ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Well the brat hid herself tonight and we cannot find her to force her inside with those keets. So that she is lucky another night! It was a huge surprise to see her this morning!


eta: We found a black kitten on the deck this evening when we went out for the poultry. Poor thing had a cut on it's back leg and was very young. I suspect it belongs to Skittles though she wants nothing to do with it. We snuck it into the middle of Chowdy's litter and are hoping that she adopts it as it's only a few days younger than hers.
We found a kitten from Skittles litter yesterday dead with one of it's back legs missing. Don't know what that girl is doing but she doesn't seem ready to be a mama. She has at least one more kitten out there somewhere.

 

[elevan]

Someone ran over one of our cats this morning. I found the poor fella when I was leaving to take K to the dentist. He was one of my favorites too...it's always the favorites isn't it? *sigh*

The pig is enjoying her new larger pasture space but still goes back to her old pen every evening to be fed and yells at us until we do it.

Guinea mama is still around this morning, thank goodness.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Sorry to hear that

 

[BrownSheep]

With us it's always the tame ones. My logic is the feral cat are smart enough to evade us that theyre smart enough to evade cars.

 

[elevan]

Came home tonight to the neighbor holding one of our kittens. She said it had wandered onto her property and looked awful sick. It's flystrike....covered in fly eggs and maggots. When we checked on the others we found them covered in flies, eggs and maggots too. One was dead, another close to it and died a short time later. We flushed their little bodies to remove the eggs and maggots but keeping the flies away is becoming a problem. Does anyone know a safe insecticide for flies to apply to kittens? I feel so helpless in dealing with this, those flies are insidious and the maggots are eating those poor babies tissues away.

 

[ksalvagno]

Call Fredericktown Vet. There is a fly spray that is safe for wounds. It is called something like Catrans 4. I got it years ago for an open wound on an alpaca.

 

[elevan]

Thanks Ksalvagno!!

 

[autumnprairie]

The other you can use pennyroyal oil and water in a spray bottle. Make sure no one pregnant is near the spray. You can spray them and where they are at

 

[elevan]

Where do I get pennyroyal oil?

 

[autumnprairie]

Whole foods or nature health store any place that sells essential oils.