How to raise Backyard Chickens: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Chickens in Winter

Seriously - for night time leg/foot cramps, place a bar of soap - any brand - between the mattress and fitted sheet close to where your feet rest. Cramps are all but gone within the 1st night!!

Cami

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Anita Bingamon <anita@...> wrote:
>
> Know what you mean, Heather. Since taking Flexeril at night, my night
> cramps have lessened a LOT. Only thing I know to do is to keep the
> affected part warm. Our cat will lie on my back, over the covers, and
> stop the spasms there. I hope we get some warmer weather by the end of
> the week. And when I go out, I double layer, which helps.
>
> When I visited Arizona in July of 2008, I got feet and leg cramps
> because the air conditioning was turned up so high in the hotel room.
> Going out in the 100+ degree heat made the legs feel better, but not the
> rest of me. I think I spent that trip running from air conditioned
> place to air conditioned car. One of the little native birds was
> cooling off inside the lobby of a stadium in Phoenix, and nobody had the
> heart to shoo it outside, it was so hot. In fact, I think it was
> begging to stay inside, in the cool. This was across the street from
> the Hard Rock Cafe, across the tracks of the city cable cars.
>
> Anita B., trying to think warm thoughts......
>