Those eggs come from a place with way more blood than that. Besides if you ever ate chicken you have ate blood.
Now I'm craving black pudding and fried eggs for breakfast.........
I'm in the delta of southern arky. We have clay hardpan. I live 4 miles from a river and could get all the free sand I could ever want if it worked. For that matter if it worked every production chicken house around here would be using it instead of rice hulls they use here. Sand isn't good for...
Most everywhere has laws protecting livestock and allowing the trapping of nuisance animals.
Some places you might not even need a permit to protect your own animals. Here it's free permit if you have a hunting license you just have to apply for the nuisance animal permit. Other places you...
Your gonna be stuck with west coast options right now. The other 2/3 of the nation is pretty much in a winter storm. I wouldn't trust any shipped chicks/eggs in the mail service right now.
Frozen but not busted are fine for baking or scrambled but I always try to move them to the front of the line and get rid of them.
Busted or I just dont want to deal with them I turn into animal food. My dog, coons, and my chickens all like cooked eggs.
I boil them and give them to my pet coons and my dog. I do it out in my shop on my wood stove in an old pan I don't care about getting messy.
I've scrambled them (shell and all) before and gave the chickens before. Just easier to hard boil them and given them to the fury ones.
Most hardware stores have cloth drop cloths in the painting section that is cheaper than cloth tarps. Old sheets would work also if you can come up with enough.
I'd set out traps for minks if you are legal to do so. Sardines or any canned seafood is a good bait for mink.
i started out with 3 inch PVC ports but my rooster wasn't wanting to use it. I made a 2nd bucket with 4 inch and he uses it no issue. Only problem is going up to a 4 inch street elbow was almost double the 3 inch.
Being an electrician I already had the hole saws but they are the way to go when...