ok, I understand, i interplanted the mints bcuz i had read up on how it repels-mice they dont like the smell, the other insects i learned as an after effect by seeing a lack of other insects on the plants including ants ?? dont like that bees are not around, and butterfly go to other areas in my...
thank you, good info, looks like i may have been employing 1 or 2 methods from your suggestion, come to think of it, just yesterday did notice that little cloud of dust as i tapped the back of each flower, i try not to use my finger so much, as I read it could have pathogens that might not be...
Hand pollinate pepper plants, not many bees around this year, plenty herb varieties planted around the trough, noticed lota of butterflies around the porter weed, milkweed, cosmos, and other butterfly attracting varieties, no bees, plenty mint interplanted between the pepper plants, to keep the...
my hens are hand raised in a brooder in the house, there's always plenty of people and grandchildren that handle them and cuddle them until they are in full feather and then go out to the runs and henhouse, by then they are fully acclimated to people, very friendly. some of my EE's jump up on my...
on my flock, my process, tends to shorten that broodiness phase, i tried locking them up in kennels inside the henhouse, and I tried dipping them in cool water, it may take a little longer too work but how I do it but soon enuf they get the idea, on a separate question, what method do you use to...
oh boy thats a problem, have you tried using a dark hand towel over her head? I dont let my hens brood but it just seems like this time of year a few of them do this, particularly my Australorp's, I usually pick them up from the nest and put them with the rest of the flock in the run so they...