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[GotGame]

Everyone should have a bluetick pup

 

[Greybear23]

Hey Matt what did ya do with that RQ hen, want to lone her out??? Lynn

 

[GotGame]

Lynn, I sent you a pm about the hen

 

[Greybear23]

Hey Donnie, you ever get all them game chickens from that guy? Lynn

 

[Sooner]

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it makes perfect sense you doun size now and have four mounths to get pens ready for the babyes your are hatching now its like a miny vacation lol

LOL yeah I guess that is what will happen. The turkey's will go to a friend, I am just learning to hatch them since I had such a hard time last year. All of the eggs hatched out of my flock will go to another friend except the show birds & NN's.

Speaking of NN's, I only got one to hatch out of the one's I got from you & it seems to have failure to thrive. It hasn't grown or gotten any feathers like the rest, I don't expect it to make it through the night.

 

[cameron]

Buster..
I originally had it in the farm area and it got pulled. Prolly cause I'm not actually selling something, but announcing a sale.


I came real close to buying that bluetick. I've never actually paid money for a hound tho. Always either found dogs or traded for them.

Never paid money for office supplies, either, come to think about it!

 

[muesky]

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Hi Sooner,

Actually Maribeth parted this bit of wisdom at dinner a couple of weeks ago. I was telling her about finding on of my favorite hens with her side flayed open from rooster spurs and about preparing the hen to sew her back up. Maribeth said that this is what they did during the Civil War for wound care if their wounds were to large or too dirty to sew up. You pack the wound with grandulated sugar then bandage it. What I did is take guaze and put a thick layer of antibiotic ointment on it then pour sugar on that and press the sugar into the ointment to get as much to stick as possible. I clean the wound with water to make sure there is no debrie in it and pour sugar onto the wound (as much as I can get to stick). Than cover the wound with the gauze/ointment/sugar and cover all of it with either ace bandage or more gauze and tape it down. With my hen with the flayed side I used paper tape and taped the gauze down. With this one that has been scalped I used an ace bandage to hold the gauze in place. I clean the wound everyday for 4 days, reapply the sugar and change the dressing, after that I clean the wound, reapply sugar/ointment and change the dressing every two days for about 8 days then leave the wound to finish healing on its own. The wound on my hen had started growing skin over the flesh after a week and the hole in her side is down to about a quarter size from a wound that was about 4 inches across when I found her.
It was totally amazing to see how fast this wound has healed. I have done wound care before on chickens and did not have any luck with it. The key I think is not to aggreviate the wound much, just rinse it off with warm water, put the sugar on it and bandage it to keep the sugar on and the wound clean. I will keep you informed about how my scalped hen does.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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it makes perfect sense you doun size now and have four mounths to get pens ready for the babyes your are hatching now its like a miny vacation lol

LOL yeah I guess that is what will happen. The turkey's will go to a friend, I am just learning to hatch them since I had such a hard time last year. All of the eggs hatched out of my flock will go to another friend except the show birds & NN's.

Speaking of NN's, I only got one to hatch out of the one's I got from you & it seems to have failure to thrive. It hasn't grown or gotten any feathers like the rest, I don't expect it to make it through the night.

sorry to hear that about the NN eggs

 

[Buster52]

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But there is another farm area under Services. That's where folks put auctions and such. Try there. At least then it will be seen by the right people.

 

[Sooner]

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Hi Sooner,

Actually Maribeth parted this bit of wisdom at dinner a couple of weeks ago. I was telling her about finding on of my favorite hens with her side flayed open from rooster spurs and about preparing the hen to sew her back up. Maribeth said that this is what they did during the Civil War for wound care if their wounds were to large or too dirty to sew up. You pack the wound with grandulated sugar then bandage it. What I did is take guaze and put a thick layer of antibiotic ointment on it then pour sugar on that and press the sugar into the ointment to get as much to stick as possible. I clean the wound with water to make sure there is no debrie in it and pour sugar onto the wound (as much as I can get to stick). Than cover the wound with the gauze/ointment/sugar and cover all of it with either ace bandage or more gauze and tape it down. With my hen with the flayed side I used paper tape and taped the gauze down. With this one that has been scalped I used an ace bandage to hold the gauze in place. I clean the wound everyday for 4 days, reapply the sugar and change the dressing, after that I clean the wound, reapply sugar/ointment and change the dressing every two days for about 8 days then leave the wound to finish healing on its own. The wound on my hen had started growing skin over the flesh after a week and the hole in her side is down to about a quarter size from a wound that was about 4 inches across when I found her.
It was totally amazing to see how fast this wound has healed. I have done wound care before on chickens and did not have any luck with it. The key I think is not to aggreviate the wound much, just rinse it off with warm water, put the sugar on it and bandage it to keep the sugar on and the wound clean. I will keep you informed about how my scalped hen does.

That is great! I'm sure I will need this info again but as I am on my laptop I can't save it here.....Hopefully I will remember tomorrow.