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

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Beekissed said:
That is all normal!
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Hence folks referring to their chickens as fluffy butts...nice, soft baby feathers under the tail feathers. That bare spot is nothing...most mature hens have a little bare skin there if the feathers are distended.
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thanks Bee
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Well, I'm almost offically aboard. I'm fermenting my FF. Yee Haw. It shouln't take long its gonna be in the 90's today & I have the stuff in my shed. One flock got their protein earlier today already. I have some corrugated tin laying under one of my quail pens & moved it to clean the poop from on top of it. The chickens always love it when I do this because there's always bugs under the tin. Well, today we hit paydirt & found a den of mice. I mean there were little iddy biddy mice running out & the chickens went to town on them. It was fun to watch.
At first they looked like a bunch of city chickens & I told em . Hey, girls we're in the country out here now start acting like it. About that time little baby snatched one up & the party was on. There must of been 10 are better. I did see mom get away.
 
Sure wish I'd known your grandaddy too... I got trench mouth one summer while working at the pool and drinking out of the common drinking fountain. All the kids at the pool got it also..it was going around. That was the most painful stuff!!! I lost about 10 lbs in the 2-3 wk recovery...best I've ever looked in my life!
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135 lbs!

Sure wish I knew all the roots, herbs and barks that the old timers knew but most of that knowledge is passed out of time and memory.

Being fearless to try something was something they had back then and that we don't much possess nowadays. Most folks are so USDA intimidated now that any mention of home remedies, canning without using a pressure canner, not disinfecting everyone and everything in sight, or brooding chicks without measuring temps...well, that stuff is pretty much shouted down now.

Herd thinking in a herd world now....
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I do remember one plant he used a lot, plantain(sp)? Except, he used to call it hopper grass weed (still don't know why). He would put the leaves in his pockets in the summer time to "keep from getting galded".

Also, we used to stay pretty scraped and scratched up as kids. We would usually just wipe the blood off and keep on going (too busy playing whatever to go wash up). Occassionally, someone would show signs of infection. He would crush some plantain leaves between his rather large fingers and put it on the sore. If it was had "gone far enough", he would tie his handkerchief around it (yes, the same one he'd used to wipe whatever off his hands and the sweat from his face). That usually took care of it. Of course, we didn't have the super bugs then.
 
A common thrush remedy here that works is to use the baby's own urine and wipe it's mouth out with it. Back in the days of cloth diapers you'd just use a wet diaper.
 
galanie said:
A common thrush remedy here that works is to use the baby's own urine and wipe it's mouth out with it. Back in the days of cloth diapers you'd just use a wet diaper.
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I've always heard that urine is "sterile" when it is expelled. of course, after it is peed out, it is apparently an excellent medium for growing things. I don't know if any of that is truly accurate though. I'm no expert on such things. Interesting idea!
 
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