Recent content by SpeckledCoopQueen

Thank you! I am not! I believe I finally got rid of them after the two elector psp treatments follows up by permethrin poultry dust twice throughout the whole coop and on each chicken. Was a mess.. but have t seen one since!

So I read that they come out for a meal every 1-4 days. So as long as I have the permethrin residue treated on my coop that group should come out, get exposed and die before they can lay eggs. Then I wait for the remaining batches of eggs to continue to hatch and they will get poisoned on their...

I’m worried we will go through the hassle of making another coop/run just to have the same issue there. We don’t free range, have a lot of hawks and predators and with 26 chickens we’d have to make a pretty large run/coop to just wait this out. So frustrating!

I have 26 chickens! Ive considered taking the boards off the ceiling so that I can dust the ceiling completely to the buildings top. I’ve bought a garden duster and am going to get up in there and disperse it that way, also going to use that on the walls/surfaces when I treat again instead of...

Do you think yours were brought in by rodents or wild birds?

Weeks after finding a burrow into our chicken run we now have red mites! We set a trail camera to figure out what was burrowing and found it to be the biggest rat I’ve ever seen! We extended the hardware cloth apron, attempted to live/snap trap him with no luck but the extension has kept him...

my lab stays inside but she is a fierce protector. She’d stay outside if I let her but she’s my hunny! The second she hears the geese honking at something her alarm sounds and she will start barking from inside.

Thanks for all the good info! Do you lock yours up at night completely or just give them their shelter to stay in?

I am so over chasing them every night. I might look happy, but in all reality I’m just relieved it only took 30 minutes to catch this mister.

Or a cute little barn kitty! It’s not completely out of use right now. Since the geese abandoned it a little vole moved himself in lol.

You can tell they are confused a lot of the time. They are able to be herded sometimes but will run right past it like it doesn’t even exist. We’re going to just throw together a simple little shelter but knowing my boyfriend he will won’t skip any beats. But need to make it asap so they can be...

I have no experience in this because these are our only geese. We do want to get them girlfriends if we can get them under control and safe at night first. Don’t want to make the problem worse. Lol.

I think you’re right. I want them to easily go in and out, and he made this freaking house so well it wouldn’t be easy to just cut a bigger door into it. I think itll be easier just to make the a new little shelter hour with a door!

Ugh, anything to make bed time easier. Our closest neighbor is right across the street but we are back pretty far in the woods. He told me the other night he got home late and he could see someone running back by our house with a flashlight and could hear the geese putting up a fit lmao.

I asked him to make a little hut and he went and built a whole freaking mansion. Lol. I think we are going to make them a new shelter this week.. and hopefully it’ll take just a few hours. This house will be retired and gives us an excuse to find a new pet to house it. 😂