The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Eggcessive]

No clue this was many years ago, probably near 15. Fortunately my Gpa was a veteran. He bypassed the VA for most health care b/c it was sooooo obnoxious and poor, but for medications and his body parts (leg, hearing aids, glasses, dentures ect....) he would use the VA. He was 100% service connected disabled so could get his health care free when he needed to. He couldn't get all the medications he needed through them b/c you can't get meds they don't approve, he had to jump through a lot of hoops but did get the antifungal medication approved since there was no alternative. My info about it being difficult to catch and treat came from that incident and the doctors treating him at the time.

IT was probably amphoterycin B. That used to be the only drug to treat a systemic fungal infection. Cancer patients would get fungal pneumonia from being immunocompromised. That drug is still used occasionally, but it was awful to have to take it--very painful given intravenously before they did central lines and piclines. It just ate up your veins, but it saved a lot of lives.

 

[Leahs Mom]

VERY RANDOM QUESTION

How many nurses or medical people of any kind do we have that read this thread? (If you'd be willing to share )

 

[Kassaundra]

Paramedic here, been in emergency medicine for over 12 years, 8 as a paramedic

 

[MEMama3]

VERY RANDOM QUESTION

How many nurses or medical people of any kind do we have that read this thread?  (If you'd be willing to share )

I worked as a nurses aid and CRMA for several years, but now I'm a stay at home mom.

On another note, I learned today that my husband really DOES listen when I ramble about chickens. The other night he comes in and asks me where I need him to pee. Really? Lol. He was referring to the discussion I was having about male urine keeping predators away a couple weeks ago. My hubby loves me. He pees around my chicken run. Lol

 

[Eggcessive]

RN, retired a long while, now a chicken farmer LOL.

 

[aaggjg]

Question for you who have had Brody's before. She has a red line down her breast where she pulled her feathers out. It's about 1/4 inch wide and about 6 inches long. It's red but not irritated. Skin around it is fine. Any guesses?

Broodys will pluck out their breast feathers so that their skin comes in direct contact with the eggs..... The naked breast stripe looks so sad

 

[delisha]

armorfire lady, I thought of trying to make a hole to catch a chain or something thru, but these are outdoor and I already have to cover the lid where the handle is so rain doesn't seep in and spoil the feeds. I'll look on lowes online and see if I can see cans that you referring to. I'm sure someone has figured this out since coons and garbage cans....but I've never had a coon that could do this before.

Holy carp! Husband was swinging his golf club in the back garden. The only place the chickens avoid. He comes to the back door and says, "Remember you telling me we probably have another hornets nest somewhere in the jungle? Well, I found it and your not going to believe where it is!"



In the Taurus Rhododendron! We walk by this shrub everyday! It is on the edge of our picnic area. Neither of us noticed it at all until tonight when the hornets started getting agitated! Bald Face hornets can be very aggressive.

It's about the size of a football. We are thinking of just leaving it alone for now. I've had my fill of fighting hornets for a while.

Yikes!!!

Quote: x2

 

[FridayYet]

VERY RANDOM QUESTION

How many nurses or medical people of any kind do we have that read this thread?  (If you'd be willing to share )

I'm an RN, now working in healthcare quality and regulatory compliance.

 

[rowerjen]

You guys remember the mean rooster I had named Randy? he attacks strangers...? We were going to process him with the meaties, but had a guy come for a visit to buy a RIR rooster. He said, if you want to sell that grey and white one I'll take him. I said, he's mean as heck, are you sure? So anyway.. Randy received a stay of execution. He had no meat on him at all. I can't believe that guy took a mutt rooster..

I was clear on his attitude.

I've hopefully found a home for "Attilla the Hen," one of the two remaining birds from my original flock. She's not as bad as Randy - only takes out her aggression on younger birds, but I'll be glad to have her gone. I have an EE pullet whose taken to spending the night on top of the run rather than deal with her. Even in the pouring rain.

I'm leaving for a vacation next weekend and the flock won't be able to range. Couldn't think of any combination of birds in my 2 coops that would include Attilla and not end in bloodshed.

AFL - I had an EE go broody on my earlier in the summer. Based on what i read here, I closed off her broody spot, and dipped her warm, bald belly in the kiddy pool. Worked like a charm. Her broody spot was a grill tool box on my deck, though. The growling! Oh the growling was funny. One of my dogs saw her in there and decided to take a closer look. She rapped him right on the nose. He's a very agile dog and I have never seen him jump so far, or fast, and backward at that.

 

[aoxa]

My quotes are quoting nothing but thin air.

LM: thanks for explaining the Kefir to me.

We have all kinds of folks in this thread. I have never worked in medical care, but I wanted to be a OBGYN growing up. I didn't want to leave home to study, and frankly the student loans that large scare me. I've always been very good with numbers, so that's where I ended up (my mother is an Accountant as well).

There is this thread on here called: "What do you do for a profession" it is so interesting to see all the different folks!