Good Morning! 2019

[SusanH]

I can second that opinion of cardiologists, @Ontario Chick and @JimW , considering they told my husband his heart was so badly damaged, there wasn’t enough left for surgery, and he’d be dead before the weekend. They were off by two and a half years.
It’s a good thing you got a baseline ecg, Jim, so next time they can’t say they have nothing to compare. That’s a step in the right direction. Next time you feel weird like that, go to Emerg and let the on-call cardio look at your ecg. Squeak loudly, as @ross suggests.

[ross]

And when yu go to emerg go by ambulance with your bag packed so they have to keep you & your under expert care from the start . This suggested by my GP .

[JimW]

JimW Yes that is not something to ignore, was your blood pressure high? Did they do a stress test?

@kenya my blood pressure has been okay. No they have not done stress test, yet. They wanted an ecg first and now I have been referred for more elaborate testing.

[Blizblaz]

Hearing the clumsy crowing of my boy chicks trying to find their voices this morning. They’re 9 weeks old, and out of my 5 Ameraucana chicks, one has been an obvious rooster for a couple of weeks now. I’m hoping that means all the others are hens, but deep down I know that I more likely just have some late bloomers...

All the wild strawberries are ripening. The ones that are doing the best are the ones that are growing all over the sides of my driveway. I guess there’s no competition from other plants there. But I really have to stop their progress at some point, I guess, unless I want to be driving through them in a couple of years...

Hiding in the house at the moment, since at 10 o’clock, it’s already too hot for me to get anything done...I’m just going to have to suck it up, though. I have way too much work to do!

[WLLady]

@JimW if they want a TEE make sure you push for a TTE. TEE is transesophageal echo...they say they knock you out truth is its light sedation...i was very aware during mine....not fun. the TTE is transthoracic and is done like a normal ultrasound from outside on the surface of your chest. the echo is neat if they let you watch you can see the blood moving around your heart and hear the valves opening and closing and see them working. hope you get in to the cardiologist faster than i seem to be....i was referred and then given 6 months refills on drugs and havent got an appointment yet and i was cardioverted by shock in the hospital 3 weeks ago or so now...i would have thought i would at least have an appointment by now....so i am struggling along with a heartrate of 49 beats a minute and pressures running 105/65 on these drugs till i can see a cardiologist....someday....with no clue if i can get help with the heartrate so i am not tired all the time. argh!!! so i hope they get you in sooner!!!

great visit with gary and shirley today @Bayvistafarm. dropped off a mess of kids to her and somehow did not pea-nap a peacock lol. theyre gorgeous!! maybe someday. stalked out some hostas to steal next spring. and absolutely MUST get haskaps!! oh are they good right off the bush!!
wish we lived closer lol. hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend!!

[SusanH]

Chicken math again. I went to pick up a 3-4 week old Polish (golden laced black) thinking thats one way to skip the whole heat lamp hassle, and she is roughly the same size as the ducklings, so won’t get trampled. They can all go out to the outside isolation pen together in a few days. The ducklings will keep her warm/company, and hopefully she will help them learn to go in at dark. But while I was there (I know you saw this coming), I couldn’t resist a charming 5-week-old polish x leghorn cross rooster. I figure my girls seem to want to hatch chicks, so next year, i’ll let them give it a go. I’m also worried by the horror stories of drakes mating with chickens and hoping a rooster would be a deterrent. I am pretty sure my crested khaki Campbell will be a drake, just because I heard most cresteds are. I will post pictures someday. The little golden laced black polish is quite lovely and the crested khaki duckling is pretty cute, too.
I just checked on them, and they are all asleep at the same end of the brooder, the ducklings in one pile and the chick and rooster snuggled together just an inch or two away, and all is well. Hopefully raising them together will help them get along when the two groups meet.

[kenya]

Pictures?

[SusanH]

Oh that’s weird. I did post a pic, same day, I swear I did. Why are there no posts from July 29 to today?
Anyway, here is a pic.
On the left, Nanette, a 3-4 week old golden laced black crested Polish, probably female
Three 1-week-old khaki Campbell ducklings, Nabisco, Nikki, and Nalini. Nabisco is crested.
In front, Nehru, a 5-6 week Polish leghorn rooster

[Farrier1987]

Well, I am back from the duty trip to Alberta. So glad to be home. Missed the wife and critters a lot. Seems no one will just let you be a hermit.

Got a broody hatching yesterday, will move her today with her chicks into a stall. I have found that really works well, a couple days for her and the chicks to get tit together before she goes out in the general population. Have lost only one or two newly hatched this year out of about six hatches. Will have another one hatching Saturday or so and another Monday. Its a good thing too, I only have three broodie sort of cages and Peachy wants to set again. Apparently wouldn't get off the nest box all the time I was gone.

Need to go get some feed fair soon, will see if maybe WLL and Admin might be around so I can stop in and bother them and prevent them from being hermits.

Darn its good to be back.

[Farrier1987]

Just did chores and took some pics for your edification. Bianca and her five, enjoying a fried egg, the closest thing we have to chick starter around here.