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Redhead Rae said:
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.
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I busted my head open at my surgery site. I will be taking a nap today for sure.
 
Chickassan said:
@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.
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Yes! Dovey's butt is totally naked. She's working on losing her tail feathers. One of the white ones molted earlier this year and I had to cage her b/c they kept picking her shoulder pins. I caught one of the cockerels pecking at Damon a few times. IDK what his problem is. He was supposed to be long gone. I messaged the guy who wanted them about when he thought he'd be ready to take them, but no response. I get that it takes time to make arrangements, but it's been well over a month since he said he'd take them and he hasn't yet and my girls can't handle 2 HUGE roosters trying to jump them, esp when they're molting.

CapricornFarm said:
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.
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Oh wow. That sure sounds like an excuse to lay down and rest and let someone else take care of things.

Chickassan said:
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.:hmm
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Interesting. I'll keep that in mind when I'm inspecting feet later. I was trying to check for mites and you'd think I was trying to cull someone by the way they were acting.. Though with the molt I'm sure they don't want to be handled. It has to hurt to have pin feathers poking out of your flesh.
 
apryl29 said:
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.
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I hope the coop work goes better next weekend!
Roosters are very funny!

There is never one rat. There are a lot more than you think there
 
ronott1 said:
I hope the coop work goes better next weekend!
Roosters are very funny!

There is never one rat. There are a lot more than you think there
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I've been catching small rats and field mice all summer, but I've been using regular size traps. I think there's something bigger. We need a bigger boat!
 
apryl29 said:
It's going to be a dead rat once I get a hold of it.
Tubbs is failing miserably at his job.
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Tubbs is a cat? Cats won't get roof rats. They are huge!
 
Oh girl! @Chickassan ,
I have read so much about bumble foot! I have watched videos about bumble foot from all over the world! Let me save you some time: yes some people do use a drawing salve under a bandage like PRID or “porters salve“ to tease out a stubborn bumble.
I must say I’ve been tempted to try the kit for planters warts that freeze the wart to death.
Maybe one of these days.

I have been having really good luck with that “veterycin antimicrobial spray gel” for healing once the bumble is out.

Its not an antibiotic, but I suppose the antimicrobial ingredient plus I suppose, it’s physical property is so occlusive, it keeps the air, dirt and germs out.

Post bumble removal, I scrub with hibiclens, flush copiously with dilute betadine. Then I saturate a fairly thick 1 inch square piece of gauze pad liberally with veterycin plus fill in the cavity of the wound with the gel. then I bandage it up and don’t touch it for three days.
After 3 days, I remove the bandage, soak and scrub as before and trim away (with tiny sterilized manicure scissors) any new skin around the edges of the wound that is threatening to close over too fast, then rebandage for another 3 days. I think the object of this game it to allow the wound to heal from the inside out.
By the next time I take it off, the top of the wound bed is usually just about filled in with new healthy tissue to or nearly to the level of the surrounding skin.
If it looks good and there’s no sign of new or spreading infection I just scrub and retreat with the spraygel/gauze/bandage and leave that one on for 5 days.
By the time I take that one off it’s usually all healed.

*none of the above timing is valid in extensively wet or muddy conditions, but it’s fine if it rains one day.

Edited for product spelling.
VETERICYN
 
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ronott1 said:
Tubbs is a cat? Cats won't get roof rats. They are huge!
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Oh good.. I was about to tell him he's fired. I did see him on the trail cam looking in the run at night for mice (I assume). We have ditch rats here, and according to google it looks like it's the same thing... I had a stupid cat (who had a broken, then healed crooked jaw) that caught one, but couldn't kill it and ended up letting it go right up by the house. Tubbs has killed bunnies before so I wouldn't be surprised if he could kill one, but he'd have to catch it first. I'm working on making him fat and lazy by bunny blocking him when he starts thinking about murder.

staceyj said:
Oh girl! @Chickassan ,
I have read so much about bumble foot! I have watched videos about bumble foot from all over the world! Let me save you some time: yes some people do use a drawing salve under a bandage like PRID or “porters salve“ to tease out a stubborn bumble.
I must say I’ve been tempted to try the kit for planters warts that freeze the wart to death.
Maybe one of these days.

I have been having really good luck with that “veterycin antimicrobial spray gel” for healing once the bumble is out.

Its not an antibiotic, but I suppose the antimicrobial ingredient plus I suppose, it’s physical property is so occlusive, it keeps the air, dirt and germs out.

Post bumble removal, I scrub with hibiclens, flush copiously with dilute betadine. Then I saturate a fairly thick 1 inch square piece of gauze pad liberally with veterycin plus fill in the cavity of the wound with the gel. then I bandage it up and don’t touch it for three days.
After 3 days, I remove the bandage, soak and scrub as before and trim away (with tiny sterilized manicure scissors) any new skin around the edges of the wound that is threatening to close over too fast, then rebandage for another 3 days. I think the object of this game it to allow the wound to heal from the inside out.
By the next time I take it off, the top of the wound bed is usually just about filled in with new healthy tissue to or nearly to the level of the surrounding skin.
If it looks good and there’s no sign of new or spreading infection I just scrub and retreat with the spraygel/gauze/bandage and leave that one on for 5 days.
By the time I take that one off it’s usually all healed.

*none of the above timing is valid in extensively wet or muddy conditions, but it’s fine if it rains one day.

Edited for product spelling.
VETERICYN
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This looks like the makings of an article. :D
 

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