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    Please Help Dog Attack Injuries

    You are there with your chicken. I am not. Only you can be the judge whether the flap is still viable (alive). It sounds from your description that it may no longer be of any use if it has no flexibility. But it would be worth trying anyway if you aren't sure. To get the flap to stay in place...
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    Please Help Dog Attack Injuries

    There are instructions in my wound protocol on how to use a loose skin flap as a skin graft. Go back and read step #4. If the flap is pink and not white or black, meaning it still has a blood supply, its use as a graft greatly speeds up healing.
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    Cleaning chicken nose

    The chicken's "nose" is called the nares. Nares are sort of like our nostrils but nares are connected without a septum as we humans have. This means you can sometimes see daylight looking from one nare through to the other nare. Open beak breathing more often means the chicken is in some kind...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    A curious and funny thing has been happening for weeks now in the small coop that Tootsie and two hens use. Each morning, all thirteen hens congregate in this coop and surround Tootsie. I have no clue as to why they do this or what the heck these guys talk about when the entire flock is stuffed...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    The conscious universe is God. One and the same. I choose to bypass organized religion and go straight to the source, myself.
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Yes, both @Bawkbok and @BigBlueHen53 are on the right track. Intent is a significant element in being able to direct this energy through you to the recipient. But intent is just one element in the process. The other thing is to connect to the conscious universe because that's the source of the...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Yes, Reiki is the funneling of energy through the practitioner to the recipient. It can be both hands on or hands hovering depending on whether or not the recipient is okay with direct contact or would rather not be touched. It works either way. My chickens say they prefer direct contact. Some...
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    Please Help Dog Attack Injuries

    Bag Balm is a great wound treatment. I love the stuff and have used it for fifty years. As for antibiotics, the sooner you start them, the better. If you have any wound that goes deep or was a result of an animal bite, assume a wound that is loaded with bacteria deep in the tissues.
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    What is this poop indicating? Please help

    Aquarium tubing is about 3/16" or 4mm diameter. You don't want anything larger than that. You will then need to find a syringe of adequate capacity to fit into the tubing. It must also be soft and flexible.
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Reiki is more a state of mind and spirit than a practice. It's a spiritual discipline where duality between spirit and matter is dissolved so that all of the energy of the universe can flow through you and into the being you are helping. I learned from two Reiki masters that came to stay with...
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    What is this poop indicating? Please help

    I forgot to answer about the chicken eating during the flush. Do the flush first in the morning when the crop is empty. Afterward, you may offer regular food and especially water as the flush is dehydrating. Then in the afternoon, stop access to food and water a couple hours before the second...
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    What is this poop indicating? Please help

    Syringing the Epsom solution, which is half a cup with one teaspoon Epsom salts, is way too much and way too stressful. It would take you an hour of pushing it in, refilling it, etc. Tubing is once for inserting the tube, and just a few minutes to get all half cup into the patient. Here are my...
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    Please Help Dog Attack Injuries

    I've had dogs attack my chickens, too. I love dogs, but some people don't love their dogs much and let them roam to cause problems for others. The law says we can shoot dogs that threaten our live stock, but it's really the human owners that need to be shot. Here is my wound care protocol: 1...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Tootsie has indicated recently that he is having trouble standing and accessing the water and food. I've begun to have thoughts that he may be nearing the time when I need to end this. But I thought I'd resurrect the chicken wheel chair I designed and assembled a few years ago for some pullets...
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    What is this poop indicating? Please help

    That poop looks to me like she still has a yeast infection, only now it's all the way down her digestive tract. In this case, miconazole is not as effective as when the yeast is localized to the crop. I suggest the three-day Epsom salt flush to neutralize the yeast all the way through the...
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