Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Peep_Show]

After all, there's always room for cute chick pics!

 

[Amberjem]

After all, there's always room for cute chick pics!

heya peepers whats up? you got more chick pics

 

[Peep_Show]

On Saturday the second wave is due to hatch. Hope to get some really cute pics of ones there: Blue marans and BLRW. Besides, little Solo needs a friend. Being real quiet, though. All is good.

I love chick pix, though. They're SO cute!

 

[3goodeggs]

They also help with allergic reactions to insect bites.... and yes I know drowsiness is a side effect. here you can get all sorts of medications for dogs cats and livestock. From innoculations to antibiotics.... yet they pulled sulfa drugs off the shelf because they can be used for treating gun shot wounds.... Go figure.

Sulfamillimide (sp?) powder was the main ingredient of my horse mentors homemade salve. Yellow powder mixed with lard and a liniment.... Was great for wounds... Horses have a tendency to remove their skin down to pink just jostling around or playing halter tag....

I have made my own using antiseptic foot powder and lard. Not quite as good but works to keep the wound soft and the bugs off and promote healing.

deb

I miss those drugs! They were great for animal wounds.
I have gotten plain sulfur and mixed it with Vaseline for things... but... I'd rather have a jar with a label.
Some of us can not afford to pay vet bill every week.
So we do what we can.

 

[Amberjem]

On Saturday the second wave is due to hatch. Hope to get some really cute pics of ones there: Blue marans and BLRW. Besides, little Solo needs a friend. Being real quiet, though. All is good.

I love chick pix, though. They're SO cute!

My first hatchling was on it's own for almost a day it's a very quiet and confident lil dude, it was busy trying to help the othrs out when it saw them pipping lol...and would tap at each egg and I think it musta been listening

 

[Spring-Chicken]

Happy New Year, everybody!

Start as you mean to go on, right? I spent half the day in bed, then got up and worked on building my new coop. Got the legs and base all done.

Then moved the small temporary coop and chicks off of the back porch and down to the run site. (Then scrubbbbbed the back porch.)

After that I went over toy mother's and had a very Southern New Year's meal. That's black eyed peas, collard greens, corn bread, and deviled eggs, with a glass of Coke.

Hopefully now my 2015 will be half lazy, half industrious, and full of good meals with my family.

 

[perchie.girl]

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My mentor used to get them at the Commissary.... Her husband was a Navy Chief with hash marks up his sleeves. You can get sulfa powders on line but I havent a clue as to what percentage she used.

here is one on Amazon

And its said to be used in the garden and for preserving dried apricots.... Would be worth a try.

She always warned us not to use it on a deep cut though. Unless you are willing to abraid the wound to keep it from sealing over and causing an abscess. And if you have horses Granular flesh overgrowth is an issue. So legs and joints where that is an issue should be watched closely.

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

It's been awhile since I've done horses... Are we talking about Furox? I remember some sort of yellow stuff that was both a spray and an ointment that worked well on wounds. Then there was Blu-Kote (always a mess) and something that reduced the incidence of granular tissue that, I swear, smelled like fish that you daubed on.

 

[Amberjem]

 

[perchie.girl]

It's been awhile since I've done horses... Are we talking about Furox? I remember some sort of yellow stuff that was both a spray and an ointment that worked well on wounds. Then there was Blu-Kote (always a mess) and something that reduced the incidence of granular tissue that, I swear, smelled like fish that you daubed on.

That sounds like Furacin.... I am sure there are other iterations of it....

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=325284

No we are talking about a homemade remedy using Sulpher or some sort of Sulpher based powder and Lard.... the sulpher itself is the remedy the lard just makes it easy to apply and to keep it on the wound. The lard disappears eventually.

I shied away from blue coat because it was alcahol based and dried out a wound too much. Though nice to use if you have a real Owie wound.

But these days I just use a triple antibiotic like poly sporin... Works well easy to get.

If I had a deep or mangled wound to tend I would be calling a vet and getting recommendations and or prescription from him. There are too many wonderul procucts out there that I dont know about....

deb