Homemade Recipe Week - Healing Salve - #1

Here is a healing balm I put together to use on my goat kids heads 24hrs after disbudding. However, it is very effective on my own family. It works as an antiseptic, antifungal, is great on burns, insect bites, as well as cuts and rashes.I
t has a heavenly mediciny smell(can those two can go together?)

Will work on humans, dogs, goats, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, guinea pigs and ???, I ran out of test subjects.

Squaw Creek’s Healing Salve

1/2 C Olive Oil
1/4 C Beeswax
1/2 oz Chamomile flowers(optional)
1/2 t tea tree oil
1/2 t lavender oil
5 Vitamin E capsules 200mg

Place 1/2 C Olive Oil and 1/2 oz Chamomile flowers in a pan on low heat for 2 hrs. Using muslin, strain flowers from oil and put oil back on stove, low heat.
Add 1/4 C Beeswax until melted, remove from heat.
Add 1/2 t tea tree oil, 1/2 t lavender oil, 5 vitamin E capsules(poke and squirt out liquid, dispose of empty capsules) - stir well and place in storage container to cool.

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The first batch of eggs went in the hatcher this morning, that means we have two more days until hatch, we hope. We are simulating mamma hen as she raises the humidity under her feathers by sweating. At this point, she will not leave the nest, either to eat or drink. She stops turning her eggs several times a day so the little chicks can now position themselves to peck through the air sack at the wide end of the egg which will sustain them while they *pip* through the egg shell to fresh air. The Great Designer is worthy of praise and adoration when looking at the complex workings of a chick hatching from an egg!

Our heat has been uneven in our inky so I am hoping we get a decent hatching rate. This is our 2011-13 flock, a mix of Leghorns and Americaunas.