Well the chickens have caused trouble again!! Our neighbours also keep chickens (they have about 7 older girls), and our clever girls have worked out our neighbour's feeding times and have found a little gap in the fence to get through to infiltrate the brood next door or for quickness fly over the hedge!!!
Our neighbour has given us a few tips on what the chickens enjoy, grass clippings, fresh sweetcorn and any general household scraps (beware there are some things that are harmful for chickens to eat, uncooked potatoes for one). So now we know why our chickens are turning their beaks up at our layers pellets!!!!
My son and I went to feed the chickens this morning and my son said to me "Mummy look there are 2 Tina's". A chicken from next door had decided to play our girls at their own game and crossed over the hedge to our backyard and was making itself heard by clucking very loud.
The girls are still laying so we have lovely fresh eggs daily which the children love.
If you have the space I would recommend keeping chickens, they are cheap or should I say cheep sorry ;) to feed, they are low matainence they just please themselves clucking around, they give you fresh eggs yum and they are very friendly, they are so cute following you around when you potter in the garden albeit in search for food. It lovely just looking out of the kitchen window watching them enjoy the garden. I can't wait to get some more. Still trying to persuade my OH to get me a micro pig, he's still not having any of it.....
Monday 14 March 2011
Sunday 13 March 2011
My poor little boy!
Well my poor little boy has had a rough few weeks, he felt ill and we took him to see the Doctor who diagnosed an ear infection and prescribed amoxycillan medicine on the Wednesday evening. We thought he was picking up but on the Sunday evening he started shivering and complaining that he was cold, I undressed him for bed and noticed his skin looked mottled alarm bells started ringing. I immediately phoned our out of hours Doctor service which is located in the local hospital, they said to bring him straight in.
When we got there his temperature was taken it was 40.2!!! The Doc explained that the shivering and mottled skin was associated with the high temp and told us that the ear infection was not responding to the amoxycillan, she prescribed a new antibiotic which thankfully worked and his high temp. went down.
When he finished the new antibiotic on the Friday morning, he started vomiting and could not keep anything down, we visited the clinic again, the said it could be the last of the antibiotic making him sick so it should clear up within 24 hours. He seemed fine by Sunday evening so we decided to send him into pre-school.
We got a call from his school to say he had been sick, which equalled another trip to the clinic, where after a water sample was tested he was diagnosed with a water infection, he was then prescribed another type of antibiotic which thankfully have worked. He is now back to his boisterous self :). The medical service in this area has been excellent and we have been able to get appointments as and when we needed them. He missed out on his half term break, so we have a lot of trips out to make up for!!!!
As my OH's favourite saying goes All's Well, that Ends Well.....
When we got there his temperature was taken it was 40.2!!! The Doc explained that the shivering and mottled skin was associated with the high temp and told us that the ear infection was not responding to the amoxycillan, she prescribed a new antibiotic which thankfully worked and his high temp. went down.
When he finished the new antibiotic on the Friday morning, he started vomiting and could not keep anything down, we visited the clinic again, the said it could be the last of the antibiotic making him sick so it should clear up within 24 hours. He seemed fine by Sunday evening so we decided to send him into pre-school.
We got a call from his school to say he had been sick, which equalled another trip to the clinic, where after a water sample was tested he was diagnosed with a water infection, he was then prescribed another type of antibiotic which thankfully have worked. He is now back to his boisterous self :). The medical service in this area has been excellent and we have been able to get appointments as and when we needed them. He missed out on his half term break, so we have a lot of trips out to make up for!!!!
As my OH's favourite saying goes All's Well, that Ends Well.....
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