28 Sep Sun 2014
Greens and Good Advice
Again the Pacific Poultryman's Magazine, January 1921.
This was a good reminder to plant the Winter Clover while it is still warm. Last year we did it far too late, around November 1st and it was brutal sowing the seeds and scratching in the dirt -- most which was almost frozen.
I got my seeds from Johnny's Seeds up in Maine and used their seed calculator too. According to the USDA hardiness tables, recently redone, we are in 5A.
Sigo
04:42 PM EDT
Wise Advice
Good hatching Tips
Do you know why? Well having learnt the hard way: the eggs won't hatch and instead all that will happen is that the chick will DIS ...die in shell. If we can, let's avoid that. It's really a horrible thing.
Sigo
04:34 PM EDT
Deer Ticks
"I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great because it works in those places where it's sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc."
So the idea here is that you apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick
with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20); the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me. Also, if you just pull a tick off, their heads sometimes break off and are left under the skin so this is much safer.
Be aware though for the Deer Tick (see above for three). That particular tick has a white speck on its back and can cause Tick Fever particularly Lyme disease (named after where it was first found, in Old Lyme Connecticut).
Not everyone who gets bitten by a Deer Tick will get the fever though; some like any virus are immune to it. I knew one lady, Sheila U* from Manhattan Hanover's Trust, that was not and suffered terribly. Here are some of the symptoma: .
The initial infection can occur with minimal or no symptoms. But many people experience a flulike primary illness or a characteristic rash several days to a few weeks following a tick bite.The flulike illness usually occurs in the warm weather months when flu (influenza) does not occur and the red rash grows daily; this is called erythema migrans.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines this rash as a skin lesion that typically begins as a red spot and expands over a period of days to weeks to form a large round lesion, at least 5 cm (about 2 inches) across. The difference between it and a typical tick bite is that while the latter is also a red circular spot that begins within hours, it grows smaller with time.
Sigo
04:32 PM EDT