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[Alaskan]

The only neighbors we have are back behind our pasture where the coop is. But they have chickens, cows, dogs and much more. They are the one's that used to through glass bottles and my chickens and turkey. Because the roosters used to drive them crazy crowing all the time. I had to hang screen all across the back of my pens to keep the glass out! I was so mad at them!

If they had chickens and all kinds of livestock...why would they mind yours??

I just want peace and love man, PEACE and LOVE!!!!!

I am lucky....my neighbors like the constant screaming of my chickens and roosters.

 

[Latestarter]

SCG, so sorry to hear about your injury in Yosemite... You have admitted that you're rather "clumsy"... surprised that despite that, you still do things to tempt fate. That was quite a while back, wasn't it? Why'd you wait so long to get it checked out? And you a Dr. & in the/a medical profession to boot! Hope it's just minor and if worse than that, can be fixed orthoscopically (is that right?)... You're still young, don't put it off till it becomes permanent damage.

 

[microchick]

Hi guys, I'm still alive just weary, wounded and fighing a cold. DH had round two of his skin cancer surgery. We had over 4 inches of rain in 24 hours which completely flooded out my grow out pen. My Welsummer hen, Dolly, hatched out three adorable little blonde chipmunk OEGB chicks so the youngsters in the grow out pen are sharing quarters with Dolly and her three babies and a divider separating them that is held together with baling wire and chewing gum. The storms that dumped 4-6 inches of rain in our area also hit us with 51MPH winds. My garden is pretty much pounded right now. The pole bean poles were all on the ground, tomato baskets pulled out of the ground and knocked over, onions laying over. It was weed free 24 hours before the storms hit and now the weeds are trying to take over. I found tracks that looks suspiciously like young fox kit prints near our barn. Managed to get the grow out pen covered in time for the storms to rip the tarp off. Today I repaired the tarps. I must have looked real cute outside in a pair of shorts, t-shirt and muck boots standing in mud up to my ankles. I also made the discovery that when 4 inches of water hit the chickens dust bath basin, the 4 inches of fresshly churned up soil turns into a quagmire that would make any pig squeel with delight.

In the mean time we are still harvesting wood, rushing to get as much done before DH got whittled on again. I managed to sprain two fingers on my right hand trying to wrestle a 50 pound bag of oyster shell out of the cart at Orscheln's and into the van but the bright side is that I got to talk to a delightful lady in the chicken food isle who lit up when she told me about her chickens that her kids got her for mother's day. My husband told her to watch out for chicken math. She was impressed with my flock of almost 50....none of which have died in the past two weeks....YAY!

Too much work and not enough rest. I felt a URI creeping up on me last night. Slept much of the morning, woke up feeling semi alive so I sloshed my way out to the coop to trim grass back from the hot wire and anxiously wait for the first pip under my last broody. She plopped herself down ont he wrong nest so I had a chance to do a quick candle and saw that two had pipped internally. Got her settled back on her eggs pointed a finger at her and admonished her to 'STAY!' closed her up in her nesting box and called it a day.

SGC. Sorry to hear that you hurt yourself at Yellowstone. Don't worry. I'm a clutz, too, LOL.

Hope everyone had a good week.

 

[pennyJo1960]

good to hear your back in the living end @microchick that is many of us we are having finally having decent weather this was our wettest spring early summer since 1964 according to the weather guru... I do think if we live past 55 clutz becomes part of our names

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Well, at last you are special.

So...tore like ruined forever, or need surgery, or don't do anything and in six months it will be close enough to good??

SCG, so sorry to hear about your injury in Yosemite... You have admitted that you're rather "clumsy"... surprised that despite that, you still do things to tempt fate. That was quite a while back, wasn't it? Why'd you wait so long to get it checked out? And you a Dr. & in the/a medical profession to boot! Hope it's just minor and if worse than that, can be fixed orthoscopically (is that right?)... You're still young, don't put it off till it becomes permanent damage.

Usually when I hurt myself I wait a few days and it heals. This one wasn't healing.

I'll admit right now that I don't have a primary care provider.

I called around and almost no one in this area is accepting new patients. I found one that was but it would be at least 6 weeks and they told me to go to urgent care.

I went to urgent care. The guy looked at me for maybe 30 seconds, gave me some advice and told me to wait 3-4 weeks and come back if it wasn't better.

It got worse, almost immediately, since he told me to ice it (and it isn't swollen).

I attempted to go back to urgent care the other night where they told me the wait was at the moment 90 minutes, and that I clearly was able to bear weight and not in a ton of pain, so I'd continue at the end of the triage line and that I could wait if I wanted, but that I should probably come back at a later time. I left.

Yesterday I was able to get into a PT. He performed a very full exam, knew exactly what had happened when I was halfway through my story, was able to replicate the pain immediately, and so on. Very competent. He told me that it will probably always be weak and prone to do this, and that eventually, when I couldn't stand it, that I'd need surgery, but that it may heal at this point, we just don't know. He gave me some exercises and stretches, and corrected my walking (apparently walking toes pointed out is very bad for you) and told me to come back in 2 weeks. The cat already chewed my PT band. Apparently it was delicious.

He also told me that I am not restricted in my activities, which is phenomenal because I was planning on spending all weekend in bed, bored out of my gourd, due to the other advice.

I'm about to head out now and get to the goats and ducks, which haven't been cleaned since my injury and are beyond disgusting. I will also do some sewing this weekend and also need to go get a chisel and start working on those two stones.

 

[chickadoodles]

If they had chickens and all kinds of livestock...why would they mind yours??

I just want peace and love man, PEACE and LOVE!!!!!

I am lucky....my neighbors like the constant screaming of my chickens and roosters.

Because they don't have roosters.

 

[chickisoup]

I only kept 3 hens out of all the birds I had. And I have had 2 guys come buy this week and last week asking me to sell them some. I told them I don't have any.
Dh went in the coop the other day to get the eggs and came in asking me if I got a board from under the lean to and took it out to the hen run? I told him no.
He said well someone did! So someone has gone in our back yard 30' from our house to get a board and took in into the hen run trying to get our chickens! DANG!!!
Some people feel so entitled to everything anyone has! If I catch them they are going to get an a@# full of buck shot!

 

[chickadoodles]

Hey Micro. Sorry your now feeling well. I hope you get better soon.
I hope your dh will heal quickly as well as your fingers.

We are also flooded still. Another blasted storm hit yesterday.

 

[chickadoodles]

Time to nominate 4 people for the BYC recognition awards.

Is it to late to do this? And where do we do it?

 

[chickisoup]

I would prefer HOT WIRE but, that's just me. Maybe they are feeding your dogs. We had cockers and for a treat, you could take anything you wanted.

Yep. We have a great little watchdog. Give her a treat and she'll watch you do whatever you want!