NY chicken lover!!!!

[Glasshen]

Yikes, it is 4 degrees out. FOUR. I've been having them go outside for water, but think I'll put the heated water bowl in today. I always just put the water in the plastic, dump it out the next time and give it a swipe with a paper towel- I keep a small roll in the coop. It never froze even last year. I think I would get way too much exercise running out to give them water at this temp before it froze.

Prayers for Kitty.
Rancher, salt water gargle, rose hip tea, or rose hip Jam! Chicken soup, all the meds mentioned, maybe not all at the same time, orange juice, cranberry juice, lots of water, boil a pot of water and make a tent to keep the warm vapor concentrated to breathe....you will be exhausted, how about a nap?

 

[rancher hicks]

Did you take your Daisies off craigslist ?
I dont see them ..
Does anyone have any interest in a organ ?
http://syracuse.craigslist.org/msg/5369954035.html
I have it up for a friend

yes I did. I didn't expect any takers this time of year so figured I'll deal with them til spring. They are so funny. I let them out and they come right to the garage.

I could use a couple of lungs.

I was so sick I started to hear harps playing.

Actually I'm not that bad.

 

[rancher hicks]

Always want to check with your doc especially if your on medication. Ginkgo biloba etc, there's others, can mess with medication. Chaga and reishi, maitake, shiitake mushrooms are not herbal supplements but I guess it wouldn't hurt to check with a doc first. I don't take any herbal supplements, heck
I don't even take vitamins lol. I probably wont see any benefits from chaga tea, unless in the future I never get any cancer, but then who would know why? I have absolutely no health problems right now, and rarely get sick. So if I don't get sick at all this winter I won't know if it is the immune system boosting chaga, or just the way it is...I figure can't hurt. I never ate kale before in my life until I started buying it last yr, I have a bed I've been picking from all yr now, and it's still with the snow and ice producing! Chickens love it too! I didn't ask my doc if kale was OK. I love kale, scrambled eggs and kale, or kale omelets, raw kale on sandwiches, boiled kale with butter, or vinegar, baked kale chips, kale in every soup. My 16yr dd recently said the chicken soup I made was the best, and she doesn't like me or my cooking (hopefully it's the age....) I asked her if she knew I chopped up kale and put in it, she did and was OK with it (couldn't get any of them to eat kale!) she said it had more meat in it than mom makes. I didn't tell her it was a pressure cooked cockerel of our own, not store bought, it would have tasted awful if she knew..lol. I even chopped up some kale fine and put in ramen noodles recently and the littler kids ate it...they love ramen noodles, like it's a treat, gotta make them almost healthy somehow...lol.

Best of health to you Rancher, hope you feel better, get better soon. With one kid with asthma, ear infections, tubes, tonsils out, too many trips to the ER, and five kids all together, I do not like sick (kids that go to school are infectious disease ridden vermin!) I might not get sick but I've been severely knocked down in the past by bad injuries, being knocked down sucks.
I pray you and your wife have better days tomorrow.

We had it for a yr. I didn't know. We have a roku with netflix and hulu plus. When I realized after months we had Amazon prime, wife says I was the one who wanted it so I could catch up on 'Under the Dome'... I was working weird hrs and shifts and missed one episode first season, used to be able to watch it on CBS online, then they didn't let you and put last weeks episodes on Amazon..grrr..Never did catch up or watch the rest, and the rest of the family didn't watch Amazon much so wife canceled it. Look online and see what shows you watch or like to watch, some are exclusive to either Hulu plus or Amazon prime, we kept Hulu for the tv shows and netflix for the movies, kids watch a lot of their cartoons on youtube, roku is very handy for that.

Now I liked Under the Dome, but I get annoyed because I'd have shot Big Jim long ago. How can they not see what a devil he is? It kinda got like "Lost" where none of the characters were likable and the ones who were got killed off.

I think I've watched the first two seasons. Is there a third? I can probably get it at the library.

 

[rancher hicks]

I think someone here used sand to fill the empty space between the heated dish and the water bowl? The metal dish would be easier to remove and clean for sure, but may need to just put the water directly in the heated dish. I have a 1.5 gallon heated bucket that I set next to a small step for the chickens. Works great, but does get grimy.

One of the reasons I didn't use the heated dog bowls is I couldn't decide what to set it on. Should I have set it on plywood, a rock, just the ground? Then too, I'll still have to change the water since these crazy birds make a mess. I've one hen who stands on the side of the bowl. I think to block others from getting in there.

 

[boskelli1571]

I am sorry about your kitty Pyxis

. I hope he gets better against the odds that seem to be against him.

Offering up prayers -

 

[rancher hicks]

Things are not looking good for my kitty

I had to take him to the vet Saturday because he just wasn't looking good. They gave him fluids and decided there must be some other underlying problem so they put him on antibiotics too. He stayed about the same yesterday but today while I was at work he apparently went downhill, threw up three times, and wasn't even able to get himself to the litter box. My parents didn't take him to the emergency vet because they didn't think there was much that could be done. I'm taking him to the regular vet tomorrow but I'm not really sure there's anything to do at this point. Right now he's still alive but not very responsive. I'm feeling a bit guilty because the vet offered to keep him Saturday but I thought he'd be more comfortable at home. He might have done better there. At this point I'm really not sure if he'll be alive in the morning.

My other two cats seem to be pretty aware of what's going on. My youngest, who was a feral kitten that got trapped in my workshop and then we kept and whom my sick kitty took under his wing, is watching over him. She's sleeping in the kitchen on a bench overlooking where he is sleeping on his heating pad instead of sleeping in the living room as she usually does. My other cat, who is actually the oldest, seems to know I am upset and is following me around the house wherever I go keeping me company.

I am sorry.

I didn't want anymore cats since Merlin had to be put to sleep and I stood in the doctors office a blubbering fool. I just can't handle it. Even with allergies I still like cats and dogs. We have Merlin and Stubbies foot prints from the docs.

Take care and find comfort in knowing he was not sitting at the shelter waiting for you, but loved and cared for.

 

[DeansMill]

I'm sure I won't be hatching anymore. If anyone might be

I've got two heated dog bowls never used too. Dusty but should be ok


Rancher


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I would be interested in the bowls if no one else grabbed them in the past week. Where are you located again?

 

[DeansMill]

Oops, well I sure did mess that up trying to isolate the paragraph I was referring to.

 

[DeansMill]

Oh, another question... I have a water jug that I can not return for the deposit. I want to figure out a way to make it my flocks water source outside. I want to use the water nipples. Had anyone successfully converted one if these large jugs this way? We're taking the water cooler rectangular kind.

 

[Glasshen]

My water bowl is on some tiles left over from a project. What I would like to do is have a larger pan, like one of those black rubber things and put a rigid but durable and porous thing on top, then put the bowl on that, so any spills could drain into the pan. Then wetness would be contained. I saw this idea in a book. Maybe there could be cinder blocks holding up the edges of the flow through surface so the chickens couldn't flip the whole thing.