What's the temperature where you are???

[Pasha838]

I have fostered baby kittens - kitten milk replacer can be bought at a pet store along with kitten bottles. Feeding is every 2 hrs until they open their eyes and can start moving around, once they start to be able to eat I mixed the formula with softened kitten food, they still need bottle about every 4 hrs gradually weaning them. Once they can lap up liquids they can drink the formula.

This is about 6-8 weeks. Hand raised kittens are super friendly

Yes, they can drink from a bottle with a nipple. That woman used syringes... I don't know why, apparently she was just too lazy to wash these bottles and nipples constantly, so she got hold of cheap disposable syringes somewhere and, taking them without needles, drew the mixture into them and gave them to the kittens.

 

[kikiruru]

Friday 602a 58

 

[AdaliaStark]

37° with 36° dew point, feels like 33° and 96% humidity. Partly cloudy skies today with a high of 48°.

No update yet on kittens, might not get an update till my Sunday night shift.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[EmmaDonovan]

76° and 7% humidity at 7:45 A.M. Red flag warning (high fire danger) today, rather unusual in April. We've gotten snow in April in the past. Now we're getting June in April and I do not like it.

Just finished walking the dogs. It will be 102° this afternoon so they will have to wait until tonight for another walk.

Ice runs for the chickens are set up and ready to go. Fans are on. Misters are hooked up and ready.

Chicken delights today are frozen blueberries and spinach in ice blocks.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Well, the climate here is a bit cold, but it has its advantages - meliodiosis is completely absent here. Something doesn't suit it, either the winter is too cold, or the humidity is low. In Russia, it doesn't exist at all, if you don't take into account cases of sick travelers who arrived with this disease and ended up in hospital. True, they usually bring it from Asian countries like Vietnam, where there is a pronounced high humidity and at the same time an absolutely warm, snowless winter.

Of the dangerous diseases, we have tetanus, similar in infection (soil, dirty water, open wounds), but vaccinations against it are mandatory in early childhood, so it does not cause noticeable damage. I also remember there was such a thing as tick-borne encephalitis, carried by biting ticks, but a vaccine for it was developed back in the 1930s.

Now there is another problem with ticks - piroplasmosis. It is not suitable for humans, but is very dangerous for dogs. As a result, dogs in some areas have to be given some kind of medicine or vaccine every year that prevents this bacterium from existing in the dog's body. If this is not done, the dog will become seriously and dangerously ill, and if the injections are not given in time, the process will become too dangerous and will most likely lead to severe kidney failure. Therefore, I have to buy a fairly expensive drug for the dog every year so that it does not get this disease. Unfortunately, there are quite a lot of ticks in the forest here. Here we have a different situation - if the summer is noticeably damp, the air humidity is high - then these ticks themselves suddenly begin to get sick with something, reproduce poorly and even die. In a damp summer, there are no ticks in the forest. Therefore, I don't even know, sometimes it is good when the climate is relatively dry, sometimes it is bad.

On the topic of the topic: it's +4 C here now. The snow has started to melt and settle noticeably quickly. To the point that the path I cleaned yesterday is completely snowless, bare concrete.
The geese have come out for a walk. They are a bit dirty, but I can't do anything about it yet - we make do with basins, into which I manually bring water. When it gets warmer outside and the frosts end, I will be able to turn on the water in the street water supply system and fill them with baths, where they will bathe and wash themselves. For now, we drink from small basins and walk in the snow during the day, and at night we hide from the foxes in the greenhouses, which are locked.

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Lovely Geese

 

[Nym]

I remember a distant acquaintance of mine was messing around with a similar kitten that she found somewhere. She bought some kind of "milk" mixture for newborn kittens in a pet store, and gave it to him through a medical syringe (without a needle), gradually injecting it into his mouth. True, this procedure is frequent, according to rumors, a kitten needs to be fed like this every two hours.
True, I don't remember how much to give per feeding. You need to look it up on the Internet.
In principle, such cats are good because when they grow up, they actively catch or drive mice or even rats out of the premises.

The mother cat also constantly grooms the kittens in order to encourage flushing of the bowel and bladder. The early weeks of newborn kitty care is a full-time job.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

We're breaking all kinds of temperature records. This year we've had the earliest 100+ temps ever recorded. In April! What in the world are July and August going to be like?

On the 2:00 P.M. ice run to the coop my phone overheated and turned itself off. I didn't even know that was possible.

This gopher snake found some shade.

 

[007Sean]

Friday: : 6:00pm, 90°F, dew point 49°F, humidity 26%, wind E @ 6mph, clear sunny! Some clouds starting to move in from the Southwest.

 

[Ponypoor]

19:21hrs

+3C and overcast - it’s so damp I popped the furnace up a bit. I feel badly for those of you with the excessive heat, wish I could share some of my chilly weather with you.