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[Chickielady]

OK and STUMPFARMER:::
Talked to my Dad at his house yesterday..and I told him I was looking for nice old world fragrant climbing rose like a climbing Cecil Brunner...and he laughed so hard & pointed to a very dead BIG mega-stemed rose on a trellis against his fence.
Dead big canes were 1" through and 10 feet tall.
He said "too bad, I could have given you that one", he was sooo happy it was dead.
I think (but he did not say) that he sprayed it with blackberry killer for months to kill it.
He said the &^%#%!!! thing never stopped growing, clean up past the fence & another 10 feet up in a big wad and gobbed up into a 20 year old apple tree in the neighbor's yard until bloom & rain/wind topple it over and then it loped over the fence into the neighbor's yard, a good 50 pounds of canes & thorns and wet heavy..he hated it!!
he said he had to constantly prune it, every week end, it never stopped.
once it toppled over it continued across the neighbor's lawn until they called him & announced they really needed to mow and they would have to cut the rose...

I have changed my mind about Cecil Brunner.

 

[Chickielady]

OK, I be the thread killer today, huh ?
I guess I will saunter off then...g'night.

 

[Kaneke]

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one thing you can try -- warning, this tastes unpleasant ...

Neo Synephrin nose drops, but the way you apply this is a bit weird

lie on your side, with your nose pointed towards the ceiling, and the top of your head lower than the rest

instill the nose drops into the "upper' nostril, the one most nearly vertical

try not to swallow

the object here, is to get those nose drops at the lower end of the Eustachian tube, where it enters the pharynx

also helps to yawn as widely as possible, as you feel the cool drops running in

yes, the Valsalva technique (hold nose and blow hard) is not always all that effective

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but you may need to have a procedure done on the eardrum itself ...

oh --

one other thing you might try

first of all, sit down or lie down, with a towel to catch the drips

turn your head sideway so your ear canal points at the ceiling

drop or pour hydrogen peroxide into your ear ---

it will probably make you dizzy ! perhaps slightly nauseated

it will usually warm up, even get slightly hot


*** learned about this when a bug flew in my ear and stayed in there, biting

it will also usually dissolve any impacted ear wax ...

 

[cheryl98117]

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No we havnt planted tree's. My landlady doesnt want trees planted on that section of the property, unless they are fruit trees... I tried growing peas and beans along my fenceline, but the chickens thought they were for them. lol This year I will be hanging heavy curtains around the sun porch. Im hoping that will help a bit. And when it really starts warming up, I will just hose them down for the swamp cooler affect.

If I can remember to do this, I really should keep track of the temperatures in my fenced yard this year. I have 3 thermometers placed throughout my back yard. One up on the porch, one in the shade, and one in direct sunlight. My sun deck is ALWAYS the hotest spot, the difference between direct sun and shade is about 10 degrees.

Oh, renting: not an easy thing to cope with.

The whole Indian Island/Marrowstone Island/Port Townsend/Sequim/ Port Angeles triangle (plus the San Juans and the Canadian Gulf Islands) gets the hottest summer temps in Western Washington because of the rain shadow and getting a lot of interior hot air flowing down the Fraser. Not as hot as, say Quincy in July or Prosser in late August, but hotter than the rest of the Sound or, as CL and Illia will probably attest, Raymond and Forks and everywhere west of the Willapa Hills and the Olympic massif.

I really cant complain about my landlady. She is quite plainly awsome, just the no trees planted other than fruit is the only complaint. I would have planted alder or poplar trees, but she wants that side of the property to remain a small orchard. Now if I could find some sort of fast growing fruit tree, then I would be set. lol But I have yet to find that.

We have our own rain shadow going on where I am located. Everywhere else will be pouring down rain, and we will have sun, or cloudy and dry. On the other hand, we get some nasty winds that will tear apart a poorly cunstructed shed, blow tents over, and other yard items as well.

 

[SadieSue]

Okay, a little un-nerved right now, hope I did right. I was changing my now 3 1/2 week old chicks from their baby brooder over to the rabbit cage which is taller and more airy. I had run out of sand which I prefer, but didn't feel like running to Lowe's and hauling a 50 lb. bag myself, so I used wood shavings. Of course as soon as I get them all in the new cage, my adorable little Salmon Faverolles roo starts fluffing himself in the shavings making a huge mess and getting shavings all over himself. A few minutes later I'm looking in and at the very same moment I saw a teeny, tiny pinprick of blood on his back, so did a couple of the other chicks and they began picking and pecking at it. I'm guessing that someone pecked at his back thinking he had food on him and messed with his little pin feathers maybe? Just enough to cause it to bleed?

I snatched him out of there in a hurry as they appeared to be like baby feathered piranhas in a blood frenzy aggravating the little pinprick of blood into a larger spot. I washed as much blood off as I could and put a little Neosporin on the spot. So now he's back in the former baby brooder all by himself. I did set him up next to the others so hopefully they can still see and hear each other as I don't want him really separated out of the flock.
My hope is by tomorrow that little wound will be healed and I can put him back in with everybody tomorrow night. Poor little guy sat so quietly on my lap after I hauled his chicky butt out of there. He didn't have a clue why everyone was picking on him all of a sudden, and he's quite a bit more submissive than some of the other chicks.

But I am SO glad I was right there when it happened before it got any worse! I had been getting ready to leave the house for a couple of hours.

You guys think it will be okay to put him back tomorrow?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, with the help of daughter and nephew, I have the holes drilled and the foundation boards stabilized and the pvc pipe sitting in the foundation to learn its bend before I put in the frame for roosts and to keep the edge of the wire stabilized (where the hardware cloth and 1" chicken wire come together) and et'c and so on. Should I hope have The Nephew again tomorrow or whenever he doesn't have homework and my sister is raking hay. He had a bunch of snow/windstorm/no power days and will be in school until the solstice, poor boy.

It- the hoop house for the BLRWs from TiffsBroodyBabes- will be about 4 1/2 ft by 8 ft by almost 5 ft tall, and will probably also have an additional eight feet on all sides with a fence to keep the cat out, but that they'll only be able to use when I'm outside. The coyote may be gone but I saw Redtails, Eagles, and an Osprey today, and I wasn't outside much (not that I'm much worried about the Osprey; plenty of fish).

I need thoughts about length of quarantine: I've been reading the relevant threads here and am greatly confused: is thirty days enough? I've read 90 days and *six months* for "older fowl" and I'm just...wow, really? What health problems have you encountered in longer than 30 days after receiving new stock?

Again: I'm well aware of just how bad things can get: I lost half a year's calves to Bovine Viral Diarrhea the first time we learned of it, and the first time we encountered Blackleg (which was introduced by migrating geese) was worse. With the cattle we discuss vaccination and worming with the people we buy bulls from, or we vaccinate and worm and hold for thirty days. I love the chickens I have, I want to be mindful and as close to inerrant as I can be in adding to my flock and breeding more.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Thank you so very much. I am constantly learning and gleening great information.

How do you separate? color = sex or color = age (when hatched) or breed? Does this make sense? Do you just mark ones that you are wanting to keep an eye on as they may be really great "type"?

I was just at Wal*Mart yesterday (hate that place) - next trip I will have to get some zippies.

Yeah, I was too.

I mark the girls from the boys. The unmarked, I'm not keeping. I can tell with some breeds (like the bantam favs) who I am keeping and not just based on their toes--but I keep all of them longer enough to let them feather so I know what I'm dealing with. If they are missing a toenail but otherwise have great feathering, I will keep them. However, if they are missing an entire toe, or if both extra toes are fused, missing nails, etc...I will not keep them. So far, I only have one pair for sure (male is missing a nail) and the others are still too young to fully assess although I have one who's missing a nail and another who's toes are fused and missing a nail.

How come they have so much toe problems? Is this a characteristic of the breed?

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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See that is one thing yer gonna miss when ya get out here. Our Wal-marts don't have fashion shows!!

Not if I catch 4312 in her scuzzies.

LOL...thanks bunches. I will probably have chicken poo on me too. hair not brushed. No deoderant (naw, I always have this on).

 

[hallerlake]

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Some people just want eggs and do not know a leghorn from an araucana.
And if the bird is POL, they will pay $50 for it.
Especially if it lays big eggs.
Had a woman here today that apparently I talked to on the phone weeks ago, wanted to buy some POL brown layers, of which I am out of now.
She was desperate, and said her Mother "is in" Hospice (did that mean she works for Hospice or that she is dying?) and Mother wanted a good big brown egg.
Even just one hen, she said.
I told her all I have is breeding stock and they are just starting to lay & will not have any more for a few weeks, and then it will be chicks.
"oh no" she said, "I have no means to raise chicks" I thought about telling her how easy it is to raise chicks, but thought diferently as she most likely wants instant large brown eggs, tomorrow!
If she would have bought chicks from me months ago, Mom would be having breakfast right now, and she did not care what breed it was..after she left I remembered the other Chickenlady here in Raymond..should have sent her over there.

In hospice means she has a terminal illness. A month ago the daughter may not have realized how little time her mother had left. Mom went down hill suddenly.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Ive heard of turpentine being used. We use a bleach solution for thrush. Or thrush killer if its so bad that bleach isnt enough...

At the big ranch in Ione OR I worked on, we sunk two posts about 3 feet apart in between sheep pastures, and sunk a 8" deep LONG trough in the ground & used the bleach solution in it.
Animals had to walk through it several times a day.
We still had to "prune" hooves, but had no thrush, no hoof rot.
Works for cattle too, just have posts farther apart, and hang a lice bag between the two posts, and the cattle KNOW and will rub all over under the lice bag to powder themselves.
Saw too many big nasty worms in their skin..had to use a box wrench to pop them out..but the lice bag worked & hoof trough worked great!

Now that brings the question to my mind... How would you go about making a trough big enough for the horses to have to step in it? What would you use? Cause thats a great idea! lol