Hi, i haven't tried this myself but i saw something on UTube about pouring boiling water down the ant hole from like a tea kettle.
Sounded and appeared to be a non toxic way to go???
Good luck!
You want to talk about overkill...living in northern MA/NH border, for my 4 x 10 low pitch shed roof i put 3/4" plywood down, covered that with grace ice & weather shield. On top of that i laid some 2" foam insulation (because i had it laying around) and on top of that used my old steel swimming...
This thread is a bit old but having just constructed a coop from recycling my old pool deck i figured i'd chime in seeing as how recycling pressure treated lumber from an old pool deck is not the usual way to go about building a coop.
Currently my 8 Plymouth Rock Barred are all healthy and...
These posts are kind of old, but this "coop pecking" seems to be a common problem.
I posted on another thread here on BYC that most of my Plymouth Rocks have red bare butts that look painful.
I have tried the peck no more but a couple things...first is, the bottle i bought at a local feed...
Hi, many of my Plymouth Rock Barreds have bare butts, and the ones with the biggest bald patches are also the brightest red.
We don't have a rooster, so i have a feeling the bare spots are from the other mother pluckers. 😁
On some, there are smaller bare spots on their backs as well so i'm...