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[pennyJo1960]

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The last of the hatches and we're celebrating because we finally got shipped Marans eggs to hatch at high altitudes. It feels close to a miracle!
And, as a curiousity, we have a decidedly brown Marans chick. (Will probably grow up to be French Black Copper, heavy on the copper now in the down)
Anyway, thought I'd insert some Sunday morning merriment. Who doesn't like chick pics?

little itty bitty peeps love them thank you

 

[CapricornFarm]

Sounds like me, Cap. Only I take a Zyrtec in the morning and a Singulaire at night along with the Benedryl. I too still have problems. In fact I feel like my chronic sinusitis is flaring up again which will mean a trip to the doc for antibiotics so it doesn't worsen over the winter months when it generally hits me the hardest.

I need to get a flue shot but can't at this point in time. Oh well, hibernation and being a recluse is fun. At least that is what I keep telling myself.

On the bright side if there is one, @CapricornFarm just think of how miserable you would be if you didn't have the ear tube and all that pressure was building up in your inner ear. You would be flat on your back unable to lift your head.

What I've done in the past to get my doctor to at least try something different is say, 'Look if you feel like you are in over your head and don't know what else to do, could you send me to somebody who might be able to help me? Please?' Usually they either try something different or refer me out, either way there is a chance of getting better results.

The crazy part is that antibiotics do not work unless i take like 3 courses of them. My sinuses always hurt.

 

[microchick]

CHICKS!

Darling little fluffy butt chickiburds!

They are truly too adorable to be legal! Congratulations on the good hatch, @Peep_Show!

@CapricornFarm, I hear ya! I was on Augmentin for three months at 500mg twice a day just to knock the acute into chronic. When I was working and always around sick people, I just automatically went on a one a day dose just to half way keep healthy. I hated it. I have very narrow sincus passages that just block up at the least irritation so it's a constant battle. For the past two years since we retired, I've been able to avoid the winter Augmentin but now I'm feeling the pressure and pain in my maxillary sinuses when I bend over and the tender spots over the frontals so I know it's rearing it's ugly head again. I'm sure I picked it up while shopping at Walmart. It happens every time I get around a crowd of people.

DH's are so bad that they burrowed a new passage way between the sinus and the nasal cavity in order to relieve the pressure. The ENT doctor said she had never seen anything like that before and that his sinuses were the worst that they had ever seen. He's been through one surgery whose benefits only lasted 6 weeks. They wanted him to do another surgery but he declined. I don't blame him one bit.

I just looked at my watch and said. OMG! Lunch is late.....oops.......Figured I'd forget to set at least one clock.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I woke at 9:30 according to my bf it is only 8:30

 

[chickadoodles]

Peep your chicks are so cute!

 

[Peep_Show]

They are exceptionally cute at a day old. Hard to stay away from them as you just want to scoop them up and baby talk them. Later in the game, well, all those teenage dino-chickens aren't so cuddly. And, like teenagers, want nothing to do with you.

The egg vendor just informed me that the brown chick is a Birchen Marans. The rest of the Marans are either penguins or solid black. I'm in love with the little tiny feathered legs!

 

[Peep_Show]

Penny,
OMG... The dogs are demanding their meals far too early by my clock! I don't know who's training who, but they seem unimpressed by my pointing to the clock and trying to explain delayed gratification to them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Penny,
OMG... The dogs are demanding their meals far too early by my clock! I don't know who's training who, but they seem unimpressed by my pointing to the clock and trying to explain delayed gratification to them.

may very well be how are act in the next hour as their normal is

 

[microchick]

I love feather legged birds. Unfortunately we have so much clay mud here that I'd be forever trimming leg feathers.

Right now I have two little bantam cockerels that are OEGB with some Cochin trown in for good measures. They have feather stubble on their legs that I'm keeping a close eye on now that winter is here but that is as close to feather legs as I want to get.

Mine seem to love me till they get to be young adults then it's on to bigger and better things. Like cockerel fights and brooding eggs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I will have to look I may have a different breed in my little black peeps I do not think they have feathered feet