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Naw Nicole, that's not stink eye....that's Leggs giving his mama his best, "You don't really think Barney is more handsome than me do ya?!?!" look!
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He's gonna be awesome when he grows up Kathy.

And thank you for pictures of Mama EE and the girls!
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I'm still shooting for Monday if at all possible. It's looking more and more likely all the time. Boy! I bet you'll be glad to be able to finally get them out of your hair and send them off to me, huh?
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I managed to get the last of the fence line between the boys area and the main yard raised today. Just need to anchor the bottom end of it now. There's a bit more than a hundred feet of that to deal with. Thank heavens for the shared wall in the covered areas as it meant I didn't have to run into Spokane yet again for more fencing material! I'll post some pics of that whole setup once I'm all done and have the three boys in their new coop and run. I just know they're gonna love it!!
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Loooooong afternoon in the field yielded absolutely NOTHING today!
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I'm beginning to think the deer in this neck of the woods have perfected the art of shape shifting. All of those squirrels we're seeing are actually great big 12 point bucks in disguise! I just know it!!
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Oh well....at least the valleys and draws are so beautiful this time of year. The Aspens are the most lovely shade of gold/yellow and set against that perfect color of blue sky that only October can produce.....*sigh*...... Simply breath taking!
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Even if I knew for a fact that I would never tag another buck or bull for the remainder of my days, I think I would still go walking in the woods in October! It's just too perfect to pass up!
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Cynthia, my apologies dear!
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I've been completely remiss in my expressions of concern for you and your dear sweet girls. I hope for their sake, as well as yours, that their end comes swiftly and comfortably. I so hate to see the girls or you suffer, and I know how personally you take this each time it happens. It's the price we pay for loving our feathered friends so much. Even when they aren't our own bird. There are those of us who keenly feel the loss along with you.
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Just know that you and Tom and all of your wonderful flock are in my thoughts and prayers. Always.
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So, it looks like I'm going to have to hold off for one more night on treating Evie.
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My next door neighbor has volunteer fire department training on Thursday nights and is therefore unavailable tonight to hold her down for me. DH won't help me after the last time I changed dressings and dug around in her foot some more. He didn't get squeamish or anything. I think he just hated having a hand in something that so obviously hurt and distressed Evie. She's on of his favorites as well you know.
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Though he'll never admit it.
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*sigh* So, in the meantime, poor little Evie has to suffer through one more night and one more day before I can get good help to assist me.

Which brings me to another of my endless questions: Aspirin. Should I give her say a half or quarter of a Bayer baby aspirin? As we all know, Aspirin will thin the blood. So, in light of how much cutting and digging I'm going to have to do on Evie's foot, would it even be advisable to administer such to her just before surgery? Or even after for that matter?
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h: Your thoughts, folks, are not only appreciated, they are also very much needed!
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Don't know what I would do without y'all to guide me and coax me along in these situations.

OK, once again, I've over stayed my time limit. Must lay head down to sleep.....4AM comes all too early!! Just three more days left. Dear Great Spirit, could you please bring a nice little six point to us tomorrow? He doesn't have to be monstrous, just legal sized! We'd just like to have some meat in the freezer that didn't come from a feed lot in Pasco!
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Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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What about Partridge? DO YOU WANT PARTRIDGE? LOL. I have the cutest itty bitty partridge cochin hen. And a very small and docile young partridge rooster. Hey, speaking of broody, that hen was broody once here too...hatched out 8 babies. Anywho, I am totally going to pawn something off on you, just wait
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Ms Broody pants is paying her own way incubating 5 eggs for me
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Mr Buff Columbian boy is helping sound the hawk alarm out in the big yard.....He and all other million roosters out there. How about a large fowl silver laced cochin rooster? I HAVE TWO. LOL.
 
Janelle,
I printed out pictures of the brooders. Any last words of advice before I get started? What about making it 3 feet wide instead of 2 feet wide? Would that not work too well? Also, you said in your thread that you would change the doors. Swing up instead of sideways? And, how did you make the removeable partitions? Wire or wood?

What kind of plant hanger thingy did you use to put the gallon waterer on? Where do you hang a heat lamp? From the outside?
 
Amy,
The dosage of aspirin for poultry is 5 tablets per gallon of water (25 grains). ASA has an anti-inflamatory effect, so maybe that would be good?

Each 325 mg tablet of Aspirin is the same as 5 grains of Aspirin.
1 gr = 60-65 mg.
 
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Janelle, WILL YOU QUIT SAYING PARTRIDGE?????????
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I have used up all my kleenex blowing my nose and cannot wipe up the drool!

Amy, you MUST get a nice buck for the freezer, but I am going to wish for an 8 pointer for you
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Kathy, I do love your new avatar- that is such a great face! Let me know how building goes, Nella's given me some ideas, too, and I want to know how you adapt yours.

Cyn, how are those girls this morning?

Scott, did you get my pm?

Cetawin - how ya feeling?

Nicole- can you get with Jeremy on the history stuff?

Good morning everyone else!!!!!
 
Good morning, all. The two ailing ladies are still alive. Will try once again to get Nelda to want to live by syringing gruel/egg yolk mixture in her mouth. DH said she had her eyes open when he checked them.

Emily was still on the eggs this morning so maybe she'll do her job properly. I hate her being all alone, but aren't all broodies alone, really? Can't have her in the main coop. Before I put her in the Firetower, she was run out of a nest by June, then the next one she chose was coveted by Miranda, and she was ousted again.
 
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Sooooo, five (5) 325 mg tablets to one gallon of water is what I want to mix up? And just go ahead and make it available to everyone? How long should this go on for Evie? Should I make the Aspirin water available to her for more than one day? Or just allow her to drink it shortly before (?) or after (?) I go about cutting into her?
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I would think that maybe a few hours after I work on her would be the better bet. I still can't get past the fact that I know that Aspirin thins the blood. I'd have concerns about her bleeding uncontrollably if she receives the Aspirin water before her surgery. Your thoughts Kathy??

I just hope and pray that when I work on her tonight that I can finally get all of it. I have to go to Tacoma to visit my mother for about a week starting about November 8th. I sure hope I don't have to be bringing her along for her sake. As for me, I'd love an excuse to take one of my babies with me. Mom lives in a zero chicken population area of Tacoma. I will surely go through horrible withdrawals.
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No chickens!?! No Internet?!? For a whole WEEK!?!?
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How will I ever survive!?!?! At least my departure date is flexible. And mom understands how deep the bond with my chickens run. She'll understand if I have to delay my departure because Evie needs me.

By the way Kathy, I love your new avatar too! That is such a perfect chicken facial expression!
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Love it! Love it! LOVE IT!!
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OK folks, I'll be heading out to the woods in about another half hour here and I still have to scrape up the remains of my brain from lack of sleep (teenagers!
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) not to mention getting the chooks all set up for the day. In other words, time for me to scoot on outta here!
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Frankly, at this point, I'd be so completely relieved to get our buck today, just so that we could all sleep in tomorrow!
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Y'all have a wonderful day!
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Mornin Yall!!!!! Hope all yall are doin terrific!!!

Broody bit the snot outta me this morning... guess she didn't want her pictures taken
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She's still on her 1 egg!!! I'm wishin I had some other adult chickens runnin round.. I don't really want more production reds runnin around, but oh well!!! Better my own eggs, not knowing how she is as a broody, then some $$$ eggs!!!

I gotta find some blue Silkies for my Daughter, she's finally earned em
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even Ian, my 7yo son, says she has, too cute
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Here's the broody girl, Turkey. She wouldn't do her usual puffiness for me, I'm sure just because I had the camera...
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The "You Have Disturbed Me, Now I KEEL YOU!" broody look of death
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This is Heathen, who I've now got to seperate and get her impacted crop sorted out
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Lil Lady, the Del pullet I got from tnchickenut, all fluffed out and cruisin the coop
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The Del Roo (still no name yet
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One of my Welsummer pullets, in the bushes, hanging out.
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And this is Waffle, one of my EE pullets. She's bout 9wks, and such a sweetie!
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Well, sadly, Nelda is done for. We syringe stuff into her mouth, she lets it dribble out and only swallows accidentally, it seems. She wants to be done, so no more forced feeding. I'll miss our little Olive Oyl-voiced eating machine. Maxie will be next, I'm sure- though she doesn't seem ill anymore, she has bad color and her abdomen is still rock-like. Will be down to 32 chickens then, 3 of them roosters, so less than 30 layers left, many way past their prime.
 

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