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[Chicken Rustler]

Hey, does anyone know what the poultry show in Oct is called and where I can get info on the dates and place? I want to go, and I think it's in Salem now.

Sorry I don't know what name they call it. I do know it is put on by Pacific Northwest Poultry Association..
I will see if I can find the e-mail and send it to ya!!!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Thanks! He's doing totally fine and by bedtime the sting sites were almost unrecognizable. They were just tiny welts on the bad ones, and the non-reactive sites that just got stung with no venom were gone. He played outside in the backyard in a diaper with his chickens and went to bed just fine at 7:30. Gotta love those tough guys. How old is your son Jennifer? Maybe we should let our little guys play someday!

 

[FirewifeJess]

I have no idea who is laying eggs these days and it's driving my OCD bum crazy!! I know for fact that my RIR, both Buff Orps, both of my older Easter Eggers are laying. But then I got a slightly darker speckled egg that could have been my Welsummer, and then today I got a random darker green egg (olive egger?) that could technically only be Princess, my Marans/EEx from Tamara, but she's younger than everyone else by over a week and I didn't think she was ready yet judging by her comb. I also saw my Australorp and Wyandotte check out the nest boxes and go in them today. ***Sigh*** I hate not knowing who is laying the eggs! LOL

 

[drumstick diva]

Firewife Jess, I remember reading that too much fruit = poor laying or none at all. This was on BYC quite some time ago. The person was told to stop the fruit, and her hens started laying ago. You might give it a try and see.

Your poor son is quite a trooper but, I don't think a "dosage much higher," than he should have gotten is wise - unless you want to visit the ER with him. OTC meds can be just as lethal as overdoses than prescription poducts.

 

[JennS]

Ugh, I think someone was listening when I said that we could afford to build the coop and get nice birds. Our dog is spending the night in the ER tonight.

She has been examined by a neurologist, and the diagnosis is vestibular disease (nasty-bad vertigo), most likely from a stroke or brain tumor. Hooray. If it's a stroke, she'll be our second greyhound to have one. If it's a brain tumor, that would at least be new. (We lost our first two greyhounds to bone cancer at ages 6 and 11.) She turns 13 this month, so she's reached a ripe old age for a large dog. She's already showing signs of improvement, and we are hoping that by tomorrow she will be ready to come home. We'll have to make an appointment at her regular vet for a follow up and some blood work to see of she needs to go on medication to prevent blood clots or anything else. (She's already on meds for seizures and incontinence!) With all that, she will probably be right around our average price tag for a greyhound emergency: $1,000.

Time to start pinching pennies. *sigh*

Jennifer

 

[JennS]

Thanks! He's doing totally fine and by bedtime the sting sites were almost unrecognizable. They were just tiny welts on the bad ones, and the non-reactive sites that just got stung with no venom were gone. He played outside in the backyard in a diaper with his chickens and went to bed just fine at 7:30. Gotta love those tough guys. How old is your son Jennifer? Maybe we should let our little guys play someday!

He's 2 (25 months). He's really getting interested in playing with other kids, especially older ones!

Jennifer

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK I just have to share this while at the BBQ today. A gal comes over to use the charcoal grill my friends had going. She cooks her food then asks us do you want me to turn this off or does it go off automatically ?? WHAT???

Steve and I look at each other and he has this "did she really say that??

And yes she was dead serious. Even DW caught it and when the woman walked away DW asked "did she really ask abut turning off a charcoal grill??

As for bee stings take the leaves from the weed "plantain". Crush a bit to make dissolve and apply to the sting..

 

[FirewifeJess]

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OK mine's 2 also, in April. So...erm....yeah, lemme count because with 3 I lose track. Almost 29 months-ish But DD is 4 and DS is 6.

DD- don't worry, we're not ODing our DS on Benadryl He just had 15mg instead of 10mg, which was safe according to our ped last year already. And I don't think giving the girls their first alternate food (from their grower feed) in over a week would have caused them to lay less today. If it becomes a pattern I will definitely take it to heart though and see if less pulp keeps up production. I have been told by many that extra veggies boosts production in the winter. We'll see and learn by trial and error I guess!

 

[FirewifeJess]

OK I just have to share this while at the BBQ today. A gal comes over to use the charcoal grill my friends had going. She cooks her food then asks us do you want me to turn this off or does it go off automatically ?? WHAT???

Steve and I look at each other and he has this "did she really say that??

And yes she was dead serious. Even DW caught it and when the woman walked away DW asked "did she really ask abut turning off a charcoal grill??

As for bee stings take the leaves from the weed "plantain". Crush a bit to make dissolve and apply to the sting..

Thanks! I'll remember that next time, we have that weed in the yard I think! We have MOST weeds in the yard I think!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Anybody seen or heard anything from my little twin brudder Ron lately. Wonder if he isOK!!!!