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microchick said:
Same here with my Red Heeler Bag!

Good morning everyone! Just finished a pancake and egg breakfast and ready to face the world...or at least the fence part of it.

I candled my 9 eggs last night. All eggs are viable and developing so they hopefully go under their mom's tonight.
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Eggs!? What eggs!?
 
Here the news is saying surface contamination not nearly as big a threat as close contact to people.

Fell in the garden yesterday while cleaning and rehabbing the secondary coop (broody pen) to stash a couple of 6-week old chicks (suspected roos, but they're slow to show) so that the garage brooder pen that they had been housed in previously is available for the perhaps 28 chicks hatching today. (Nine out so far) Anyway, managed to land on my hip on a ground-level bit of pointy tree growth. Didn't pierce the skin, but the pressure insult penetrated deep and a big ol' bruise on my rump and high hip. Pretty stiff today, so it'll be a day of rest here and a chance to decimate a pile of magazines.

One of our greyhounds went off to the vet yesterday because she was looking funny... I mean, her eyes were bulging to the extent it looked like googly eyes and a perpetual expression of surprise. Vet was stymied because there was no eye injury nor eyeball pressure issue nor thyroid problems. Turns out the eyes are fine, but the dog has a slight auto-immune response which is causing her eyelids to contract....a condition usually seen in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and some retrievers, but fairly rare in greyhounds. Prednisone for a bit, evaluations more to follow. Hopefully just some treatment and done vs. lifelong medication.

Moths here have abated, but expecting a second wave of misery as their larvae are cutworms.

Did manage to trap the mama squirrel that I believe has been decimating my tomato plants. Seriously, such tomato damage...what plant wasn't given the beaverish effect nipped off at the base and hauled away was lopped off from the top of the cage. She destroyed close to 2 dozen plants/transplants feeding her brood. She was in the Squirrelinator and a coyote was trying to get at her and/or take the trap off to parts unknown. I lobbed her carcass off to Coyote Acre. Good riddance!

Hope everyone has a pleasant holiday weekend. My respects and thanks to those in the armed services that have gone on before.
 
Peep_Show said:
Here the news is saying surface contamination not nearly as big a threat as close contact to people.

Fell in the garden yesterday while cleaning and rehabbing the secondary coop (broody pen) to stash a couple of 6-week old chicks (suspected roos, but they're slow to show) so that the garage brooder pen that they had been housed in previously is available for the perhaps 28 chicks hatching today. (Nine out so far) Anyway, managed to land on my hip on a ground-level bit of pointy tree growth. Didn't pierce the skin, but the pressure insult penetrated deep and a big ol' bruise on my rump and high hip. Pretty stiff today, so it'll be a day of rest here and a chance to decimate a pile of magazines.

One of our greyhounds went off to the vet yesterday because she was looking funny... I mean, her eyes were bulging to the extent it looked like googly eyes and a perpetual expression of surprise. Vet was stymied because there was no eye injury nor eyeball pressure issue nor thyroid problems. Turns out the eyes are fine, but the dog has a slight auto-immune response which is causing her eyelids to contract....a condition usually seen in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and some retrievers, but fairly rare in greyhounds. Prednisone for a bit, evaluations more to follow. Hopefully just some treatment and done vs. lifelong medication.

Moths here have abated, but expecting a second wave of misery as their larvae are cutworms.

Did manage to trap the mama squirrel that I believe has been decimating my tomato plants. Seriously, such tomato damage...what plant wasn't given the beaverish effect nipped off at the base and hauled away was lopped off from the top of the cage. She destroyed close to 2 dozen plants/transplants feeding her brood. She was in the Squirrelinator and a coyote was trying to get at her and/or take the trap off to parts unknown. I lobbed her carcass off to Coyote Acre. Good riddance!

Hope everyone has a pleasant holiday weekend. My respects and thanks to those in the armed services that have gone on before.
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Hope you will be feeling better soon. Have you applied ice to the area?
 
Peep_Show said:
Here the news is saying surface contamination not nearly as big a threat as close contact to people.

Fell in the garden yesterday while cleaning and rehabbing the secondary coop (broody pen) to stash a couple of 6-week old chicks (suspected roos, but they're slow to show) so that the garage brooder pen that they had been housed in previously is available for the perhaps 28 chicks hatching today. (Nine out so far) Anyway, managed to land on my hip on a ground-level bit of pointy tree growth. Didn't pierce the skin, but the pressure insult penetrated deep and a big ol' bruise on my rump and high hip. Pretty stiff today, so it'll be a day of rest here and a chance to decimate a pile of magazines.

One of our greyhounds went off to the vet yesterday because she was looking funny... I mean, her eyes were bulging to the extent it looked like googly eyes and a perpetual expression of surprise. Vet was stymied because there was no eye injury nor eyeball pressure issue nor thyroid problems. Turns out the eyes are fine, but the dog has a slight auto-immune response which is causing her eyelids to contract....a condition usually seen in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and some retrievers, but fairly rare in greyhounds. Prednisone for a bit, evaluations more to follow. Hopefully just some treatment and done vs. lifelong medication.

Moths here have abated, but expecting a second wave of misery as their larvae are cutworms.

Did manage to trap the mama squirrel that I believe has been decimating my tomato plants. Seriously, such tomato damage...what plant wasn't given the beaverish effect nipped off at the base and hauled away was lopped off from the top of the cage. She destroyed close to 2 dozen plants/transplants feeding her brood. She was in the Squirrelinator and a coyote was trying to get at her and/or take the trap off to parts unknown. I lobbed her carcass off to Coyote Acre. Good riddance!

Hope everyone has a pleasant holiday weekend. My respects and thanks to those in the armed services that have gone on before.
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I have used an earlier version of nematodes to get rid of army worms and sod web worms

https://www.gardensalive.com/product/nematodes-garden-army
 

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