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First up, we had a very upsetting event this week. We only recently found out that our white silkie was a boy, so our only two silkies were both roos. Two days ago, we came home to them fighting and the white one had a...
THE COOP IS FINALLY (almost) FINISHED! Planning started over a year ago, but actual construction started on July 7, 2008 and was more or less finished on August 12. Our babies have been in the coop since about August 3 (at about 2 weeks of age), and have been enjoying the run as well since they...
Koi or even ordinary gold fish should keep bugs under control, providing the water doesn't freeze all the way to the bottom in winter. What zone are you in? I would scrounge free rocks to place aesthetically around the patio.
Its a spoof of the wire hanger scene in the movie Mommy Dearest. Joan Crawford (mommy) becomes enraged when she sees that her daughter hung up one of her expensive new dresses on a wire hanger instead of a padded hanger and beat the girl.
ñ On my Mac, you hold down the option button and then hit n. then without touching anything else, just hit n again. the first action puts the squiggle over the n and the second action does the n. I am sure its something similar for the other little marks. Probably a PC has a similar...
I love spiders. I never kill them. I figure they do eat all the other bugs. Last summer a great big spider built a web right by the back door. I got so made when my dh knocked down the web. My fears are bed bugs, lice, fleas (blood suckers all).
I put mine off the ground because space was limited and it was a way to double up on usable space. Also a big plus is that they have a guaranteed shady spot in the summer. Also no rats/mice can hide underneath.
My coop is open all year in Long Island. Have had chickens for two winters and they are always fine. No added heat to the coop at all. I do put plastic over the windows and a plastic curtain over the coop door so they can still come and go, but I leave all the ventilation around the roof line...
Try the diatomaceous earth. I put it in the coop and run to keep down lice and mites and such and some people feed it to their dogs to get rid of internal parasites (don't know if that works or not). It shouldn't hurt them at all to eat it and it might just help with the ants.
Four of the five members of my family had head lice last summer, myself included. Freaked out and hired a couple of nitpickers to come to the house (yes, really, in Long Island-there's lots of them). They poured olive oil on our heads and used a lice comb (the good one, not the little plastic...
I have eight EE's, about 3 months old. Six have small flesh colored combs. Two have very red larger combs. I am figuring I have two roosters. Yours look like girls to me.
Mine don't seem to eat it, and I've been using it for about a year and never had an egg with an ink smear. Sometimes little bits of paper are stuck to the egg but they wash right off. I really only shred junk mail and any paper with my name or personal info on it. I do try to avoid shredding...
Even though I left the south many years ago and finally stopped saying "y'all", I still say "If it was a snake it would've bit ya" when someone can't find something that is right in front of their face.
When I was a kid somebody shot off the front leg of our Manx cat. We ended up with a three legged tailless cat. Well he could climb trees no problem and would not hesitate to challenge our very large german shepherd.
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My grandmother called the sofa the davenport. It was always the commode when I was a kid. And I called it a chesterdrawers when I was a kid and my mother corrected me. But it still always sounded like chesterdrawers.