Thanks everyone. The shoulder has been a real witch to deal with. In a sling for over a week. Should have been longer but what the docs don't know won't hurt me. Unable to use the injured arm at all for over a month. This past three days I've finally begun to see an improvement and it's been over 7 weeks since I hurt it.
In the mean time we have been busy harvesting wood....trust me, not easy to do one handed and especially since I hurt the right shoulder.
I did hatch 14 chicks before the injury. This is my last hatch. Starting to see poor hatch results and a few birth defects so my flock is officially retired due to age and inbreeding. I lost 20 birds to something weird. Not sure if it was something mice dragged in or me having to bring out heavy guns to get a bad infestation under control and the birds ate contaminated mice. The problem got so bad that the mice were chewing feathers off of my birds so I had to do something drastic. I'll probably never know but the die off stopped after I got the mouse problem under control. It mainly affected hens that would be fine in the morning but dead by night so I'm suspecting toxin was involved. I felt horrible about it but like my husband said. My hands were tied. I had to get rid of the mice.
So my flock is smaller but doing well. The youngest babies are 8 weeks old now. All bantams. They are going to get old with me....well. Older with me some of them. LOL.
Happy birthday to everyone out there celebrating!
In the mean time we have been busy harvesting wood....trust me, not easy to do one handed and especially since I hurt the right shoulder.
I did hatch 14 chicks before the injury. This is my last hatch. Starting to see poor hatch results and a few birth defects so my flock is officially retired due to age and inbreeding. I lost 20 birds to something weird. Not sure if it was something mice dragged in or me having to bring out heavy guns to get a bad infestation under control and the birds ate contaminated mice. The problem got so bad that the mice were chewing feathers off of my birds so I had to do something drastic. I'll probably never know but the die off stopped after I got the mouse problem under control. It mainly affected hens that would be fine in the morning but dead by night so I'm suspecting toxin was involved. I felt horrible about it but like my husband said. My hands were tied. I had to get rid of the mice.
So my flock is smaller but doing well. The youngest babies are 8 weeks old now. All bantams. They are going to get old with me....well. Older with me some of them. LOL.
Happy birthday to everyone out there celebrating!
enjoy your day.
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