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    Raccoon Baiting

    .22LR shotshell (“rat shot”) is our preferred method — but only if in a leg or foot-hold trap. Do NOT shoot into a live trap. For a live trap put it in a heavy garbage bag, then run a section of garden hose between it and the tailpipe of your car — outside only. Will be painlessly dispatched...
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    Raccoon Baiting

    If you’re going to shoot them, use a foot trap. You will only catch baby raccoons in those live traps (old, fat coons won’t go near them) — and if you’ve ever tried shooting something in a live trap... well, you probably won’t do it again. Cats can’t really trip a foot trap, but if you’re...
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    Wasp & Chicken Coop - Help!!

    Just demolished a large yellow jacket (wasp) nest on the eave of our front porch. I put about 2 quarts of water on the stove in a shallow pot. Once it hit a rolling boil, added 2 tablespoons of Dawn dishwashing soap and walked straight out to the porch. Threw the entire contents of the pot...
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    Red Shouldered Hawk hanging around

    Had a red shouldered hawk hanging around for a few days. Larger than the usual ones we see around -- so I suspect migrating though as the weather has changed. Yesterday evening we lost one of our Leghorns. She almost made it to safety, but it caught her just outside of the big oleander they...
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    A really long break from egglaying?

    Welp — went out today and had an XXL blue egg in the nesting box. Officially the first egg she’s laid since the last week of May in 2017. A gap of almost 9 months!
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    A really long break from egglaying?

    I suppose she could be an EE -- but she has slate blue legs and laid solid blue eggs that didn't have as much as a hint of green to them. She had a sister that was killed in the spring that had such big cheek puffs you couldn't see her eyes from the front -- just a beak sticking out! She...
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    A really long break from egglaying?

    We have a mixed flock -- all hens. The oldest (by just a few weeks) is a gorgeous brown-red Ameraucana. She will be 40 weeks at the end of this week. Back in early May -- when she was probably only around 24 weeks old, she started laying tiny blue eggs for us. We ended up with 4 eggs in the...
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