Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[JennS]

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Ok, I think I'll pass on ever using a post pounder. Or if I have to, I'll wear a helmet. LOL

Jennifer

 

[JennS]

Hah, had my first chick "emergency". I was standing in the kitchen peeling an orange over the sink, and even with the tv playing close by, I could hear loud peeping from the pen a floor below and outside. I went out, and my best guess is that the timer shut the light off and poor Butter was stuck outside. She was standing on the step and peeping her little lungs out, 3" outside the brooder door. I picked her up and chucked her inside. They sorted it all out and it's gone quiet.

Silly birds.

Jennifer

 

[TerrorBird]

I went into the chicken house to check for eggs today and found Minnow, my OEGB, standing on the heater. She really likes doing that. She's such a smart little thing. The oil heater sits on two cinder blocks and runs on the lowest setting. It's a safe set-up and it keeps them cozy! When it snows heavily, no one really wants to leave the house and mill around where there's cover. I go into the pen and look at their personal door, then ask them if they still refuse to come out. Someone will peer at me through the door, fuss a bit, then disappear again. I hope this winter is mild.

 

[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!!
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.

Ok, thank you for your help.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I've managed not to hit myself in the head with a post pounder, but I do have a scar where I caught my knee with a machete and I smacked a knuckle with a 3-pound sledge once. My sister, on the other hand, has a scar at the top of her forehead where she did the post-pounder thing, and one from there to her nose where her husband dropped a limb on her when they were cleaning up storm damage years ago.

 

[Hinotori]

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 !!!)

I had to stitch up one of my EEs back in spring. She submits to easy and the boys cut up her side. Took 4 stitches to close the gape. As much of a spaz she normally is, she laid there and let me fix her up. I didn't have any issues treating her the entire time. She apparently had it figured out on what I was up to.

I didn't stitch any of the dog attack victims. There were punctures and you don't stitch those. The one girl I thought I might have to anyway because she was so bad, but I wasn't comfortable stitching that since the muscle had a hole in it as well. I kept it very clean and it started healing.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

Glad you were finally diagnosed and now you can get better !
It is always nice to know why you are feeling so badly !!!!
Tip: I have been using both Pamela's Baking Mix & Pamela's Bread Mix and while expensive, they work fantastic !!!!!!!
I can use (so far) ANY recipe where wheat flour is used, and subsitute the Pamela's Mix.
It is at my health food store...............I just used it to make Toll House Cookies with the recipe off the chocolate chip bag, and the cookies came out perfect, no one can tell the difference !!!
The Franz GF bread that just came out is awsome too !
I DO use regular breads for DH, and use the Franz GF bread for me, but everything else here is GF.
Oh, and beware of MSG amd "modified food starch" that is unidentified.

Well, I hope so! When I did GF the first time, I was disheartened when I didn't feel any better. I think that a lot of my symptoms stem from the neuropathy and fibromyalgia that I was later diagnosed with, which are similar to things celiacs can suffer from. It is like the "chicken or the egg" thing! It's kinda hard to say which symptoms are from which issue

. I've been delaying in going back to the GF diet the last couple years, probably due to denial and frustration and maybe even hope the celiac just "went away", haha!

YES !!! Have you tried the Franz bread yet ?
I was so happy to see it on the shelf at my little Western Family Market here !!!

Not yet but I will certainly look for it! Besides baking it yourself, it's hard finding good GF bread, if I remember correctly! Truly, we (my whole little family) need to do an entire lifestyle change to really get healthy. It will be interesting to see how trying to eat more, I think the term is, "Paleo" affects my syptoms. I just hope I still have time to get my 12y/o on board to develop good habits so she doesn't have to struggle like I have the last 10+ yrs, being that this neuropathy and celiac can be genetic.

Well actually we (Franz) don't make the gluten free bread. It is made for us. not sure by who. just like we make alot of bread and buns for the chain stores and put it in their packaging. I work in the French Dept. we don't use gluten in that. BUT the sour dough has 3% gluten in it. So the gluten free bread is good?? I brought some home for one of the P/T's at my DW work

I wondered about that since in order for it to be truly GF either the equipment has to be thoroughly cleaned in between GF & non-GF product or it needs to be made in a different facility. People with gluten-intolerance can usually handle small amounts of gluten but those with celiac can have an auto-immune response with basically a crumb.

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For those concerning Gluten...............

Isn't it amazing how many names "wheat, rye and barley" can go by?!!
I do like a couple gluten-free beers I've tried! La Choy Soy Sauce is GF, last I checked. It's safest just to buy produce and meat and make your own stuff, unfortunately.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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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.

 

[justbugged]

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

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Already there! Just be careful and consult your Dr. I'm currently taking 20,000iu D3 daily but will decrease it after a couple weeks to 15,000iu. D is fat soluble not water soluble so it can build up and affect your kidneys/liver. My chickens are getting a nice high dose twice a week too, and they're still laying fabulously!

What else do y'all take for overall health? I'm a bit proponent of supplements and correct eating for well-being, just wondering what others swear by?