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[CapricornFarm]

Did i show you guys the flood pictures? The river was up 16 feet yesterday.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Did i show you guys the flood pictures? The river was up 16 feet yesterday.View attachment 1358606 View attachment 1358608 View attachment 1358609 View attachment 1358610 View attachment 1358611

Oh wow! That's really up there.. has it peaked?

 

[CapricornFarm]

@WVduckchick - yeah, I don't know about the shavings thing. Friends of ours blamed them for the death of their chicks, but I also know they don't take care of things very well, so they probably died from dehydration or something else...
Sorry about your hatch. I had quite a few Biele eggs that didn't make it - I think 8 out of 23... My hydrometer is messing up, I think. I also had them in with the Marans eggs, so I was trying to keep humidity a bit lower.
Hopefully your quad of CL girls will do great!

Cedar shavings can irritate the sensitive respiratory system of avians. I stick with pine.
Have you seen the mouse trap people are making now? You take a deep mixing bowl, add a couple of inches of peanut or other oil in the bottom. Mice jump in and can't get out. I went right out and set one up in the garage. If it works well, i will put another in the barn.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh wow! That's really up there.. has it peaked?

Yes, it started to recede but we may have more rain coming....

 

[CapricornFarm]

My memory stinks so if i told you this bear with me. I candled the 30 guinea eggs in the home made bator last night. 12 look ok, 3 look iffy and i am chucking the rest. BUT, every one of the dozen polish eggs look great! They missed the early heat spikes. I also added 2 dozen Silver Coturnix eggs!

 

[perchie.girl]

Does anyone here use cedar shavings for chickens? I always "heard" cedar was toxic, but the guy I got these chick from uses is and says he always has, with no problems. It smells better. Is that just one of those myths I believed for no good reason?

there are different types of cedar.... its the VERY fragrent one that you have to worry about. Like the cedar for Cedar chests. The one used for fencing is ok... his shavings may have been from that....

Only partially a myth....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Just a very few words about courderoy....

In 10 percent humidity.... makes you a walking Tesla Coil

Potential is there all you need is a Victim.....

The Joys of being a Kid in Las Vegas....

deb

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Yes, it started to recede but we may have more rain coming....

I'm it's receding some before more rain hits..hopefully it won't be much rain

My memory stinks so if i told you this bear with me. I candled the 30 guinea eggs in the home made bator last night. 12 look ok, 3 look iffy and i am chucking the rest. BUT, every one of the dozen polish eggs look great! They missed the early heat spikes. I also added 2 dozen Silver Coturnix eggs!

 

[bobbi-j]

Kind of the problem with the eldest..... I think he will manage to squeeze through college. .. we will see. And he's now thinking that maybe he will try to get a 2 year nursing degree while he gets his college diploma. But he isn't excited about college... so it makes it harder for him to study and do well. I think he can plod/slog through.... but I had so much fun in college learning new things I feel bad he isn't having fun.

The only reason he is going is because the seminary said they super preferred if he had a college degree first... and he is hoping with a nursing degree he can get a job anywhere, incase whatever parish he goes to can't pay him. He does like the idea of helping people in pain. He is good with crotchety old people....

His ideal is to do a service in the morning... spend the day visiting parishioners and doing manual labor/upkeep of the church grounds... then doing a service at night... then put his feet up and goof off... repeat in the morning.




yeah... I have TOO MANY birds to give them all a foot rub times two!!

Sounds to me like the boy has a good head on his shoulders! I like the kid.

I have dust?
Where? I see no dust.
I refuse to see it.

“You may write your name in my dust. Just please don’t date it!”

I have my grandma's pressure cooker. We used to can green beans out the wazoo. Tomatoes. .apples pears. . pickles. They had a huge garden themselves and would also do like you were saying and get the leftover crop s from other places. I remember some. . I have done some open kettle canning but I am a sceerd of the pressure cooker. I thought I would try to get into it. . but that was before ducks took over my life

I grew up a city kid. Never had a home-canned thing in my life. My SIL did a lot of canning, and I learned from her.

Ok write up.... last night was from hellp Ate something that Immediately cleared out my GI tract. Spent all night running to the potty.

Then I messed up writing the schedual down and got grandmas EEG appointment on the wrong day. Weve been trying to do ear drops for her because Kaiser in their infinate wisdom deem ear care our job.... When the drops go in she becomes profoundly deaf.

So top it all off my son spends the day screaming into her face to be understood.... Its like hearing fingernails on a chalk board. So No appointment and we have to clean house for the house keeper.... As badly as I needed one I could only get an hours worth of nap.

Woke up at One pm Elizabeth wasnt here yet and I just spotted my son as his car was levaing the driveway.... over heard him yelling something about finding a place that has reception and making a phone call.... Fingernails scrape.

OK Today was the end of one week worth of Radiation treatments. And the day I get to talk to my doctor. They had a busy day at the hospital... too. parking lot was full. Handicapped plaquards give you access so yay. All hospitals around here have free valet parking... They know me by name and get my walker out for me what nice guys....

So in the waiting room waiting for my name to be called and they are right on time.... Never happened before. usually they take me in a half an hour early...

This time they put a back support under my back ... WOW now my back doesnt hurt and I can breathe.... I was never built for sleeping on my back even as a youngster. The Radiologist said they wanted my pelvis tilted more... So dont let any one forget it the next time.

X ray Taken CT scan Taken Then Radiation given.... and its all done. I am getting my shoes on and they say some one will get me and take me over to the docs office so wait in the lobby.... OK.

I met the nurse in the hall and she took me straight back to an exam room. Took my vitals and left. Then The Doctors Nurse came in and we chatted. Now here is where it gets interesting.... Doc is usually short on time so I get my info from her mostly.

I ask her why the radiation.... She finally pulled my pathology report. Apparently the tumor was designated a 1b.... Lowest grade or Stage is a one... the b stantds for how much its getting into the surrounding space. The tumor itself had eaten into the uterine wall by three quarters.... I was afraid that because they had to dissect the stuff they had to take out that they were afraid cancer had gottin into the cavity.

Not true. The pathologist found cancer cells within the area around my lymph nodes Mainly the ones that reside within my pelvis and serve my legs and the blood vessels there in. They are killing cells before they can make their way into the lymph nodes....

I just spent the better part of the evening reading up on what they lymphatic system does..... If I was scared before surgery .... I am more so now.

deb

I am so glad you had a chance to ask the nurse questions and get a few things explained.

Ds1 is going to get groceries for me..

Yay!!!!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Just a very few words about courderoy....

In 10 percent humidity.... makes you a walking Tesla Coil

Potential is there all you need is a Victim.....

The Joys of being a Kid in Las Vegas....

deb