Savingdogs-Saving the chickens

[Farmfresh]

I have a severe allergy to sage so I won't be trying that one for myself.

Where do you get sulfur and what qualities does it lend to your soap, FF? I seem to remember using a sulfur shampoo on a dog I had long ago with a skin condition.

However, I could make special order soap like Sage soap for other people. Let me get a little practice Britisea and I may make you some soap. Was it a sage scent or did it have chopped leaves or would you prefer I use Sage water instead of goat milk? Having the recipe they used would make it alot easier to duplicate.

I actually found "Flowers of Sulphur" at my local Walgreen's Drug Store. It is medicinal grade powder, so works well with the soaps. I combine the sulfur in when I am heating my oils. I was washing with my sulfur soap especially during the summer. I have psoriasis and sometimes develop yeast infections on my skin when it is real hot and muggy out. The sulfur soap works for both.

THEN I discovered that when I was washing with my sulfur soap, even though it does not leave a strong smell - it must leave a smell just the same, because BUGS don't bite me nearly as much!

Hubby and I went hiking several years ago. I had a recent bath with my sulfur soap and he bathed with the normal castile. He got bit by a whole herd of baby ticks and ended up hospitalized with a life threatening type of tick fever. I didn't get a single bug bite AND I was wearing shorts and sandles. That sulfur soap might have saved my life on that day. Thank God hubby got better.

 

[LovinLife]

Love your soaps SD! Good job. I should be getting my stuff from BBerry any day now. I've been out scouting for soap molds but don't know how big they should be.

 

[savingdogs]

Love your soaps SD! Good job. I should be getting my stuff from BBerry any day now. I've been out scouting for soap molds but don't know how big they should be.

I haven't worried about the sizes too much. I just have some things handy before I start that can "take" the extra if there is some. I use a Pringles can sometimes because it can be sliced into nice round small bars for family use.

 

[moolie]

Love your soaps SD! Good job. I should be getting my stuff from BBerry any day now. I've been out scouting for soap molds but don't know how big they should be.

I haven't worried about the sizes too much. I just have some things handy before I start that can "take" the extra if there is some. I use a Pringles can sometimes because it can be sliced into nice round small bars for family use.

Your soaps are just beautiful SD, and I love the Pringles can idea! Is it reusable after you've used it once, or do you need a new Pringles can each time?

 

[savingdogs]

I just cut right through the pringles can, they are kinda cardboard-like. We don't normally eat Pringles, but we bought some just for the containers!

I tried with hot cocoa containers but they were thicker and harder to cut through. I also lined an old cardboard box with waxed paper and that worked too. Pretty soon you go around collecting weird shaped things for making soap once you catch the bug! I use a candy dish too, it is glass and makes a perfect heart shape.

 

[moolie]

I just cut right through the pringles can, they are kinda cardboard-like. We don't normally eat Pringles, but we bought some just for the containers!

I tried with hot cocoa containers but they were thicker and harder to cut through. I also lined an old cardboard box with waxed paper and that worked too. Pretty soon you go around collecting weird shaped things for making soap once you catch the bug! I use a candy dish too, it is glass and makes a perfect heart shape.

Ah, I wondered how you would get the loaf out! We don't eat them either, but I have teenagers and they have friends who eat junk food

 

[Farmfresh]

That works kind of like my PVC pipe mold then ... except I have to shove my soap out the end of the PVC.

 

[savingdogs]

Yes, at my last work I told folks I was into saving pringles cans and pretty soon I had this huge bag. I'm not a chip person, too much sodium.

But we accidentely threw the dang bag away, our son thought it looked like a bag of trash!

 

[savingdogs]

Hot, hot, HOT here. Also smokey, there are huge fires in Oregon right now and the smoke is being blown right into the valley below us. We had a gorgeous sunset last night but I hate to think of it being at the expense of all the acres burning. We are having our hottest weather of the year this week, finally should hit 90 degrees today, and it will be even hotter the rest of the week. Of course the day public school begins (Wed) is predicted to be the hottest of all!

Computer Nerd returns from Europe Thursday. It will be nice to have him home safe and sound and hear about his adventures. He is keeping us posted online, but he is a succinct kind of person and never says much unless you draw him out. He really enjoyed Creamfields, a big outdoor concert they have there yearly. He is currently in Holland.

It is time to breed Molly (goat) and also time to breed Sister (rabbit) so lots of things going on here. We had to switch feed for everybody, the PRICES.... Layena went from 12 bucks a bag to 18.....and the same pretty much happened with our goat chow and rabbit foods recently as well. We found that Nutrena feeds are all about four dollars less a bag. The rabbits were not too crazy about the change, but everyone else took it okay. We noticed dog and cat food also went up so everyone is trying cheaper brands this week. I'm usually a stickler for high quality animal chow so this goes against the grain, but there isn't much else I can do currently.

We also had a mini emergency with the rabbits we are working on. Our rabbitry is just too HOT! My rabbit breed gets droopy ears when the babies get too hot, and all four of my new kits have ear issues, and all four adults are panting and getting funky hair. I've been misting them and putting ice containers in there but they are still too hot. It is in the shade but not the DEEP shade and with the angle of the summer sun, during the hottest part of the day, the poor rabbits are IN the sun. The spot just isn't working. We also had three new cages that Hubby is building, so we are moving the whole shebang. I have a spot closer to our front drive that has very deep shade due to a row of tall pines, and it feels about 10 degrees cooler just standing there. I've been going to that spot to cool off! There is also an unused water spicket right there so it is much more perfect for my rabbitry. Another tree shades the angle of the summer sun away from there, so I cannot even get the grass to grow, there isn't enough light. I think the bunnies will love it. I did not understand that rabbits deal with cold better than heat when we set things up last year. So we have this huge construction project today and tomorrow.

I know you guys who have been suffering with much higher temps must think that we are wimps, but when you and your animals are used to cold weather, hot weather is really a shock, and indoors we have no type of AC. When it goes from 70 to 90 my chickens stop laying eggs! Hubby has been laughing at them because my three cockerels are learning to crow and are not quite getting it right. I wish I could hear it, he keeps bursting into laughter at what appears to me to be nothing.

Well, that is the Dizzy Dog Ranch update! I hope everyone is having a great labor day weekend!

 

[Javamama]

I don't think you are a weather wimp If you aren't used to it, then it's really hard to deal with. We went from mid 70s last week to upper 90s with humidity this week and it about killed me. Every time I went outside my heat was pounding and I felt ill. I adjust to cold weather much easier than hot.

Are you going to space out your goat breedings this year? I don't think I can. I'm afraid the one who went first would cause the other to go into premature labor and I can't space them far enough apart to prevent that.

Have a good weekend! I am.