Chicken Massage (Sour Crop Remedies) & Money Saving Habits
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2022
- One of our chickens has been unwell this week, poor blighter. Here's how we went about getting her well. Plus how I've been stretching our money this week.
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Aww she looks really relaxed and happy. I kept chickens for many years most of them rescued and they were a joy to have around the place .
Hybrid hens are very sweet natured ,mine seek out petting time ,often one will hop up to achieve this ,some of the pedigree ones do too ,but hybrids are renowned for being super chilled around people and great around children .
Try getting the label off using heat, hairdryer, or similar, you might find it therapeutic.
Lovely to see you caring for the poorly chicken, I find your chicken therapies really relaxing to watch and good for my mental health
Bless her, glad she's made a good recovery, she looked like she was really enjoying that massage.
I think she did :-)
I really enjoyed this video Tess! So glad Eggsmerelda is feeling better. She’s a very lucky and well cared for chicken!❤️
She looks like she appreciated the care 🐓
This was the sweetest video watching you and Sam nursing your chicken back to health!❤️ I am so glad she is recovered and back with her friends! I so enjoy all of your videos as your sweet, calm nature is a balm in this world! Thanks Tess!
Tess, this was sooooo cute. I love animals, would love to have chickens. Maybe one day. Hope you are allright, thank you for you vlogs, I love spending time with you. 🌻💝
Lovely to see Eggsmerelda make such a good recovery, it’s amazing how quickly animals can recover sometimes isn’t it. While I don’t use the oven often, when I do I only cook I thing at a time. I’d be interested to see you show how you plan cooking multiple items together as I’m always put off by things needing different temperatures. I’ve also been concerned about mixing sweet and savoury in case the sweet stuff picks up the savoury flavours.
Oh your chickens are lucky to be so well cared for! I’m glad she mended quickly and is back with her buddies. It was lovely to watch her happy little eyes close as you massaged her.
Love your channel 💜
Your chick peas inspired me to plan some spicy chick peas (dry) this coming weekend, which is a 3 day holiday and the unofficial start of summer here in New England. 🙂
You did very well , one my girls was bit off with the beginning of sour crop ,I massaged her crop a few times ,next day she was fine ,such a relief ,it’s a good idea to once a week put apple spider vinegar ( with the mother ) 20 Ml per litre of water once a week ,it balances the crop PH and helps to prevent sour crop .,make sure it’s the only drinking water available for a Day ,
I wash and clean there free standing drinker every day ,so have a routine of one day week they get apple cider vinegar water.
Love to you and your girls ,good idea too to keep a poultry purple antiseptic spray it’s invaluable for foot injuries ,i’ve had hens cut toes on stones while scratching about ,the purple spray stops any little cuts getting infected,as they won’t stop scratching about .
Love to you yours and your pretty hybrid girls.
You are a good mum to your chickie
She's a good chickie :-).
Lovely to see how caring and good you are to your chickens. I didn't know they could be so adorable actually sitting on your lap and liking affection and sleeping. So nice. I use to get cardboard boxes from my supermarket to ship things in. When they unload their boxes to put stuff on the shelves I would just ask him if I could have some of the boxes. I've never been turned down. If they have an opening on the bottom i just put a piece of cardboard inside and it's just fine. Never had any trouble.
Knock knock....she's at your door wanting her spa treatment!!
Haha! Yes!
You took such good care of her! I'm so glad that she's better!
Great video Tess. I recently had one of our hens with sour crop and impacted crop as well. I ended up emptying her crop as it was full of liquid then gave her water with apple cider. As she'd lost quite a lot of weight I fed her some scrambled egg doused with olive oil and gave her several crop massages and next morning she had an empty crop. I think it was caused by long grass.
I'm glad you caught Eggsmeraldas problem early ! She's so pretty. Great video, Tess.
Good morning Tess..that was fascinating..I know nothing about keeping chicken's..my Dad kept them for many years when I was a child.. lovely to watch their antic's..have a nice day..💐
I’m glad to see your chicken is doing well.
That was really interesting Tess. I really enjoyed listening and learning. Happy weekend 😊
We have a lot of bubble wrap and we give it to our daughter. She has an uncle in law that ships out artwork and he is very happy to have it. Feels good knowing it is being utilized and not thrown into the landfill.
Chicken Massage and Spa music is so relaxing!
It really is!
Glad to see your chicken is ok.if I have the oven on I put loads of jacket potatoes in.I can microwave them when needed.xxxxxx🐝
My farm friend sent you this message - possibly a useful tip: "I remember my mom saying moldy corn could cause stopped up crop!"
Thanks Bri and friend :-).
Glad your chickens ok and I learnt all about crops - fascinating Tess. I give all my old Avon delivery boxes and packaging to a local pottery, who use it to pack up items for shipment. I hate throwing things like that away, so I just advertised it on Marketplace for free and the pottery owner contacted me.
Perfect!
Awe loved this video. I have wee bantam hens, total wee fluffy balls. Eggsie will not want to go back into her coup, she is having a lovely time.
My hens love scrambled egg ...it, pasta and tuna are their favourite.
I have a hen with a broken leg at the moment, she is currently in my living room. Delighted eggsmerelda is back to her normal self.
Have a lovely weekend Tess.
Aww, poor hen! How long will she take to heal?
@@Tess-FrugalLiving Daisy, she is a beautiful black banty with white feathers on her feet. Hopefully a few weeks she'll be able to do without the splint (icelolly sticks lol)
@@lochamb1234 Aww, I'll remember ice lolly sticks haha.
@@Tess-FrugalLiving she looks so funny...1 icelolly stick cut in half and bandaged up. I brought her outside yesterday in the sun and she pecked about with the others for a while. Brought her crate out and she hobbled in when she wanted a rest. I have another hen, Frostie....she adores our yorkie pups and follows them everywhere! She even eats their food of their plate.....the 2 pups actually step back and let her have a bit of food and they eat when she's finished. She prefers the company of the pups compared to the other hens ....
What a lovely chilled out chicken. Was the protein in the scrambled egg the answer? Great free storage ideas. My husband loves removing labes, he loves this job. He used metholated spirits for stubborn labels. We used to be able to pick up free poly styrene brocolli boxes from our local super market. However, now we have moved to a more rural areas shops sell tham from between $3 to $8 each. The $3 ones look used whereas the $8 look brand new. I used these boxes from storing craft to making wicking vegetable containers.
Yes, she needed some protein, for sure. :-)
I’m glad Eggmerelda is better after her brief illness. It’s hard when an animal gets sick and you aren’t sure what is wrong with them.
I had to separate out one of my hens from the flock because the rooster got very aggressive when mating and broke her head feathers off. She was bleeding and then everyone was attacking her.
The rooster has been separated from the hens and thankfully after about a week of rest and treatment Olivia was able to return to the flock.
Roo my rooster will be going to freezer camp just as soon as my 3 new rooster chicks get a bit bigger.
I picked breeds that are very docile, much quieter and hopefully won’t be aggressive when mating.
I am constantly saving containers and jars from whatever I buy to reuse for storage. Years ago a friend of my husband’s got my a bunch of 5 gallon buckets with lids that I use for bulk grain storage.
Poor Olivia! I'm glad she recovered well. x
Hand Sanitizer will take the label off. Just put a lot on the label and let it sit for awhile then it should easily come off.
Forgot to mention I rather like the original label on the chickpea jar.
Good practice to roast/bake as much as possible while it's on. That is where meal planning is useful - if you know what you need to cook then all can be cooked at the same time and then frozen for later use or just reheated the next day. I generally make things altogether that can be frozen easily, since it's just me and my dad. I also save jars and bottles of things I have purchased for storage - also spray bottles for reuse. These things are not new to anyone though. I can't think of anything I do that is unique and useful.
Thank you Candace :-)
You can try to use a hair dryer to remove the sticky label. Love your chicken update and glad they are all in good health. I would love to know what are your goals in frugality. I am frugal to afford more travel. Thanks again.
Thanks Harper. We are saving for retirement and have quite a bit of work to do to the house, before we can retire. But, generally, with prices going up, we're just trying to get by at the moment. Where would you like to travel to?
@@Tess-FrugalLiving Everywhere. Going to Great Britain in July with my son on another cheapskate adventure..... You have great goals. I recently retired in 2020 so I understand the challenges. Keep up the great work and would love an update on Eggsmerilda and the girls.
@@harpermccarthy Oh fab! You should definitely check out Yorkshire if you can. Beautiful up here. Will definitely keep you updated on the chickens 🙂
How long do chickens live, how many eggs do they lay, we can't have them here where I live but I'm curious.
They live around 6 years or more, if well. Ours lay about 5 eggs a week, each.
Do you give your chickens your kitchen scraps?
We don't. Our kitchen scraps mostly go into our compost bin, however sometimes we'll buy them a cauliflower from the supermarket and hang it up in their run. They love that!
@@Tess-FrugalLiving I know a lot of people give their chickens the kitchen scraps then scoop up the ground that the kitchens have scratched, composted and manured in to use around the plants.
@@robertadunaway7030 We put the wood shavings from their run and coop onto the compost too, when we clean them out. 🙂
I think it's awful people are having to cut down on basic things like using an oven. Realistically does it really make much of a saving? I see so many people on fb even restricting boiling the kettle too. So sad.
Frugal Jo has disappeared.......is she ok ?
Hi there, Frugal Jo left a community post explaining that she has decided to close her yt channel. She is well and happy though. X
@@Tess-FrugalLiving Thank you so much for replying. I was concerned. Managed to get my Fiona through her sour crop, now she's changing her knickers!!!!! ( molting)
@@cropduster8798 Haha, changing her knickers! I love that. 😆