The road less traveled...back to good health! They have lice, mites, scale mites, worms, anemia, gl

[galanie]

What?  No EWWWWWWW, GROSSSSS! from the crowd over these pics?     I expected to hear a lot of comments on just how horrible and gross looking those vent pics were...

 

No eewww gross here! I was too busy alternating between laughter and awe at how good that chicken's butt looks. As in healing well.

It's a butt thing with OT's. I remember Al posting a picture of himself holding a rooster so you could see it's butt really good. What was that about, again Al?

 

[Beekissed]

Thinking of a baby running around a while in a wet diaper until mom changes it as being properly cultured urine makes me giggle. But it's probably true because they often used a sort of plastic or rubber outer pants to keep the pee from getting everywhere.

Yeah....but who was the first one who actually tried it?

What excuse would you possibly have for wiping your baby's mouth out with a pissy diaper?

I'd say it was teething and happened to be given a wet, soothing cloth to suck on...and it just happened to have thrush also and the diaper just happened to be wet with urine~and a treatment for thrush was born! Or something like that......

x 50 and then some, BK.

One lousy louse found on my roo took me down the most time-consuming, chemical-ridden, expensive, confusingand frustrating path for three weeks! Wood ash..(which is still in the outdoor woodstove from last year) would probably have solved everything and we would have been able to eat our first several dozens of eggs.

This thread has an OT reaching tender-heartedly down to many misguided newbies to set us on the right path from the get-go. This is to be a 'classic' thread and Beekissed deserves a truckload of ovations for turning a bad situation into something better than really good. Three cheers for BK!

Thank you, MC, for those kind words but it really isn't no thang to post these things....I'm just glad that someone can use them. When I first came to BYC I came asking questions about things too....and found a world of confusion and debates on things that I never wanted to know.

I'd been around and raising chickens since I was little but we had never really fooled with broody hens and chicks....they just disappeared and came back later with some chicks. Then we started keeping layer breeds that never really went broody, leghorns and RIR and such. Then I had full flocks and didn't really want new chicks because I had a plenty and didn't really want more....was usually just buying started pullets back then. Then got to a place where I could have some fun with breeds and broodies, so I came here to ask some questions....wanted the boys to get to see mother hens and chicks like I did when young. Grandma wasn't around to ask and Mom didn't really remember much specific things about those days of her chicken flocks....like so many country people, you just HAD chickens...you didn't really think or plan or manipulate them so much that you really had to think about it. They just did it.

After that first experience, my sojourn into BYC was frustrating and for awhile I just stayed away...couldn't get a straight answer, no one had info on raising the birds naturally except a few good folks and sifting through all the very inexperienced but highly "expert" advice was nerve wracking. Made me want to hit something...hard.

But I will tell you this...this forum made me actually start to analyze how I raised chickens. For all those years I never really put any thought into it...just raised them like my mama did, and my grandma before her. Never asked why we did this or that, never really broke down what I do to get certain results. When I came here it made me think and I started to do research on the methods I'd been using, to see if there was any substance to our methods and if anyone else was doing them. I asked a lot of questions here during that time and, meanwhile, I started to set my methods down and really see what they were, how they worked, and how I could improve.

And that brings us here, to this place and I must say it's kind of fun to see how much you can improve on what you do, save money, produce something to be proud of and feed your family all at the same time.

 

[Missa Chickabee]

And that brings us here, to this place and I must say it's kind of fun to see how much you can improve on what you do, save money, produce something to be proud of and feed your family all at the same time.

...and very little wasted, too. Well said.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Chiming in late on this one.

I think the caption should read: 'Alright. Fess up. Where did you hide my teeth this time?'

PS I like the new feather growth on her nose.

 

[Beekissed]

I think it says "We don't cotton t' furriners down in these here parts, so git yer city slickin' butt offa ma place and take yer pitchers sumwairselse! " and punctuated by a big, gloppy hock and spit on the ground, tobacco juice aflyin'.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think it says "We don't cotton t' furriners down in these here parts, so git yer city slickin' butt offa ma place and take yer pitchers sumwairselse! " and punctuated by a big, gloppy hock and spit on the ground, tobacco juice aflyin'.

 

[Pullet Surprise]

"Surrre gotta purdy mouth"

 

[Beekissed]

"Surrre gotta purdy mouth"

That's the only line out of that whole movie that was worth the watching of it!!!! Exactly! You win the caption contest!

But the correct pronunciation is this~ "Sure do gotta purdy mouf"...mouf...it's THAT important to get it right.

 

[7L Farm]

Yeah....but who was the first one who actually tried it?

What excuse would you possibly have for wiping your baby's mouth out with a pissy diaper?

I'd say it was teething and happened to be given a wet, soothing cloth to suck on...and it just happened to have thrush also and the diaper just happened to be wet with urine~and a treatment for thrush was born! Or something like that......

Thank you, MC, for those kind words but it really isn't nothing to post these things....I'm just glad that someone can use them. When I first came to BYC I came asking questions about things too....and found a world of confusion and debates on things that I never wanted to know.

I'd been around and raising chickens since I was little but we had never really fooled with broody hens and chicks....they just disappeared and came back later with some chicks. Then we started keeping layer breeds that never really went broody, leghorns and RIR and such. Then I had full flocks and didn't really want new chicks because I had a plenty and didn't really want more....was usually just buying started pullets back then. Then got to a place where I could have some fun with breeds and brodies, so I came here to ask some questions....wanted the boys to get to see mother hens and chicks like I did when young. Grandma wasn't around to ask and Mom didn't really remember much specific things about those days of her chicken flocks....like so many country people, you just HAD chickens...you didn't really think or plan or manipulate them so much that you really had to think about it. They just did it.

After that first experience, my sojourn into BYC was frustrating and for awhile I just stayed away...couldn't get a straight answer, no one had info on raising the birds naturally except a few good folks and sifting through all the very inexperienced but highly "expert" advice was nerve wracking. Made me want to hit something...hard.

But I will tell you this...this forum made me actually start to analyze how I raised chickens. For all those years I never really put any thought into it...just raised them like my mama did, and my grandma before her. Never asked why we did this or that, never really broke down what I do to get certain results. When I came here it made me think and I started to do research on the methods I'd been using, to see if there was any substance to our methods and if anyone else was doing them. I asked a lot of questions here during that time and, meanwhile, I started to set my methods down and really see what they were, how they worked, and how I could improve.

And that brings us here, to this place and I must say it's kind of fun to see how much you can improve on what you do, save money, produce something to be proud of and feed your family all at the same time.

Amen to that. I pretty much live off what I grow here at 7L. I'm not a health nut I just like home grown tomatoes, fresh eggs, deer meat & wild hog meat. Meat that has the wild taste just taste better to me. Its more like a country boy can survive theory going on here. I'm like blue bell ice cream I sell what I can & eat the rest. I've been eating off this farm since my grandpa lived here he raised angus cows & plenty of veggies. Its in my blood I guess.
One thing I do know is my three flocks love ff & the OP that said her chickens were licking their plates clean was right. O forgot to mention I live in a barn. People pull up & ask me where do you live I tell them I live in that barn. It sounds rugged but its really a nice barn. I'm incognito.

 

[normanack]

O forgot to mention I live in a barn. People pull up & ask me where do you live I tell them I live in that barn. It sounds rugged but its really a nice barn. I'm incognito.

If someone says "Where are your manners? Were you raised in a barn?" you can smile and say "Yup. Still livin' there, too."

I envy you!