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[microchick]

Emus! That is what frustrates me with our local vet. He will treat Emus and Ostriches but he won't touch a chicken!

DH suggested the next time I have a sick chicken I should stuff it in a crate, take it in and tell him it's an Emu.......with a really short neck and legs.

 

[Beer can]

Emus! That is what frustrates me with our local vet. He will treat Emus and Ostriches but he won't touch a chicken!   DH suggested the next time I have a sick chicken I should stuff it in a crate, take it in and tell him it's an Emu.......with a really short neck and legs.

Get naked necks and tell him they're baby ostriches :-D

 

[microchick]

Either that or get little tiny saddles for them and tell them that they are miniature racing ostriches. I'm serious. He spent 15 minutes telling em about the crop surgeries he did on Emus and some of the weird stuff he pulled out of their crops but when I pointed out to him that the anatomy of a chicken and the anatomy of an emu are pretty darned close, he wouldn't bite.

 

[Alaskan]

They put those weight limit signs up here also, how's the farmer's milk on the back roads supposed to get picked up!?
(when its still dark :-D )

Good grief......


I think most laws are a waste of paper.


So...are your signs metal? Or fancy colored paper like SCG?

 

[Beer can]

Good grief......


I think most laws are a waste of paper.


So...are your signs metal? Or fancy colored paper like SCG?

Metal, big one's also stop sign size so you can't miss them. I understand it for unnecessary travel, loggers can plan on it, big trucks using certain roads just to cut off a few miles or avoid traffic don't need to, but the farmer's milk? 'Hey girl's, gotta shut the spigots off...'

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: "Chickens? Really? D'ya think? I thought maybe they were just ostriches that had been to a shrink. Please, please don't tell them they are chickens - you should see the eggs that I'm getting!"

 

[pennyJo1960]

wow not much of Veterinary that will treat half but not all afraid
he wouldn't get our business even now

 

[microchick]

Unfortunately there isn't an avian vet anywhere close to us. I think the closest is in Columbia Missouri at Mizzou's Veterinary College. I told my husband that if I ever have anything really serious break out in my flock, it'll be car trip time.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Has crazy turkey actually hatched anything is all that time? Give her an emu egg takes 55 days for that.

Nope. At the end of this she probably could end up with a human baby.

Unless the Emu was rusty, I would say you're probably good... now rabies on the other hand.... lol

Do birds even get rabies??

you can get tetanus from contaminated puncture wounds - or nips by an emu with really bad teeth. It did have bad teeth

Thank you all. Rabies is a disease of mammals.

And tetanus actually comes from a spore in the soil (and poop and dust and...) via deep puncture wounds to get it into your bloodstream, regardless if you're punctured by metal (rusty or not) or non-metal.

 

[chickisoup]

Alaskan, haven't you got this getting stuck thing down pat yet? You seem to keep having to practice doing it.

Practice is supposed to make perfect, isn't it?

I am put in mind of the definition of winches in sailing: A Sailor's Dictionary by Beard & McKie:

"Winches - Jocular term for compliant and helpful young ladies on a sailboat." You can probably imagine the illustration of a "winch in operation."

I was waitin' for someone to jump on that

Good grief......


I think most laws are a waste of paper.


So...are your signs metal? Or fancy colored paper like SCG?

Our signs went up already too! A full month early. We just get the ugly, well beat up metal ones as well. We have mostly loggers and heavy haulers that are rough on our roads. Only milk haulers, and there's only a few, are down in the potato flats where there are maybe half a dozen farms with cows.

wow not much of Veterinary that will treat half but not all afraid
he wouldn't get our business even now

I hear ya. My "former" vet for my dog refused to even do a worm float for me for the chickens (we only see dogs and cats) yet she works on the eagles from the Raptor Rescue. My new vet still doesn't treat birds of any kind but has no problem with her techs doing a worm float for me.

Well, here we go. We had temps in the high 50's yesterday with another thunderstorm last night and not bad today which was great because it made getting ready for the snow storm that just started much more pleasant. The wind isn't supposed to pick up until late so I was able to put off tying down the windmill until after I locked the chickens in for the night. Heavy snow shouldn't kick in until around daylight and hopefullly let up by Saturday afternoon. We're all set for the inevitable power outage. Both generators are gassed up. One on the front porch for the house stuff and the other on the back porch for the well and other stuff. Wood box is full, snow thrower ready to go, shovels, flashlights, solar lights for coop, yard, feed shed etc. all in place, turkey and veggies ready to go into slow cooker tonight so we can pick on it for the next two days as we snuggle in and watch all the great movies I taped onto the Genie for when the snow takes the satellite out. Not bad prepping for a couple of old fogies, eh? Oh, and I think we're good even if they don't get our power back on before the next big storm that's supposed to hit next week. Now time to take a hot shower and fill some water jugs. Got to just love pre-spring.