I put a blaring radio out in my woodshed to deter the raccoons. Sounds like I have someone milling around in my backyard all the time. I actually believe this was the first of many things I tried that works for me. I live on the river and there is a den down by the river that is big enough that...
I do all of this except #8 & #10. #8 was a total waste for me. The wet food does not gravitate well and to put it in a flat container was a waste. One of the containers was too light weight when they would try to stand on the edge and with a different flat dish, they would get in it and poop...
I sure hope so because my chickens started clearing out my Hostas yesterday afternoon. At first when I noticed it, I thought it might have been rabbits. But then I remember the girls being all gathered up in my Hosta bed yesterday, right before dark. And after finding where they had chewed off...
WOW! You should try to dig up a video of those egg farms & show your husband how nasty they actually are. But if you did, he would probably never eat another egg.
I am surprised nothing was said here about water glassing when speaking of storing eggs. Great information though & I will be sharing it with my facebook chicken lovers.
From my own experience, the umbrellas will help to give them some shade but the run will be terribly muddy. I had the mesh wiring on the top in the beginning as well and one day I caught a hawk pilling one of my chickens thru the wire mesh. Luckily the wire was close enough together that it...
Can someone tell me at what age, how often & what natural dewormer should be used? I have not found a lot of information that covers these questions. Sorry, I don't mean to hijack anybody's page but this site has changed and will not let me make my own page asking these questions
This actually helps a lot. I put some in their run and then I saw a post saying that you should not do that although, no one had responded with whether or not they had any results from it. What does it do for them when you put it in their food?
I am conflicted. Some reports say that DE is safe for chickens and some say it is not because it causes respiratory problems. Can you of you more experienced chicken owners straighten me out on this issue?
I read an article about this a few weeks ago but the article called for Sodium Silicate. I ordered the Sodium Silicate and now I can't find the article to see if the preparation is the same as this video but I do remember that it called for eggs no more than 24 hours old. Also when I received...
Raccoon got in and killed all my chickens but one, one night. Lucky, the one that survived, would not come off her perch until I got more hens. That was the saddest hen I have ever seen. She was a year old and the new hens I got were 18 weeks but once they got their pecking order together, they...
BTW! The raccoons dug a tunnel under my chicken coop to get into my girls. I had screen wire on the outside on the ground but they got under that wire. Shoot 'em . I lost count of how many I have killed.
Raccoons got in on mine and killed 5 of them in one night. I set a live trap and caught them but I also killed them. And for those who are against killing them this is how I feel. My chickens give me food that helps me with my grocery bill since I am on SS. The raccoons bring NOTHING to add to...