Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[appps]

Actually - in many cases, putting a spider you find in your house outside IS killing it. Spiders that we identify as "house spiders" require a lot of shelter and are ill suited to being outside.  They might find shelter in a shed or under a piece of furniture but out in the grass? Certain death.  

Generally when I find a spider in my house - provided it's not a white tail or something worse - I just leave it alone.  Huntsman spiders are aggressive predators that take out the other spiders in the house.  Good job guys! Keep up the good work!  I usually have 3-4 large huntsman spiders wandering around in my kitchen.  They're highly beneficial and I see moving them away as completely illogical.  

We shall have to agree to disagree on huntsmans lol. I wouldn't be able to use my kitchen if I had them in there! They are one spider that just creeps me out. Yet I'm live and let live with all the others.

 

[satay]

well night everyone...see you tommarow sorted out the mealworms to pupa and beetles...

I gave my girls meal worms for the first time yesterday and they were terrified of them.. Ran away so not impressed. They did like the crickets though.

 

[tandykins]

I gave my girls meal worms for the first time yesterday and they were terrified of them.. Ran away so not impressed.

They did like the crickets though.

Mine go nuts for my mealworms but they refuse to eat the beetles. Weirdos. I need to sort mine. :/ I've been slack.

 

[appps]

My outermost defensive   perimeter  is vertical sheets of corrugated iron buried about 20 cms, then a hot wire at fox nose height.
In places I have pegged horizontal chicken wire underneath this, but there has never been any attempts at digging.

The only times in 25 years that foxes have got into any of my runs was when I left one of the little raised trap doors the chooks use to free range the paddocks open,
and when I left a ladder leaning against a shed wall.


xxxx    M

Its uncanny how they never miss an opurtunity. Our was the one time we forgot to lock the coop up. Makes you wonder how often they are around just waiting for their chance but never seen.

 

[K Spot]

That and my fat *** puffing my way along on my bike near sunset and inhaling all the bugs. -_-

Oh I wasn't talking about riding a bike - I'm talking about riding my horse

 

[satay]

I am not going to disagree with you lol.

I have never understood people who just put them outside either, guys you know they are coming back in as soon as you turn your back!!
Oh and then those that insist on telling you they don't bit, ummm yep they do, it's up there with a wasp sting. Owwww

I kill those and white tips, I do breed daddy long legs though, much more my kinda spider lol

I don't mind spiders and most other insects but you should have seen me scream like a baby yesterday when I opened the container of crickets hubby brought home for the girls. They are little grasshoppers right???? and I don't do grasshoppers.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Its uncanny how they never miss an opurtunity. Our was the one time we forgot to lock the coop up. Makes you wonder how often they are around just waiting for their chance but never seen.

They are a real problem in some areas. My sister in law and her hubby run a couple of thousand sheep and they shoot hundreds of the things . They are very cunning, I was standing at the kitchen window watching one run up and down the fence line , trying to get in and that was in the middle of the day.
This idea looks effective.

Real cunning .

 

[Steampunked]

Its uncanny how they never miss an opurtunity. Our was the one time we forgot to lock the coop up. Makes you wonder how often they are around just waiting for their chance but never seen.

There's supposedly roughly one per square kilometer in most cities.

However I think the reason they get in is that they have 'rounds' and they go and do them regularly - and those rounds include any chicken area, which means that if you're on their round, they _will_ spot any mistake you make.

They'll do rounds even if full, because they're not like dogs who can go berserk with joy - foxes kill and store all kills and remember where they're stored, so it's not aimless. It's to guard against future starvation, they're quite long term planners.

Which is rather annoying! But I can be impressed by 'em.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Yes they are very impressive , beautiful creatures.

 

[AussieChics]

Woah 4 pages worth! Thanks for helping make work go a tiny bit faster. Unfortunately still not home time