Official Squatch Watchers

Pics
Date sort Score sort
apryl29 said:
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.


This looks like the makings of an article. :D
Click to expand...
If you want an animal to get them. Rat Terriers will go after them...and the chickens though.
 
Lol! I took photos for one of the is it a hen or a roo threads and look how much bigger Sallie is getting. Negan better be thankful she's a sweetheart! You can also see Rene's graying tush and Ethel's humongus tail..don't know where Dutch was, probably eating.:)
20181023_132031.jpg
20181023_132027.jpg
 
Chickassan said:
Lol! I took photos for one of the is it a hen or a roo threads and look how much bigger Sallie is getting. Negan better be thankful she's a sweetheart! You can also see Rene's graying tush and Ethel's humongus tail..don't know where Dutch was, probably eating.:)View attachment 1568910 View attachment 1568911
Click to expand...
Wow. That’s a beautiful bird right there! She’s like summer sunshine and thunderstorms all rolled into one!
 
Chickassan said:
Lol! I took photos for one of the is it a hen or a roo threads and look how much bigger Sallie is getting. Negan better be thankful she's a sweetheart! You can also see Rene's graying tush and Ethel's humongus tail..don't know where Dutch was, probably eating.:)View attachment 1568910 View attachment 1568911
Click to expand...

So pretty!!!! :love

Making me want another buff brahma. They really are sweet birds.
 
apryl29 said:
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.
Click to expand...
I thought you were talking about the MIL surgery for a second. :lau

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
Click to expand...
I wonder if you did that really thin long string of gauze soaked in the Vetericyn then stuffed into the bumble. That’s how they heal puncture wounds from the inside out.
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
I thought you were talking about the MIL surgery for a second. :lau


I wonder if you did that really thin long string of gauze soaked in the Vetericyn then stuffed into the bumble. That’s how they heal puncture wounds from the inside out.
Click to expand...
Funny that you mention that.
Her worst one ever came up fast and went clear up through the top of the foot. Her bumbles are almost never hard nuggets. They are more diffuse. I actually pulled down the bottle of dakins solution for that one. Soaked a gauze strip and packed the wound three or four days in a row. When I was satisfied that the infection was dealt with, I used a sterilized fat rubberband ( cut so it was a strip) as a penrose drain that I tied loosely so I could flush the channel with betadine daily. Left the drain in for a week before pulling it.

When I say I’ve “dealt with bumblefoot” I am NOT kidding.

Only my welsummers get it.
Never anyone else. So weird.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom