Posts by mandelyn

Do you have windows open with fluctuating air in the house? If so, that can be contributing to the issue. They operate best when the room retains the same temperature, when around 70 degrees. When adjusting the wafer for small changes,...

Corian is a good product, but be wary of similar yet cheaper versions of it. Some do scratch easily. Granite or any stone can be chipped.  You can get filler to cover over it, but it's stone.. it's forever. Install isn't too bad...

The best thing to use for skin, nails, and hair is a good balanced diet with lot's of water. Vitamins E and A, carrots, beets, dark leafy greens. It'll fix you from the inside out, because the skin is the last place nutrients go....

Very interesting!   If I had to label it, I'm Scientific Pantheist with non-denominational christian leanings. It's the best I can come up with after 30 years on the planet and visiting a long list of churches. This thread...

That's so exciting! I'm bad about imagining what a house could be, and what it is. Every property has promise!  We saw some scary places when we were shopping. One was a big 5 bedroom with a wrap around porch and 3 acres for...

Age matters when doing the introduction, a minimum introduction age of 8-12 weeks old. Breed doesn't matter so much as bloodline. I've found that hatchery birds can have any temperament, good or bad, while birds from a breeder are more...

You need a bag with a hair brush, hair ties, lint brush, micro fiber rag, baby wipes (unscented), deodorant, and a clean shirt. Extra socks won't hurt. Anything else you want to add too. The bag goes with you to the barn and stays in...

I left the food out, thinking peanut butter would smell better to them anyways. But since I haven't caught any in awhile, I was giving thought to removing the feed to see if that changed anything.

The scooped out flesh on the back of the chicken is caused by the beak of a predatory bird. It's always on the back because of how they attack. Which predatory bird it is, I can't say. It is weird that two were attacked and one...

I take shoe boxes and cut a small mouse sized hole in two sides, then place two baited traps in there. Baited with peanut butter. I had 2 boxes, 4 traps total, and over the course of several weeks, averaged 3 caught mice a night. For a...