Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[NovaAman]

Make a paste of equal parts iodine and sugar.

Clean feet first, then apply paste. Bandage for with gauze and vet wrap, keep in clean coop/cage for several days. Re-apply daily till gone.

 

[Opa]

Another warm day is on tap so I will be avoiding anything too strenuous. No sense in working up a sweat unless it is for something absolutely necessary.

Perhaps it's because I'm old and don't see as well as I use to, but as I look at the pictures of the chickens feet I don't see a problem. As a chicken ages their feet get larger, scalier, and down right ugly. If you were to spend the day walking bare foot in the chicken run stepping in everything disgusting possible and then posted a picture of the bottoms of your feet I'm sure they wouldn't look real good either.

 

[EverMystique1]

I had to laugh when I read this - a voice in my head twisted it to: Leigh, come over to the duck side. (In Darth Vader's voice, of course).

Sorry, I know bumblefoot is serious, but I just couldn't resist.

So, at least I wasn't the only one to hear that in their head. Between that and, "We have cookies."

 

[EverMystique1]

I am planning to send a few birds to freezer camp this weekend, just as soon as I finish emptying the fruit from 4 years ago into said chicken bellies. (They seem to like it... football ensues.) The trick now is going to be figuring out who to keep and who to send to camp. We only want to have around 20-30 birds to house through the winter. With the latest hatch of babies, we are currently at 67... and there are still more in the incubator. (Last batch for this year. I don't care if Daisy has another nest somewhere collecting all sorts of fertile eggs. If she doesn't go broody on it, they'll just go bad.) Several of those are no where near ready to be culled yet, but we do have a few in the adult group in the coop who have been ornery enough. Plus, we are debating whether to cull Charlie or Roo. Roo is the head rooster so far. Enough that I have to toss a separate pile of food for Charlie, as Roo just chases him off.

However, Roo's attitude toward me leaves much to be desired, while Charlie is calm and lets me hold him regularly. But, then, Roo's mean boy attitude keeps the free range birds quite safe.

I am ready to pass out now; working 12 hour days is wearing on me.j

 

[SillyChicken]

I feel for ya Ever.... been a long couple days for me. A transformer blew up at work yesterday at 2:00 pm, so we were without power but on generator for 12 hours. I was up till late dealing with that, and had to be in this morning early. I got to sleep around midnight and up at 2:00 am as power was restored....... and I had to get up at 3 to go to work..... since I couldn't fall asleep, I just got up and came in. So my day is half over already! But man am I tired!

 

[Jake Levi]

Iodine is the major one size fits all treatment skin abrasions and infections around here. It works. I also use blue coat, spray or just a stout gentian violet home mix, which is cheaper but without the aerosol which lets me spray all of my clothing too.

Trefoil came yesterday and acquired a pair of Australian Spotted Ducks, which does put her on the Duck Side, and to help balance it out a pair of 2 mos old Delaware pullets, sweet as they can be, I know they are all gone to a good home.

Life goes on, finally the past week we have summer temperatures and some green tomatos are now present, not many considering there are 40 plants but just maybe will get some anyhow, plus my corn is tasseling, finally, my own strain I have had for 24 years.

Life does go on. Now to get ready for winter, which will be here all too soon, we will probably skip fall.

 

[taprock]

I have been looking through that thread tonight. When you say getting away with just epson soaks do you really mean *just* soaking a few times and trying to get the scabs off?


Can you elaborate on this.....or link?

I would say just soak the foot, peel off the scab and pull out whatever is attached. Gross but not usually bloody. Clean it, and put antibiotic in the hole and wrap. They tell you to keep the bird in a cage. I put them back in the coop. They were more stressed by being in a little cage than having trouble with the roost. I do have wide roosts though. I did have one I kept in overnight. I usually do them in the evening so I know they will just be sleeping for a while. Unwrap it in two days and recheck. Small spots heal quick and may not even need rewrapping. If it doesn't heal or is still swollen or you feel a corn in the foot, that's when to do surgery. Surgery is gross and bloody, my DH does the cutting and squeezing because I would be laying on the ground. So I am the bird handler and wrap her in a towel and hold her still - and don't watch. We had one hen we did surgery 4 times because it wouldn't heal. We took corns out every time.

 

[SillyChicken]

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

HH can I have you peach cobler recipe, please?

Sure, it's Paula Deen's recipe
Peach cobbler
8 tablespoons butter [1 stick]
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup self rising flour
3/4 cup milk
one 28 oz can sliced peaches in syrup, undrained [see variation]

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put butter in deep baking dish and place in oven to melt. Mix sugar and flour; add milk slowly to prevent lumping. Pour over melted butter. Do not stir. Spoon fruit on top, gently pouring in syrup. Still do not stir; batter will rise to top during baking. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes.
Good with fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Serves 8 to 10

Variations;
When available fresh fruit is wonderful. You may use fresh blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, cherries, apples, peaches, or pears.
Simply clean, peel and core 2 cups of fruit and mix with 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water. In a saucepan, bring mixture to a boil and then simmer for about 10 minutes. Stir often making sure sugar is completely dissolved.

When I make this with fresh fruit I don't make the syrup. I just cut up the fruit and whatever juice comes out when cutting goes in with the fruit. Turns out fine that way.

I had to laugh when I read this - a voice in my head twisted it to: Leigh, come over to the duck side. (In Darth Vader's voice, of course).

Opa sorry about your son's friend.

I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday weekend. I will spend today making homemade ice cream for my oldest son's 30th birthday, which we are celebrating tomorrow.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Can you elaborate on this.....or link?

Here ya go! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/807777/bumblefoot-new-ideas-on-treatment-with-pictures