washing good bacteria from the skin that helps keep them healthy.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Funny about those germaphobes.. They get sicker more often than those of us who get dirty, don't mind it, and stay healthier. I ate dirt as a kid, my kids ate dirt, and we are all relatively healthy. Even worse is bathing daily. I kid you not. People are washing good bacteria from the skin that helps keep them healthy.

I was thinking the same thing. You can have things too clean.

 

[microchick]

You all should live around the Amish. It's a hoot to watch the kids run around barefooted as I did as a child. Playing in the dirt, running around with the chickens, ducks and geese in the yard, poop and all. Once watched a kid catch water in a dirty glass he had found on the ground from off the roof of the barn...and drink it.

Amazingly enough, they don't get sick any more than regular kids do and if they do they don't run to the doc for antibiotics with every sniffle. Mom slaps a poultice on them, puts them to bed for a couple of days then you're good as new.

I read somewhere that other than genetic diseases from inbreeding and cardio vascular disease from eating a high fat diet, they are for the most part a pretty healthy bunch.

Then there was the little kid from up the road who jumped up out of the tall grass in front of his dad who was using a sickle bar mower to cut hay with his team of horses and managed to get one foot cut off and the other almost.....and the fact that a lot of Amish men are missing fingers from using big saws to cut timber and wood....On second thought, never mind about the healthier part. Let's just say they aren't germaphobes.

 

[CSolis]

I was thinking the same thing. You can have things too clean.

Even 3 week old chicks know.. playing in the dirt is fun!

 

[CSolis]

BTW Cap, speaking of damp food.. I had some pie tins in the cupboard from store bought pies, including the lids. I put some sand in the lids, inserted the pie pan and duct taped them together. So, the pans they are eating out of, wading in, scratching in, are weighted and don't tip over. Ingenuity!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

BTW Cap, speaking of damp food.. I had some pie tins in the cupboard from store bought pies, including the lids. I put some sand in the lids, inserted the pie pan and duct taped them together. So, the pans they are eating out of, wading in, scratching in, are weighted and don't tip over. Ingenuity!

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