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[Kusanar]

Hey, guys, I just realized it's my birthday today. I almost forgot. If anyone is curious about my age,I'm 39 plus shipping and handling. Hehe I think me and chickens and ducks and bunnies and quail and tortoises and doggies and Bebop and Buddy, the budgie and cockatiel will have a pawty,potty, party this morning. Some of us will probably just wing it, though. Ok, I'm getting goofy in my old age. Better go to sleep

Happy Birthday! Mine is coming up soon... Next friday actually...

 

[Lynn Manes]

Hey, guys, I just realized it's my birthday today. I almost forgot. If anyone is curious about my age,I'm 39 plus shipping and handling. Hehe I think me and chickens and ducks and bunnies and quail and tortoises and doggies and Bebop and Buddy, the budgie and cockatiel will have a pawty,potty, party this morning. Some of us will probably just wing it, though. Ok, I'm getting goofy in my old age. Better go to sleep

Happy Birthday! Mine is coming up soon... Next friday actually...

Thank you.An early Happy Birthday to you also

 

[Lynn Manes]

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

Cute.Sorry about that noggin of yours though.

 

[Lynn Manes]

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I guess most vets as well as some people "discount" the value of a chicken... I mean it's "just a chicken". For some, I guess they can be just as much a cherished pet as a dog or cat to others. They could also be champion breeding stock. They aren't either to me, but that's me. It's good that you are happy with the career choice you made Wisher. Sure makes life easier when you're doing something you can at least tolerate if not love. Sounds like you lucked out in the vet department as well.
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All vets who doesn't know chickens are smart, needs to meet my little Mille Fleur Old English banty, Diva. She is spoiled rotten-came to me that way, and I've just kept spoiling her. She takes commands like a dog. If she decides to hightail it across the coop yard, usually to our tortoise area to eat up their daily salads of fresh produce, all I need to do is say"Diva, sit", and she crouches down and waits for me to pick her up. She is very afraid of the roos, even though they are both considered as bantams,too. One is a Frizzle bantam and I've yet to find out whatbreed our roo, Oops, is. (Named him that bc I sexed him wrong). So Diva has her own bowl and drinks from her own rabbit waterer. She plays and dust bathes in the coup safe from the roosters during the day, and at night, she now has her own pen(a really big bird cage) all to herself. This chicken could live in my house. Won't happen. Just saying, bc she's so tame.Here's a pic of her, & the only one I have,& her head is cut out of it.I guess she moved just as I clicked the photo. Right now, she's a mess as she is at the end of her molt. And, where she always slept at night in the coop with the others previously, I waslate one day getting outside to let them out, and Diva had been attacked by one of the roosters. I'm suspecting it was Frizzle as he's the main guy. She was bleeding profusely from a deep wound on her spine about the size of a dime and a quarter inch deep. I played the part of her vet and rushed her in the house and dabbed at the area to wipe away the blood. I could see her little spine and knew this could easily get infected. I had been bitten by a black widow spider on my foot and was on a PUCC line receiving antibiotic infusions here at home twice a day.I had been given a box full of saline syringes, so I got the bleeding under control & I used a saline syringe and washed out her wound.Then I put
Stop Quick on it, put a square of gauze over it and wrapped her in one of the rolls of gauze the dr had given me by the box full. That's when I decided she had to have her own sleeping area. After giving her daily wound cleanings and putting Neosporin on it for a couple of days eith fresh bandages, it actually healed pretty fast, and she's no worse the wear from Frizzle's aggressive advancements. Her new feathers are beginning to come in, so in another month I think she'll be back to her Diva status again.Here's a pic of the wound and a pic of Diva.

 

[Beer can]

Hot here also, 92, 75% humidity. We have had some rain though. Dry for a long while, not real bad but bad enough that the farmers don't think they'll get a second cutting of hay, be a hard expensive winter, and then milk prices are dropping again...
I'm not complaining bout the heat though, we don't get much of it, probably be in the 50s next month...

 

[microchick]

Lynnhill, your little 'Diva' is adorable and so lucky to have such a dedicated chicken mom. Great job healing that nasty wound. I had one of my Buff O/Welsummer mix pullets get out of their grow out pen when they were just 6 weeks old and one of the adult hens took a chunk out of her neck. There was an area as big as a quarter denuded of skin along with a skin tear. I was surprised at how fast she healed. I kept the wound sprayed with blu kote spray and kept trimming off dead skin as it dried. The wound granulated faster than any human wound would under the best of conditions and only left a small scar. She has a skin tab from the skin tear that gives her a funny little lump on the side of her neck but that helps pick her out of the flock. The incident traumatized her mentally though and she is my little drama queen now, screaming and running at the least bit of provocation.

Beer can: 93 here yesterday with a heat index of 110 degrees. I feel sorry for my flock. Even with a fan turned on them they are standing with their wings hanging on the ground. I made trip after trip hauling them cold water and stayed in the AC myself as much as I could. I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Fall.....but not winter, LOL.

 

[Kusanar]

Hot here also, 92, 75% humidity. We have had some rain though. Dry for a long while, not real bad but bad enough that the farmers don't think they'll get a second cutting of hay, be a hard expensive winter, and then milk prices are dropping again...
I'm not complaining bout the heat though, we don't get much of it, probably be in the 50s next month...

We have been having a hard time cutting hay too.... it won't stop raining!!! Grass is growing like crazy but no dry weather to cut... we have had a thunderstorm almost every evening all summer...

 

[Lynn Manes]

I used to keep my horses at a farm where they guy raised cattle, well, he threw several cows and a bull in a field and every now and then rounded up the calves and trucked them off... mixed breeds all over the place... anyway, there was a cow there that looked to be a mixture of black angus and brahma, she had the dewlap and big low set ears like the brahma, but she looked like a giant black angus, most of the angus looking cows in his field were about 4 feet tall, this lady was around 5 feet or maybe a little larger, but she had the chunky angus body.... prettiest cow I've seen in a long time...

Hey up there

Happy Birthday Lynn - if you can't be silly on your birthday - what's the point in having one.

Thank you Drumstick Diva. I'm pretty much silly all the time anyway. When you don't get much sleep at night,it tends to make you goofy. Well, me anyway My point was n having birthdays is bc I don't care for the alternative.lol I'm pretty happy to be alive and kickin' How have you been?

Lynnhill, your little 'Diva' is adorable and so lucky to have such a dedicated chicken mom. Great job healing that nasty wound. I had one of my Buff O/Welsummer mix pullets get out of their grow out pen when they were just 6 weeks old and one of the adult hens took a chunk out of her neck. There was an area as big as a quarter denuded of skin along with a skin tear. I was surprised at how fast she healed. I kept the wound sprayed with blu kote spray and kept trimming off dead skin as it dried. The wound granulated faster than any human wound would under the best of conditions and only left a small scar. She has a skin tab from the skin tear that gives her a funny little lump on the side of her neck but that helps pick her out of the flock. The incident traumatized her mentally though and she is my little drama queen now, screaming and running at the least bit of provocation. 

Beer can: 93 here yesterday with a heat index of 110 degrees. I feel sorry for my flock. Even with a fan turned on them they are standing with their wings hanging on the ground. I made trip after trip hauling them cold water and stayed in the AC myself as much as I could. I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Fall.....but not winter, LOL.

Thank you MicroChick. I was really amazed too how fast Diva's wound healed. It may sound silly, but if I lost her,I'd bawl my eyes out. I'm so attached to her. I've had a couple of exceptional chickens in the past and wow, I sure got attached to them I'm happy to hear your little one made it through her ordeal, too, even though it changed her somewhat. We bought one of those big round industrial fans from TSC and put a stand mister in front of it mainly for the rabbits, but they reside in the same area as the chickens, so they got the benefits from it, too. Only thing about using misters, is that it makes my coop yard a mucky mess after running it all day til at least the sun goes down. But we have to save them from these high temps or what's the point in raising them to succumb in the summers here.$0 out come my ugly rubber boots I bought to go frogging, and I step lightly so I don't end up flat on my back in the muck.so fsr, so good. We got a break from the 100°+ temps this past week, but heard we're in for another heatwave shortly. It may even be starting today.

 

[Lynn Manes]

Happy birthday Lynn!

Thank you WV

 

[Cynthia12]

Happy Birthday lynn!