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[Chicken Rustler]

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Please do share, my son moves from one tiny tick to the next too! I HATE modern medicine...I bet I won't think what you have to say is weird at all!
You might not agree with it Jess

I don't know what it is (yet) but I will say THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG ! ! ! It is what works for the person (s) involved!!! If ya don't like the method (whatever it may be) then don't use it but no reason for any of us to come down on each other for what they have found to work for them. This is my outlook on most things in life.

 

[RonB]

My sweet little daughter is anything but little any more.... in fact she's older than a good number of the mommies on this thread. But I'm still super proud of her and want to share. She performed at Seattle's Moisture Festival on Sunday at Hale's Palladium in Fremont. Their act is Duo Rendez-vous and they do "Risley - Icarian" acrobatics (foot juggling). Her partner, Graeme, juggles cylinders and drums and her. Which in and of itself is pretty amazing because she's 5'10" tall! Not like the teeny tiny petite little things that usually do acrobatics.

I got to see them perform Sunday afternoon and the audience loved them. I understand that at the evening performance they got a standing ovation. It just makes me smile all over to see her so excited with her life now. She's worked a long time to find what really fulfills her.

These pictures are from the event's photographer, John Cornicello. He's an amazing photographer!



She also teaches adult yoga, paddle board yoga, baby yoga, and pure barre!

Carolyn
That is really great. Looks fun. Myabe I'll try that with the DW when she gets home. Glad your daughter has found something she enjoys. So many kids now days don't know what they want to do

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Jess, my birthday gift to you is to find a 5K somewhere that isn't on a Sunday and force you to run it with me.

WOW

Remind me I DON"T want no birfday gifts from you !!!!

 

[RonB]

can anyone use any 18 count egg cartons

?? I have about 35-40 of them. Free

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Before I get more distracted by bantams, I have a technical question: how would y'all go about cutting an eight-foot piece of two-inch PVC pipe into two symetrical, flat, length-wise halves? I want to put skids on the kennel we put together yesterday, and my first impulse is "have somebody else do it, but that ould be WRONG and also would still need direction as to clamping it so it doesn't go all spiral on me (I've done this wrong before, you see). If you could find plain old symetrical U shaped plastic gutter anymore, I'd use that (although it's really too wide), but I haven't seen anything except the asymetrical stuff lately

Dragged the Shopvac up to the Wyandotte coop, and will go string the extension cord in another half-glass of water (there was a bunch of other stuff in the past four hours, including checking cows and checking feeders and putting the sheep and the Bd'A in their daytime positions and getting a 3X50 foot roll of 1" mesh chicken wire where I need it.).

So anyway: any brilliant ideas about cutting that pipe? I'll probably be using one of those quick-cut handsaws and I have four clamps I can use although there's an open question as to what I'll clamp it to.

Table saw or skill saw with a fine tooth blade. Works great also works very well for cutting foam insulation.

 

[bikerchicky]

. I will be making either pulled pork or brisket for the pot luck, and I also will have a couple growlers of an excelent beer from a local brewer that I know. it is good stuff! I will also have sun tea for the people who can't or don't like beer.
I need to look way back in the posts and find out who has said they want to come out for the processing class and pot luck
paul

I want to have some meaties, but no room to grow them, so if this is on a Saturday morning, or a Sunday I'm in, but no bird to process.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

You should be able to see the mites. Look around the vent, at the base of the feathers. What I can do is to take what you describe and make a guess

You need to examine the bird, and make the best decision you can. Don't just treat for mites because my guess is mites, and don't just treat for cocci because Jess suggests that. The best treatment is going to be the treatment for what's wrong. That's the hard part, figuring out what's wrong.

X2 Very good advice Dave. IMHO for what little it's worth.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I've decided that as soon as I can get myself another small coop in the yard, I'm going to try and find some bantam Salmon Favs to live together in that coop. Probably 3-4 of them. I've been absolutely intrigued with this breed for almost a year but I don't want the docile little things to have to brave my big girl coop. I hope to make enough egg money this summer to get a small coop/run (like the Foursquare coop on MPC) for these birds. We will see if I can make it happen!

Are you set on Salmon?? I am preparing to set some black-black blue-black nick nak paddy whack oh no wait. Bantam Favies!!!

 

[CarolynF]

Carolyn, has anything stressed her lately? Anything at all, big or small? Based on this past week of Laya sick,I would start with cocci treatment. Kinda sounds like her gut is overwhelmed with something bad. Any plants she could have eaten that aren't good for chicken?

Hi Jess, thanks for the ideas. No stress. Nothing new to eat, although they all got a few grass clippings yesterday, but her crop seems fine. They all like to eat the blossoms off the flowering plum, but no chemicals there, and it's not new. I'll look up cocci and see if the symptoms are similar, I haven't dealt with that before. She's perked up and ate a nice amount of yogurt with some chick starter mixed in. Haven't seen any mites. The only symptom that hasn't changed is her very warm comb. No injuries I can find. Very frustrating. I've put her back in the coop and I'll just keep watching her. With my luck she'll go back to normal then have a repeat performance in about 3 weeks! HA!

 

[bikerchicky]

I will try to come to the processing class! Just need a date a good bit in advance. Will bring something yummy just don't know what yet.

Well, I get to start wearing my big girl underwear tomorrow, I'm turning 30

Here's Laya...poor, poor sweet girl

Here's my sweet little good tempered SS girls Alice and Bella

Party for Jess!!!!

Here's to adulthood.