Thursday, February 11, 2016

Warm Weather & a sick chicken

I have a sick chicken.  My buff Orpington, Buffy, has been laying around and finally (I'm a bad mom)  I got her out and first did the warm bath spa which I soak her butt in and see if she's egg bound.  I cleaned her rear, felt around, and felt nothing.  I brought her inside Tuesday night in a cage.  Yesterday I force fed her some wet feed and started on Gatorade for the electrolytes so she doesn't get dehydrated.  She has squirty poop so I'll be doing it more today, I don't know why I didn't think of it yesterday.  She is one of my favorites and under my feet or in my lap.  I'm hoping she pulls through.

We are taking advantage of our warm weather for the week.  I have some sort of beetles in my Mimosa tree and last fall I put Bayer Systematic Fertilizer/bug killer around the tree line.  I can't see the little buggers just the burrowing spots.  We cut the tree back majorly yesterday behind all of the burrowing spots.  I then did the Bayer again. 
Then we trimmed the dead branches up, burned all the small stuff and cut up the bigger stuff.  We decided to put all wood in the trash instead of saving it for our fireplace or camping to get rid of any bugs that might or might not be left.  Finished that. 
Next on my list was turning the dirt in all my planting pots and beds.  I fed all grubs found to the chickens.  My beds are chock full of worms which is awesome.  I still need some more potting soil to bring them up to level but this will do for now.  I moved my strawberries into a larger container and replanted the cabbage and kale closer to the goat pen.  They are treats for them anyways.  Today will blow all the leaves away from the outer goat fence which is my garden area and rake them up.

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