Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Frankiegirl]

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The only thing not here is the access panel, which goes under where the second nest box is. I was going to use hardware cloth for this, but I had a piece of chicken wire that fit the area with very little cutting.

Darl, my roo, is giving me the stink eye for being in the way so much today.

He’s a handsome boy!!

 

[riss]

Does anyone else here get like constant headaches? What do you do to help with those besides just taking asprin.

 

[1muttsfan]

How constant? If you have frequent headaches, especially if they don't respond to OTC pain meds, a doctor visit is a good idea.

 

[saysfaa]

I get a lot of headaches. Usually from stress, weather, SADD, or dehydration. Oh, lack of sleep will also. And when my back is out of wack. Less since I've gradually figured out what causes them and how to manage them.

Aspirin doesn't help much for any of them. The SADD ones are the easiest... make sure I get full spectrum light for ten or fifteen minuetsat least most days.

Otherwise: drink water, exercise (last thing I want to do but it does work), make a point of relaxing muscles individually, cool clothes over my face, gua sha (but I don't do it right -I press hard enough to work the knots out of the little musches in the scalp and face and work the nerves exiting the skull but not hard enough to leave marks and I don't do it systematically or whole body). Chiropractor.

And various ways of not worrying, letting things go, etc.

And working in the garden and puttering around with chickens.

Nothing beats a real Chinese massage but I haven't found one except in China... what I've tried here isn't close.

My sister finds what foods she eats makes a LOT of difference, but I haven't as much but I might just be less disciplined in trying to figure food out. Eating plain yogurt and/or beans helps the most... one gives probiotics, the other carries toxin out more than most foods.

 

[Frankiegirl]

Does anyone else here get like constant headaches? What do you do to help with those besides just taking asprin.

How long do they last? Are they a regular headache or do you get an aura before? I suffered from migraine headaches for years. If you get them frequently, I agree w @1muttsfan and you should head to the doctor. Also, keep a diary to see if there is a trigger. Maybe a food or time of the month. You may find a pattern. Also, check your caffeine intake as well as if you changed a medication. Sorry you’re dealing with that. Headaches are nothing to mess around with. GOOD LUCK!

One other thing…I took excedrin for migraine. It is a combo pain killer…it worked for a while for me, but mine got so bad they would effect my speech and cognitive processes. The auras were the tell tale sign they were going to be bad. I had to pull over on the road because I couldnt see. Luckily I “grew out of them” recently.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Morning my lovelies! Was not going to show up until later this afternoon but needed to sit to recover myself from an almost heartbroken. Yesterday neighbors left for camping, I guess. Left their 5 dogs in the back as always. Those poor animals where restless all night. 11pm walked outside with flashlight and gun. Nothing. 1230am the same and Hub too. Making sure if they were alerting of a predator. I couldn't sleep all night looking at the coop camera every few minutes. 430am, could no longer stay awake. Woke up at 930am and of course, girls were crazy making all kinds of noises. Let them out, put food and checked water and came inside to wash up, get coffee and Bible reading. Check through kitchen window and all is fine. Had some steaks out and marinated them and getting ready to install some lights on part of the perimeter. Outside already decided to give them some oats and when I sat to give them some, noticed that Phoebe was not there. Checked in coop, outside, scream at Hub the she was missing. He walked the front of the house and went down the road both ways while I was calling her around neighbors yard and all fenced area in the rear. Got in my truck and drove around 3 blocks. No Phoebe and no feathers. Crying and telling myself that it could happen. A racoon maybe took her and left no feathers. My heart pounding and told the other girls that my parrot Phoebe was gone. Hub went towards the back of the run to begin working and looked inside coop and saw something. I checked again and there she was. She was under the nest boxes, behind the bottled water and 2 five gal buckets. As I approached to see if she was hurt, picked her up and there was a white egg on the floor of the coop. She laid her first egg at 22wks. She is not a slacker anymore, but nearly killed me in anguish. They might be animals of trade. I feed them and they feed me. But, you learn to love them as your babies and they give you heartaches like our teenagers. Lol catch up later.

 

[riss]

How long do they last? Are they a regular headache or do you get an aura before? I suffered from migraine headaches for years. If you get them frequently, I agree w @1muttsfan and you should head to the doctor. Also, keep a diary to see if there is a trigger. Maybe a food or time of the month. You may find a pattern. Also, check your caffeine intake as well as if you changed a medication. Sorry you’re dealing with that. Headaches are nothing to mess around with. GOOD LUCK!

One other thing…I took excedrin for migraine. It is a combo pain killer…it worked for a while for me, but mine got so bad they would effect my speech and cognitive processes. The auras were the tell tale sign they were going to be bad. I had to pull over on the road because I couldnt see. Luckily I “grew out of them” recently.

I take anxiety medication and they do give me a lot of headaches but I'd hate to stop taking it just cause of my headaches when it helps me severe anxiety. I remember going to a chiropractor when I was younger and that always felt good after

 

[aart]

I take anxiety medication and they do give me a lot of headaches but I'd hate to stop taking it just cause of my headaches when it helps me severe anxiety.

You need to check in with your doc....maybe adjust meds or change them up?

 

[1muttsfan]

Dreamz, are your birds not locked up safe in the coop at night?

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Dreamz, are your birds not locked up safe in the coop at night?