Recent content by mydakota1

Any chance you might be willing to post pics of this?

I have quit using my regular feeders altogether. The treadle feeders seems to have foiled them.

Update. The starlings have moved on. I started feeding in 2 treadle feeders and I put moth balls in the rafters of the coop. They didn't like the hospitality and left. The treadle feeders work really well.

I have 5 cats already. I guess mine are slackers.

Okay, I just ordered a large treadle feeder. Can't wait to see how it works. I would far rather just convince the wild birds that the cafeteria is closed and to move on than to kill them. I will do whatever I have to to get rid of them, but if I can do so peacefully I would prefer it.

And to add about feeding at night, which otherwise is probably a good idea. When my girls go in it is to sleep. I don't have electricity down to the pasture coops, so there is no supplemental light. No light to feed by.

I LOVE that feeder. I wonder where I can get one? Will be googling that for sure. I don't really want to take away the food for a day because we have been having a cold snap (night before last was -27) and they really need to eat well. The pasture is currently under snow, so not much to be...

Part of why I have a good egg business is that my girls are "pastured". They free range. There is a large locavore movement here, and people will drive over an hour to buy eggs from pastured chickens. This means that my runs are open from first light until the girls come in and roost. Even if I...

I live in the PNW, on the east side of the Cascades and, like most of the country, we have been experiencing a pretty severe cold snap. During the course of the last week, I have had a flock of about 100 starlings decide to move in, lock, stock and barrel, into 3 of my pasture coops. Two of...