![]() Put one hand under your rabbit’s chest and the other hand under their bottom and lift your rabbit gently upwards so you can see their bottom.Įggs resemble grains of rice and maggots look like white worms. You should be checking your rabbit’s at least twice a day for signs of flystrike. How do I know if my rabbit has flystrike? Does it only affect rabbits?įlystrike can affect any animal but is common in rabbits because rabbits are popular pets and most pet bunnies are kept outdoors (although indoor rabbits can get it too!) Guinea pigs are also at risk. The eggs hatch in a few hours to maggots, and the maggots will eat the rabbit’s flesh.įlystrike is a medical emergency and any animals suspected to have it must see a vet immediately. What is fly-strike?įly-strike (or myiasis to give it the proper name) is common in the warm weather and is when flies lay eggs on your rabbit. This blog will tell you all you need to know about fly-strike and how to prevent it. It is a busy season for heritage arts.Flystrike is common in warmer weather and can kill rabbits very quickly. I am also trying to wrap my head around Christmas presents and get started on those. One includes gathering, so it will be fun to see if the stitch length on this machine goes large enough to gather. Now I will be moving on to the harder apron patterns. I did over 200 starts and stops on that projects, which really got my feet trained to the treadle. I definitely think starting with the simple square quilt was the best way to teach myself how to treadle well. ![]() I am just doing the spin it around thing. A treadle machine can’t backstitch, you have to put the needle in and turn the fabric 180 degrees and do a couple stitches to be your backstitch. It involved tighter curves, long stretches of curves, several layers, turning square corners, plus short tricky tight areas, and backstitching too. It will be fun and special for them each to have an apron made from fabric that reminds them of our Nana. I sent them all photos of the different fabrics and different pattern options and they sent back what they wanted. I found some of my grandmother’s fabric and decided to make aprons for my mom and sisters from it. I really love it! Now that I have finished the quilt (easy, straight lines, lots of starts and stops, plus some long straight lines), I decided to move on to something with different skills. My journey with my antique treadle machine continues to be very enjoyable. We are still learning the weather at the new location. It was super windy at the time, so we had ice sheets on the storm doors. We had our first frosts this week, and some sleet/hail/snow stuff fell from the sky. We are busy with other projects right now, but hopefully, this project will become a reality in the next month or so. This would get some chickens out there, it would also save me the hassle of integrating those hens in with the other flock, and it would provide me with a new, separate breeding flock for my genetics. Plus, buying a young rooster from our neighbor to go with those hens. Current thoughts include a smaller coop hooked to the back of the barn, and moving the 7 young hens we currently have in with the bantams (because the broody hen that raised them lives there) out there with the sheep. So our brains are at work thinking about exactly how we want to go about getting a flock out in the ewe barn. All that dirty bedding is going into the chicken pen to be worked on by our chickens.īut, ultimately, we like the idea of them living together better. So we have had to bed them differently and clean their stalls more often. And really – no animal should sleep in bedding that has maggots. We do not want them sleeping in bedding that has maggots. Deep bedding without the chickens to work through it does not work for sheep, since they are especially vulnerable to fly strike. So we have been struggling with maggots in the sheep bedding. The new farm is not set up in a way to have the chickens living with the livestock like that. The chickens picking through the stalls daily kept maggots away and flies down. They also worked through the stalls, which were deep-bedded for the sheep. We dumped the compost and all the stall clean-out into a couple of big piles in the barnyard and the chickens worked through it for us, turning it and removing unwanted pests. ![]() ![]() …chicken food! Yup, we are having some maggot issues and the answer is – CHICKENS! At our previous farm the chicken coop opened into the shared barnyard where all the livestock lived.
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