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[broodytood]

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Welcome to the WA thread. We have some friends out your way. Glad you found this chatter house! Good to have ya!

 

[hallerlake]

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Applesauce. I sincerely hope this is all a tempest in a teapot, and your daughter is born happy and healthy in spite of your doctors.

 

[broodytood]

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Yep, good ole' saliva test. Try saving all your spit in a test tube...not that easy to do. Can't count the bubbles, has to be all liquid spit.

Keep me up dated broodytood so I know how you are doing. And don't stop looking until you find someone to help you. It may take a while and a few different Drs, but keep trying you will find the right one that can help you. Good luck.

Thanks Teresa! You've been a wealth of info! The one Dr I was thinking of has also moved out of town. So tomorrow, it's back to the search. I won't give up!

 

[T Hi]

On the subject of flooring material-

I have ducks so water is just a part of our lives!

1st- I started with sand & pea gravel...... had NO drainage. It made a cement type substance after getting wet!

2nd- I used washed 7/8 gravel. Better but when it got cold, the water froze to the rocks, ice rink began, webbed feeties might get stuck!

3rd- Since it was middle of winter I bought a bail of straw and put that on top of the gravel. Worked good at keeping the ice minimal. However, it weaved into the nastiest poo-water-food-feather solid blanket! Cleaned it out every week. HEAVY!!!! YUCKYYY!!! STINKYYY!!!!

Now someday when it is above 35*, I am having a teenage boy work party!

They will empty everything out. Lift the house. Insert cinder blocks under the run. (I have 1/2 inch hardware cloth & 2x4's across the whole bottom) Then inside the run I am putting the recycled rubber horse mat stuff in. Then we can hose it down and scrub it if need be. Since it will be lifted on the cinder blocks it will have much better drainage.

 

[hallerlake]

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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).

My girls like to pick at the fallen apples under my trees in the fall.

 

[T Hi]

On a funny note---

In an effort to save money... cuz I ain't got none... I waxed my own legs today!

It is an entirely DIFFERENT experience to purposely inflict pain to yourself!!!

The wonderfully ignorant male Labrador that I have thought he would come help! That was close! He almost got hair removed too!!

Guess I should have just waited till tonight. Then I would have something to do while I'm watching these babies Pip, Zip, & Hatch!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Its lookin like this might be a looong night. DW just started tossin her salad again!

These are times when she tends to revert back.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I know y'all have discussed this before but....

How much time between Pip, Zip, & Hatch is normal? FOR DUCKS!!!

Temp is 98* and humidity is 65%-70%.

AAAAAAAhhhhhh!!!!!! I'm gonna go CRAZY!!!!!!

 

[T Hi]

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Oh no CR! I'm so sorry for her & you! Hopefully you guys get some rest tonight. You can't take care of her unless you take care of yourself too.