Rat Poison takes 3 to 5 days to start showing any affect, by that time it's to late to do anything.
They need a shot of Vitamin K before there blood thins and fills there lungs and other organs.
unsure if low doses from food is enough but it's worth a try.
Good luck.
There is enough clearance to look inside the holes before reaching in."I am not Indiana Jones; I would never stick my hand were I can't see" It works out better than building an external mounted box that gives preditors a better chance of getting in not to mention all the heat loss in the...
Thank you Joan, LOL @ Hen cam. Anyone can get and use this stuff at afordable prices. Thats why I posted it.
The Thermastate is a $20 item you can buy at any hardware store, it's made to plug into a wall, set a desired temp, plug a lamp into it and set the lamp in a window of a vacant house to...
All you need to do is get the eggs. the roof and gutter system supplies fresh water, clear tubes to see food and water inside and in the Run, Plenty of shade on Sunny days, door automatically closes and all wire on coop electrifies at a set time to keep predators out. 2 storage areas keep food...
New to Raising chickens, I got 4 chicks last weekend and I'm in the presses of building a
Salt box coop that is 3hx3wx4L ID set up for NH winters.
It has a locked unheated attic for all the care for the Chickens mounting the controls and storage.
I did double walls with 1 1/2 foam board in...
I bought Chicks last week on an impulse
Hey a buck a chick, thats cheap.
Not thinking how much a coop was going to cost me.
So far I have $300 in materials and i'm not finished yet.
don't get discoraged, I have a tendency to go overboard.
I Put chicken wire across the floor from the outside
so...