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[Chicken Rustler]

Please remind all your chicken friends about our free poultry seminars at the WFF show in Chehalis at 10:00 and 11:00. I hope these 2 top poultry veterinarians will have a good audience!

I wish I could attend but that just doesn't work when yer a vendor.

YES I hope lots of peeps make good use of this opportunity!!!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

At this point the only thing I am taking besides the prescription drugs, is the Vitamin D. The D has been the only supplement that I have ever been certain about making any difference. I thought for years that I had seasonal depression issues, and blamed a lot of that on the time of year when my daughter died. After taking fairly high doses of D, I found that I don't have the same problems. The rheumatologist also mentioned the need for extra D.

I don't mind taking a supplement, but they have to make some kind of difference. So far I haven't found any that have made enough difference too justify the costs. I do try to eat healthy things, but I also try not to eat very much when I am by myself.

My seasonal depression came back with a fury this year. I have started taking L-phenyalinine and L-Tyrosine (has worked great in the past) and I feel great. I am taking meno herbs too. In addition, I take some Vitamin D and a joint supplement.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: Here is what I read about heating unnessecarily. If they depend on the heat and don't ever acclimate to the weather in your area, if/when the power goes out, they get cold and can also get sick. It is better to let them keep themselves warm. People in some of the coldest states don't use heat in their coops and some even have open completely open coops, and just enough enclosed to block drafts. I know we would all like to baby our babies, but sometimes you can be doing them a disservice by doing so.

This is just my opinion and things I have read have said that with out mild climate we shouldn't heat unless you are worried about frost bite for a couple of nights, then it should only be enough to keep temps maybe just above freezing. But even in the teens here I haven't ever heated and have never had frostbite on combs.

Knock on wood!

 

[Nikki99]

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Ok, I used Triodine-7 to clean the wound, have brought her and the other 2 chicks left inside and DH is setting up a big wire dog crate in the basement for them. We don't know what got them. Went down for a visit and one was dead and all torn up in the same area on the neck that this one was, but something had started eating my dead chick already, she had also tried to be pulled through a little hole that had been dug under the coop, I have a chicken wire skirt but whatever it was is small enough to fit through the holes in the wire and was trying to take the dead chick out through the hole.
Thanks for your help!!!
I believe the one that died was my BSL and this one is my Black Australorp. Man, in 1 week I'm down from 7 to 3. This is so frustrating!!
Sounds like it could be a Racoon. I have had Racoons pull an entire bird through 1 in chicken wire. Nothing left but a pile of feathers.

Oh great!! Well today we will be heading out to pick up more chicken wire to do a second skirt. Then, instead of putting only dirt on top of it, I think we'll add a layer of rocks as well.

Thanks again everyone who helped out. I know for some of you this kinda thing is simple and no big deal but to me, a newbie, that's not the case. I didn't know what to use to clean it b/c I wasn't sure if it was considered a deep tissue wound or not, *according to the directions, you're not supposed to use things like betadine on deep tissue wounds, also I've heard not to use things like neosporin on them either*. I didn't know if this was something that should be closed, or left open to help keep infection down.
It's a learning process and I thank those of you that helped me out!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Has anyone from Granite Falls been calling me on my landline? I've got six missed calls, all of them from times I've been out of the house (it hasn't been raining, I'm always outside in daylight!) and no messages. I ask because I'm about to block a whole lot of numbers of known bad actors like Rachel from Cardholder Services and wouldn't want to accidentally dump an actual human being.


Otherwise: busy, busy, busy, trying to get some ongoing disasters (blackberries tip-rooting inside a couple big shrub roses: not as amusing as it might sound) and do the normal chores in diminishing daylight hours.

(Forty days to the winter solstice = eighty days until the sun starts setting later than it will set today).

Time to break out the high doses of vitamin D

Thing is, the "days until the sun sets later than it does today" count is that it goes down two days every day, which I find encouraging. Today there's 76 days until the sun sets later than it does today!

The cows have reached the angry stage of weaning, and they know it's my fault.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

My DH had just been released from the UW after his second liver transplant and needed to go back for a recheck a few days later. We had to be there at 7am so I was outside at 5 am in the dark feeding horses. One of the horses must have mistaken me for another horse getting too close to her food and felt her get ready for a kick. I would have gotten out of the way in time but tripped and she caught my head on my way down. Broke my glasses and had a nice bloody gash on my forehead and across my eyebrow. I ran in the house and DH tried to put iodine on it from the swabs he brought home from hosp and I kept trying to tell him you are not suppose to put iodine on cuts that need stitches. He wasn't listening. I had to physically keep pushing his hand away. He still had not recovered in the brain part as it takes awhile for the new liver to clear out his system and it was getting quite messy. I called the neighbors for help since I didn't know what to do and how to get DH to the UW and me to ER. It all worked out. A friend took DH and the neighbor took me to ER. Quite an eventful early morning to say the least.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote: Yes, we're mostly Paleo, but I consider a lot of what we do simply "clean eating". By that I mean that I still use organically grown, non-GMO grains about 2-3 times a week for the family (as long as they're gluten free. The reason we went Paleo was because it fit all our dietary restriction criteria. All 3 kids are severely intolerant to gluten (not celiacs, however), dairy, and Jeanine can't ave soy so we avoid that one too. My favorite cookbooks for Paleo are: Make it Paleo, Everyday Paleo, Paleo Comfort Foods (in that order). We also don't buy a lot of gluten free replacement foods due to cost; mostly we just cook from scratch, which isn't hard to do once you get used to it.

I'm just so fed up with Rx drugs. It just seems like there are hundreds of thousands of people who die each year from CORRECT use of them, whereas, I have not heard of anyone dying from vitamins. I understand you have to be cautious about taking too much of some things, but it's worth a try to get better thru food and supplements. That being said, I don't believe all the claims "natural" companies tote, but I truly feel pharmaceutical companies don't have our best interests at heart. There is no money in healthy people!

Just to share, here's what I take daily and I feel the best I've felt in many years. Being pregnant and/or nursing for the last 7 straight years was extremely hard on my body (my bloodwork at my lowest point was horrifying to look at; NO iron stores, NO calcium stores, NO vitamin D stores) and I developed a lot of spine and arm problems through the process of holding/nursing babies, knitting, and living life. With all this stuff, I feel better and my body is healing!
Morning:
Fish Oil
Women's Multivitamin
10,000iu Vitamin D
5-HTP (natural anti-depressant just for winters for me)
CoQ10

Evening:
Fish Oil
Calcium + Magnesium
5,000iu Vitamin D
5-HTP
CoQ10

I have heard about Niacin and know of the benefits but haven't tried it because so far the 5-HTP and Vitamin D are great for my (self diagnosed) SAD.

 

[RonB]

My DH had just been released from the UW after his second liver transplant and needed to go back for a recheck a few days later. We had to be there at 7am so I was outside at 5 am in the dark feeding horses. One of the horses must have mistaken me for another horse getting too close to her food and felt her get ready for a kick. I would have gotten out of the way in time but tripped and she caught my head on my way down. Broke my glasses and had a nice bloody gash on my forehead and across my eyebrow. I ran in the house and DH tried to put iodine on it from the swabs he brought home from hosp and I kept trying to tell him you are not suppose to put iodine on cuts that need stitches. He wasn't listening. I had to physically keep pushing his hand away. He still had not recovered in the brain part as it takes awhile for the new liver to clear out his system and it was getting quite messy. I called the neighbors for help since I didn't know what to do and how to get DH to the UW and me to ER. It all worked out. A friend took DH and the neighbor took me to ER. Quite an eventful early morning to say the least.

WOW !!! Everything OK now ??????????? how long ago did this happen???

 

[RonB]

So everyone is talking about Vitamins and what they take. Here is my daily diet..: I drink 2-4 cans of diet coke everyday, eat around 6 of those bite size candy bars a day. Have 2 chicken sandwiches on bread with extra gluten in it and get about 4 hours sleep a day. two hour nap when I get home and 2 hours before I go to work at midnight.
Every year when I go in for my annual physical my doctor says. "everything looks GREAT, keep up whatever your doing"

 

[Nikki99]

My DH had just been released from the UW after his second liver transplant and needed to go back for a recheck a few days later. We had to be there at 7am so I was outside at 5 am in the dark feeding horses. One of the horses must have mistaken me for another horse getting too close to her food and felt her get ready for a kick. I would have gotten out of the way in time but tripped and she caught my head on my way down. Broke my glasses and had a nice bloody gash on my forehead and across my eyebrow. I ran in the house and DH tried to put iodine on it from the swabs he brought home from hosp and I kept trying to tell him you are not suppose to put iodine on cuts that need stitches. He wasn't listening. I had to physically keep pushing his hand away. He still had not recovered in the brain part as it takes awhile for the new liver to clear out his system and it was getting quite messy. I called the neighbors for help since I didn't know what to do and how to get DH to the UW and me to ER. It all worked out. A friend took DH and the neighbor took me to ER. Quite an eventful early morning to say the least.

Omg!!! Wow!! That's scary! Are you ok now?

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