We have always seen coyotes during the day. I agree that it's normal. My little JR was just killed by a coyote in December, because he didn't have the sense to stay back with our other dog. Our "other dog" is a border collie x australian cattle dog who sticks by the back door like glue when he...
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Actually there's a lot more to it than that. Food grade diatomaceous earth (aka DE ) is processed differently, so you must be sure it's FOOD GRADE . Pool grade de , used in pool filters will kill your animals. I get mine from a local health food store who sells me a 50# bag for $18...
I love the full size human door, the big window on the south side that lets in a lot of winter sun (er, when it's actually shining)
The small window on the north above the pop door and next to the human door that I can peek in, the roomy nest box ( that they all only lay eggs in the same spot...
I think I would definitely go to the trouble of tearing it out now and avoiding headaches with it in the future.
I mean, ewww, old carpet can only get worse!
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Your soil may not necessarily be acidic just because you have pines. They usually prefer acidic soil but don'tmake the soil acidic.
For instance, I live on the other side of the country in a pine forest, yet the soil here tends to be very neutral. So if you think your limited in what...
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Thanks new2! I've been lucky so far, we do have a couple of good varmint chasing dogs, and the girls are locked in the coop from dusk to dawn, but I know the "If you build it they will come" adage really applies to chickens. So next spring I'll add hot wire and come up with a...
Thanks for the input! I wasn't worried about them eating BOSS because I feed it to them, I guess it was contact with the BIRD droppings that I wondered about.
My little flock is young, I just got them in Sept. They have never been loose in the yard yet and wont be able to until spring. I was wondering about them eating spilled BOSS under the wild bird feeders. I would like to keep feeding the birds but don't want my girls getting sick. What do you all...
Moabite said "...what would you have done?"
Well, I probably would have disregarded my dw, or in my case my dh! . We had a pet crow for about a year when my boys were small. We got him at a garage sale. The people didn't know where he came from, they said he just showed up,but they were afraid...
I'm now wondering if I might have an eggeater. I was in the coop today doing chores when a hen (golden campine) went into the nest box, to lay I assumed. There was one egg in there that I was going to collect on my way out, but the campine stood over it, and kind of held on to it and started...
This is the coop my fantastically handy and long suffering husband made me!
We bought the framing materials and the roofing and hardware, but the siding, which is REAL 2x6's, and 2x4's, (redwood and cedar ,no less,) came from a customer who had it stored under their cabin, and said we could have...
I just took some cooked scotch oats , cooled with a dollop of plain yogurt and a splash of ACV out to my little" herd". It was only in the high 20's today but we got SUNSHINE!!!. They gobbled it up and now they're heading for bed.
Hi, i just read other posts on name changes, but I didn't see a specific place to do that at. Can I have my name changed too? I'm new and after reading posts from people in Canada and Alaska, I'm thinkin' N. Idaho is not so very farnorth after all! Can I be Weedchick? It goes along the lines of...
Oh, when I said "our first real snow" I meant of this season, not us personally. I always go into winter kicking and screaming, but once the snow has begun I switch gears mentally and enjoy the different pace. Sometimes, especially a bad winter the pace can be exhausting.