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[chickisoup]

Good luck, take lots of pictures, especially of the ride. I'll throw in 20$.



Got woken up about 2 am from what I swore had to have been an earthquake. About 5 minutes later there was a ton of lightening and more thunder. Isn't it February? Feels and sounds like June out there. We're not supposed to have thunderstorms in February.

Superchemical girl - Glad you're ok. Thunderstorms???? Crazy weather!

GOAT MATH, WHO KNEW????

Yes yes, we must have pictures!!!

 

[chickisoup]

Question -
Has anyone here ever used Bloodstop ( hemostat) gauze on a chicken? Is the cellulous fiber compatible? Sounds like a great thing to have in my emergency kit.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Dunno, chickisoup... I use Bloodstop powder and vet wrap if needed... n3ver heard of Bloodstop gauze...

 

[1kluckychik]

Thanks...  hopefully we will manage to walk them back and forth every day to the veggie garden or the unused chicken run.  If not though, they will have a much better setup as soon as we get some spring.  The barn is on our old horse paddock.  Not giant, but a really nice size.  I wanna add a bit of a lean to on the side of the barn, about a 10 by 20, that will be roofed and three walled, so that they will always have that outside access even if we have loads of snow, and they can stand in shelter and look south and get some sun.  The horses could trample the snow down...I am pretty sure the goats wont.

In the summer though, the two acre horse pasture will be theirs.  That has a clump of spruce in the middle, and we used a chainsaw to cut a room into the spruce clump, so it acts as a shelter.  The horses loved it.  We would keep the horses in there until the water froze too fast, then move them up to the paddock.  I am planning on the same with the goats.

It is just that the goats will only get about 1/3 of the barn for their run-in in the winter, but that is also why I want to add a lean-to for them.  Oh, and the goats will not get the luxury digs until the weather helps us out.

@1kluckychik
  did you get any flooding at your place?

@drumstick diva
  yep, totally, but I think I asked all of the right questions.

No. We got about 1 1/2 inches of rain. The wind gusts were pretty rough. Thanks for asking though

 

[perchie.girl]

Question -
Has anyone here ever used Bloodstop ( hemostat) gauze on a chicken? Is the cellulous fiber compatible? Sounds like a great thing to have in my emergency kit.

I use plain old white sugar... works like a charm... learned it from a substitute pediatrician...

 

[bruceha2000]

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!

We actually had better speed 20 years ago I think. I have DirectTv (no cable in our area) with a Genie box and because many of the features (like on demand programming) rely upon actual internet, we can't operate any of it! Streaming anything? The tech actually tried not to giggle at that. You know what's worse? We are fiber optic!!! If I walk to the end of our driveway where it meets the road and look across the potato field, I can actually SEE the fiber optic POP. It's not like Frontier, the SP, is some little mom and pop outfit. Well, about 15 years ago they actually came in and bought the really great little mom and pop outfit we had and it has literally been all downhill (speed wise) since. Our problem isn't so much the lines themselves (tho most of it is really old) it's the servers, other hardware, etc. that drives the system that's pushing antique.

Yeah, we had to switch to dish for internet, the phone cords are too old.

However, since a vast majority of houses can see the spit where the tower sits, it is all good.

The joy of living on a hillside.

Homer Spit:




Happy Birthday Wisher!!

Repeat with me

" the glorious and all powerful 'Al' will only bring home three does, no more than three does"

Apparently, due to an accidental omission in the agreed rules, 'Al' returns with exactly 3 does ... and 25 bucks.

Sorry to all you folks who have crappy internet service... I could gloat, but after I move, I believe I'll probably be in the same boat (or worse) with y'all. If I get far enough back in the woods I may not have access at all...

Nothing personal Joe but

Geez, your UPLOAD is twice my download.

 

[Latestarter]

LOL Bruce... Hey, I remember when I was online at 2.4K and thought it was great... A 9600 baud modem was to die for! Chat rooms back then were about as fast as today's snail mail... you'd post something and HOPE to have an answer the next day! They were called bulletin boards (for that very reason).

"Apparently, due to an accidental omission in the agreed rules, 'Al' returns with exactly 3 does ... and 25 bucks." <---

Really Al, pics would be great!

I use Blukote spray on my chickens... works great, stops the bleeding and covers the red blood to stop the others from pecking at it.

 

[chickisoup]

LOL Bruce... Hey, I remember when I was online at 2.4K and thought it was great... A 9600 baud modem was to die for! Chat rooms back then were about as fast as today's snail mail... you'd post something and HOPE to have an answer the next day! They were called bulletin boards (for that very reason).

"Apparently, due to an accidental omission in the agreed rules, 'Al' returns with exactly 3 does ... and 25 bucks." <---

Really Al, pics would be great!

I use Blukote spray on my chickens... works great, stops the bleeding and covers the red blood to stop the others from pecking at it.

Wow. I thought I was the only one that still remember Bulletin Boards. I was in charge of one of the first bbs after the military turned loose of the technology, at the educational facility I was working. My boss was closely tied to the whole IBM r&d thing at the time. She was brilliant but a classic example of the Peter Principle as a boss. We were a major hub and I would post a quiry to Melbourn in the evening (yes I was responsible to maintain the thing from home) and we would MARVEL that I would have an answer when I got to work in the morning. Oh the days of innocence.

The Bloodstop gauze sounds like a great, very portable solution to an emergency fix. I understand that competitive long distance trekkers now carry it and it just sounded like a great solution. I've used Blukote a great deal myself but never used it to stop a blood flow.


Oh, and I am really really really jealous of that speed!!!

 

[Alaskan]

I actually did online gaming... In one of the very first multi-user on-line dungeons... All just text... Back in 1989

 

[1kluckychik]

I actually did online gaming... In one of the very first multi-user on-line dungeons... All just text... Back in 1989

Dont forget to pick up your eggs. I just checked tracking. Looks like they are ready