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Sassysouth said:
That is awesome!!

I have roaches, Dubia Roaches. I thought about raising them for the chickens last year. My son got a bearded dragon and I am about going broke while my colony gets going. We did all kinds of research before getting Sam (Samantha), the bearded dragon. Somehow we missed they eat insects exclusively the first 6 months. I have been told not to get insects out of the yard due to them carrying parasites and exposure to lawn chemicals that could make Sam sick. Lordy, lordy.
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I used to order boxes of crickets and super worms for my 8 chameleons.
 
Gurtrude is doing much better.

The backstory:
She was sitting in her nest box but not producing eggs for about a month straight. Her abdomen got very firm and bloated, she started not eating and her weight dropped down to 1.4 kilos. We took her to a vet who found a deflated shell via x-ray and took out over 30 mL of yellowish fluid from her abdomen, meaning she was laying internally and had egg yolk peritonitis. We ended up getting antibiotics and Meloxicam, and a couple weeks later added meds for a yeast infection. I was literally filling her crop every night with a baby food/crushed pellet mix and probiotic water, and two weeks ago she was up to 1.83 kilos. She's been eating very well on her own, preferring grower crumble over pellets, and today she weighed in at 2.24 kilos, which comes out to over 14 oz's. Spaying will be about $1000.00, so we're doing depo shots and keeping her on antibiotics until we have the money to get the spay. The depo is only $16/month, but with the check up and refill on antibiotics, we're looking at $95/month. Still, it's better than her suffering and dying from something that we can fix, and for DD#4, Gurtrude is worth it
 
Anansi said:
Gurtrude is doing much better.

The backstory:
She was sitting in her nest box but not producing eggs for about a month straight. Her abdomen got very firm and bloated, she started not eating and her weight dropped down to 1.4 kilos. We took her to a vet who found a deflated shell via x-ray and took out over 30 mL of yellowish fluid from her abdomen, meaning she was laying internally and had egg yolk peritonitis. We ended up getting antibiotics and Meloxicam, and a couple weeks later added meds for a yeast infection. I was literally filling her crop every night with a baby food/crushed pellet mix and probiotic water, and two weeks ago she was up to 1.83 kilos. She's been eating very well on her own, preferring grower crumble over pellets, and today she weighed in at 2.24 kilos, which comes out to over 14 oz's. Spaying will be about $1000.00, so we're doing depo shots and keeping her on antibiotics until we have the money to get the spay. The depo is only $16/month, but with the check up and refill on antibiotics, we're looking at $95/month. Still, it's better than her suffering and dying from something that we can fix, and for DD#4, Gurtrude is worth it
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Woohoo on the weight gain! Glad she is feeling better. She is so lucky to have found such a wonderful family. I know you treasure her :love
 
21hens-incharge said:
They have not given us any additional information about the shooter. It makes me think that he knew them and is likely in custody.
At least that is what I am telling myself. :hmm


I got quite a bit done in the garden! I moved a 4x8 garden bed and got it leveled. That was quite a chore! The ground I had to dig out was like concrete.
I amended 2 beds, set metal posts, moved a cattle panel to be a big arch for growing vertical and topped off a 3x4 bed then set trellis into that one. Then I set to planting a few things. I got roughly 35' of peas planted, 3 pots of carrots (after screening that dirt), lettuce and spinach until I ran out of spinach seed.....
I still have 2 sections of the raised beds roughly 40 square feet unplanted.

Now to make supper preparations. :th
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Sheesh......you make me tired
 

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