I have found over the years that having a radio on a nothing but talk station that our worries of losing Chickens have gone completely by use of the radio. We live in area that has hundreds of acres of pulpwood and wetlands. So far the radio has stopped animals as well as Predator Birds. Give it...
I bbuilt a cicken house 2 ears using etel roof and what I did was ut my rafters on ede and not flat. I then took 1/4 inch Hardware cloth and laced over the oenings obetween roof and siding. I did this on each end and on the drip edge of roof. I put a 4-- 12 pitch on m roof. I live in a high...
If you add electric fencing, use a ig tail light bulb connection. wire your electric wire to one side of ig tail and the other side is inserted into hot side of plug ut in a 15w bulb pior to luging into electric. no electric is used untill something akes contac with wire and comletes the...
For what it is worth. I use 2 to 3 dros of Orageno Oil in drinking water and never have or had a sick bird. If you do not have the Oil try dried Oragno leaves and let her consume what she wants, I do not raise Turkies just Chickens
I use a medium size animal trap. I place a bowl of dog food in the cage and then haul them off int a forst . I you go several miles away they as a rul stay in that area.
I use just DE (Diatomaceous Earth) only. First I put some on all my roosts, I use 2X4s as roosts and just place a layer of DE on the roost and I place about one ounce in each nest. I do this every other month. Have been doing this for over two of years now and do not have any problems with...
What the IntheSwamp said is good,for myself I use 1 oz per gallon when spraying trees and 1/2 oz per gallon when spraying Garden plants. I usually spray in the early morning ar just after sun set. I do not spray when plants are flowering. I try not to kill any pollinators. Do a little...
Just Orange Oil. The product that I purchase is Made by Medina and they have been doing this for about 60 years. It is Natural and Biodegradeable I kick the top of ill off and then spry or drench, works fine for me. However if you have a heavy rain just after putting on nest it may survive and...
Get some Orange oil and mix 1/4 cup to gallon of water add an ounce of molasses to oil and water and then either spry mounds with this mixture or drench mound with mixture. Works fast and and is from natural products. I have found it works good in Southeast Georgia. Good Luck.
Get some Bio-Char or make your own and mix in the contaminated soil and see if that will draw the contamination from the soil. I had a like you discribe problem several years ago, then I found out that using Bio-Char helped draw the herbicide from the soil. Took three (3) years to get soil back...
Try Coconut Coir and see if that would help break up your soil. It holds moisture and breaks down over time and by introducing earth worms the will allow air in to the soil and in turn helps it to retain moisture and will help break it up. Course sand help to break up the soil as well and also...
I mix DE into the chicken feed and they get all they need to keep the worms out. I use a 1/2 cup to a 50# bag of food and that seems to work fine for me. Try it once and see if it is effective for you.
If you will read the fine print you will find on most commercial feeds have some DE in the mix...
I live near a company that manufactures the gel pellets that are used in dippers. It is very expensive. I would recommend that you find out where the nearest Hydroponics store is and buy Pearl Lite or Coconut Core to use in your sandy soil. Both are excellent for holding water and nutrients...
I have both. I use gummy bears dropped in run and covered up. They can;t digest them and they die. I have used the same on voles by dropping it in their hole and let nature takes its course. I know the moles go fast but voles seem to multiply much faster or migrate from greater distances.