The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[1muttsfan]

Nothing takes care of fence chewing equines like a hot wire strand.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Nothing takes care of fence chewing equines like a hot wire strand.

We stopped using electric fencing for the donkeys years ago. They never question the single strand, and they never cross the open gate. The wood is mostly in my shed dividing up the section. Chickens would get zapped too.

The goats on the other hand need reminding with electric.

 

[speckledhen]

Here is a blood-pressure lowering short video featuring broodies and their chicks from the past dozen years here. Hope you like it. What a trip down memory lane this was! I still could not find the pictures of my late Rita when she was raising Rex, Atlas's sire, but I got most of the other broodies in there.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

You have had lots of adorable chicks. I'm always partial to the wee little bantams.

 

[kitkat5505]

Here is a blood-pressure lowering short video featuring broodies and their chicks from the past dozen years here. Hope you like it. What a trip down memory lane this was! I still could not find the pictures of my late Rita when she was raising Rex, Atlas's sire, but I got most of the other broodies in there.

Watched it with my little girl and she loved it so sweet

 

[speckledhen]

You have had lots of adorable chicks. I'm always partial to the wee little bantams.

Watched it with my little girl and she loved it so sweet

I especially loved when the D'anver hens co-brooded chicks.

 

[getaclue]

Saturday Dh was complaining about a sore throat. When he went to work that evening, he let me know he would be coming home early, and I was not to shoot him when he came in the door. When he came home, he went to bed. He got up a couple hours later, with fever, chills, sore throat, aching joints, and his face hurt on the side that was on the pillow. He said everyone at work had some bug that was going around. From what he said, I suspected something else, but didn't say anything at the time.

The next day, he was still under the weather. I baked pot pies for our lunch. After he ate, he complained about his mouth hurting. I handed him my dentist's business card, and told him to call. Of course he argued. I told him I thought the fever, sore throat, and all of it was due to an infected tooth, and he'd better get to the dentist. He protested a bit more, but his mouth hurt so bad, he called. They took him right in, put him on antibiotics, and pain medication. He gets the bad tooth pulled next Tues.

Like most husbands, mine is no picnic to live with when he's not feeling good. I'm sooooo glad they gave him pain medication. They seem to be working pretty good on him, and he's not nearly so hard to deal with.

 

[speckledhen]

@getaclue Cheryl, hope he feels better and I know he will after that tooth is gone. Been there, done that. This is why dental should be just another medical specialist in our regular medical insurance, not something separate. But, we aren't holding our breath, right? More work coming up for me this month, too.

 

[getaclue]

We have dental with our insurance, but Dh hates going to the dentist, so he doesn't. Yes, he has the one rotten, infected tooth, but he needs 6 more pulled too, not counting his wisdom teeth, which makes a total of 11. He needs 5 cavities filled. The remaining teeth have to be scaled, and deep cleaned, if he wants to keep them.

I used to go twice a year for my cleanings, and never had any problems. That began changing due to the chemo, and other medications I've had to take. All those years of taking care of my mouth are paying off. While I will be suffering the negative effects the medications have on my mouth, teeth, and gums, it's not as bad, and not progressing as rapidly, because I took such good care of my teeth for all those years.

 

[speckledhen]

We have dental with our insurance, but Dh hates going to the dentist, so he doesn't. Yes, he has the one rotten, infected tooth, but he needs 6 more pulled too, not counting his wisdom teeth, which makes a total of 11. He needs 5 cavities filled. The remaining teeth have to be scaled, and deep cleaned, if he wants to keep them.

I used to go twice a year for my cleanings, and never had any problems. That began changing due to the chemo, and other medications I've had to take. All those years of taking care of my mouth are paying off. While I will be suffering the negative effects the medications have on my mouth, teeth, and gums, it's not as bad, and not progressing as rapidly, because I took such good care of my teeth for all those years.

I've always taken good care of my teeth, went every 6 mos most of my life, as a child and while we were in the military, until we didn't have dental insurance anymore after he retired. When we found a plan a few years ago, I had not gone in 11 years, but the dentist said it looked like only a year had passed. My husband had never gone as a child, parents never took him, said no money. They lived in south Georgia for a long time, though they did have to move around a lot and the sulfur in the water down there (ick, rotten egg smell) made his teeth slightly yellow, but probably protected them somewhat. He had way fewer cavities than I ever did. They say a lot of it is genetics, just like my thyroid issues. So, yeah, I can blame my family for quite a few things, LOL.