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[7L Farm]

Beautiful 7L show off your gun room I like it too.

Its really not my gun room its Charleton Hestons. I did get me a good plinker the other day for shooting hogs with. Its the single gun. Its sweet!!

 

[armorfirelady]

That is a very pretty shower! I was picturing an old, red or black barn with Mail Pouch on the side of it.....

These precise measurements and instructions should thrill Off-grid Hen to death!

Dakins is an old country doctor/nursing item that no one uses anymore, though it is incredibly effective on wound cleansing and a big aid in healing deep, long standing wounds.

http://www.virginia.edu/uvaprint/HSC/pdf/09024.pdf

Thanks Bee......I like old country doctor/nursing.

 

[Beekissed]

Now THAT'S a gun room!!!

 

[off-grid hen]

Bee- love the detailed instructions!

7L. I thought hubby had a lot of guns, but he's got nothing on you. He recently started collecting old side by sides though, so he may catch up. . I'd love to see the collection.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks Bee......I like old country doctor/nursing.

I do too. now do you use it full strength on your birds? I notice it comes in diff strengths.

 

[Beekissed]

Tell ya the truth, I don't use that precise solution...as usual, I do it like my mama always made bread. A pinch of this, a cup of that.....

I just ran some hot tap water into an old, but clean, ice cream bucket, squirted some bleach in there, added some sea salt, little dish detergent and set off for the chicken coop.

If I were dressing a wound on a human, it would be a different matter altogether and we usually had our Dakins already prepared for us in a bottle. Since I was merely rinsing a "dirty" area(in the nursing world, the anal opening is considered a site that will never be considered sterile, so one does not have to use sterile technique when giving enemas, suppositories, etc.) that would be getting dirty right quick and in a hurry right after all this was over, I used this solution as a good, disinfecting wash to just kill all the fungus and germs on the surface long enough for me to get a fresh treatment on there.

 

[normanack]

Its really not my gun room its Charleton Hestons. I did get me a good plinker the other day for shooting hogs with. Its the single gun. Its sweet!!

Is that a machine gun in the top picture? What's that middle part with the holes in it for? (Can you tell I don't know guns?)
And are those things rocket launchers in the middle of the room?

All I can say is, wow.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Tell ya the truth, I don't use that precise solution...as usual, I do it like my mama always made bread. A pinch of this, a cup of that.....

I just ran some hot tap water into an old, but clean, ice cream bucket, squirted some bleach in there, added some sea salt, little dish detergent and set off for the chicken coop.

If I were dressing a wound on a human, it would be a different matter altogether and we usually had our Dakins already prepared for us in a bottle. Since I was merely rinsing a "dirty" area(in the nursing world, the anal opening is considered a site that will never be considered sterile, so one does not have to use sterile technique when giving enemas, suppositories, etc.) that would be getting dirty right quick and in a hurry right after all this was over, I used this solution as a good, disinfecting wash to just kill all the fungus and germs on the surface long enough for me to get a fresh treatment on there.

This is pretty much exactly what my grandmother used to treat poison ivy. She'd set me on a stool - take a popsicle stick and rub it across my poison ivy blisters, breaking them open - then put the bleach, water, salt solution on with a cotton ball. Oh, I'd scream and cry like crazy and about wet my pants but it would dry up that poison ivy in short order. I use it on my children the minute they've gotten into poison ivy, before they break out. I've never had one of them break out if I've gotten to them as soon as we knew they'd been in it.

 

[Beekissed]

I would have preferred a iodine wash but was out of such things. I don't normally bleach my chickens or their equipment, but this was one time I felt a mild bleach and salt would help to kill any fungus on the surface and dry up any undue moisture in the area. The hen is happy as a lark today and I saw Toby mating her this evening, so she took her treatment rather well.

I was sitting out this evening and noticing how many of the chickens are not showing their full crop pushed to one side anymore...those breast muscles are filling in and all the birds are showing better conditioning. I can't tell you how much this pleases me.

Even the little mutt hen, the one with the razor sharp keel bone, is showing some smoothness of breast and even a little widening between her legs and some gold coloring coming through on her legs as well. I was considering culling that one but I think I will just wait and see what she becomes...she strikes me as a very tough bird and a good survivor....will have to see if she will start to lay. I have no idea how old she is but I can tell she has never laid an egg before.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Is that a machine gun in the top picture? What's that middle part with the holes in it for? (Can you tell I don't know guns?)
And are those things rocket launchers in the middle of the room?

All I can say is, wow.

Showed my dh your new gun, now he wants one. lol