Official Squatch Watchers

[Redhead Rae]

Can you tell that we are butter fiends that rival Paula Dean in her prime.

 

[Suzi18]

Actually Red Feather butter is from New Zealand. If you're referring to the butter in a can

 

[Redhead Rae]

Actually Red Feather butter is from New Zealand. If you're referring to the butter in a can

Yes, it is just as good, if not slightly better than Kerrygold.

 

[Suzi18]

Yes, it is just as good, if not slightly better than Kerrygold.

I'll have to try it. I've seen it but never bought it

 

[staceyj]

Nope. I have anxiety, know what a panic attack feels like. I was totally chill when this happened. not stressing about anything It was a dizzy spell (I've had them very sporadically through my life, they never found anything, but not in years and never when driving). The panic attack was after realizing I could crash my car and I wasn't able to pull over.

Rolled my windows down, got some cold air, and did some deep breathing to try to get past it.

It's only when driving. When I get to work I'm fine. One thing I noticed yesterday is that staring straight ahead seems to make it worse. If I shift my eyes around (like checking the mirrors) it's not as bad.

It's scary AF. I'm really stressing about going to work this morning. I'm hoping the med change kicks in, fast.

How old is your car?
Do the inside of your windows get dirty easily?
Get your heater coil and exhaust system checked.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

https://www.kerrygoldusa.com/products/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2u-zx6PU3wIV27jACh2dAwRhEAAYASAAEgJAOvD_BwE

Just in case someone else is looking for Kerrygold now. LOL

 

[staceyj]

Can you tell that we are butter fiends that rival Paula Dean in her prime.

 

[staceyj]

@Suzi18
So much info.
My writer’s brain has a whole background story written.
They split up over a chicken.
Sold their 1.23 mil $ house.
Marriage dissolved.
Fairytale collapsed.
No contract work due to govt shutdown.
He’s wallowing in the bottle...
Thinking he should have locked up the coop...

 

[apryl29]

Hey! I think my stethoscope will actually fit in this case! Great idea!

I love my Dr. Mom tools! But they are not toys!

No, esp when they can hurt them/ damage their ears. They thought it was hilarious to put them on and talk/ yell in to the end. Granted I'm certain I did that stupid stuff too.

Don’t ever lend an expensive stethoscope to a pregnant “work friend” so her 5 year old can hear its siblings heartbeat.

The work friend will never bring it back after her maternity leave, blow you off for a year, leave their job with the promise to bring it in, then move across the country. Never to be heard from again ...

So either her kid broke it and she didn't want to pay for it, or she liked it a lot and kept it. I'm voting that it was broken. Unfortunately I've learned the lending lesson time and time again. Then there's the people that you'd rather not lend stuff to, but how do you tell your mother that you don't want to let her borrow something b/c you know you'll never see it again. I bought the Infinity wars dvd the day the movie came out and the following weekend my mom asked if I'd gotten any new movies recently. I was stupid and let her borrow it, assuming I'd get it back. I always write my name on my movies b/c then I know they're mine. It's gone. She claims that things are "disappearing" and my dad is taking them and throwing stuff away. Yes, my dad took MY dvd, instead of the 100 that are on the shelf under the tv, that had my name on it and threw it away to mess w/ her. And don't get me started on my carpet washer that I have to ask her to use b/c the second I take it home she "needs" it. If anyone is considering adult adoption, I'm available. I need no parental assistance at all. At this point I just need an emergency contact person for medical forms.

I think Rene is becoming a woman. Little fartknocker is going from nest to nest just talking her head off.
That means unless she eats some serious wheaties she's a bantam but that is fine.
I wonder how that even happened? I didn't see bantam favs for sale at meyer.

If only Wheaties did make them bigger. Did she look tiny when you got her, or unusually advanced in her development? When I got Ash and William they didn't seem small, but then I realized later that there were at least a week older than all my other birds. Ash had full wings already when I got her.

Omg! Some of the nightgown chickens are wearing babushkas! I just squealed a little bit.View attachment 1632258

Adorable! It's funny how we notice little details later and it makes us happy. Like it's a little extra treat. Like buying a bra or pair of pants and not trying it on, and when you get home it actually fits.

Thanks for all your love and hugs, guys. Yeah, my runs and coops are pretty Fort Knox-ified. My husband built them tight. I'm pretty sure she somehow escaped my head count somehow, although how I don't know. It must have happened when I let them all out to free range in their area and then locked them in at night--maybe she hopped the fence--but there were only 6 of them in their coop so I don't see how I could have missed her.

It was pretty awful this AM, OMG. I think it was probably a hawk. Whatever it was tore her apart. I am pretty hardened but it kinda made me a little queasy. I feel so bad for her (I hope it was at least quick) and I feel bad for my girls for having to see that. I've been giving them extra treats and loving, poor babies.

My hubby checked the whole runs/coops this AM and said there were no gaps, holes, nothing. When I got home everyone was out clucking, and scratching like normal (unlike what I kept dreading in my awful daytime fantasy scenarios, where I came home to two coops and runs full of bloody, disemboweled, dead chickens everywhere, ugh).

I have that same obsessive thought sometimes too. Like things are going good, too good.. so something horrible must be happening. Esp when I go outside and don't hear William and my brain instantly goes to Well, they're all dead.

UPDATE!! Ok as promised ......I'm giving my culinary review ... I've finally eaten my girl's eggs for the first time. THEY ARE SO AMAZING!!!! I scrambled them and did a taste comparison test against store bought with my boyfriend... blindfolded
He picked the girls eggs as the best of course!! They were amazingly creamy and delicious!!!
HAPPY CHICKEN MOMMY!!!
I give them 5 stars and can't wait to cook with them once the other 2 start laying.

I have a friend who insists that my blue & green egg layers taste different than all others. While I will admit they do taste different than store bought, the blue don't taste different than the brown from my flock.
If you're girls are new to laying, crack your eggs into a separate bowl first before adding it to whatever. When they first start laying sometimes you get stuff called 'meat' in the egg. It's just stuff in the ova duct getting flushed out during the process. Some more adventurous people just eat it (extra protein).. but I prefer not to. It took me a couple months til I could trust my eggs, but I had 12 girls who all started laying at different times and it was hard to tell who laid what.

Apryl, I'm sorry you guys are dealing with that! That poor kid has already been through so much. I'm gonna echo what everybody else has said (and prove myself to be a giant hypocrite, as you will soon see) and also say that she should see a doc. In light of her medical and surgical history and the syncope, and the fact that she is a ped. But yeah, I would skip right to the cardiologist.

Let us know what happens!

I have been having dizzy spells--while driving--as of today and yesterday, and it is scaring the crap out of me. As in, when it happened yesterday it led to a panic attack, and made the commute in to work pretty awful. This morning, it happened again, though not as bad.

In my case, I am pretty sure it has to do with a medication change I recently made. Yes, I know, see a doctor....however, this is a really common side effect when cutting a dose in half like that, so I went back on my normal dose, and if this continues I will see my doc for sure.

LOL I'm the same way.. Like w/ my kids and everyone else it's Go to the dr. But w/ myself it's like I'll be alright. I still have a mark on my hand from where I broke it. Occasionally it hurts and I think I really should have gotten that looked at. But what if they wanted to do surgery? I don't have time for that. And I'd have to have someone take me there and drive me home. Same reason I've not see someone about my shoulder.
I wanted to take her to the er, but she says she's fine now.. at the time they may have xrayed her face and checked her bp & maybe some blood tests. I think I'm going to call the heart center and see if I can get her an appt the same day as the neurologist since we'll be at the hospital anyway.
The whole thing reminded me of @Anansi's experience w/ her daughter. I was concerned and worried, but couldn't stop laughing. When I tried to explain to her what happened I kept having to stop b/c I'd start laughing and the whole situation. Of course, I was worried about her and scared that she was hurt, but what probably took at the most 30 seconds to occur stretched out to several minutes and ended w/ her lying on the floor w/ her still upright bowl of taco stuff in her hand. As I someone who is 5'2 and plus, trying to stop a 5'6 is person who's less plus, but solidly built person from collapsing to the ground and taking out everything in her path. It looked like a failed trust fall between a little person and a giant.
I'm not a horrible person, I swear.. maybe I am. My older one got a boil on her butt when she was a toddler. She had to have it lanced at the er and they strapped her down to a papoose board and I was holding her hands and the dr and 3 nurses were there and my kid is laying there yelling "Grab me mommy! Grab me!" and I was laughing so hard I had to crouch down to compose myself. I wasn't laughing at her or the situation, though the medical staff probably thought I was the worst mother ever.. I was laughing b/c this little tiny person, who was about 2 1/2 years old was very articulately saying Grab me mommy! Grab me! It's still hilarious to this day. And between laughs I'm telling her It's ok. It's almost over. After this we'll go to the store and get you a present. What do you want. A duck? Ok, we'll get you a duck (Now I was thinking a REAL duck).. I was going to get her anything she wanted. She got a stuffed duck, I think we still have it. I need to journal these stories so when I'm old I can read them and laugh my butt off.

I knew they would be fabulous. It was a mental thing .... like eating her babies... it's crazy cause I know they aren't fertilized... lol... new chicken mom learning.

We all learn as we go. Just think of it as they're going to lay these eggs no matter what. Might as well use them.

Fishy, the date on the x-ray is 3/15/18.

I hope so, the computer date is 12/31/18 and has vet clinic cards in front, that chicken would have been full of junk for a long time.

So I noticed that too... I think it's that person's chicken b/c the name on the xray does match the username-ish.. last name. And it being in a vet's office adds some credibility. I creeper stalked the person's name on the xray and she does have a husband named Adam. No chickens in their fb pictures, but it looks like they own a small business that I honestly can't figure out what they do.. but it seems like they wouldn't be the type to be trolling BYC for entertainment. https://www.sabg.com/about-us/ His twitter is also rather boring & non-confrontational too. Not used much and just retweeting w/ no comments (not surprising for someone w/ a small business to consider). Could be legit and they're just busy w/ the chicken. Also, if you look at the time on the computer it's 1:39 pm and in the top left hand corner of the photo it says 01:24:11 so it's possible that the xray time stamp is on that side & was taken at 1:24 and they're viewing it 15 min later. The date in the on the right hand side by the office name may be the date that the system was set up.
Looks like a nice vet though... they even treat zebras! https://deepwoodveterinaryclinic.com/small-exotic-animals-vet-centerville/

Nope. I have anxiety, know what a panic attack feels like. I was totally chill when this happened. not stressing about anything It was a dizzy spell (I've had them very sporadically through my life, they never found anything, but not in years and never when driving). The panic attack was after realizing I could crash my car and I wasn't able to pull over.

Rolled my windows down, got some cold air, and did some deep breathing to try to get past it.

It's only when driving. When I get to work I'm fine. One thing I noticed yesterday is that staring straight ahead seems to make it worse. If I shift my eyes around (like checking the mirrors) it's not as bad.

It's scary AF. I'm really stressing about going to work this morning. I'm hoping the med change kicks in, fast.

Hope you made it to work ok. Are you eating breakfast before heading into work? I know I start to feel a little weird sometimes if I haven't eaten in a while. I assume it's low blood sugar in my case. Esp w/ a med change you might want to double check if it's supposed to be take w/ food, or before/after. It's so frustrating b/c now it's a guessing game to figure out what's causing it. Maybe check out medication side effects too.

 

[Suzi18]

@Suzi18
So much info.
My writer’s brain has a whole background story written.
They split up over a chicken.
Sold their 1.23 mil $ house.
Marriage dissolved.
Fairytale collapsed.
No contract work due to govt shutdown.
He’s wallowing in the bottle...
Thinking he should have locked up the coop...

Oh dear.....you really need to write a book