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[Kassaundra]

Robin so sorry about Flo. How is your husband's foot/ankle today?

 

[Oceanseve]

So sorry Robin! I know you will miss her.
I am still trying to talk myself into getting started on chores. Stayed up late grading papers for DH trainees. After 200+ test I can say without a doubt I don't want to get on the battlefield with 90% of them! They all want to put a tourniquet on to stop bleeding as the first step & these are soldiers with mostly medical related jobs!
I think I will go check the animals then began working on garden stuff.

Okay, now I want to know what the right answer is? My first thought would be to apply pressure, but I don't know anything about saving anybody (better hope none of you ever get injured around me

) I'll be the one dialing 911

 

[jcatblum]

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Okay, now I want to know what the right answer is? My first thought would be to apply pressure, but I don't know anything about saving anybody (better hope none of you ever get injured around me

) I'll be the one dialing 911

Yep place field dressing on wound & apply pressure! The field dressing is the gauze bandage that is usually kept on the left side strap of your gear. My guess is they learn how to apply a tourniquet last so that was all get remembered! I seriously only had maybe a dz people say apply pressure. Hope I don't fall & scrap my knee when I go to see DH at work. Might just loose my leg.

 

[Ksane]

Oh no, Robin, not Flo

I'm so sorry, I know she was one of your favorites. I have a Blue Partridge from Betsy that looks just like she did, if I could magically turn her into Flo I'd give her to you. Both my 2 from Betsy have such gentle sweet personalities so I can imagine how wonderful your girl was. She was such a trooper raising all those babies. You've had such rotten luck this year so far.

 

[Buster52]

It has occurred to me I have been thinking about my future chicken processing equipment purchase all wrong.

I have been trying to calculate how many meat birds I would have sell in order to justify purchasing $2,000 worth of equipment. But then, while processing those roos last weekend, all of whom were old enough to make skinning them a bear of job, I realized a decent plucker should actually be seen as a labor saving device for the home. Scald and toss in 3 birds and in 30 seconds it's done. I don't plan to ever buy another chicken from the store, so that means processing my own for the foreseeable future.

So, I'm now thinking of this purchase more like a riding lawnmower or a dish washer. It will make a job I feel I have to do anyway significantly easier. The fact that I will eventually make all that money back through bird sales is simply icing on the cake.

How's that for rationalizing a purchase?

[Christina and others, I haven't completely tossed out the idea of a grant to pay for most of the equipment. I'm just not sure I want to wait that long for some of it, what with 125 meaties coming in the mail this week. I figure at least a plucker and a couple of cones need to be purchased pretty soon.]

 

[Ksane]

JCat, that's hilarious what you said about not falling down at his work lol
I met OceansEve (Laura, right?) on the side of the road at 11:00 last night and she bought my incubator. Only chicken people meet on the side of a country road at almost midnight, I felt like I was selling black market incubators or something Ha! I'm thinking hard on whether to buy the 24 egg Brinsea or the manual 10 egg (the other is out of stock) or none at all. I'm so scared I'd be bawling my eyes out running down the road after the people who took my extra boys begging them to come back with them

I can part with other animals, dogs, horses (in a heartbeat), I placed my donkey and didn't look back, cats, sheep and goats. Maybe after a few more hatches it'll get easier? If I felt like someone actually wanted them and was happy to get them maybe I could. But there's not homes like that out there.
Edit: Oh wow. Me and Buster52's posts don't exactly belong on the same page, huh?

 

[Buster52]

Edit: Oh wow. Me and Buster52's posts don't exactly belong on the same page, huh?

Sure they do. They are both about chickens, right?

 

[CityClucks]

But I want it full NOW!

Actually, it could be I spoke too soon. I forgot how much runoff plays a part in filling my pond. It came up considerably even after the rains stopped, though still only about half full. I had to rush out in the drizzle and get a start on my catfish pens, so I can complete them early tomorrow before the next batch hits us.

That is my next meat project.

Catfish - yum!

 

[artsyrobin]

Oh no, Robin, not Flo

I'm so sorry, I know she was one of your favorites. I have a Blue Partridge from Betsy that looks just like she did, if I could magically turn her into Flo I'd give her to you. Both my 2 from Betsy have such gentle sweet personalities so I can imagine how wonderful your girl was. She was such a trooper raising all those babies. You've had such rotten luck this year so far.

it would be hard to top that girl yeah it has been seriously rough this year.... but my bator has cochins, my broody has faverolle bantams so maybe things will smooth out for a bit and nothing has happened bad to the seramas knock on wood!

 

[cathiesue]

Part aof my job is looking at picture books for children (the funnest part) anyway there are soooo many with chickens. My current favorite is here.

http://www.amazon.com/Scary-Mary-Pa...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332261401&sr=1-1

Do any of you out there have a Scary Mary?