The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

We finally finished up harvesting our downed tree. Best guessament on the amount of wood is 2.5 cords from it. That means only 3 cords away from having next winter's wood in the barn curing. We have an old growth oak tree near the west fence line that died last year. It was damaged when another tree went down in a storm and hit it.Another two plus foot diameter trunk. The neighbor next door offered to help us drop and harvest it for a share of the wood. We will probably take him up on it since we plan to drop the fence to the ground and let the tree fall in the field that belongs to the neighbor.

Taking it easy today. I slid in the mud and landed on my butt late yesterday afternoon out in the chicken run. This morning I'm walking like I'm 90 years old. Worst of all, I need to brush the muck off my pants so I can toss them in the wash. I guess it could have been worse if the ground was dry and hard and I didn't have all that nice soft muck to land in but then if it had been dry I wouldn't have slid and fallen.

@penny1960 your cookies look delicious. I'm still on my diet and slowly loosing weight. 12 pounds so far with another 13 to go....I'm to the point where the weight loss has slowed due to my metabolism adjusting itself which means eat even less and exercise more. May as well go outside and graze on grass and twigs.....

I bet it is a relief to have that tree gone!

I do not know what I did but am having pain in my lower back, knee and top of the ankle joint at my food. All on the left side. Does gout do that?

 

[microchick]

Sounds more like sciatica, @ronott1. Heat and NSAIDS, rest.

Gotta try that pancake recipe some day....when I'm not dieting. Maybe 5 years from now.

 

[ronott1]

Sounds more like sciatica, @ronott1. Heat and NSAIDS, rest.

Gotta try that pancake recipe some day....when I'm not dieting. Maybe 5 years from now.

I had surgery for spinal stenosis 10 years ago. I hate sciatica and still have nerve damage to the sciatic nerve on the right side.

I was really hoping for gout! Oh well. It will get better.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Shouldn't happen with adult chickens. Look into the other causes of neck issues.

One of them is eating lead paint chips. Your place is old and there could be stuff in the soil from lead to arsenic which was used as a pesticide in the past

Yes, old area. Home was built in 1995 and the issues started to happen in the brooder in the basement. Now they're outside in the same run as all the other birds. I've been raising birds on that same spot for 8 years and haven't had the issues until now, and only the silkies. I got showgirls and frizzles from her and no issues with those, yet, except the legs. I am open to other ideas, but I am really thinking all signs point to genetics.

 

[ronott1]

Yes, old area. Home was built in 1995 and the issues started to happen in the brooder in the basement. Now they're outside in the same run as all the other birds. I've been raising birds on that same spot for 8 years and haven't had the issues until now, and only the silkies. I got showgirls and frizzles from her and no issues with those, yet, except the legs. I am open to other ideas, but I am really thinking all signs point to genetics.

If one of them dies, send it in for a necropsy. That will rule out causes other than genetics

 

[pennyJo1960]

it is almost identical to my doughnut recipe anyway I am alive working on my first cup
but thought it was Monday nope Friday caregiver pulls up asked her what you doing here on a Monday need my second cup.. nothing wrong with my silky here either they spent more time broody them not but darn their cute

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Great idea and one I hadn't thought of. I've got one left (that just came down with wry neck beginnings last night).

 

[getaclue]

scg, did you try giving them the appropriate vitamins?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I did with the last few, yes.

I did get the one last night to swallow a giant vitamin e capsule (first try... figure if I couldn't do it, no one could). Working night shift today so I'll go out in a little bit and check on her before I go to work.

 

[getaclue]

You can poke a little hole in the D capsule, and give it that way too. If the silkies are separate from the others, you might try mixing the content of a capsule, or two in their feed. That way they get a steady dose.