Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[RaZ]

oh that's so sad

I don't know the name, does anyone know their screen name?

Sorry.
His BYC handle was mcbeers.

Mike was a founding member of the MSFC and the force behind our website.
He was at a couple of our Chicken Stock picnics.

ETA: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/macombdaily/obituary.aspx?n=michael-a-beers&pid=176957354&

 

[wannahomestead]

Quote:
Thx aart. Waterers are outside only. I have been leaving the coop door open, and it has a vented roof, but I may need to add more ventilation (Aren't you the one that says basically you can't have enough venting? lol) Your general opinion is to let it run its course at this point?

 

[Folly's place]

Yes, just let it be. More ventilation is best, just do block the wind. Mary

 

[Opa]

Deer hunting this year has been abysmal. Fewer deer, compounded by days I didn't hunt due to temperatures to warm to allow hanging one had I succeeded. Remembering the days not long ago when I would see over 100 deer, and now not seeing any, made for a very long day in the woods. The situation is made worse by having the people due west of my property spending $500 per month feeding deer.

Health issues have also reduced the time I have been able to spend in the woods. As part of the follow up for the stroke I suffered I have been wearing a heart monitor for the past month and tomorrow is to be the final day of the test that had yielded nothing until yesterday.

As fate would have it, a doe finally appeared 200 yards from my stand and as always happens my heart beat dramatically increased as I watched her moving closer. Normally I would have gone for a neck shot, but decided to take the shoulder instead. Holding a tight sight picture I touched the trigger and watched as she took another step as a delayed ignition occurred. David and I watched as she ran 10 yards, stopped, ran back to near where I shot, stopped again, then as a second doe joined her she ran off and out of sight.

Both David and I were puzzled by her actions and he said he never saw any blood. I decided that I must have missed, my heart beat had returned to normal, and I sat there trying to figure out how I had missed. A hour later my cell phone vibrated. It was my cardiologist. The heart monitoring company had notified her of an unusually high heart rate incident and she was inquiring as to how I felt. I said I was fine and that I had been shooting at a deer and when my heart no longer raced I would probably quit hunting. She said that probably explained it and to call if I had any issues.

At 10AM as I closed up the blind, David went to check for blood and immediately started tracking a trail he said a blind man could follow. She had only gone 30 yards. Due to the delayed ignition and an additional step, the bullet had stuck further back in the lungs. I quickly field dressed her and started dragging her to the truck. David laughed and said I bet the doctor will be calling you again.

Sure enough she again inquired as to why my pulse rated increased so dramatically. I explained that I had been dragging a deer from the woods. She congratulated me and said that that would explain the incident but that it finally gave her the information she needed to diagnose my problem. Arterial fibrillation. So now some blood work and a different blood thinner and hopefully I'll have no more strokes.

The month of wearing the heart monitor had produced nothing to indicate my problem and the test only had two more days to run. Had I not taken the deer when I did the test would have been for naught. How can there not be a higher power at work?.

 

[chickflick]

I'm glad you went hunting Sam! Now you have answers. Take care of yourself!!

Raining. Love the warmer weather, but hate the rain. This will slow down work on our pole barn.
The chickens are all covered and ready for snow/rain. I'm so happy that I won't have to shovel the run out, if it ever does snow!
Have a good day. Will be sitting for my two sick grand girls. Oh what fun!

 

[aart]

Quote: IMO it's best not to even touch it......it's compromised tissue and touching it could very easily make it worse.
Had several birds with frostbit combs and wattles last winter, most were the mild graying of the tissue, some had black necrosis that eventually soughed off. I think the wattles get bit because they drag them thru the snow.
I just keep a watch for swelling that lasts more than a few days or obvious infection.
Woody's wattles were swollen for 2-3 days, then swelling receded and tissue turned black, took a couple months before black tissue came off and pencil thin scars developed, by spring you could hardly tell it had happened.

The more ventilation the better..barring strong drafts on roost area.....but Michigan is humid, nothing can reduce that other than full on HVAC.

 

[aart]

Opa that is hilarious!!....only because you were not out there alone.

I've heard that a deer will go back to where 'it was hurt'...might be BS.

Glad you got a deer, some diagnosis(maybe you should have been more active earlier in the test?)...and a few chuckles.

 

[1muttsfan]

Opa good that they have figured it out. My Dad had Afib and was on medication for years for it. And glad you got something for the freezer too.

 

[SillyChicken]

The photo was a couple years ago Aart, and before the parts fell off. He did indeed loose the whole foot on one and the toes on the other. They were the only photos I have of him. I washed him in soapy water when I first brought him in to get the poo off his feet. We brought him inside where we kept the bedding dry so the dead parts could dry up and the good parts could heal. I had a cap on his leg bone to protect it, and allow him to heal and walk on the stump for the summer. Took it off in the fall so he could start to toughen up the stump. He's done well for 2 yrs this way. I'm very sad to lose him though, he was a very friendly roo.

It doesn't look like he will make it. What ever injury he's suffered will be the end of him. Too bad really, he's the end of my uggo era.

Our deer season has been the same. I did manage to take 3 deer, but they were all I saw. I'll be going out this weekend for a last hurrah for the season.

Sam, I'm glad that things worked out for you with your monitors...hunting always get my heart going too! How is your arm healing and the rest of the gang, Hope and Granny and your friend, I hope they are all well.


To all my BYC friends...

 

[RaZ]

Just called Munsell's to try to get 3 roos processed. These are from the eggs I received at CS15. They are beautiful roosters but simply cannot stay here any longer.