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[Chickielady]

BlueDuckies! What is the price ?

 

[FlowerFarmer]

Hello fellow pacific northwesters! Down in Salem Oregon here. Happy to know there are more of us chickenheads around here than you may think. Welcome! A few hours on this sight and you'll be answering chicken questions to all your family and friends

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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[Chickielady]

RFF: Your new bantam orloff girlies are very nice!
Did you get a cockeral too ?
And welcome flowerfarmer !

Guess I will go back to work, BlueDuckies is not seeing my question.....I'll be back............

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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No, I already had THREE of those!

I sold the one and the other two were at Monroe.

 

[Chickielady]

well I went out to take a few pics of the new baby buns, and as soon as I moved the hair nest aside and took one photo, all but one baby ran...

Babies born on the 13th....
And Sweety Buns, the doe, hopped into the nest box and gave me the royal stinkeye..(Pinky Stinkeye).........so I closed the door and left

Pics of the little hatching bator on the kitchen counter:

hatchville here.......I am going to make some dinner for myself now...and DEEE-zert...maybe some lovely jello (again) Jello & cream of rice for most of this week....

Later feather fans~~~~~~~

 

[Ogress]

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they grow like weeds in the spring here and sometimes in the fall if its rainy enough and in an area recently burned... then again many forests where i live have burned alot so this area produces a few hundred pounds and it is spread over the elevation of the mountains through the season....

one of these days i want to train a dog to sniff for truffels at fir trees....

I have several patches that pop up in spring & fall right on the side of the road.
I have not harvested them, it was my thought that to leave them be, they will reseed and every year we may be lucky enough to get more.
We also have a rather large 5 X 6 foot area right in the middle of our drive way turn around, thank fully we do ot use often, that sprouts hordes of shaggy manes, very yummy!
Shaggies love gravel & sandy hard soils, strange as it seems, the little shrooms have no problem pushing up through long packed rock-hard rail road rock in our driveway that is almost as dense as asphalt.

They'll pop through asphalt too!

 

[Ogress]

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Hospitals are full of all sort of creepy crawlies. You put a bunch of people that have compromised health in one area and you get all sorts of fun stuff. MRSA, Clostridium difficile, mycoplasmal pneumonias, etc. However, more and more testing is being done when people are admitted and contact precautions (full gown, mask, gloves for anyone entering room) for those who are infected.

I worked in a hospital for a while.
I had to full drape & mask a few times and go in and feed sick patients.
One time as I was doing so, the old man hurled all over me...glad I was draped !
One thing I still do not understand is the implatation of anything into the body (most especially something so deep & close to the pericardium) with NO antibiotic sent home !
In surgery, we always prescribed a profilactic antibiotic with oral surgery especially as the very staph can enter the blood stream and guess where it goes ?
Straight to the pericardium & the heart is infected.
DH has a SS plate in his foot, for 10 years now, and still, he gets a profilactic antibiotic before dental work due to possible staph infections.
Antibiotics are sometimes misused and over prescribed, but in the case of implantation, and deep invasive surgery, I think the ounce of prevention is worth many millions of pounds of cure, and in this case, possible death.
How is your classes going ?

Even with the overuse of antibiotics, that seems a bit crazy to me. When I was pregnant and DD stuck her foot out of me, I had to be on IV antibiotics for the duration of the pregnancy even though I never tested positive! They gave me so many, it wiped out my intestinal fauna and all the good bacteria as well, until yeast set in, so then they'd do 3 days IV Flagl and back to the antibiotics with the Flagl treatments every few weeks. Olivia is very allergic to antibiotics (have not tried antifungals). I would blame her in-utero exposure, but I have many family members with extreme antibiotic allergies. Poor thing - that is probably why she was born with lizard skin!

Sending someone home without antibiotics and pain meds after such an invasive procedure, especially someone with a weakened immune system, seems beyond stupid. It is uncaring and neglectful!

 

[RedReiner]

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when my crohns first attacked yes they did, all nuts, seeds hard to digest food killed me, and popcorn...I love popcorn...some other foods that killed me were anything in the cabbage family, broccoli etc. and mushrooms. if you google images crohns disease you will see why, but only google if you have a strong stomach. it will show you why those type of foods kill you. once the inside of the gut is healed and there are no open ulcers you can eat those foods again but have to be careful. and you never know when you will have a flare so best not to chance it. Diverticulitis can cause same symptoms too as the ulcers and pockets from that are very similiar.
I maintain on sulfasalazine for now, will not take prednisone ever again but the next step will be biologicals to try and maintain. when in a flare I have been on ciprofaxacin, metronidazole for antibiotics, sulfasalazine, omeprozale and 7 or 8 other drugs to try and get remission.

Do you (did you) ever get a rash with flares ?
I have the demetitus herpetiformis that pops up on my right elbow, and seldom the left, and never has popped up on either knee, happens usually 3 or more days after the attack...and I was wondering if any other intestinal disease ever causes dermetitus herpetiformis.
Sometimes I rash all over, but symetrically, such as a ring around my head where a hat band would be: across the forhead & over the ears all the way around. Weird.
I cannot take sulpha drugs, but was wondering about this new drug Remicade, ever here of it ?
I am not sure but it supposed to lower the inflammation that can result...so do not know if it is classified as an NSAID or if it is a steroid.

I will have to look that up lol but I know I get little red sores on my legs, like dry skin spots that crack and bleed and then I got psoraisis... on my face...piss me off... I also am in the beginning of rhumatoid arthritis. Remicade and Humira were made for RA, side effect was it put crohns and UC in remission. so now it is an IBD drug. remicade is made from rat proteins. I see my doc tomorrow, will ask him what class it is as that is what they want to put me on...sadly I can not afford the 12 to 15 grand a year for it.

ETA: most all of that that comes with crohns is auto immune related, they can be controlled with prednisone but that stuff whacks me way out bad. drops my blood pressure to dead status. I dont like it....

 

[Ogress]

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Oh that was me I like them a lot !!

Thanks! I am still learning...how to bead and tie the little ends correctly...with my wrist being so screwed up it's kind of hard but I'm making progress!

I like using wire and little crimpers, saves my fingers! My friend and I used to have a little beading business, but I hate going out and selling. We ended the business and I brought some stuff that had not sold to a little shop in town a few months ago and just got a call that they need more and they have a check for me! I will just claim a hobby income this year.