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[Cowgirlgrace]

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Ohh, so sorry Cheryl! My heart is with you. Lots of hugs!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Nope- and the pain is not in the feet, but in particular wounds (well, now that I think of it, one burn scar from the time I dropped a hot broiler rack on my foot, which I think you may have heard of) including having sports tape pulled off my right shin and taking a couple of layers of skin with it, stepping into a coil of rusty barbed wire that HAD been a fence while chasing cows in the dark, in shorts, and a scrape down my left shin where I went over the handlebars of my bike on a gravel road and spent a week picking rocks out of the scab...all of them feeling as if I had just that moment injured them; got up and even with a totally sane, nonglycogenic diet my BG was 225; drank a glass of water and it dropped to 140: welcome to brittle diabetes. I get evaluated for peripheral neuropathy twice a year, and check my feet daily- this is neuropathy, all right, or at least PROBABLY neuropathy, but it's to do with shingles.

Shingles? Hmm.. would that new Chicken-Pox vaccine help you? The reason that shingles is not often seen in our younger years, is the immunity we get from CP covers us for shingles. As we age, that immunity starts to wain. It will still protect us from CP again (usually) but the protection against shingles goes down as we age.

/shrug

I'm not a Dr. nor should I play one on the internet

Dave

My doc says no- I have/have had shingles outbreaks since I was eight, and the vaccine doesn't help active infections, just prevents new disease. Post shingles neuropathy is a matter of damage to the nerve endings. It can be treated with low doses of tricyclic antidepressants, especially Elavil, but I have a bad history with all classes of antidepressants, so it's not something I'm willing to try.

Counter irritants like capsacin and menthol help a lot; not getting over-tired is a big help but until I get all the chickens housed and the chicks OUT of the house the "over tired" thing is just SOP.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

On another note, wanted to ask for prayers for my family. My heart has been very heavy for a long time and I don't know how to fix it. Last night and today was especially heavy. Just a hard time to get through I guess but mostly aching for my boys and their lives and their hearts. Prayers for healing, hope and faith!

I appreciate my BYC friends!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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From the real estate side......if you are taking coops that may look like sheds and are of a size that a potential buyer may assume they are staying...make sure to write it up in the contract that you are taking them with you. For that matter....don't assume anything...write up the contract that you are taking them with you (if this is what you are doing)...otherwise a buyer is going to assume that it is being left. Trust me...this can lead to problems. Make it full disclosure up front avoid the hassel.

I did not think of that...
Thanks!!!

I took a job at the hospital...back doing my old job of medical transcription...but I did real estate for 5 years. In the last year...people became really-really picky. I almost had a deal die because the sellers would not pay to have the chimney cleaned...they had already given plenty...but buyers were not going to do it unless it got done. I paid the $85.

Had another one almost tank over the propane in the tank. Buyers assumed it would come with the purchase...sellers wanted to be paid for it. It was around $300 on that one...they ended up splitting the difference.

All I am saying is that deals will die over the stupidst reasons. Be careful and make sure to make your requests very-very clear.

 

[broodytood]

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Gotcha on my list! It sure seams like a lot of stuff is happening to a lot of people!

Hang in there!!!

 

[SadieSue]

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Sorry CGG...

 

[jbear]

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[Kenshan1]

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My poor hens are mad at me. Pacing in the coop wanting out in the yard. The chicken tractor we built last yr needs a tarp for a top & its not easy to move around even though its made of pvc. We're gonna have to come up with something though as they want out.

Shannon

Can you post a picture of your coop?

Here's my coop.

Shannon

 

[RonB]

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You could bring your little ones over here and they could stay in my nice WARM barn

you could visit anytime ya want

 

[Stumpfarmer]

ARGH- I keep forgetting to say, sorry, had the help in today and a lot of output on stuff. Anyway, I finally determined that the Mud Bay on Westside (humorously set in a building that was a club I frequented back in the day) has chicken feed, so I got some grower after what I wanted was out of stock at Del's. I may be able to get it special ordered to the Lacey one (which is objectively closer but in behaviorally not so much: we actually GO to the westside, but not so much that far east on Martin Way). It was $22 for 50 pounds, but I needed it today, and did not want to shift more of my budget to my husband's pocket.

I'm hoping that I have things better figured out by the time this sack of feed is left. One of the two-week-old-today EEs has a bright red comb- one of the dark ones with red shoulders already, so I wasn't surprised- but I'm not seeing other easy calls. I'm probably going to craigslist the cockerels instead of growing them out; I need to get sensible about the number of projects I've got going. This month is going to be fun anyway, since in a couple of weeks my daughter is going to Europe over Thanksgiving and I won't have any back-up whatsoever. She and her honey have been planning the trip for over a year, they're doing it pretty much on the cheap, staying in his aunt's rental in Holland and then with friends of his from the year he was studying in London.

Me, I just hope I get to go Christmas shopping in Portland.