Not sure if this goes here or in predators and pest section. mods move if needed.
i usually bake raccoons like you would a turkey with sweet potatoes around it. but i'm looking for some new ideas. how to you cook your varmints. Coon, possum, snake, ect anything goes. i'd like to know how you...
figured i'd relate this little conversation i had with a vegan. i think it's funny anyway.
i was working construction at the time and was sitting outside on the sidewalk. the building we were re-wireing was like a strip mall store. anyway i brought my lunch that day and was eating ham (from a...
yep got your attention didn't i. i'm going bull trail riding tomorrow. yep me and 1800 lbs of beef on the hoof and open trail. why risk bodily harm? because it's the fatherly thing to do. oldest son has a friend that wants to go trail riding with us tomorrow. i said his friend could ride my...
well folks i'm fairly new here. so a little flavor text. my wife says i have a strange (morbid) sense of humor. on our farm we have cows, horses, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, and chickens of course. only some of our animals have names but sense i deal with them most i name most of them.
chickens...
might want to sticky this. Please no comments added suggestions and other helpful material is welcome. make a kind of guide to help prevent loses.
first some of these methods i don't use personally, but do work. please anyone else feel free to add your ideas.
now to the meat of the thing...
Hi for most of the day i've been giving advice in predators and pest. figured i'd say hello.
i have a family farm in lower rural Alabama.
At any given time i have anywhere between 25 to about 150 chickens. mostly "yard birds" just kind of mongrels of what ever new roosters i could get that...
Ok so they aren't a problem i don't know how to deal with. i have a barn with various feeds in it. currently i use a verity if rat control methods.
1) steel traps on the rafters, unbaited. when i feed up in the morning i have 10 to 15 dead rats hanging from the rafters. they use the rafters as...