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Hi all. If anyone in the Verde Valley is looking for healthy happy pullets, I have way too many. Wyandottes, Welsummers, Delawares, Dominiques, Buff Orpingtons. They're a little over 4 months now and looking really good. (My grandson said to say they are fat and juicy, heh heh) Maybe you know someone who will give them a good home. I'll keep checking back.
 
DesertChic said:
Do you have any problems with the chickens eating them? Especially when they're still pupae?
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They arrive in sealed plastic bags within a few days of hatching. I wait until they are hatching in numbers before I put them outside. Then I scatter them in various places areound the yard. Mostly I put them into plastic cups with drain holes that I hang in the coops so they are out of chicken reach. I put them out after dark so there's less predation, but the ants sometimes find them anyway. I also put some in my compost pile and cover them with a light layer of compost. The more places you put them the more likely a bunch will survive. But the key thing is waiting until the hatch is really under way before putting them out.
 
cavemanrich said:
Since you use the Eliminators, was wondering if you could answer some questions for me. (BTW my fly problem is not severe).
!.How do these lil wasps come delivered? Live in a baggie?
2. Why do you need to keep getting a fresh batch every so often? Cant these reproduce and multiply?
3. The peeps with horses probably don't have their animals eating the wasps?
Always with an open mind trying to learn new things. :caf
Never too :old to learn.....
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They come in a plastic bag of fly pupae (the wasp predators are getting ready to hatch from the fly pupae.) They usually start hatching a few days after they arrive. You need to keep getting fresh batches because they don't reproduce as fast as the flies, so you need to restock on a regular basis during fly season to keep the fly population under control. Horses probably don't eat the wasps but ants and birds do. Ants and birds seem to be everywhere. It's an issue.
 
Bobby Basham said:
I don't want to start a new topic, but I need to know what size of container does one need when they buy 25 or 50 pound bags of feed/scratch, whatever (I personally prefer stainless steel). I don't want to store any food in my garage and may end up building my own shed instead of buying some of the ridiculous-priced items out there. My future flock will be under 12 hens, and just want to know how some of you handle/store food on a smaller scale. Thanks so much! --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona
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I use metal garbage cans because the mice can't chew through them. Some people dump their feed directly into the cans. I leave the feed in the feed bags so I don't accumulate old feed at the bottom of the can. One large garbage can easily holds two 50 lb bags of feed or three 40 lb bags, with room to spare. I transfer the feed into five gallon buckets that I keep out by the coops. One 50 lb bag usually fits into two five gallon buckets.
 
happyhenhouse said:
Hi all. If anyone in the Verde Valley is looking for healthy happy pullets, I have way too many. Wyandottes, Welsummers, Delawares, Dominiques, Buff Orpingtons. They're a little over 4 months now and looking really good. (My grandson said to say they are fat and juicy, heh heh) Maybe you know someone who will give them a good home. I'll keep checking back.
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I know a couple of people over here that would want some pullets from that age group. Too bad you don't live closer.
 

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