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[staceyj]

@FlyingNunFarm ,
I’m at the car place now. (The good one)

I like the praziquantel that Bayer makes for tapes. And their “quad wormer” for general. They aren’t cheap but the work very well and since my vet requires an $88 exam with everything, this IS cheaper than going in, by the time I pay for the visit, float, and medicine.

If your friend’s dog is on a heart worm preventative, many of them have built in worm prevention.

Tell her to add pumpkin to their dinner too move all that dirt and grit out of her system.

 

[apryl29]

First and foremost - Happy Bday to Sam and PBM... and anyone else I missed. It sounds like 21 did or will soon have one.

It was a very complex dream and kept evolving.
I was with my friend who is a vet- I suppose I dreamt of her because I’ve been reminding myself to call her to follow up on something. She lives a few states away.


She had a few chickens a long time ago as a homeschool project but regrets that they never really “did it right”. She said they learn practically nothing about chickens in school. So being “a vet” didn’t give her any advantage as far as raising them was concerned.

No predator protection really, and a tractor store coop.

They were gone within a year. She feels so guilty now.
She always says if they didn’t travel she’d be tempted to start over.
She’s living vicariously through my chicken journey.

In my dreamlife, I apparently know ALL ABOUT chicken breeds, which I CERTAINLY DO NOT in my waking life, and as I was pulling these little balls-o-fluff out of the gift boxes I was holding them up and saying
“Oh here! You need one of these! It’s a suchandsuch , and oh! You need two of these adorable little whatchamacallits and how about a pair of these (insert name here) too !”

It was crazy!

And the colors of the chicks were VERY VIVID! The purplish-silver ones were gorgeous!

Then I said “Well, we can’t leave the rest of them here alone, a TRUCK could come along and squash them and besides I don’t see a
.... get this.... SWEATER HEATER...(because that’s how my brain always wants to read it), so I started stooping and gathering up all the little boxes to take home with ME! And I was telling her that if DH said I couldn’t keep them all I’d take them to YOU GUYS!

Oh lord. Wish you could have been there. It was wild.

The the dream evolved and with the whole backseat full of all the little boxes peeping away, we stopped at this beautiful indoor pool facility and taught a class of new mothers how to drown proof their infants!

What the holy taters was THAT ABOUT?!?

Any dream interpreters here?

I think it’s chicken math in my brain trying to break through.

Wow, you're helping everyone! I felt the same way about my first chickening experience. No one died, but in hindsight I realize I was a terrible chicken owner. Oddly, last time I had ZERO problems.. No one got sick or hurt.. or tumors or eaten. But still... I know now I did a terrible job caring for them.

I wish I could have little bantams but they'd get steamrolled and then i'd feel terrible.

I have 2 and the hen doesn't get run over by anyone. She's very good about dodging in to get treats and will not think twice about giving someone a peck if they cause a problem. She has several of the big girls afraid of her.

My quilt is finally home!
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They did a great job on it!

Now to bind it and move on to the next.

It looks amazing!

I don't worry about salmonella, if it was an issue, we would have had it multiple times by now. With all of the salmonella carrying species we have, one would think it would be problematic. Apparently it isn't as prominent as the CDC says, but they put it these alerts anyhow. Think about how many people have salmonella carrying pets, and I'll bet less than 5% ever get it.

I mostly worry about my idiot kids KISING the chickens.. they ROLL AROUND IN THEIR POOP! smh

Salmonella--usually from a sick person or eating an infected under cooked chicken--from a Store or in a restaurant. Not from touching chickens.

It is cases from touching chickens in the hundreds while there are more than a million cases of salmonella a year in the US

I had iguanas when I was a kid and they the same warnings about handling them. I never got sick and I'd hold & groom them all the time.

I don’t think I showed y’all my new pigeon pair. Satinettes.
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They're beautiful! How long do you have to wait til they might have babies?

Might want to bring it down, attic weather is hard on them. They are worth big bucks. Look on Ebay.

I have an aquaintance who buys old sewing machines fairly cheap and fixes them and resells them... She doesn't make a ton off of it, but but she enjoys it and there seems to be a market for it. I have one from the 70's... haven't used it in forever. It's in my parent's basement.

I can't belive i'm worried about a hen that is basically the devil come to lay eggs on earth. But i'm actually worried! It is just a bumble that has done the worst part on its own. Sometimes I doubt my sanity.

IMO it's totally normal. You're responsible for her so it's natural to worry for her safety and health, esp b/c if it gets worse it's more work for you. I cannot tell you how many times I've worried about these stupid things over nothing. I put the side back on the outer area for the 2 amberlinks I have to separate b/c they're feather pickers. The fluffy morons couldn't figure out how to go outside then couldn't figure out how to get back inside. It's not that complicated... I worried all night long that they were outside freezing all night. Stupid dinosaurs.

Mil made it though the surgery just fine, they're keeping her overnight due to her age and weight. She called hubs at work to ask him to bring her bottled water...omg. This is going to be a long couple weeks probably

Wow.. Was that her way of telling him that he needs to come up to the hospital to visit her? I'm certain the hospital has water. Maybe she'll make him stay there w/ her and you'll have the place to yourself. You should call her up and ask her how her butt's doing.

At least you’ve already got a video showing you how to wrap it!
Also hey totally serious. Get yourself a vanity wastebasket for foot soaking. (The chickens, not you) it is literally the perfect “vessel” for the task.

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That's brilliant! I need to check my heathens and was just thinking about how a PITA it'll be to dry them if I have to soak anyone. Last night everyone was preening and just looking at them made me wonder if they had mites. I checked a few and they were fine so it must just been molting and cleaning their feathers.

So they put me in an ambulance and sent me to Lynchburg to get sewed up by a plastic surgeon.

Are you ok? Did they explicitly tell you that you are absolutely not to enter a coop until you're healed?

Happy birthday @pitbullmomma Hope you see a birthday beaver!

Wow.

Show your hubby the birthday beaver.

Double wow.

 

[Chickassan]

@apryl29 What? The woman loves beavers! And the bring MIL water thing lol! I didn't mention hubs had already spent all day down there with her, from 6am to nearly 7pm he took her to the hospital. He came home, ate dinner and went to work she called him after he'd already been there all tatering day. He's gone now to check and see if they're going to release her. Hobo made it through the night just fine like nothing happened despite the pile of gore on the roost. Iv'e still got to get that scab which is now visible on the side of her foot, she's almost drug it loose herself. And of course iv'e got to go clorox the roost.

 

[apryl29]

I went through all the trouble to try to put in 2 roosts on the back wall last weekend. Lowered the poop board about 1", then they were too close together and had to take out the new board. Poor Olive was the first to go up and was sitting sideways. I spent HOURS working on the damn thing. Then I put up a piece of wood over a gap to be a step for them to get on the roost instead of having to jump and fly over.. it's in the way and my idiot cockerels keep trying to just through it. I thought about taking it out, but I think I'm just going to extend the poop board across. So basically I wasted my entire Saturday. The paint I was going to use apparently went bad so now I need to buy some. Didn't get to work on the run at all. It's *supposed* to be warm on Saturday so I'll try again to get something done.
Damon and Dovey are molting BAD. Dovey looks like someone stopped 1/2 way through plucking a chicken and changed their mind about killing it. Damon is all pin feathers. It doesn't help that Dean looks like a Covergirl chicken model w/ her BEAUTIFUL white fluffy clean feathers all over the place making everyone else feel like a zombie fresh out of the grave. I've got them on feather fixer and calf manna, though by the looks of those 2 you wouldn't know it.
I'm down to 3-4 eggs a day which is fine right now since we've got another week on the egg withold. The 2 amberlinks having decided the best place to lays is in the outer box area where I can't get the eggs. I swear they're doing it on purpose. I really wish they'd stop going after everyone's pin feathers so I can let them out w/ everyone else. I thought about those pinless peepers.. but they look like torture devices. Has anyone used them?
I think I have a good sized rat hanging around the coop. I found a tunnel going under the coop that's about as round as a pop can. I'm going to get a bigger trap this weekend.
Sad molting puffy first, beautiful model quality puffy last.

 

[apryl29]

@apryl29 What? The woman loves beavers! And the bring MIL water thing lol! I didn't mention hubs had already spent all day down there with her, from 6am to nearly 7pm he took her to the hospital. He came home, ate dinner and went to work she called him after he'd already been there all tatering day. He's gone now to check and see if they're going to release her. Hobo made it through the night just fine like nothing happened despite the pile of gore on the roost. Iv'e still got to get that scab which is now visible on the side of her foot, she's almost drug it loose herself. And of course iv'e got to go clorox the roost.

Wow, that really sucks. Did he even get to sleep? I also feel bad for the hospital workers.
Hopefully it heals well. It's funny how they don't even seem to walk differently, you know it has to hurt. Too bad there isn't something like a wart pad for bumble. I guess one could make a poultice to wrap up on it instead of doing a soak, but I wouldn't even know what to use.

 

[Chickassan]

@apryl29 Your white birds molt all nasty looking too! Marlene just looks gross, nothing but pin feathers and pink skin her butt looks like a porcupine! The other ones molted but they just looked ratty and patchy nude. Marlene is just a big pink/white mess of awful. The peepers, I have some but couldn't use them because of big awful's bum nose hole. To be honest though, even if I put them on anybody I think they'd just kick them off or somebody would "help" remove them.

 

[CapricornFarm]

First and foremost - Happy Bday to Sam and PBM... and anyone else I missed. It sounds like 21 did or will soon have one.


Wow, you're helping everyone! I felt the same way about my first chickening experience. No one died, but in hindsight I realize I was a terrible chicken owner. Oddly, last time I had ZERO problems.. No one got sick or hurt.. or tumors or eaten. But still... I know now I did a terrible job caring for them.


I have 2 and the hen doesn't get run over by anyone. She's very good about dodging in to get treats and will not think twice about giving someone a peck if they cause a problem. She has several of the big girls afraid of her.


It looks amazing!


I mostly worry about my idiot kids KISING the chickens.. they ROLL AROUND IN THEIR POOP! smh


I had iguanas when I was a kid and they the same warnings about handling them. I never got sick and I'd hold & groom them all the time.


They're beautiful! How long do you have to wait til they might have babies?


I have an aquaintance who buys old sewing machines fairly cheap and fixes them and resells them... She doesn't make a ton off of it, but but she enjoys it and there seems to be a market for it. I have one from the 70's... haven't used it in forever. It's in my parent's basement.


IMO it's totally normal. You're responsible for her so it's natural to worry for her safety and health, esp b/c if it gets worse it's more work for you. I cannot tell you how many times I've worried about these stupid things over nothing. I put the side back on the outer area for the 2 amberlinks I have to separate b/c they're feather pickers. The fluffy morons couldn't figure out how to go outside then couldn't figure out how to get back inside. It's not that complicated... I worried all night long that they were outside freezing all night. Stupid dinosaurs.


Wow.. Was that her way of telling him that he needs to come up to the hospital to visit her? I'm certain the hospital has water. Maybe she'll make him stay there w/ her and you'll have the place to yourself. You should call her up and ask her how her butt's doing.


That's brilliant! I need to check my heathens and was just thinking about how a PITA it'll be to dry them if I have to soak anyone. Last night everyone was preening and just looking at them made me wonder if they had mites. I checked a few and they were fine so it must just been molting and cleaning their feathers.


Are you ok? Did they explicitly tell you that you are absolutely not to enter a coop until you're healed?


Wow.


Double wow.

They didn't say no entering coops but no lifting for 2 days and no bending over. I think he put in 3 layers of sutures. I have a hellish headache.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Happy Birthday PBM. Have a special day.

 

[Chickassan]

You can soften the bumble without soaking. I use glycerin right on the scab. If you do it at night and the scab isn't too deep it will be squishy in the morning and you can just roll it out with your fingers. I'll probably try Hobo's this way first since it is already so far out. Marlene gets deep ones right on the bottom and she's taters to do anything with. I wait until she's roosting and just cover her whole dang foot in glycerin. Iv'e still got to sit on her and cut hers out but having them super soft makes it way easier. Iv'e also had to use PRID drawing salve on a few of her really big ones to get them far enough up and out to work on. I get baby socks cut toe holes and tape the top to wrap her bumbles before and after removal. Looks weird but she's not wrapable.

Wow, that really sucks. Did he even get to sleep? I also feel bad for the hospital workers.
Hopefully it heals well. It's funny how they don't even seem to walk differently, you know it has to hurt. Too bad there isn't something like a wart pad for bumble. I guess one could make a poultice to wrap up on it instead of doing a soak, but I wouldn't even know what to use.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Hi everyone,

I've been busy with work and being sick (with a cold/cough, not morning sickness thank goodness). I've been trying to catch up, but I'm 30 pages behind. How are all you doing.