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[Totalcolour]

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Tell him not to stop trying. I used to smoke too - it took me 25 years to stop, after several tries. Been smoke free now since June 22, 2006

It can be done!

 

[VelvettFog]

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Yup there...was it an Ameracauna????
Just askin'......cuz mine do that very thing...Cree lines & other lines, they are all nuts.
I have had to clip wings to prevent it, and still have had full grown hens who I have raised by hand, flip out & break their wings or necks.

/thud

It was.

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh I so know what you are dealing with...in an attempt DAILY to exercise & get my jello back in shape I have encountered a lower back issue that feels alot like some large glob is trying to squeeze out...a disc?????????
This is what always happens to me when I lay back or relax or sleep in.................best to get up & MOVE lest the cramps take over!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Yup there...was it an Ameracauna????
Just askin'......cuz mine do that very thing...Cree lines & other lines, they are all nuts.
I have had to clip wings to prevent it, and still have had full grown hens who I have raised by hand, flip out & break their wings or necks.

/thud

It was.

Having a blue egg in the basket every so often is not worth #1 the cost or #2 the flipping out/self injury and #3 flying/running down the poop boards & flipping POOP all over me as I enter the coop to clean or collect eggs.
NO MORE.
When I go clean the Buckeyes coop...they all have to come see what I am doing...that gorgeous Cockeral as well..........Same with the Javas coop...they all have to come see & are underfoot.
The Ams?????????? FLIPPING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Tell him not to stop trying. I used to smoke too - it took me 25 years to stop, after several tries. Been smoke free now since June 22, 2006

It can be done!

Me too, Hypnosis & drugs..................

The only way to quit smoking is to STOP

COLD TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope he does...time is wanning on him smoking for so many years........

In the last few months I have wondered if I will have to finish building this barn house by myself

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

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Dang. Really sorry about your back and can commiserate. I hope a double dose of Motrin and a heating pad work as well for you as they do for me. My grandmother always used to say that aging isn't for the fainthearted. I think I'm finally starting to get clarity on her point.
Your Bacchus reminds me of my horse, a Peruvian Paso named Mijo. When we used to let his buddy and him roam on the property, his buddy would be on the look out for the best long grass in the pasture area. Mijo, on the other hand, was always up on the porch trying to figure out how to get in the house. Fortunately, he never figured out how to turn the doorknob, but I'd always get a start when I'd come around the corner into the living room and see a horse head looking through the window. When Mijo started busting hose bibs trying to turn on the water, we had to put a stop to the roaming...

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh I so know what you are dealing with...in an attempt DAILY to exercise & get my jello back in shape I have encountered a lower back issue that feels alot like some large glob is trying to squeeze out...a disc?????????
This is what always happens to me when I lay back or relax or sleep in.................best to get up & MOVE lest the cramps take over!!

I don't get through a winter without my back giving me a bad day or two- starting about fourteen years ago when Ruby's mother, a Chesepeake Bay Retriever, knocked me off my feet and on to frozen ground and I ended up crawling a quarter-mile back to the house. Or: why I love cell phones.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a layabout back ache; it's more a combination of standing on cold asphalt for forty minutes yesterday while we waited to be rescued by people with four round tires on their cars, and leaning overdownsideways to put the patch on the siding. I don't get to sit down much of late.

I did get the tree trimmed up and put in the stand, which is some sort of an accomplishment, right? But dinner's coming home with my DH, because my recipe for chili involves about an hour and a half of chopping and sauteing and generally not sitting down. Perhaps when the young lady is done moving out my kitchen stool will be useable for sitting down instead of holding stuff that doesn't get put away.

 

[Chickielady]

Drugs are a no no with all injuries...............if you are in pain that is because you are hurt...the worst thing you can ever do is smear the pain with drugs...and then OH YEAH IT FEELS GOOD NOWWWWWWWW!!!!
And the next thing ya know....you #1 need WAY more pain meds to cover for the way you over extended the injury...and #2 because you build up a resistance to the drug.
Why mask it?
If you are in pain, it is for a reason.
Deal with it.
Taking more & more drugs only masks/harms the injury even more so.
Because of my disease, I cannot take all the NSAIDS & anti-inflams & pain meds...but by God, I have been through a complete hysterectomy & 2 knee surges, and 2=3 C-sections and a complete re-attachment of all of the fingers on my right hand...thus I can still paint...After surgeries I used Propoxephe, for a few days, then went without any pain meds.
The pain I get from my intestinal track & immunal system are far worse than the relief any ""pain med""" can give.
I agree with the docs, if you are in pain..it is for a reason & needs to be delt with.
Masking pain day by day is wrong.
If you have pain that bad it must be delt with surgically, not by drugs.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Dang. Really sorry about your back and can commiserate. I hope a double dose of Motrin and a heating pad work as well for you as they do for me. My grandmother always used to say that aging isn't for the fainthearted. I think I'm finally starting to get clarity on her point.
Your Bacchus reminds me of my horse, a Peruvian Paso named Mijo. When we used to let his buddy and him roam on the property, his buddy would be on the look out for the best long grass in the pasture area. Mijo, on the other hand, was always up on the porch trying to figure out how to get in the house. Fortunately, he never figured out how to turn the doorknob, but I'd always get a start when I'd come around the corner into the living room and see a horse head looking through the window. When Mijo started busting hose bibs trying to turn on the water, we had to put a stop to the roaming...

The two Appies who live next door keep trying to get in the chicken pen up there so they can be under the heat lamps; meanwhile, my biggest, fattest shorthorn cow keeps trying to reach the sheep's hay net. And the cats want outside! Everything has its aspirations, I guess?

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh I so know what you are dealing with...in an attempt DAILY to exercise & get my jello back in shape I have encountered a lower back issue that feels alot like some large glob is trying to squeeze out...a disc?????????
This is what always happens to me when I lay back or relax or sleep in.................best to get up & MOVE lest the cramps take over!!

I don't get through a winter without my back giving me a bad day or two- starting about fourteen years ago when Ruby's mother, a Chesepeake Bay Retriever, knocked me off my feet and on to frozen ground and I ended up crawling a quarter-mile back to the house. Or: why I love cell phones.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a layabout back ache; it's more a combination of standing on cold asphalt for forty minutes yesterday while we waited to be rescued by people with four round tires on their cars, and leaning overdownsideways to put the patch on the siding. I don't get to sit down much of late.

I did get the tree trimmed up and put in the stand, which is some sort of an accomplishment, right? But dinner's coming home with my DH, because my recipe for chili involves about an hour and a half of chopping and sauteing and generally not sitting down. Perhaps when the young lady is done moving out my kitchen stool will be useable for sitting down instead of holding stuff that doesn't get put away.

Maybe I need to bring you some of my Venison Stew??????????