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[CapricornFarm]

I can do that. I have rooster booster on hand.

I wanted to give everyone the heads up about something that happened today. I take Singulair oral for my allergies and have taken it for 5 years or more. Today I got a letter from my doctor, telling me that the FDA has black boxed Singulair (montelukast) for some pretty gnarly side effects, a lot of them psychological, anxiety, aggressive behavior, vivid nightmares/dreams, tardive dysconesia (geeze I hope I spelled that right) the list was long and scary. He told me to stop taking it NOW!

Weird thing is that I called my pharmacy and talked to a pharmacist. They hadn't gotten a flagged warning for it at all but when he looked it up, yep, he found it and told me that he takes it too but wasn't going to stop unless his doctor told him to......I told him mine had done just that and read him the letter. He couldn't offer any suggestions other to warn me that without it I would notice a worsening of my allergies. Like that would be different? This has been the allergy season from hell so far. But if my doctor said don't take it, I shouldn't take it till I can talk to them.

Not too happy about that but there is the point that over 55-60 a body stops breaking down and utilizing drugs differently. That may be why my doc told me to stop taking it but I wanted to give anybody who may be taking Singulair for their allergies to be aware of the black box warning.

I was given singulair , but it didn't help me so I quit taking it. Thank goodness!

 

[Beer can]

Heading to town over a back road had a little bitty fawn run right out in front of us, nailed the brakes, did the same thing our Expedition usually does pedal went to the floor, usually wacks me in the seatbelt when that happens craziest brakes I've ever witnessed. Not today, to the floor then nothing..pumped pumped come on please don't mow it over... blew a brakeline fawn lived by about six inches.
Finally jumped in a ditch to hide, and then run like a bugger up the road.

 

[Alaskan]

Heading to town over a back road had a little bitty fawn run right out in front of us, nailed the brakes, did the same thing our Expedition usually does pedal went to the floor, usually wacks me in the seatbelt when that happens craziest brakes I've ever witnessed. Not today, to the floor then nothing..pumped pumped come on please don't mow it over... blew a brakeline fawn lived by about six inches.
Finally jumped in a ditch to hide, and then run like a bugger up the road.
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Dang! And you? Did you get home ok?

 

[ronott1]

Heading to town over a back road had a little bitty fawn run right out in front of us, nailed the brakes, did the same thing our Expedition usually does pedal went to the floor, usually wacks me in the seatbelt when that happens craziest brakes I've ever witnessed. Not today, to the floor then nothing..pumped pumped come on please don't mow it over... blew a brakeline fawn lived by about six inches.
Finally jumped in a ditch to hide, and then run like a bugger up the road.
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What a scare!

 

[microchick]

Good driving, @beercan! I saw fawn prints in a creek bed this morning and told DH to keep an eye on the trail while he was traveling back and forth with the tractor. We know somebody who encountered on in the tall grass while mowing. Got out, moved the fawn, mowed on, came back, fawn was back in the same place. Moved it again farther away from where he had found it, mowed, didn't see it again until his next pass, you guessed it. Hit the fawn.

Poor things. When mom says, stay put, they stay put!

Down to one egg to be hatched. No pip yet. Did a quick candling and no internal. I have the brinsea running yet so if it hasn't hatched by tomorrow I'll bring it in. I thought one was developing a little slower than the others, this may be it.

So far I have Two SDWs, One BBR and Four Egyptian Fayoumis. DH and I labored over the eggs trying to pick out the 'whitest of the white' eggs that the girls were laying. Some were so close that we were doubtful if we had Fayoumi eggs. Glad to see we made the right choice.

DH is no fun....when I told him we had 4 new Fayoumis he said.....bet they are all roosters...

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good driving, @beercan! I saw fawn prints in a creek bed this morning and told DH to keep an eye on the trail while he was traveling back and forth with the tractor. We know somebody who encountered on in the tall grass while mowing. Got out, moved the fawn, mowed on, came back, fawn was back in the same place. Moved it again farther away from where he had found it, mowed, didn't see it again until his next pass, you guessed it. Hit the fawn.

Poor things. When mom says, stay put, they stay put!

Down to one egg to be hatched. No pip yet. Did a quick candling and no internal. I have the brinsea running yet so if it hasn't hatched by tomorrow I'll bring it in. I thought one was developing a little slower than the others, this may be it.

So far I have Two SDWs, One BBR and Four Egyptian Fayoumis. DH and I labored over the eggs trying to pick out the 'whitest of the white' eggs that the girls were laying. Some were so close that we were doubtful if we had Fayoumi eggs. Glad to see we made the right choice.

DH is no fun....when I told him we had 4 new Fayoumis he said.....bet they are all roosters...

Of course, if you want pullets!

 

[Cynthia12]

I have two darling chicks with their heads sticking out from under mamma Cookie's breast feathers and the third chick is zipping.

Mamma Betty Jo has one of 6 zipping.

I almost forgot how fun it is to hatch chicks.....

Then I wonder how many of them are going to be roosters...

Hot here today..almost 90 and then Cristobal moves in over night bringing over 4" of rain along with it.

The heat has really hurt egg production this past week. Can't say that I blame them.

We've had rain three days in a row. Much needed! It's always nice to get a lot of rain, at the same time, we have to worry about flooding, which has happened in parts if the state. We need to get the big tarp over the main part of the coop run..so, poor chickens are hiding under or in the coop.. because it's pouring. Not supposed to rain tomorrow. .

 

[microchick]

Dollars to donuts mine will be out squishing around in the mud as long as it isn't raining too hard. There is a flash flood watch for us starting over night and going through tomorrow. They say there is a chance of 2 inches of rain per hour here. We've had a week of hot weather so the rain is needed. My poor garden is parched.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have a respite till they say midnight then we are in for gully washers
not certain the damn riots are so intense there are no weather reports

 

[Perris]

Ha! I used to have one cabinet for hatching and one for incubating. Ran both all year except during vacation. That was back in TN.

how do you get fertile eggs all year round? My lot moult for about 3 months in autumn/ winter.