Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[RonB]

Clearly those of you commenting negatively have NEVER dealt with food allergies or intolerances. It's not by choice that we eat the way we do. We were quite happy in our old lifestyle, minus the horrendous eczema that plagued every square inch of my dear children and the constant throwing up and diarrhea. Yeah...I'd rather eat the way my body needs to eat to be happy and healthy.

Jess

You must be talking about CR and me

we ARE NOT talking negatively about the way you eat! NO I have NOT had allergies of any kind!! I'm lucky I guess. Actually EVERYTHING on your plate I LOVE and use to grow all of it in my garden.

my daughter inlaw and I are planning a garden for spring. All the stuff on your plate will again be in our garden. I want my body to be Happy too. Thats why I eat candy and drink diet pop

 

[justbugged]

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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

I think it's a requirement, to be on this thread.

Haven't a couple others also split open their heads?

Russ
I seem to recall that Cheryl was the first one to have trouble with a pounder. If I remember correctly Cheryl was laid up for at least a full week with dizziness, and blurred vision. I don't think that she needed stitches though.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Amazingly, gluten was the difference for my son, and dairy was the difference for my daughter.

They're all so confusing! Jeanine is the only one allergic to soy but we go soy free so we don't ever have to cater to one family member. Apparently I'm also intolerant to gluten and I'm lactose intolerant; I never knew about me and gluten until after we went off it and I tried something again. My body got happy and healthy without it and I was severely punished after having a wonderful pasta dinner with garlic bread at church one night. Doh!

 

[TerrorBird]

Quote: Here is what I read about heating unnessecarily. If they depend on the heat and don't ever acclimate to the weather in your area, if/when the power goes out, they get cold and can also get sick. It is better to let them keep themselves warm. People in some of the coldest states don't use heat in their coops and some even have open completely open coops, and just enough enclosed to block drafts. I know we would all like to baby our babies, but sometimes you can be doing them a disservice by doing so.

This is just my opinion and things I have read have said that with out mild climate we shouldn't heat unless you are worried about frost bite for a couple of nights, then it should only be enough to keep temps maybe just above freezing. But even in the teens here I haven't ever heated and have never had frostbite on combs.

Knock on wood!

All of those concerns are valid, but I've never noticed any problems for any of my birds. It was cold and rainy today, but they wanted to come out and forage. Poor Pudge was just soaked when they all went into bed. I feel better knowing that they have a nice lightly-warmed house to go into at night. They can dry off and warm up more easily after their free-ranging. If I was noticing problems like the ones described, I might think differently. I do appreciate that others are offering advice for the welfare of my birds. Also, I do have that weird pseudo-rooster bantam that has developed bizarre feathers that do nothing to help retain heat. Poor thing needs all the help it can get in that department. Please keep in mind, I'm not saying that everyone else is wrong.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Food is a sensitive issue for me and tone is so hard to get from the computer screen. Sorry I overreacted

 

[justbugged]

Quote: The doctor recommend that the vitamin D should be in the soft oil form, and that the solid chalk like v-D pills do not deliver the best dose. My experience is that the high dose oil form of v-d is the way to go.

 

[TerrorBird]

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Hello TerrorBird!

D stands for Dear (usually). Dear Husband, Dear Son, Dear Daughter.
However - I must say - there are many times I substitute other words

Hi Dawn!

Thanks for sharing the secret! I always suspected that it was Dear.

 

[justbugged]

My DH had just been released from the UW after his second liver transplant and needed to go back for a recheck a few days later. We had to be there at 7am so I was outside at 5 am in the dark feeding horses. One of the horses must have mistaken me for another horse getting too close to her food and felt her get ready for a kick. I would have gotten out of the way in time but tripped and she caught my head on my way down. Broke my glasses and had a nice bloody gash on my forehead and across my eyebrow. I ran in the house and DH tried to put iodine on it from the swabs he brought home from hosp and I kept trying to tell him you are not suppose to put iodine on cuts that need stitches. He wasn't listening. I had to physically keep pushing his hand away. He still had not recovered in the brain part as it takes awhile for the new liver to clear out his system and it was getting quite messy. I called the neighbors for help since I didn't know what to do and how to get DH to the UW and me to ER. It all worked out. A friend took DH and the neighbor took me to ER. Quite an eventful early morning to say the least.

 

[Nikki99]

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Ron B, to funny!

here is some pics of a Java hen who got really beat up in 1 day, but a rooster.
Never could figure out why he hated her so much, as if she was another rooster.




We caught the rooster on her ripping her up...feathers everywhere.
Her back was hamburger with several deep open wounds the size of half dollars.
This was all cleaned with Betadyne (not in the deep wounds) and then goshed Triple antibiotic on all the hamberger, and stitched the gaping holes, also goshed with antibiotic.
Then she was totally greased up with triple anti-biotic oinment, I cut a sweatshirt arm off, made 2 wing holes, and put it on her to keep soil out & let enough air get in to heal.




After a week, her wounds were crusted over, healing.
After a month, her feathers were almost completely grown back !
Chooks are very good patients...they do not scream or cry...

Wow!! I'm sorry that happened to her but that's great that she recovered so well! I think my little one will make a full and hopefully speedy recovery as well. She's still doin just fine, eating, drinking and active.

Yay! She's not a big fan of wound cleaning time but I can manage.

Reminder to self... 328.

I booted the chicks to the greenhouse, under a heat lamp again. The bigger boys (Cocoa and Rocha) got into a bit of a battle and were flying into things. I hope it's warm enough out there - in any case, I figured they needed to take a chill pill.

In the mess of it, I heard a sound that wasn't a peep - sound more like the beginning of a cock-a-doodle-do.

I hope it was just a grunt from someone slamming into something. I don't need any crowing until these boys are off lights... and able to handle a trip to auction.


Oh... funny story... I have to share, even though DH probably wouldn't want me to. Last week, with all the Cub Scout stuff going on (four events in one week), DH had to stay home from Cub Scouts to take care of Pack Committee paperwork. Right before we left, my SIL came by and told us that a cop was going through yards with a flashlight. I didn't think much of it (can you tell this is quite common?

). The cops are often looking for rif-raf in our neighborhood from the Casino. Police helicopters buzzing our house are common, too. People who are running from the cops think they can climb down the cliff and get away, which gives us a chuckle, because we know they're going to pay natural consequences that way - the cliff is steep and easy to fall down. So I'm thinking no big deal, cops again. They're on the lookout, they'll deal with it. Well, the kids and I went to Cub Scouts. DH kept hearing something over by the door and it was beginning to freak him out. He finally went and got his gun, loaded it, and sat at the table to finish his paperwork with his gun next to him. After a while, it dawned on him that we have chicks in a brooder right next to the front door.

The chicks had gotten into a bit of a tiff and were bouncing off the brooder walls.

Well it is official I know which turkey will be feeding my family this year. I will probably have to butcher both of the boys because our really nice one has injured his leg and I don't want him to suffer. But our mean tom just began attacking me again and I went out to get eggs from the coop and he attacked me, got me good this time. Ripped open the leg of my pants

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In better news, we will be putting an offer on a house today! Wish us good luck because apparently a lot of people want this place but we are the first of the bunch to get approved for it. The property is only 5 acres but it is ALL usable. Take a look.....



This is the 5 stall horse barn! and in the trees on the right is a two car garage!


This is from the lower part of the property where my chicken coop/barn is. There is DH running away from me and my camera lol.


Just another view of the horse barn.

The right side of the coop/barn that will be covered again once I move in.


Isn't this awesome?! Two seperet sides. Right is about 7 or so feet tall.


House is actually a double wide manufactured home but to me does not look like it.






The last three pics are part of the pasture.

Sorry about your turkeys

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Wow that place is gorgeous!!! Fingers crossed for ya, good luck!

Finally caught up again!

Nikki, I hope your injured chicken is doing all right, and you don't have any predators returning.

Renee, too bad you didn't make it to the museum yesterday, we had our educator open house and lots of special programs were running. I did Robot Garage for four hours, I bet your DS would have loved to build a rover or two!

Hope everyone is well.

Thanks FlyRobinFly! She seems to be doing well. It's shocking to me just how well she's doing, didn't expect her to go about her day as if nothing happened.
Wheew, guess we dodged a bullet.

 

[justbugged]

Quote: Vitamin D and BYC is working for me these days. Now if there was a supplement that would fix severe chronic pain. I would so be in to that.