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It started with a scratch on my leg that I didn't know was there at first. But what ever type of bacteria it is took full advantage of the opportunity. It went from my leg right through my groin making certain things quite swollen and walking extremely painful.

I'm sure they will be more satisfying as now I will have more time for planning and new ideas lol. Such as now that I will be buying the lumber for the greenhouse and barn the logs that I had for milling the lumber for those projects will now be milled for lumber for a deck and gazebo for the...

We are always helping each other it's what families should but not always do. I had big plans for expanding this summer but now we have to slow it down. The wife and I will keep plugging away at everything but it will be a slower pace now. The greenhouse will still get done and the sheep barn...

So they have increased the iv antibiotic to 4 times a day. And so far I'm feeling much better. I have a new tom turkey coming tomorrow I'm not ready for him yet just called my brother he's going to go to my place in the morning and move everything from the feed shed to my tool shed so the tom...

Hopefully I will be sent home in the next few days. Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed and seeing the goats, lambs and birds, dogs, cats etc. I have day old chicks coming at the end of the month starting to stress that everything wont be ready when they come. Being laid up sure has...

Doctor was just in says everything is looking good and if it stays this way I will be sent home soon.

I wonder if either solution would work on sheep laurel I will have to give it a try

Thanks everyone for the well wishes. At yesterday's iv treatment I was sent back to emerg and ended up having emergency surgery to drain some of the infection. Now I have to wait 48 hours to see how this heals to see if I need another surgery. Hopefully when the doctors do rounds today I can...

Not much in the way of homestead updates this week. Nothing got done other than the animals being feed. Unfortunately this is how I have been spending my days. The one disadvantage to living away from the city medical treatment is an hour or so drive away. My days have been spent sleeping...

Thanks for the info I will have to build two pens. We haven't decided what to do with him yet. We might sell him when he gets bigger or see if we can trade him for a unrelated male so we can breed the female next year.

Not sure on breed I will have to ask next time I visit the farm. They are bottle babies male and female

The newest addition to our homestead. Now I need to build another barn :) We finally have some good weather so I will be spending the day milling lumber for the greenhouse and a barn for the sheep.

Thanks for the info.not sure what the breed of the rooster we have only had him a few months as our old rooster died. He came from a nearby farm they weren't sure what breed he was either. I may try again at the end of the month which will give me time to read up on the info

The humidity varies with the seasons. We have low humidity during the winter. We have a few heat sources. electric heat which we hardly use. An oil stove mostly used at night while our main source of heat is our woodstove which is in use 24/7 in the winter. I have to admit I have not done a...

I'll have to run the incubator for a few days and give that a try

I built the one I am using including the egg turner. Everything is working perfectly except for the humidity. I can keep it constant between 40-50% right up to lockdown but no matter what I try I cant get it to stay between 60-70% I have tried different size water trays with different size...

At least there was 2. If it was only one it would have been hard I would have had to get some chicks so it wouldn't be alone. I have been having trouble keeping the humidity under control. I think it's time to look into a new incubator. None of my girls have gone broody so I have also been...

Woke up this morning to good and bad news. The good news is chick #1 now has a buddy The bad news is it looks like it is only the two of them. Another made it out of their shell but didn't make it. And 3 more never made it out. Wish I was up earlier as I possibly could have helped them...

First one out a day early

Going to be an interesting 24 hours or so. Day 21 is tomorrow and just looked in the incubator to check humidity to see this little one rocking and rolling