Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[sparton]

She is eating ok and making that cooing noise that only silkies can do. Just trying to encourage healing on the leg. So she gets to enjoy baths and little massages. Poor Bitey.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well day 21 internal peeping in a couple eggs

Moved the 3 from my first hatch out with the
5 other peeps yesterday still alive making noise this morning

 

[sparton]

Aby silkie breeders going to the Stevenson Show in October? Trying to help my daughter decide if she wants to register with the ASA or not.

 

[Hinotori]

Still to much stuff happening here. I can't make a 2 day show.

 

[pennyJo1960]

well how is everyone doing otherwise made peanut butter cookies
for the BF and us

 

[Duck Drover]

For the first time on Sunday I made Belgian waffles using duck eggs and they ended up too rich for me (but incredibly filling). We have made brownies with duck eggs and I will never make brownies with chicken eggs again. We also have made cookies with duck eggs and they were so much better but I am going to have to stick to using chicken eggs for Belgian waffles. The duck eggs would be so perfect for crepes.

I keep seriously thinking about converting the Orpington coop to a duck house and not raising large fowl (just the Silkies) until we can get acreage but I have invested so much into breeding nice Orpingtons that I would need someone to take over my breeding program so the hens don't end up as layers and the roosters as dinner. I have put too much work into our birds to see them end up in the wrong hands. We even built a cabinet incubator to use for hatching instead of using styrofoam incubators and then I did not even hatch this year due to my surgery and recovery.

My surgical incisions have been slow to heal, which I guess is no surprise since the damage to my veins from using compression for the swelling from the injury is still healing at the same time. I have alot of blanching still but the swelling is greatly reduced so that light compression is effective in supporting my ankle enough as the tendons heal. I am 8 weeks into the 12 weeks it takes for tendons to heal and scar to 80% of their original strength. The heel pain from the bone spur and plantars faciitis is completely gone but I have to use a gel pad in my heel because the incision is still a bit raw.

The biggest issue I am having is shooting nerve pain and muscle spasms which seem to feed off each other. When I lightly touch the ankle incision I get electric shocks over the top of my foot and into my toes accompanied by a stabbing sensation in the top of my foot where it has felt bruised since the surgeries. In order to stabalize the weak tendon and muscles while they heal I need to use support but anything touching the incision causes shocks and stabbing sensations followed by muscle spasms that trigger more shocks and stabbing. I notice gradual improvement and my surgeon said it could take months for it to resolve so I just have to put up with it for awhile longer.

My daughter and I start our jobs working as actors in the haunted houses during Frightfest at Wild Waves tonight. Fortunately I have a seated character to play so I won't be running after anyone with a chain saw, just escorting them to the emergency exit if they freeze up and want out. I am in the first room but there are always people who get to the first scare and want out rather than going through the house after standing in line to get in. I have worked security 2 years and this is the second year I am working as an actor but the first time was 9 years ago when I did it with my older daughter. Now my younger daughter is a professional paid actor too. I am picking her up from play rehearsal at school (she has several parts and she is the assistant director) and we are going straight to our acting jobs from there.

 

[pennyJo1960]

that sounds like a big kick to go have a part in the house..
ghost pains or shooting pain from re awakening of tendons and nerves
really do not surprise me it is good your still using it to extents.

separately I have internal pipping from a few of the eggs in hova bator
we are at 20 days now

 

[Babybockbock]

It finally happend! We got our first egg!I am so excited!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

:yiipchick

It finally happend! We got our first egg!I am so excited!

 

[pennyJo1960]

@Babybockbock congratulations there

I have one chipmunk looking peep out of the blue egg