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[Rare Feathers Farm]

The doctor just called me at home....the right EIF is gone, the left is still there.

However, now there is a issue with her head!

She started off with the good news of the right EIF being gone. But then went into the head thing and I just about lost it. I had to sit down because I felt like my knees were going to buckle. The doctor said the radiologist has to wait until tomorrow to speak with the ultrasound tech and see if it was a perfect, straight on shot or if maybe the baby was little off-center. If it was off-center, it may be nothing. If it was a straight-on shot, that's not good.

The man that did my u/s today is supposedly the best we have in this valley.

I was given the option of waiting another month and having another ultrasound here or getting into Spokane as soon as possible. I told her I wanted to go ASAP to the Level 2 person...so she made the referral as I was on the phone with her.

I am beyond worried sick at this point....

My DH called his mom (who is a nurse) and her opinion was to get another doctor to look at the results as well. My doctor has only been practicing for 7 years and she's VERY thorough but also very text book. She admitted she's seen things like this but not this exact combination of things. The other doctor that my MIL suggested has been practicing more than 30 years....and is a no BS guy. My doctor went back and forth on a lot of things. It was more like she'd say something reassuring and then counter with a comment that was totally contradictory to what she'd already said. DH said it was probably to cover her butt, just in case? Too many sue happy people I suppose.

 

[crazychickenlady1]

Hello From Shelton Wa!!!

 

[Kaneke]

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when my neighbor donated his old coop to me, he had been using deep straw in it and in the run (under a covered carport)
for his four chickens (four others did not make it to adulthood)

I cleared it out pronto !

it was dusty, it was dirty (they changed it out every three days but it was still dirty, as in earth dirt not chicken dirt),
no wonder his chickens were always sneezing

and straw gets moldy really fast ... even in a "dry" covered area --- mold is NOT your chickens' friend ...

he got rid of the chickens because they were "too much work" ... LOL, changing out the bedding that often !

our soil here is mostly sandy and rocky, very little topsoil, it drains GREAT ... which steered me towards sand under the chickens (I remember the mess at my aunt's chicken house, with matted-down hay -- I hated to go in the run there)

it's super easy to scoop out the poo from the sand in the coop .. I have only an inch or so deep in there and it works fine -- will add a poop board now that I see where the chicks prefer to roost (they have two 4-foot long roosts, perpendicular to each other right now, but I can see that the poo is all in one end of one roost ...

right now my run is big clumps of weedy grass, with some evergreen blow-down branchlets in there too, since the chicks love to eat those

as they dig down to the sandy dirt, I will add more sand out there too, the grass clumps should grow right on up through it

Really?? hmm I really thought I was being super picky with this stuff, but, I can see your point. I am changing it quite often, explain poop board, I've heard it mentioned but, never seen one? mine have a roost, they poop under it and I clean it up? if there is a better way please indulge me!!! lol!

I'm still pretty new --- but do a search on BYC for poop boards, there are quite a few with pictures

basically it's a wide board or shelf or tray, that sits spaced a little ways underneath the roost board, usually with a lip on it (some people recommend using plastic boot trays -- or shallow rubbermaid type containers), usually lightly filled with sand or Sweet PDZ, or covered with melamine or something that poo won't stick to ... so when the chickens let go, it winds up on this poo board rather than on the floor of the coop --

easier to scoop or scrape a small space that catches the majority of the night-poo

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I bought a bag of playground sand for in my baby box - for the chicks after they hatched. I am trying to get them out of it. It is so dusty. I don't understand why, I thought it was suppose to NOT be dusty. I don't think it is good for them to breath. I will be dumping out the sand and putting something else in it for my new babies. The sand I am using in my run is washed sand for concrete. That is what I was told to use. I am getting a 10 yard dump truck full. I don't know about the dust in it...I am hopeing it is less.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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oh boy I am just in time!!!! yes Hoss will be the dad, I havent had another rooster here for over a month and a half. and yes those are Juliette and Rosalee eggs, Larry is the dad

woohooo go babies!!!!!

Soooo, are you gonna ever put any of Hoss' eggs up for auction? I would love to add some of your eggs to the ones from Rising Star. They are big, beautiful babies too! I just love them!

OOOOOO...I want to know when there are Hoss eggs coming up too. Wow, I am so getting myself in trouble.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I think beets are sometimes used as chicken food. I remember reading somewhere that Laura Ingalls Wilder (of Little House on the Prarie) fed her hens beets and they laid through the coldest winters. Can't remember the variety of beet, but they are HUGE monsters.

Dad always fed beet pulp to started calves and milk cows; they loved the stuff! It improves palatability in cattle feed, but I forget the nutrient profile; I know it's full of vitamins and minerals, though.

I haven't figured out what chickens think tastes especially good, except slugs and peanuts. I'll find out how they feel about pears and apples if it ever stops raining so I can get pollenation; I have about thirty very old apple trees, and five old and one new pear (and a quince: I'm not sharing the quinces).

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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That is one BIG roo. Pretty birds and babies.

 

[snapkrackelpop19]

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Welcome to the forum!!

 

[denniselk]

You have to read


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=494472

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Just a few pages back we were discussing this very subject. I am getting ready to put around 5-6 inches of sand in my run. I am using it to combat cocci. It will be interesting to see what the pros on here say about putting straw in the run. Welcome to the site.