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[hallerlake]

Dinner tonight: YUM!!!! Yup, the kids are totally drooling over brussels sprouts right now
http://www.cooksmarts.com/cs-blog/2012/02/a-pr-campaign-for-brussels-sprouts/

They've been brainwashed!!!!

 

[JennS]

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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!!

That's awful! I'm glad the second one made it. I hope she recovers.

Jennifer

 

[Greg Richardson]

2011 Trek to Cottage Gardens Daylilies


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[JennS]

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Thank you! I got home after dark and checked. They are all inside and nobody was huddling in the cold. Yay, I think they're outside for good!

I went by Monroe F&F. I picked up a couple of buckets, and a heated dog bowl. With discount the bowl was $15. They have those red and white heated waterers that someone was looking at for $51 before 25% off. Unfortunately the bird bath heater I was looking at is cheaper on Amazon, so I'm holding off. I bough a bottle of Corid and a canister of Permethrin, as well as chick crumble, an extra feeder, and a waterer for the quarantine coop. Hopefully I am stocked up and ready to get new birds! After I put something on the floor of the new coop, and replace the chicken wire with hardware cloth, of course...

Jennifer

 

[Nikki99]

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Thank you for your help. I was a little bit undone by the whole thing. This is our first "encounter" with predators or loss of birds since we started the whole chicken thing last spring. I have a critter first aid kit but I had no idea where to start!
I just went down and checked on her and she's up and about eating and drinking. Hopefully this is a good sign that she will continue to thrive!
Do you think I should be giving some kind of antibiotic to her?
How often should I clean it?
Thanks again!!! And yes, they need to leave our birds alone, darn it!!

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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!!

That's awful! I'm glad the second one made it. I hope she recovers.

Jennifer

Me too and thanks!!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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No way! Super yummy. If you hate brussels sprouts, somebody prepared them wrong. There's a LOT of ways to screw them up and make them taste bad, and a few awesome ways to make them amazing. This is one of them.

Plus I'd rather have brainwashed kids who eat healthy than "normal" kids who eat like garbage. But trust me...they have their fair share of junk too

Today we used an M&Ms counting book during school to eat our fair share of candy!

 

[Imp]

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No way! Super yummy. If you hate brussels sprouts, somebody prepared them wrong. There's a LOT of ways to screw them up and make them taste bad, and a few awesome ways to make them amazing. This is one of them.

Plus I'd rather have brainwashed kids who eat healthy than "normal" kids who eat like garbage. But trust me...they have their fair share of junk too

Today we used an M&Ms counting book during school to eat our fair share of candy!

I love Brussel Sprouts and M&Ms. Even together they sound good.

Russ

 

[Chickielady]

I love Brussel Sprouts and M&Ms. Even together they sound good.

Russ

...........Together >>>>>>>> really ???????????????

 

[Chickielady]

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 !!!)

 

[hallerlake]

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Thank you for your help. I was a little bit undone by the whole thing. This is our first "encounter" with predators or loss of birds since we started the whole chicken thing last spring. I have a critter first aid kit but I had no idea where to start!
I just went down and checked on her and she's up and about eating and drinking. Hopefully this is a good sign that she will continue to thrive!
Do you think I should be giving some kind of antibiotic to her?
How often should I clean it?
Thanks again!!! And yes, they need to leave our birds alone, darn it!!

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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!!

That's awful! I'm glad the second one made it. I hope she recovers.

Jennifer

Me too and thanks!!
I'd clean it a couple of times a day. I wouldn't do antibiotics without a reason. When you're ready to put her outside. Use Blu-kote. It's an antiseptic and disguises the wound.