Texas

[StelleKitten]

Congrats on the baby chicks! I'm glad you are getting to have some little fuzzbutts. I have a brooder full of chicks that were under my broodies before we had to move them because of the floods. Lost a couple of chicks but not too bad. I'm pretty sure there was something wrong with them from hatch because they died at day three or four.

I love watching the chickens play keep away. It's one of my favorite things ever.

For those who have been following my progress since the wreck, I'm speaking without a slur most of the time. When I do slur my speech it just sounds like I have a REALLY thick accent. Lol. My balance is SOO much better. I don't stumble and fall as much anymore. The weird hallucinations are under control now and the headaches are now just a bad memory that resurfaces once in a while. Stress still causes me to freeze up, unable to move or speak but at least I know how to tell when it's coming so I can get somewhere safe. I have trouble finding the right word sometimes but it's tolerable. Sometimes silence says more than words can with the proper facial expression. So on that note, I am going to try to enter the workforce again. I'm working with a temp agency to test me in a few places to find out what I can do (they know what I'm dealing with and are awesome about trying to help me get my feet wet again). My cdl is just a really expensive license. I'm still not sure if I will keep it or let it downgrade since it is unlikely I will be driving longhaul again. Still only allowed to drive for 30 minutes a day but that should be improving. Who knows, maybe I'll drive a trash truck. They don't go fast for really long lengths of times.

 

[ChicKat]

It is good to know you are doing better -- hope that you will experience a full recovery.

 

[hungnguyen]

. Still only allowed to drive for 30 minutes a day but that should be improving. Who knows, maybe I'll drive a trash truck. They don't go fast for really long lengths of times.

Congratulation on your recovery.

When you are ok to drive again, Driving School Bus may be a good career. This is a PT job that works 2 hrs in the early morning and 2 hrs in the afternoon, requiring CDL. Paying well for a very light duty job. You can take care of housework, your chicken and maybe driving your own child to school on your route. Many school districts are short of drivers, and recruit heavily in July-Aug... so this is perfect timing.

Wishing you a full recovery and maybe someday, you will show us a YouTube clip of you chasing/catching chicken again. Cheers

 

[TexasLisa]

I can not encourage you all enough to be on the watch for snakes. They seem to be worse this year than before. One of our dogs was bit by a rattlesnake tonight and we had to make a emergency trip to the emergency vet clinic 50 miles away. So far this season we have killed three rattlesnakes, one copperhead and an 7 foot long bull snake. Don't take any chances and be vigilant always. The vet says we got to them fast enough that the dog should be o.k. but we won't know for sure until tomorrow. Wish us luck.

Praying you get good news today!

 

[jtn42248]

Praying you get good news today!

Looks like Red, our dog that got bit, is going to be o.k. She has to spend the day on fluids and observation at the vet but hopefully will come home tonight. She may lose some of the tissue around where the bite was but that is o.k. as long as she is o.k. Two of our other dogs were there as well but did not get bit. Probably because one was on one side and one on the other side of the snake. At first I thought it was crickets but it is not that time of year. Then I saw the snake, about 5 feet from me, coiled. It measured out to about 5 feet long once we killed it.

Be on the watch folks, snakes are bad this year. Maybe due to the weather who knows. But now that it is hot and dry they are coming out more and more.

 

[TexasLisa]

Jtn, that is great news! I know you are looking forward to getting Red home.

 

[newchickjess]

I have questions on egg laying. My sex links are 14 weeks old and my EE girls are 16 weeks. How much longer of a wait do we have for eggs?? Is it normal for the girls to gradually become more skittish as they get older? Also, does my 3 yr old's love for chasing the hens around delay onset of laying?

 

[MandyJ]

Looks like Red, our dog that got bit, is going to be o.k. She has to spend the day on fluids and observation at the vet but hopefully will come home tonight. She may lose some of the tissue around where the bite was but that is o.k. as long as she is o.k. Two of our other dogs were there as well but did not get bit. Probably because one was on one side and one on the other side of the snake. At first I thought it was crickets but it is not that time of year. Then I saw the snake, about 5 feet from me, coiled. It measured out to about 5 feet long once we killed it.

Be on the watch folks, snakes are bad this year. Maybe due to the weather who knows. But now that it is hot and dry they are coming out more and more.

Glad Red will be okay!
M

 

[jtn42248]

Glad Red will be okay!
M

She does have to stay overnight at the Vet for one more night to make sure she gets her fluids and meds IV. But things are looking like she will be able to come home tomorrow. Here is a picture of her when we first found her as a pup. She had been dumped in a WalMart parking lot and was running in and out of traffic scared to death. I managed to get her, picked her up and when no one said "hey, what are you doing with my dog" took her to the animal shelter. Then when I got home I looked online at the shelter and they already had a mug shot of her so of course I went back to the shelter and paid the 75 dollar adoption fee. And to think I could have just kept her for free. That has been about 4 years ago and I can't imagine life without her or any of the other six we have.

 

[Ren2014]

I can not encourage you all enough to be on the watch for snakes. They seem to be worse this year than before. One of our dogs was bit by a rattlesnake tonight and we had to make a emergency trip to the emergency vet clinic 50 miles away. So far this season we have killed three rattlesnakes, one copperhead and an 7 foot long bull snake. Don't take any chances and be vigilant always. The vet says we got to them fast enough that the dog should be o.k. but we won't know for sure until tomorrow. Wish us luck.

whoops, I'm late So happy to read she is doing better.