Rural Gardening: Vinegar Dosage?, 1 by silkiechick

silkiechick wrote:
her name is snow white,lol. we've always called her snow since she is a pure white silkie. the waterers are the 1 gal flip overs. i live in town so i can only have 12 layers here but had probs with my ignorant neighbers so we moved them all to my friends outside of town.

just before winter hit they had a prob with the electric box catching on fire so there is no electric there now as it was shut off. i can't run heated water bases anymore for them or brooder lights. water was removed cause they froze solid. i bring them back home and run hot water to unthaw them and then an hour later run them back over. that night we got hit with a bad storm took me almost a day before i could get back to them with the self waterers. we have never used open water for them before. never thought one would be dumb and sit to take a bath in it during winter. we found her laying there and thought she was dead and when picked up she had a block of ice from the pan on both feet solid ice.

this isn't a very good pic cause the flash makes her look yellow,lol but this is our snow. after the frostbite happened. we used the pepper in her feed along with antibiotics and vitamins and meds in her water and asprin. we used bag balm in her bandages but i think the pepper helped alot with keeping sirculation going for her. we had to amputate about half inch above her one foot she lost from their down and her other foot we managed to save 2 of her 5 toes and half her foot. she is still a sweetheart last night she layed and watched tv on my chest with me while i played with her crest feathers,lol. she coed and fell asleep on me it was so cute!!