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[Mia_]

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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!!!

We are looking at property in the Thurston/Lewis county area. Is yours the one on Moon Beam Lane (or something like that)? If so, you have a cute little coop and nice run!

 

[Mia_]

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Birth control is not PMU. While at one point they may have been, synthetic hormones are cheaper (and not from urine) and have been the go-to progesterone source for most drugs for years.

They originally were, back in the 60s way before computers, and I protested & went to farms to see...
They did indeed keep their horses very clean & comfortable.
Since then, the world has changed & now we use "Biodenticals" as 4,3,2,1 has said.
I have to have them (hormones) as I had my Ovs removed years ago.
So, I am looking into the progesterone instead of conjugated estrogens,,,,hope it works for me!
Good luck on your tests & home work!

The source for progesterone, for research & science is stallion testis. The progesterone for medications is from either a mutated E. coli or yeast.

 

[ultasol]

I have posted for sale a Wyandotte cock that I traded for from Christine (she raises and shows SLW, Buff silkies, etc) from Oregon. I have found another cock that is more closely related to my flock for line breeding. This bird came from the Foleys originally. He is about 1.5 years I believe, and his fertility is very high.
I wanted to let you guys know because it would be nice for him to stay in the NW.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7770548#p7770548

and a link to a ton of pictures is there as well.

 

[broodytood]

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

We are looking at property in the Thurston/Lewis county area. Is yours the one on Moon Beam Lane (or something like that)? If so, you have a cute little coop and nice run!

Nope... we didn't list an address just that it is in Chehalis.

 

[Kaneke]

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I know Jake has responded about BP, but it could also be a thyroid issue. I was getting really cold hands and feet, (and being very tired all the time) and at my annual checkup, mentioned it to my doc. He ran some blood work, and found I had really low thyroid levels. Now that I'm on meds, I'm back to normal. Well, I was never really normal.....

I'm fairly sure my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (what they tell you that you have, if your tests are otherwise normal even if borderline) is at least thyroid-RELATED if that's not the total problem

my HMO's range of "normal" leaves me .001 inside of the normal range, on the low side ... so my primary doctor (who is trained as an endocrinologist !!!) cannot prescribe thyroid meds for me

I suspect it is analogous to Type 2 diabetes, in that I produce sufficient hormone, it just doesn't attach to the appropriate receptor sites, consequently my temperature-controlling mechanism acts like a poorly functioning thermostat, I cycle between too hot (NOT menopausal hot flashes, had those, got over them, this feels different) and too cold; if I put my mind to it (biofeedback, sort of), I can get my body temp back into comfortable range, but it takes awhile and often overshoots to the other extreme

am sure my pituitary isn't working quite right either

metabolism very sluggish; I've always had low blood pressure, a somewhat slow heart rate, and a lower than normal basal body temp ... was an Rh baby and I'm sure my immune system was compromised by that -- at least I was lucky, my fraternal twin sister died at 6 months gestation .... they did a D&C, got her out, and 3 months later I was born

luckily no arthritis (not yet anyway), my clumsiness comes from having had a brush with polio when I was 4; wish I had had that post-menopausal surge of energy that Margaret Mead talked about, but no luck on that

anyway, I feel for you fellow sufferers ...

 

[AriLovesChickens]

FYI: I found DE (food grade, organic) at McLendon's Hardware in Woodinville. (DeYoungs still doesn't have anything but a 50 lb bag). This was 4.4 lbs for $12, I think.

 

[Kaneke]

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Yelm Farm & Pet will break their 50# bags of food grade DE -- they gave me 10# (split into two kraft paper bags) for $7 and change ... I think I had originally bought one 5# bag for $4.99 -- worth the extra price per pound since I have only the seven chickens, and a fairly small coop & run

 

[KMHunter]

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That is really good to know! I haven't asked DeYoungs for a few years either. Glad to know they have it. I have been driving to Issaquah. RonB and I usually split a bag. This is more convenient.
Hey, have your babies figured out to go into the coop by themselves at night? Mine took 4 days to figure it out. Not bad.

Hope you are having fun with everything!

 

[VelvettFog]

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This is going to sound like an odd question, but do you have thick toenails? Thick toenails are a sign of peripheral neuropathy in the feet.

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

 

[cheryl98117]

Well Im shocked and quite saddened. I just found out that a close friend/neighbor of my family passed away last night from a massive heart attack. He was only 56. This man was the kind of friend/neighbor who everyone wants to have around. Would help out whenever any help was needed, was an awsome friend, came over for BBQ's, and mowed my field for my while I was pregnant with Chloe. He told me I shouldnt be mowing 3acres of nasty unkept grass while 5+ months prego with a DR trimmer...

Im not so sure what to think, or exactly what my reaction is. Im jsut shocked. Steve was so young, vibrant, and always healthy... His wife is devistated, so are his buisness partners, and friends, Dr.s are baffled as well.

I just can't believe he's gone.And I have no idea how to react. I'll probably loose it in a week or so.