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[apryl29]

Exhausting, but great. Got to spend Monday and Tuesday afternoon / evening with the grand kids.



He's healing well and full of energy.

That's great to hear.

I'm pretty sure Gladys's injury is from her using that hock as a stepping point. I tried hobbling her and she was removing it. I tried the sling and she was throwing herself out. (I usually found her dangling by her bad leg.) I finally found a hobble she couldn't escape. I used vet wrap on her legs so the hobble itself wouldn't slide down her legs. I had it up past the hock on her good leg then around the hock on her bad. She pretty much refuses to walk around once hobbled. But I wanted to try and hold it in a better position.
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Not happy with me....
I did bring home some more supplies today and I will try and clean up the hole in her leg better probably this weekend. Give the honey some time to work and her a break from being poked and prodded.
I wrapped her wound but did not hobble her again.

In other news--
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My poor OE is half bald! She doesn't like to be handled so I only check on her when I have to. She's a rooster favorite so she's been in a saddle for months. I wanted to see how her feathers were coming in, if the saddle was causing a problem. Every time I touched her handfuls of feathers fell off! Looked like a chicken crime scene. I've never personally seen a molt this hard. Poor thing needs the saddle for warmth at this point.
I'm a little worried about my Wheaten Amercauna too. The one always feels lousy during molt but I had to pick poop off her today. She's sleeping under a roost. She walks around all puffed up and disgruntled looking. I'm hoping that's all it is.

No suggestions about the injury. When Jackie was limping it went away on it's own, but she wasn't walking on her hock. Could you just us the vet tape to wrap it & put a bit of extra padding back thereafter the first wrap & tie it off like Stacey did in her video for bumble foot?

& that's a lot of feathers there! Poor naked thing.

Here’s the molting contest link.
Great prizes!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...orst-chicken-molt-pics.1269409/#post-20395671

This one is horrible! https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...icken-molt-pics.1269409/page-16#post-20575219
I hurt just looking at it.

I tried everything to get a good picture of her belly while standing. They were all blurry. Oddly when I held her on her back she just lay there.

There's a thing where you can hypnotize a chicken and most of it is flipping them onto their back. Some of mine will be totally calm, but others kick you like they're being abducted.

Well you got a really good picture but man does she ever look expired. That the mopey, poopy one the ameraucana? If so those don't molt gracefully. I fully expected to find Susan dead every morning based on how she acted.

So good to hear that it's normal! My eggers don't molt well either. Every single one has been very naked for an extended period of time, but just about everyone else keeps some kind of feathers while they molt. My sebright was very naked last fall which was odd b/c she was only about 7 months old, & William had a naked chest and neck when he molted, & lost his beautiful tail.

Ok folks.... Need some thoughts. Baby pigs have me at my witt's end. Months ago, I strung hot wire inside the fence, but attached to the fence with the yellow plastic insulators and it worked great until the littles decided to become escape artists. I about killed myself last weekend restringing the wire, which lasted less than an hour until ham basically just sat on it. He either breaks it or pushes it up against the fence grounding it out (always using his butt). And the kids have lifted the perimeter fence so they can easily go out in many places. Since I know ham can break 14 gauge steel wire and insulators, I'm thinking about poly tape or horse rope.

Thinking about building an electric fence a foot inside the metal fence with 3 or four wires close to the ground. Also thinking about getting a hotter energizer. I'd love your thoughts on how I quit having to chase pigs several times a day, every day. If I had the money, I'd buy a pig fence with a 1 joule charger, but that's a LOT of money.

They're driving me crazy if you can't tell...

Any way you can put a 4x4 or railroad ties across the bottom of the fence and use spikes or something to attach them to the ground to keep them from pushing them out?

Publix coffee tastes like they swept it off the floor of an equally awful coffee factory.

Nothing will ever be worse that Burger King coffee. I've tried it 3 times from 3 different stores and they all taste like hamburgers.

Good morning friends. I'm sitting here....hand elevated.....drinking my coffee and waiting for the cinnamon rolls to bake. A friend brought me some yesterday and I couldn't wait for morning so I could have them.
Btw....I buy McDonald's coffee, breakfast blend. Kroger is the only place around here that sells it

Check out Dollar General. The ones here carry it. I think Family Dollar might also.

Yup. Still a bit exhausted from the trip. Getting ready to log into work and looking forward to the day being over. It would be better if my fence were made of hog panels but probably wouldn't make a difference. If they can get their nose under it, they can get out. And I can't think of anything that can out do Ham's 300 pound butt.

Um... I can, but it only works if you want to eat him.

I wish I knew more about pigs other than how smart they are,
















And how very delicious they taste. That’s IT. I’m going to hell for that.

I will be joining you after my similar response.

 

[apryl29]

This poor soul had no idea what roads he had been on, what road he had passed, what direction he had been going.

Makes ya wonder what the future holds for them.

If they have a smart phone they should be able to turn on their location and go to google maps and find their coordinates. Even some flip phones have internet access, though it's not the greatest thing ever.

 

[WVduckchick]

This poor soul had no idea what roads he had been on, what road he had passed, what direction he had been going.

Makes ya wonder what the future holds for them.

Probably a kid. Even the ones that drive still don’t pay attention to where they physically are. They just know how to get where they are going.

 

[Chickassan]

Good morning! Great news! Publix is taking the nasty coffee back and giving me MY choice of two free bags!

 

[staceyj]

I had a good laugh at 3 am.......

yes 3am.

Hubby is on call. The winner of the night is the guy calling for a tow that is lost. Yup he has NO idea where he is.
Well just let me check the crystal ball to find him!

Shakin my head!

A close second on the bonehead meter.....
At 1:30 am a dad called to find out if his sons car was still in the tow yard........UM yeah, if it wasn't bailed out it's still there.
Facepalm!

Lol. When I first moved out to Arizona I decided to venture out and find this shopping center one night after dinner.
I found it.
But I got turned around on the way home.
No cell service.
I could feel that I was driving up in elevation.
The phrase PITCH BLACK had an all new meaning.
Came around a bend and saw a yellow road sign with a cute picture of a cow on it, and below it, another with the words OPEN RANGE on it.

Silly city girl.

About 100 yards later I came around another bend and slammed on the brakes.

I was in the midst of a HERD OF CATTLE!

In the dark.

In the middle of nowhere.

With no back up camera.

They weren’t moving either.

And they’d closed in behind me too.
And they were NUDGING ME!

It took me almost an hour to back up little by little that hundred yards or so. Then finally got turned around with a —what felt like —thousand point turn, on that skinny road.

I called the hubs as soon as I finally got a signal on my phone, but I didn’t get home till almost midnight.
Scared DH to death.

Before I moved away I took a picture of one of those signs. I still have it on a memory board in my writing room.

 

[apryl29]

Probably a kid. Even the ones that drive still don’t pay attention to where they physically are. They just know how to get where they are going.

That sounds like me when I was a kid... We had an amusement park out this way about 1/2 hr from where I live. I knew exactly ONE way to get there, back roads of course. Then comes 4th of July... They shut down my road for fireworks. Are you freakin' kidding me?! We were driving around in a development b/c I had no clue how to get the heck out of there. I ended up asking a cop who was directing traffic how to get to somewhere I would know. I didn't know roads, I just knew turn here, turn there and boom- Geauga Lake!
Now that I think about it... I think this is where my anxiety about going places I've never been came from.

 

[staceyj]

Probably a kid. Even the ones that drive still don’t pay attention to where they physically are. They just know how to get where they are going.

This is such a true statement. “Sense of direction” is something someone is either born with or not.
Except for that time with the cattle, I almost always have an excellent internal gps.

Once I’ve been somewhere once, I never need directions again.

Only 50% of my kids inherited this trait.

The other two could get lost in a dark paper bag.

Nothing will ever be worse that Burger King coffee. I've tried it 3 times from 3 different stores and they all taste like hamburgers.

Omg. I could TASTE it just from reading your words!

 

[staceyj]

That sounds like me when I was a kid... We had an amusement park out this way about 1/2 hr from where I live. I knew exactly ONE way to get there, back roads of course. Then comes 4th of July... They shut down my road for fireworks. Are you freakin' kidding me?! We were driving around in a development b/c I had no clue how to get the heck out of there. I ended up asking a cop who was directing traffic how to get to somewhere I would know. I didn't know roads, I just knew turn here, turn there and boom- Geauga Lake!
Now that I think about it... I think this is where my anxiety about going places I've never been came from.

I have a friend who has to do a “test run” for everything.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Front and side view.

I actually think it's a little farther back but its definitely more turned in. When I had her hobbled I put the hobble about where the bandage is on her bad leg. Then to try and pull it back I had it just above the bend on the other leg.
Ideally she would be hobbled low to pull that foot in. But then it sticks out really far forward. I may try that anyway.

 

[staceyj]

Good morning! Great news! Publix is taking the nasty coffee back and giving me MY choice of two free bags!

Yay! I am super happy for you! Get something DELICIOUS!