The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

No MG that I know of, at least nobody dropping dead from any respiratory infections. No crusting eyes, no purulent discharges. The worst they have is an occasional sneeze so I'm not suspecting MG although I do have a bantam that can lay some pretty weirdly striated patterns on her eggs but she is as healthy as a young horse.

I did not think so! Eggs are very wonky looking if they are showing symptoms

 

[Alaskan]

Need NY water for the best pizza crust! Been scientific studies that say so, it's all in the water

So just wast suff s in that water? -shudder-

That bladder thing sounds like what a truck driver that delivers milk were I work went through. They put him on a medication and he had to cut certain foods out of his diet.
Don't know how that worked out for him driving truck and he also goes on long group rides on his Harley, Sturgis, Daytona etc.

An empty water bottle...duh. Or several for long drives.

You can use this:

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But you still have to have the Super Sucker come out every 7 years or so to drain the tank.

Dang, my tank must be small...actually, I am paranoid about hurting my leach field, so I get it sucked out every 2 to 3 years.

We use stuff like Ron showed. We get that tank at each house cleaned out yearly. We've went as long as 2 years. I do have a dishwasher but no food goes down. We do use the good toilet paper...lol. Probably makes a difference? It would be disastrous if it ever spilled over into the clean water side of the tank in the winter. That would cause "major" issues for us here.

Huh? There is a clean water side? The drinking water is next to the septic water?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

So just wast suff s in that water? -shudder-


An empty water bottle...duh. Or several for long drives.



Dang, my tank must be small...actually, I am paranoid about hurting my leach field, so I get it sucked out every 2 to 3 years.



Huh? There is a clean water side? The drinking water is next to the septic water?

Maybe our septic tanks are different?? Our tanks have a solids side, a partition in the middle and the water flows over to the gray water pump out side. As the water fills, it hits the pilswitch , it's like a float and this signals the septic pump in the basement to pump the water out. Both houses have plastic pipe that runs quite a ways from the house where it pumps out the gray water. It's the solids side that's sucked out. I "think" the tank at this house is cement....the one at our house is fiberglass and it looked like a giant soup bowl when it was in half.

Oh...our well isn't any where near either pump out. We have one well that's now piped direct to our house and the drinker behind our house. This house now branches off the direct line to feed this house and then branches to all the drinkers in the different directions. It's a new well created about 10 years ago.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Well, I just did an emergency c-section on my #1 egg. I saw what looked like an internal pip but when I picked the egg up the chick had externally pipped at the mid section of the egg near the wrong end. I could hear weak peeps so I went to work, enlarged the hole and could see a tiny beak mid egg. The thick membrane was white but there was some blood loss from the inner membrane. In for a penny in for a pound. Baby was breathing slowly and cheeping softly on occasion if I clucked at it but wasn't making any effort to free itself. I went ahead and removed the egg and it still wasn't trying to free itself so I got it out of the membrane which was very thick considering the egg shell was thin and brittle (and I feed oyster shell to my hens so whatzup with that?)

Baby is alive. I just went out and checked on it. It's breathing regularly, opening and closing its beak but it hasn't opened its eyes yet. I hope I got it out in time. I haven't touched the eggs since yesterday and there was no pips showing then. Yolk sack is completely absorbed but the umbilicus is still attached to the membrane. I just left it.

Hoping for the best. This is the second mal-presentation with this clutch of eggs. The first was dead in the shell. It's also the first clutch of eggs from a broody hen that has had mal-presentations with the chicks.

Nice job!

 

[microchick]

Thanks Wicked. Little one is not doing well. It hasn't opened it's eyes yet, it's breathing is labored, it can only lay on its side and doesn't try to right itself. I managed to dribble a small drop of electrolytes with a small pinch of sugar dissolved in it into it's mouth from the side. It managed to swallow a little of it but there was no reaction. I don't think I got to it in time. I was trying to keep hands off now I wish I'd been a little more hands on. Sigh. I just hate this part of having chickens. Danged if you do and danged if you don't.

 

[ronott1]

Howdy, Latestarter! I appreciate you thinking of me. I am doing great, just been super busy lately. I took leave from work to take care of my Dad in his final weeks, his funeral was April 27. After taking care of his belongings and such, we took a family vacation to the beach and when we returned, I immediately had to work on our rental house as the occupants left while I was planning the funeral (three months before the end of the lease.) I am also working on buying another house that my son will take over as soon as he finishes school and is able to get a full time job and a loan to buy me out of it. We are still trying to get everything done for closing, but that will (hopefully) be next week. OH, and I started a new job, and went to the beach for almost a week with my best friend. Somebody told me that I retired on May 12th, but I think they lied.

I am sorry about your Dad!

I lost mine in 2000 and it seems like yesterday still

Congratulations on retiring and getting a new job
I hope you like it and that you do not have to work full time.

 

[chickadoodles]

Wow Chicka... sorry to hear that. I had busted pipes under my previous home several times before I sold it... water bill was astronomical I hope the power co will work with you. Hope it didn't "drain" your well too bad, though I think you've had plenty of rain to keep the water table up.

Thanks. I hope so to. Alabama power did work with me one time years ago over a water leak. And I don't think my Dh has ever asked for one before. So maybe.

Micro I hope your chick makes it. But I also hope it won't be impaired.

 

[chickadoodles]

Ron I also lost my dad in 2000. I agree it does still feel like yesterday.

 

[getaclue]

Wisher, condolences, and prayers to you, and yours. So sorry for your loss.

 

[Beer can]

So just wast suff s in that water? -shudder-


An empty water bottle...duh. Or several for long drives.



Dang, my tank must be small...actually, I am paranoid about hurting my leach field, so I get it sucked out every 2 to 3 years.



Huh? There is a clean water side? The drinking water is next to the septic water?

Lol! NYC doesn't drink their own water they use ours, something about the mineral content in the water makes NY pizza crust the best?
Vehve posted awhile back Finland had I forget the rating for longest or largest aqueduct in the world, I live near and fish in the beginning of the 2nd largest in the world feeding NYC. 455 square miles reservoir 140 or so miles from NYC. So clean they don't even need to filter it. Though of course they do treat it.....
Oldest DD still nailing big trout in it, and dang tasty stuffed and smoke grilled.
Couple of her latest (and her boyfriend caught nothing Lol!!)

I've been wanting bad to nail some bullhead there at night with the youngsters but 12hr shifts week after week and then rain every weekend..

On the septic tank, try adding sour milk down the drain, sourer the better, IDK, heard it at some point instead of buying the bacteria tablets. I do it occasionally and never have had to pump out our tank yet.