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[Illia]

Oh surely! I just mean, in most cases with new laying pullets. . .


I have an Easter Egger who lays nothing but jumbo eggs, poor girl, even when she first began. By now I think she's given up though. Hasn't laid an egg since, umm, . . . June? May?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK I think it must be shift change. I gotta gget horizontal and count some chicks. So somebody is gonna have to take over keepin us on top.

ny ny see ya in the morning .

 

[Ogress]

I'm back! I feel like a bit of a rotten mom, dragging DD all over the place when she is feeling so ill. When she got up at 1 am, she was going to wait on the sofa for it to get light so she could open her gifts. She ended up peeking at a few, underwear, socks and pajamabottoms, decided Santa really messed up this year and went back to bed. Then we went to the Aussie friends house (not feeling so bad about brining sick DD there because my DD got it from their DD). They still cling to their British roots even though they were 4th or 5th generation Australians before moving here. I tried many "sweets" for the first time and decided the Brits don't make good deserts.... Figgy Pudding, Mincemeat pies.... yuck. The custards made from my hen eggs were wonderful. We saw the Lights at Stanwood tonight. Friends bought us tickets, but dummy me, I left the tickets at their house so I paid again at the gate.

You are right, CL, DD does have auto-immune issues, but she is my little miracle baby, so I am just very thankful that she is here at all. She tried to be born at 14 weeks. I had plans to go on a hike that day with my friends and DS in a backpack, but DS was cranky when I got to the trailhead and I did not want to listen to that all the way up Rattlesnake Ledge, so I went back home, and really started to feel awwful. I drove myself to the Dr. early the next morning as I cramped up and was bleeding heavily. (He told me I may have bleed to death had I gone on that hike! Sometimes a cranky toddler can be a blessing.) Turned out I was fully effaced and partially dilated, had placenta previa, and was in labor! Dr. tied things shut and put me on total bedrest, upsidedown, for the duration, and DD still managed to push her foot outside for 3 weeks, and when she pulled her foot back in, he tied tighter. I was on IV antibiotics and anti-contraction meds till she was born, so many antibiotics they also had to put me on antifungals as they wiped out all my flora. Anyways, DD has "chicken skin" horrible eczema and psoriasis, and she is allergic to all of the antibiotics they pumped into me during my pregnancy, plus many lotions (all sunscreens I've tried), some honeys, scented soaps and cleaning products..... But she is here and alive, and despite all odds, she made it to 35 weeks (I was told she would likely be born 23-25 weeks, and that was before the foot outside the cervix thing). Born on the 4th of July! Other than maybe a touch of ADD, she does not have any of the problems they thought she would be born with, so I feel quite thankful for that. I always hate taking her to any Dr. that does not know her story, because no matter what I bring her in for (flu, infected injury, something in her eye), they all get on my case about her skin, try her on a bunch of new perscriptions, make me feel guilty for how itchy she must feel (she never scratches ... it is all she's ever known). Half the time the meds give her another rash, thin her skin so much it splits and bleeds or sends her wheezing to the ER with another allergic reaction. I tried the elimination diet to try and find what she's allergic to, built a house with no carpeting, eliminated dairy, they added it back in.... I've stopped looking for cures for now, but I'm sure in a couple of years she will become very self-conscious about her sand-paper skin, and then we will start all over again.
Calendula Oil is the only thing I've found that gives her any relief.

One of my hens laid a GIANT egg today! Boy, that must have hurt coming out! It is about twice the size of any others we had, and won't fit in an egg carton. Poor bird.

I'm sorry you are spending the holidays by yourself. If you were closer, I'd come visit.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

I have another question. Here in Kansas it is over cast most of the winter. On the east side what is it like? Does the sun come out very often?

 

[Ogress]

The East Side is much clearer than the west side ... I'm on the west side, but partway up the pass, and often it is raining heavily here, or snowing, but looking up the pass, I can see sun shining on the furthest mountains, so I know it is sunny there. In the summer, we park a tent-trailer at Lake Kachess and just head over there when it is rainy here. I'm just above North Bend off I-90. We are known for high winds here. We also get a lot more rain than Seattle or Bellevue. The town of North Bend averages about 60" of rain per year (half what Illia gets), where I am, it is closer to 80" and every once in a while (rare, but it happens), we surpass Forks. I bet we also get more sunny days here than around Seattle. Often when the winds blow here, the skies are clear, but driving towards Seattle, the winds stop before you get to Issaquah, and that entire valley will be socked in and rainy. It may rain more here, but that is because the rain comes in heavy squals, not the constant annoying drizzle.

 

[cheryl98117]

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OH oh oh!!! Is she elergic to Oregano? If she isn't, try Oregano oil, topically and orally. My step father has eczema and psoriasis, this is what he does for it. It has helped alot. Another person it has worked on was a good friend of mine. He would never leave his house except to go to work because his eczema was so bad "he was covered head to toe." He put Oregano oil on it, and withing a week it started to clear up. Just a thought if you hadn't already trird it.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Wow. My Wife had placenta previa with Emma. We had bleeding, the first time it really freak out my wife and I. DW also had two fibroids. After delivery we found out the placenta was all around the bigger fibroid. When the doc remove the placenta the bigger fibroid came with it. Emma was born at 36 weeks, she is still at the hospital doing find she just need to learn how to drink.

Sounds like you have a very blessed miracle baby.

 

[Ogress]

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Thanks for the tip; I'll have to try that! She's not allergic to Oregano. I've not heard of Oregano oil! 2 summers ago I kept her slathered for a few weeks in a topical lotion that is known to cause increased rates of melanoma. I had a dermatologist tell me that if we could get it under control, then we would only have to put the nasty stuff on her elbows and typical eczema hot spots. I had her wrapped like a mummy over the goo so she would not be exposed to the sun while it was on, and it did not help. He skin was still lumpy, dry and now bleeding at every crease. I'm going to the great little herbal store in town tomorrow morning! Thanks!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Thanks for the tip; I'll have to try that! She's not allergic to Oregano. I've not heard of Oregano oil! 2 summers ago I kept her slathered for a few weeks in a topical lotion that is known to cause increased rates of melanoma. I had a dermatologist tell me that if we could get it under control, then we would only have to put the nasty stuff on her elbows and typical eczema hot spots. I had her wrapped like a mummy over the goo so she would not be exposed to the sun while it was on, and it did not help. He skin was still lumpy, dry and now bleeding at every crease. I'm going to the great little herbal store in town tomorrow morning! Thanks!

Oregano oil is also a great natural antibiotic. I have seen oregano oil used for strep throat, applied right to the back of the throat. It will burn but will clear it up in 24 - 48 hours. Be prepared, it is stinky. Unfortunately I am elergic to concentrated oregano... Closes my airways when I am around it. But it does work wonders, and always pass the tip along when I can.

 

[Ogress]

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We are very blessed to have her! I did not even know I was pregnant until I was 9 weeks ... I was bleeding constantly and initially went to the Dr. for that. He had an old ultrasound machine and could not see the placenta previa, but hormones revealed I was pregnant (as did the nauseating smell of an egg being fried - usually like that smell, but it is repulsive when I'm pregnant). Went to Maternal Fetal Medicine at 14 weeks, they had a new machine and the technologist said she could not find my cervix. I told her it would not open when I was in labor with DS, so I'm sure it did not fall off! Turns out the emergency C-section then did damage to the cervix, and left it a scarred mass. DD implanted in my cervix and my uterus was tipped backward and empty!

Olivia had no sucking reflex at birth either, but she was quite big for her age, 7 pounds! Her weight dropped off quickly. They let me take her home at nights, but we had to spend the days in the hospital to try and get her eating. She dropped more than a pound in 4 days and was nearly 5 weeks old by the time she got back up to her birth-weight. .... and then she grew lungs, and that quiet little baby whimper became a screaming baby (my son was sooo much easier as a baby - different now. He has high functioning autism. He's very bright, so most people just see him as an eccentric kid)

Best wishes to you and your wife, and I hope Emma learns how to eat soon. Olivia was a very slow eater, it took her hours, and 10 minutes later she'd be hungry again! She would not even try baby food, squash and such, until she was nearly 18 months old! Then her growth skyrocketed and in 2 years she went from 20th percentile to 95th! The photos you have of your daughter on FB are beautiful! Olivia also had frosty blonde hair like that.