Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[FirewifeJess]

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"

Nuff said.

 

[Slinglings]

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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?
High doses of fish oil help me (I'm bipolar) but it's really hard to take enough. I'm supposed to take 6000 mg a day.

It can really upset the tummy. If I take less it doesn't do much for me, so I tend to not take it. ugh. And it is stored in the freezer so I don't see it, and I'm not reminded to take it.

 

[Slinglings]

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"

 

[FirewifeJess]

Bleh. I keep coming back here as a way to avoid starting chores and school. Of COURSE nobody is around! ugh. Alright FINE! Off to do what I'm supposed to be doing.

 

[Chickielady]

Yeah I bet ya could but No offense you just don't have it like the cute little blonde did.
Yeah the one who stitched this up!!

Yeah I bet you loved the cute little blonde !!! But what a nasty wound !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

OK so here is what may be one of the S T U PIDest questions EVER. How do I get a hen TO GO BROODY ??? See I have hatching eggs coming and Silkiebator is refusing to return to work!!!!! The BBBB rat !!

Darkness & quiet...funny you never had to make her go broody before ?
If a hen is in a dark, snuggly quiet place, she may go broody but you know you can lead a horse to water~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Maybe make a snuggly nest (add dummy eggs) in a dark quiet corner ALONE (in one of those horse stalls you have maybe ???)
See if that works is all I know.

 

[Chickielady]

I had a 3inch gash on that same spot in April. T-Post pounder got hung up on a nipple of the T-post and it hopped off and hit top of my head with full down force. There is a funny story to go along with what followed. I can type it out later. I had to get 8 staples to close the wound.

Seems there is alot of that T-Post injuries...maybe we all need to wear a hard hat when we use the "pounder downer" tools !!!

 

[Chickielady]

Hi. I'm done with my job. 60 hours a week has kept me busy. It snowed 4 inches today. Birds not happy.
They need to make this site iPhone friendly. No matter what browser I use this phone doesn't like the site. Or they should make an app.

Hey girl how are ya ?????????
We have a show on the 17th in Chehalis, you gonna be there ????????????

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: You shouldn't take more than 500 mg of Niacin without a doctor's supervision. It can damage the liver. I take niacin for my triglycerides. It does great things for my skin, too.

 

[Chickielady]

So...busy day, including moving cattle down the hill and sorting the cows out while leaving the calves in the corrall to start weaning. It's less stressful to keep them in social contact but physically separated before they're moved in with all the other weanlings, and especially to give them one stressor at a time: no nursing first, and then exposure to new members of their herd. Sprite, the youngest calf, gets to stick around: she's barely five months old and nowhere near ready to wean. The bull calves we'd left entire in the spring got banded today: the drought in the midwest killed the market for bulls, and it's unlikely there will be much of a breeding stock market until next fall, assuming that there's rain next summer, so they're going to be fed as beef.
I have two cows I'm going to have to cull this year, I think-a fifteen year old who's showing every sign of being toothless, and an eight year old who just didn't put weight on herself or her calf for three years running.
The chickens are looking better every day; I bought some safflower seed on an impulse yesterday for protein supplement but they are unenthused about it. I can't handle sunflower seeds or inhale their dust, so to feed them I'd have to have somebody else to fill the feeders.

I saw the safflower seed at Walmart & wondered if chooks would like it, guess you gave me the answer.