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[nivtup]

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I have been an Araucana Club member, however I think I am expired at the moment.

I can exhibit, probably 2 - 4 birds.

Mostly Whites, but possibly an odd color too.

That would be great!!!! Would you consider rejoining and emailing me at [email protected] ?
We need 5 ACA members to commit to bid. Steve, Rosalynn and I are in- working on Ann.

OK, I am in.

Officially an ACA member again.

Email has been sent.

Guess it is time to get my act together to support.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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post more pics! I bet we can tell for sure by now!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

hello everyone

I love the weekends - I get to see my chickens for more than good morning/good night!

Yesterday I was hanging out with a friend and we stopped at their local produce store that will give us the green trimmings for free! So I brought home a big bag of mixed lettuces & parsley to them yesterday. If you're in West Seattle PM me and I'll share the location. I also bought some "grapples" (an apple that tastes like a grape?) for each kid and will let you know the reviews.

Gave them an overripe banana this morning on their apple kabob - wow - they really liked it!

And my DH made me a "nozzle" waterer (it's really called something else.) for Christmas, but none of the chickens have discovered it yet. I'd really like to get away from the other waterers because they are constantly getting pooped in.

TIA

 

[pettec63]

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Hook worms in people are not that common, but does happen in parts of the south were tons of people go barefoot, and hookworms are prevalent. Not so much in the northern states, we actually studied this in vet tech school

The worst parasitic thing I have had was "cutaneous larvae migrans." Did y'all study that in school? Basically, it means that I grew up in the south and walked around barefoot in an area that a dog had defecated in. When the slide of that came up in my Parasitology class, by first reaction was, "OMG! Those things itch like crazy!"

Anyway, they have shown that it takes less than 50 hookworms to have the anti-autoimmune effect and the anemia, etc. that is detrimental to human health is at about 12-15,000 worms.

What they did to the mice was they put shistosome eggs in the IP cavity. Shistosomes cannot infect mammals unless they swim around in water, live in a freshwater snail, swim around in water again, and then they can infect a mammal. There was no way that the mice could have gotten Shistosomiases.

Actually yes we did! Our parasitology book is from William J Foreyt and it goes through most of the animals both livestock, pet, aquatic, and wildlife. Now keep in mind I did graduate from tech school in 2000, which wasn't eons ago, but I can tell you I didn't keep all the parasitology class info in the fore front of my brain! LOL I do however keep the book handy and use it for my goats and birds ect. And actually looking at it now it does show the Zoonotic disease, it's actually called Trichobilharzia spp Organism Schistosomatids, disease Cercarial dermatitis method of infection contact with cercariae in water. Bad stuff!! the book shows pictures of how transmission occurs, gross!!! But, yea unless a mouse is hanging out in that type of environment it's kinda hard for it to be infected!!! ???

 

[pettec63]

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Norton?
Lost you on this one.
What is unfortunate....I understood the others. ick!

Norton from The Honeymooners! !

"To tha Moon Alice!! to tha Moon!" LOL

yes I was but a mere tot! But, I love Jackie Gleason and Art Carnie!!! (sp)?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Mornin'

LONG day ahead, I fear, and longer because I sagged out in mid-afternoon yesterday and we didn't finish grocery shopping for the week, so that got bumped into today; didn't trim my hair and wash it, either, so I'll have to do morning chores and then do that. UGH.

Of course one of the things that overloaded yesterday is that my DH was pretty much ordered to lie down on his cot during his work breaks; a lot of his pain is because he sits too much and some of it is because he's been walking on concrete for exercise, and the PT exercises he was doing were the wrong ones and he needs to stop doing them and do one easier entirely different one. Oh, and get a referral for massage therapy because he's reacting to pain by cramping up, which I have observed and tried to help, but my hands are in too bad shape to do the myellotherapeutic massage I used to do. That the cot is saggy has also made it mandatory for him to get firm foam and cover it, and since it is in my interest for him not to look like a homeless person* I had to go to Ross to find something to cover the foam. So today's overload will include going to his office, installing and covering the foam... le sigh...









*More like a homeless person than he's prone to anyway, especially since he's stopped shaving again.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Try MFR message. My neighbour does it. She works at providence. OMG talk about amazing. You barely feel her finger tips touching but when she is done it is like He** yeah I could dance like a Gumby doll well in my little pea brain anyway.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Okay, so I decided to check out the lav orp babies (they are around 11 weeks). I moved them into a Hay bale coop. After about a week I noted it did not look like they were eating very well and the boys were kind of breathing hard.

so I opened up the top of the "coop". Yep, stinky. There is mold on the outside...I could not see any on the inside but it was musty, the birds were dirty, it stank of bird poop. So....off to better conditions. I forced them out of the stinky coop into the fresh air....they had been refusing to come out of the "coop". So they spent the day outside while I readied the new area.

Unfortunately, big orps had to give up part of their big huge box coop (that is not really completed...but they got plenty of room). So the babies are "caged" into one half of the box...the front of the box I can take off to get them fresh air. the box is insulated and lined with black plastic. The floor has sand on it. Much cleaner/healtheir area. I will have to work on a "run" spot for them....but since they won't even go out side I am not worried about that just yet. I can work on it this next week.

 

[JenBirdRansom]

I need some advice....chicken style.

I have a coop that I'll be using for a brooder and sold the 3 silver laces ladies that occupied it. The is one TEENY little banty in there named Muffintop. She's too little to go in with the girls in any of the other coops. So, what should I do?

I really don't want to get rid of her I just love that little bugger! Can she stay in there when the babies go outside? Think she'll peck 'um? None of the other coops are of a style that could be split up.

I can post pics of the coops if that helps. I considered making her an odd covered pen under our deck and then a rabbit cage in the garage to bring her in at night? There isn't much room in the garage since my mother and her husband moved into our downstairs and we had to put a bunch of our stuff out there, plus my work gear is out there, and my kiln. It wouldn't be ideal to have her in there but maybe it would work.

Any other ideas?

 

[SadieSue]

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This last EE cockerel of Kaneke's that I've promised to give back to her is acting like a dumb teenager and is about to go on restriction! Two mornings ago he started crowing at 5:30 AM. Since I am smack dab in the middle of Suburbia we are officially outlaws now. I put on my robe, ran outside to the coop and picked him up to spend a couple of hours in darkness in the bunny cage in the garage. When the sun came up, he was let out with the rest of the flock. Last evening I got home from rehearsal about 5 PM so it was already dark. I checked to make sure everyone was safe in the coop and the cockerel was missing! I checked around the yard with the flashlight and then finally got the bright idea to look UP, where I found him roosting on the very top peak of coop roof. Argh. DH wasn't home, so I got the ladder out of the garage and of course, every time I got near him, he would run to the other side of the roof which is 12 feet away. I made sure our Golden Retriever was outside to keep watch and protect the dumbhead and waited for DH to come home. This was obviously a 2 person job. When DH arrived home we played chicken ping pong across the roof, until little roo finally jumped off so we could corner him and catch him in the dark. I'm sure we looked ridiculous. So Mr. "Cock of the Flock" spent another quiet and dark night in the garage where he will continue to spend his nights. I don't need any chicken police at my house to discover I'm a mere 7 chickens over my legal limit according to Pierce County code. I could NOT make the decision which 7 would have to go if I were busted!