The Old Folks Home

[chickisoup]

That is awesome! Silly goat!

X2!!!

 

[Alaskan]

Chicki, exactly!!!


There are so few people up here though...the old vet would often work and drive for 12 hours a day. Can't imagine anyone wanting to replace him.



There is one vet in town.... But just cat and dogs. When I first got horses up here I stipidly called them to come out and check them over. They were happy to come out and look them over, charge me an INSANE fee... But the lady was scared to even get close to the big horse yeah, eyeballed him from a distance and still charged me.

She gave me no pointers for the fungal rot that he had gotten on his rump from being trailbered up here... Of course she never got close enough to see it.... And when I asked the exact dosage of nutrition yeast the horses would need when they started showing symptoms from eating horsetail (poisonous plant) she actually had no idea what I was talking about......

No joke....


Don't worry, the fungal rot cleared right up with the herbal spray I used, and I just did the scientic measurement of "heavy full handfull" for the nutritional yeast.

 

[perchie.girl]

Chicki, exactly!!!


There are so few people up here though...the old vet would often work and drive for 12 hours a day. Can't imagine anyone wanting to replace him.

There is one vet in town.... But just cat and dogs. When I first got horses up here I stipidly called them to come out and check them over. They were happy to come out and look them over, charge me an INSANE fee... But the lady was scared to even get close to the big horse

yeah, eyeballed him from a distance and still charged me.

She gave me no pointers for the fungal rot that he had gotten on his rump from being trailbered up here... Of course she never got close enough to see it.... And when I asked the exact dosage of nutrition yeast the horses would need when they started showing symptoms from eating horsetail (poisonous plant) she actually had no idea what I was talking about......

No joke....


Don't worry, the fungal rot cleared right up with the herbal spray I used, and I just did the scientic measurement of "heavy full handfull" for the nutritional yeast.

sometimes we have to be our own vet.... I can give intermuscular shots and SubQ if I have to.... Banamine is great for tummy aches AND feaver. Butazolitine.... Bute is like aspirin for horses but tastes awful... Bell Drops have belladonna in them and believe it or not three drops on the tongue for horse will allieve stommach ache... It was hard to get for a while but they are on the market online now.

deb

 

[CanuckBock]

sometimes we have to be our own vet.... I can give intermuscular shots and SubQ if I have to.... Banamine is great for tummy aches AND feaver. Butazolitine.... Bute is like aspirin for horses but tastes awful... Bell Drops have belladonna in them and believe it or not three drops on the tongue for horse will allieve stommach ache... It was hard to get for a while but they are on the market online now.

deb

Totally be your own vet. If I had a horse, I'd be consulting with Deb.

I can do the shots too. You hafta learn and taking them to the vet is one thing...having them make a visit, quite another.

Ton of vet money, WASTED over the years--trying to do the right things.

The one I love the best was an OPP test where we delivered the sheep to the clinic and in the States, that's like an eight dollar test...cost us $250...for the one sheep WE delivered to the clinic. Good gack...and to be part of the OPP Society, you were expected to test ALL members of your flock...at $250 per sheep...yeh...not likely!

I had a referral to this "poultry vet" once...she took a downpayment of $200...what did I get, I got her to look at my chickens (same as Al...like she had never SEEN a live bird?? like the horse at a distance)...at her office. Went home and waited, got a bill for $25 more ??? Icrumba I thought...and nothing about the leg issue I had taken the birds to her for.

The nerve of all this is that I had an autopsy (by this vet...not sure she didn't EAT the bird later...tee hee, snicker snort!) turned out this bird was egg bound and passed on due to complications to that. My bad luck on that...and then leg scraped samples for the lab taken (I had to insist something got looked into) and never got a copy of the lab results from her on it. I had some leg problem on one pen of birds, some sorta fungus because when I could get NO answers from her...I used an off the shelf of my REAL vet's product for dairy cows. Teat something or other. I whined at my vet who had referred me in the first place to this chicken vet (yeh chicken alright!) and he got me a copy of the test results (inconclusive basically) and he was the one that nodded approval for me to off label the dairy product on the chook legs. Cleared it right up. Conclusion is that I should have housed this particular bird in a more sunny pen...then the fungus would have gotten zapped by the sun and be gone. Whatever...didn't feel I should have paid $225 plus the dairy meds at the other place to fix this issue. Chicken vet...my butt.

So most often we all have to wing it.

I still run it by my real vet and he's great about it (always game to try one of my out thar remedies...give him the go and report back on how it worked out) but quite often he is amazed at the stuff I bring him. Jacob ram lamb with split eye for surgery...turkey with sore feet (huge tom, removed the roost and solved the issue...hitting the floor too hard and bruising feets!)...this leg thingy with the one chicken. Yeh, you learn your lessons the hard way and you network. What this BYC is about, eh.

Lot to be said about some of the oldtimer remedies. Hopefully we keep the wisdom shared and we can still get the products they used...so often it gets banned and you are left floundering at what to use to do the trick. I recently found out the stuff I got in the fridge as one of the preventative vacs for my sheep is no longer sold in Canada. Good golly and the replacement crap is just that, crap in comparison. Guess that is how we all get to refer to the GOOD ol' dazes, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Alaskan]

Sheesh .... Preventative vacs are now banned ... Wouldn't ya know!

 

[Latestarter]

It's a conspiracy I tell ya... Purdue and Tyson don't want us chickeneers eating into their profits! So they spend millions on buying govt bureaucrats to draft laws making the stuff we need illegal or unavailable without a vet's OK...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I slept 13 hours yesterday after cracking myself in the noggin twice. I feel so much better today but still not fantastic. I do have to work this weekend, unfortunately.

I've been working on quiet book pages for Xmas gift but mostly under the ruse of trying to trick myself into learning new skills (mostly hand sewing).

I'm trying to finish a page (or 2 pages if it's a set) a week until December then make them into the quiet book.

Today I finished Circus Train with finger puppets

 

[Alaskan]

Very nice SCG! (Not the part about scaring me in regards to the concussion.... I mean the quiet book)



When I only had one kid.. And the kid was small... We went to a funeral... Me in my tree hugger-ness had brought the kid only one toy, a wooden book with a painted animal on each page.


Groovy




So the kid kept dropping the book or smacking it on things ...

Or looking at the pictures and making the corresponding animal sound.... Loudly....

We were family so in the front row. Again

 

[perchie.girl]

Old tyme horse person who taught me much of my horse husbandry made her own salve for cuts and scrapes... Sulfamilimide powder and lard and some secret ingredients I think was a horse linimant of some sort.

it was great for scrapes and cuts... but you couldnt use it on deep wounds because it made it heal too quick.

Sulfa powder became a controlled substance in the seventies... so we had to make do without.

seems you can get it again

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I slept 13 hours yesterday after cracking myself in the noggin twice. I feel so much better today but still not fantastic. I do have to work this weekend, unfortunately.

I've been working on quiet book pages for Xmas gift but mostly under the ruse of trying to trick myself into learning new skills (mostly hand sewing).

I'm trying to finish a page (or 2 pages if it's a set) a week until December then make them into the quiet book.

Today I finished Circus Train with finger puppets

adorbs......

deb