Recent content by alpha_mare

Hi Sharon. My chickens went wild when I tried to free range them. Too many good bugs, berries, grasses and seeds, let alone forest to live in. That plant smells like citronella when you crush the leaves, but looks kind of like a southern spice bush or wild wax myrtle. It gets little berries...

Thank you so much welasharon and Ms. Frizzle. I think I may have some DE left from raising aquarium fish. I need to get a dust bath in there with some wood ash from my fireplace and maybe try the DE. Am going to get the Sevin this weekend too. I have never tried the all natural way but use...

Thanks for the warm welcome! I live in South Georgia. I hope that you are dry there in Missouri, have friends there in the hills and even there were flooded. I have a feed storage shed on the side of our modest coop and I have a chair there and can sit and watch the chickens while out of the...

Hi-- My hens have slightly pale combs (they are still young and growing--about half size at three months. I wormed them yesterday per my feed store's advice with piperizine. We have a dog kennel we seldom use, but it is next to the chicken coop, probably not good. The chickens seem in good...

I used to raise tropical fish and we use diatomaceous earth in our filters to kill parasites. The point of using it is that the diatom skeletons (which look like white powder to us) are spiky balls that pierce and kill small organisms. It is successful in clarifying water as well since a clump...

Hi-- We have a small rural property and keep chickens and rabbits (and dogs and cats and fish in the pond), along with the natural wildlife. We like to keep everything as natural as possible, and have a natural abundance of blueberries and blackberries now, well blueberries anyway, the...