So the owners of the house/property already signed up for a year long contract with a local pest control company for these bait boxes that attach to the ground outside. After sharing all the fantastic info & advice y'all provided - THANK you! - the owners did their own research and have come to...
Thank you @oldhenlikesdogs and @Zoomie - this is all really great information! I'm passing it along to the owners of the property. I so appreciate it. I live in North Carolina. Where is it that Hanta virus is a problem?
We have a flock of 10 chickens we've kept in the city for about 3 years now with no rat or mice as pests. But we are moving to a rental property this week out in the country on some acreage. The owners of the house/property are friends of ours. They have let us know that there is a *big* mice...
RezChamp, I hope you weren't offended by my post. I don't use words like "Indian" lightly but I promise "Indian Land" is the actual name of the township in which my husband works.
Does anyone know of an older, established subdivision in the Fort Mill / Indian Land area that allows chickens? (I'm talking a small backyard flock of hens). We're looking for a house with at least around 1/2 acre.
Thanks!
Callie
Hi there!
We have some great feed for our girls (we are getting them Friday) but I know there are many table scrap foods they can eat straight from the kitchen. My question is - is there a good source for figuring out what "human foods" are good for them and what foods might need to be...
Here are photos of the locks for our nesting box access (top) and our coop door (bottom). For now you can see that my husband put a padlock on the coop door (this is to keep the children out of the coop - they were hanging on the roosts! - until we get the chickens). I know raccoons can be very...
So I've been told to use kiln-dried pine shavings for my brooder box and in my deep-liter method in the co-op.
I found a local company called http://www.southernshavings.com that does pine shavings. They are not kiln-dried but have been dried after the lumber is shaved down. It's put through a...