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[Chicken Rustler]

P.S. Those that have injured Chookies, all I do is pretend they are humans...so, if the flesh wound is HUGE and needs a stitch, I do it.
Use your head, pretend it is one of your kids...use some triple antibiotic ointment, clean the wound with Betadyne, cover the wound, use steri-strips if you are not a stitcher...
Chook wounds are to be treated as a wound on any animal.
IF it is really bad,and you need to stitch the wound, and use antibiotics, then do so.
I have steri-strips, and sterile stitches for just that reason.

My Dad told me years ago, that there is not a farmer alive who does not know how to stitch his animals.


You got to !
Hope all works out !!
I can bring a few sutures to the show and show you all how to stitch if you'd like.
Lemme know, and YES I could do a few in CR's noggin as well (I know he will respond to this !!!)

Yeah I bet ya could but No offense you just don't have it like the cute little blonde did.
Yeah the one who stitched this up!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK so here is what may be one of the S T U PIDest questions EVER. How do I get a hen TO GO BROODY ??? See I have hatching eggs coming and Silkiebator is refusing to return to work!!!!! The BBBB rat !!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote: I had a 3inch gash on that same spot in April. T-Post pounder got hung up on a nipple of the T-post and it hopped off and hit top of my head with full down force. There is a funny story to go along with what followed. I can type it out later. I had to get 8 staples to close the wound.

 

[ReiMiraa]

Hi. I'm done with my job. 60 hours a week has kept me busy. It snowed 4 inches today. Birds not happy.
They need to make this site iPhone friendly. No matter what browser I use this phone doesn't like the site. Or they should make an app.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

OK so here is what may be one of the S T U PIDest questions EVER. How do I get a hen TO GO BROODY ??? See I have hatching eggs coming and Silkiebator is refusing to return to work!!!!! The BBBB rat !!

Maybe you can have someone set them for you. Mine will be 10-12 days in when you get yours, if it was closer I would offer to surrogate them. Maybe Itsren can help since she is getting eggs too?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Hi. I'm done with my job. 60 hours a week has kept me busy. It snowed 4 inches today. Birds not happy.
They need to make this site iPhone friendly. No matter what browser I use this phone doesn't like the site. Or they should make an app.

They are working on a mobile version for phones. I think they are in Beta testing now.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

So...busy day, including moving cattle down the hill and sorting the cows out while leaving the calves in the corrall to start weaning. It's less stressful to keep them in social contact but physically separated before they're moved in with all the other weanlings, and especially to give them one stressor at a time: no nursing first, and then exposure to new members of their herd. Sprite, the youngest calf, gets to stick around: she's barely five months old and nowhere near ready to wean. The bull calves we'd left entire in the spring got banded today: the drought in the midwest killed the market for bulls, and it's unlikely there will be much of a breeding stock market until next fall, assuming that there's rain next summer, so they're going to be fed as beef.

I have two cows I'm going to have to cull this year, I think-a fifteen year old who's showing every sign of being toothless, and an eight year old who just didn't put weight on herself or her calf for three years running.

The chickens are looking better every day; I bought some safflower seed on an impulse yesterday for protein supplement but they are unenthused about it. I can't handle sunflower seeds or inhale their dust, so to feed them I'd have to have somebody else to fill the feeders.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

So here is what transpired after I hit my head with the T-post pounder. My 16 year old was watching me pound them in, when it hit me he asks "did you just hit your head?". "Dad, your bleeding, DAD YOUR BLEEDING BAD!". So I just bent over to let it bleed. I told him to go get me a towel. He runs in and tells my DW that I hit my head and might need stitches, she just laughs(because he got one paper towel). He grabs 1 sheet of a paper towel and brings it out to me. I tell him I need more since it soaked in half a second. He runs back in and brings the whole roll. At this point my DW is thinking at first, yeah right about the stitches, until he grabs the whole roll. So she comes out and sees me bent over with a wad of paper towels on my head. I show her the gash and she brings me a full towel. We went to urgent care and got the 8 staples to close it. I am not going to post a pic, just look at CR's graphic pic a few posts ago. Looks exact same and in same spot. So now I have a gnarly scare on my head.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: I had a 3inch gash on that same spot in April. T-Post pounder got hung up on a nipple of the T-post and it hopped off and hit top of my head with full down force. There is a funny story to go along with what followed. I can type it out later. I had to get 8 staples to close the wound.

That is TOOOO funny!!! See mine was also caused by a post pounder AND in April!! But mine was from the side of the pounder and only took 5 stitches. I refuse to have staples again and I can remove my own stitches.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

So here is what transpired after I hit my head with the T-post pounder. My 16 year old was watching me pound them in, when it hit me he asks "did you just hit your head?". "Dad, your bleeding, DAD YOUR BLEEDING BAD!". So I just bent over to let it bleed. I told him to go get me a towel. He runs in and tells my DW that I hit my head and might need stitches, she just laughs(because he got one paper towel). He grabs 1 sheet of a paper towel and brings it out to me. I tell him I need more since it soaked in half a second. He runs back in and brings the whole roll. At this point my DW is thinking at first, yeah right about the stitches, until he grabs the whole roll. So she comes out and sees me bent over with a wad of paper towels on my head. I show her the gash and she brings me a full towel. We went to urgent care and got the 8 staples to close it. I am not going to post a pic, just look at CR's graphic pic a few posts ago. Looks exact same and in same spot. So now I have a gnarly scare on my head.

OK SO here is mine. The pounder hung up as I pulled down so it came over sideways. Lucky I was using the neighbors girly pounder (it's lighter). I put 2 more hits on the post then suddenly I felt cool wet just as my glasses turned red. I knew there was a problem so I grabbed my head and started the walk back to the barn. Michelle saw me and headed that way. She took one look and I knew it wasn't good when her face went blank (she is in nursing school). She said you need to go to ER. I kind of had that figured out. She asked if I wanted her to drive me or call a bus. I said neither I will drive. She would have none of that. Turns out that the reason she was so worried is the dent in my head. There was concern of skull fracture. I still have the dent and 2" scar. But hey chicks dig big scars on bald heads !!