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[ronott1]

Hard to beleive but in a generation or two the shingles and chicken pox will be a thing of the past. My kids are of the generation that are vaccinated against chicken pox. No chicken pox-- no shigles.

I may be wrong, but you can still get shingles even if vaccinated as a child for chicken pox. That is likely how the 3 year old got shingles.

 

[insanity]

The way my daughters doc explained it is she was so young when exposed to chicken pox (only three months old and 11 weeks premature) her immune system couldn't take so it became shingles. She can't be vaccinated for either one now because it is to late once you have it. Her second outbreak exposed me and I got the pox because I never got them as a kid. I tried to get the shingles shot for my boy(when he got the pox shot last year) and me but the doc said we would both need it but not till we get to "that age".

 

[tnspursfan09]

Here are my two new babies. Dottie and Cricket.

Cricket watching the Rockets/Pacers game. I think she/he is a Pacers fan because she gets upset when I cheer for the Rockets.




Cricket is in love with Dottie and follows her everywhere, and she/he can fly!





I have no idea what this chick is.

 

[ronott1]

The way my daughters doc explained it is she was so young when exposed to chicken pox (only three months old and 11 weeks premature) her immune system couldn't take so it became shingles. She can't be vaccinated for either one now because it is to late once you have it. Her second outbreak exposed me and I got the pox because I never got them as a kid. I tried to get the shingles shot for my boy(when he got the pox shot last year) and me but the doc said we would both need it but not till we get to "that age".

I am so sorry!

It reminds me of older folks catching polio from a recently immunized toddler.

 

[insanity]

I would guess Dotti is a ...uh... Real Cutie. Kind of a common breed but very desired,

 

[tnspursfan09]

I would guess Dotti is a ...uh... Real Cutie. Kind of a common breed but very desired,

That she is...and very spoiled. But she's not the problem, she's from my flock...a cross between Diego, my LH roo and either one of my red sexlinks or my BO. Cricket is the problem child. DH got her from a breeder in Greeneville who said she was an Ameraucana or an Araucana (DH can't remember which)

This chick is completely smitten with our little Dot. It follows her around and if it loses sight of her will make the cricket sound until it see her, then will fly across the room to her.

 

[RedneckGurl]

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As Wisher has suggested, I'll tell you a bit about my little flock. So far I have 27 birds - 25 hens and two roosters. I have an OEGB Porcelain roo named Spike and his three little ladies are a Red Pyle (Coco), a Birchen (Esmeralda), and a Cochin (Fleur). I have a Barred Rock roo named Rocky who is so young he doesn't even have his spurs yet...but he has figured out the other part of being a boy. Can't keep it in his feathers for more than 5 minutes. His harem consists of two Red Sexlinks (Ginger and Nutmeg), four Delawares (Helen, Petula, Violet and Della), three RIRs (Rose, Gypsy and Little Red), an EE (Hershey), a RIR/game mix (Looney), a BO (Sprite), eight Black Sexlinks, and two Jersey Giants. The most recent additions are the black sexlinks and JGs. They don't have names because they all look so much alike that I can't tell them apart so I call them things like Little Mama or other cutesy names. They live in what my husband refers to as the Chicken Majal, a coop he helped me build that will probably outlast us both it's so well constructed. That is what happens when you let an OCD aerospace engineer with a Master's in Mechanical Engineering design and build your coop. It's 8' x 12' and raised up 24" off the ground. We have the ADOR automatic pop door (love that thing) and all other openings are covered with hardware cloth so it's dang near impenetrable by any predator you could think of. Our main run is 25' x 35' and is fenced in 6' welded wire with the entire run covered in chicken wire. The attached compost area (chicken playground) is 15' x 25' and is also fenced with the 6' welded wire but has electric fence wire strung across the top in a "web" to discourage aerial attacks from the hawks that live in our area. Eventually the garden area which runs along the entire back of the run and compost area will be fenced in as well so I can let the chickens in to clean it up for me at the end of this growing season. I love them. They are such good entertainment and I get enough eggs for our home use and to sell to my friends and coworkers. Hope that fills everyone in on me and my feathered pets. Attached is a picture of my run and coop taken from the gate leading into the compost area.

 

[ozexpat]

Hard to beleive but in a generation or two the shingles and chicken pox will be a thing of the past. My kids are of the generation that are vaccinated against chicken pox. No chicken pox-- no shigles.

On my soap box:

Shingles wont be a think of the past. In a year or two there will be a statistically insignificant study that will tell us that the vaccine is responsible for the curling of one in two hundred people's left small toe. This will find its way to an organic health movement website then go viral all on its own.

For the following twenty years, people will suffer un-needingly from shingles in the eye, face and all the postherpetic neuralgia (excruciating pain) that goes with it - but they will have straight little toes.

Off my soap box.

 

[chickadoodles]

My wife gives 1000 flu shots a year when working as an occupational health nurse. She hands out 2 mini packs of 2 tylenol to anyone who does not have a contraindication to the drug. It is amazing at mitigating the "oh my gosh, the vaccine is making me sick" phenomenon.

I wish I had taken some after the shots! It sure did hurt after wards. I really will take some next year! Thanks

WE do it with horses too! Ony the drug is bute not aspirin.

Oh, ok. Thanks.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

On my soap box:

Shingles wont be a think of the past. In a year or two there will be a statistically insignificant study that will tell us that the vaccine is responsible for the curling of one in two hundred people's left small toe. This will find its way to an organic health movement website then go viral all on its own.

For the following twenty years, people will suffer un-needingly from shingles in the eye, face and all the postherpetic neuralgia (excruciating pain) that goes with it - but they will have straight little toes.

Off my soap box.