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[Stumpfarmer]

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Get a new toothbrush. Your old one is loaded with germs and you're sticking it in your mouth.

Nope, just unwrapped a new one and any way I Betadine followed by Peroxide twice a week.

 

[hallerlake]

I am trying to put pictures on my BYC homepage. I used the insert icon. It didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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You clicked on the little tree icon on the editing page? When you click on it, another box pops up asking for the image info. Where it asks for the img url, don't include any image tags or and [ or ]. just the text. starting with http://.............

 

[Kaneke]

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go get your echinacea, your cranberry juice (there's a Splenda version out with far less sugar), your zinc, your garlic, and if you can stand it, get some Hot Sour Soup from the Chinese restaurant (I think you can also get it in a canned version)

those may not stop the coughing and sneezing, but at least will diminish the symptoms and shorten the disease process

feed the chickens yogurt sprinkled with garlic, most of them just love that

unlikely they will catch a human-type virus ... but if you are concerned, just wash hands well and wear a mask

by the way, how did the candling go? or did that wait until you felt better and broody settled in ?

My default virus fighting hot-and-sour was from Chinatown Cafe on 4th downtown, now a Mexican Taqueria. I wonder if I can whine loud enough for somebody to bring me Tom Yum Gai from Chili Thai? I'd go there for lunch- it's the closest good restaurant on my bus route- except that would involve walking down the hill and then, worst of all, walking up the hill. And you know how much fun that is, although it's worse than usual right now because all the side drains are clogged and the surface is covered with loose sand and gravel.

My driveway, often known as "the Smith Family Curse."

yes, I remember that driveway, it tore the dickens out of our exhaust system ....

wish I had the energy to go get the food for you (or bring you some Hot Sour from the Chinese place (Golden Dragon) on the east edge of town here .. not bad though not a patch on the stuffr from that great little place down in Des Moines) but I lack the energy even to go out and check for eggs in the coop, which is like ten feet from the bottom of the steps

sitting on DS's bed, wrapped in a comforter (for some reason our heat pump is not working) with Roxy-dog snuggled as hard against me as she can get

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DH said he did not find any sunglasses in the car, but he DID find a pair of aqua-framed reading glasses ... he thought they were mine but mine have opaque turquoise frames, not translucent aqua ... Julia, are those your missing reading glasses?

(the only other possibility is that they are Roxanne's .. DS's friend)

 

[hallerlake]

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You clicked on the little tree icon on the editing page? When you click on it, another box pops up asking for the image info. Where it asks for the img url, don't include any image tags or and [ or ]. just the text. starting with http://.............

That worked. I have a page.

 

[VelvettFog]

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Well shoot. No, I just looked up Hawks and the tail had broad stripes underneath and was wider than a doves. I'm afraid this was a hawk - Cooper's or Northern Harrier. I live right near Chamber's Creek so we're surrounded by wooded areas. I just don't know what kind of hawks are living in the trees in this area. I know we have eagles in the neighborhood. I see them being chased by crows over Orchard Street and they're plentiful down at Chamber's Bay Golf Course which is right on the bay.

Great - now I'm going to be worried about them.

ETA: Pretty sure it was a Cooper's Hawk after looking more at the photos.

I get a ton of coopers hawks here, in fact, had one sitting on the quick shade frame that's sitting in my driveway when I came home from taking DS to school this morning!

Glad I didn't let the birds out before we left!!!

I have seen a Cooper's (or a Sharp Shinned I have a hard time telling them apart) sitting on TOP of my coop looking down at the birds. The hawk was half the size of my hens, so it had no real chance to carry it off. I'm sure it wished it was bigger

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I get a ton of coopers hawks here, in fact, had one sitting on the quick shade frame that's sitting in my driveway when I came home from taking DS to school this morning!

Glad I didn't let the birds out before we left!!!

I have seen a Cooper's (or a Sharp Shinned I have a hard time telling them apart) sitting on TOP of my coop looking down at the birds. The hawk was half the size of my hens, so it had no real chance to carry it off. I'm sure it wished it was bigger

Last year I had one kill 2 Silkies through 1" chicken wire, so when I had my 2 new bantam coops built last summer, we used 1/2" welded wire, and STILL had one kill a pullet through that and bloody the combs on 3 other birds.

 

[Chickielady]

Scroll down and see 2 cute small coops, very easy to build, can be up on legs, have 'clean out' doors...very nice.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7575391#p7575391

 

[Chickielady]

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My hens are laying like gangbusters, ever since I switched feed.
The are getting Del's Basic Poultry and layer (16%)
I have also noticed a huge increase in egg size, so much so that I CANNOT fit the eggs in a large egg carton!

You may need to worm?

 

[Chickielady]

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Get a new toothbrush. Your old one is loaded with germs and you're sticking it in your mouth.

Remember the bleach solution?
2 cups of household bleach in a empty milk jug, & top off with water?
1 Tablespoon per gallon of the chicken's water for well birds?
2 tablespoons a gallon bird's drinking water for sick birds?
I also put it (the solution) full strength in a spray bottle.
I clean fonts, the sink, toilets, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, shoes, you name it.
I do not buy ANY household cleaners anymore.
I use Sudsy ammonia in the same manner, 1/4 cup in a spray bottle topped with water, for glass.