I've heard t many horror stories about baits to be comfortable using them, people poisoning their own dogs, etc. to be comfortable using them. The neighbors cats are over here all the time, plus all the wild critters hunting at night, I'll just continue the never-ending battle of rodent control with the old methods. My vet suggested HIGH doses of vit. D but I haven't tried it yet.
Quote: When the wing feathers come in. If it is a splash, it will feather in white with black spots.
It's dominance behavior. Both pullets and cockerels will do it, so it doesn't indicate gender. They all look like pullets anyway.Yesterday, as I was tending to chicken-chores, I noticed that one of the EE was jumping and rushing and generally being more pushy to the others. Is this a normal "establishing the pecking order" behavior or do I have a blossoming roo on my hands?
She is about 6 weeks old, and everyone else is either 6 or 7 weeks. In this picture, she's the one in the center.
I'd go to Hawaii. Who knows when you will get the chance to go again. And your family will be there with you to help you through your anxiety and health problems. I'm sure you can train your neighbor on how to care for your chickens.
that is a nice partridge Penedesenca . Did you hatch any hens?U of a blues , penedesenca and olive egger from Ron
I have a splash and blue UofA , penedesenca boys to good homes. PM me if interested. Very pretty boys!
Its just one of those TomKat refillable stations the snap traps are baited with PB. The glue boards are the rat strenght ones and were put down in the are between the wire and the fence where rodents like to run.
All I ever caught with glue boards was rat hair
Quote: I have seen and hear those stories. It was a very common reason for visits when I was a Vet Tech. Some you could save...some you could not. My own dog got into some snail bait someone else had put out. Fortunately I recoganized the symptoms and got her in right away. Also very fortunate for me that, since i worked there, I only had to pay for material costs.
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I'm telling ya...the electronic traps are the way to go!. They are pricey but well worth the money. We have 2 now. I keep one near the finches and move the other around as needed. One set of 4 D batteries will kill a ton of rats/mice. I had been hearing chewing around my big Rubbermaid storage container I keep chicken feed in and then one day saw a very well-fed mouse make a run for it when I opened it a couple of days ago. It had chewed a big hole on one corner. I cleared out a space at the back near the hole, put a little penut butter thre the holes in the back of the trap, set it in place and flipped the switch. Next morning...a well-fed DEAD mouse. I have cought more rat/smice with that trap than any other method. You just dump them into trash, rebait and reset. No prying them out of snap traps and no smell of rotting dead rat that was killed by the bait. No risk of poisoning my pets.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Victor-Electronic-Rat-Trap-M240/100400789
All I ever caught with glue boards was rat hair
I have seen and hear those stories. It was a very common reason for visits when I was a Vet Tech. Some you could save...some you could not. My own dog got into some snail bait someone else had put out. Fortunately I recoganized the symptoms and got her in right away. Also very fortunate for me that, since i worked there, I only had to pay for material costs.
I'm telling ya...the electronic traps are the way to go!. They are pricey but well worth the money. We have 2 now. I keep one near the finches and move the other around as needed. One set of 4 D batteries will kill a ton of rats/mice. I had been hearing chewing around my big Rubbermaid storage container I keep chicken feed in and then one day saw a very well-fed mouse make a run for it when I opened it a couple of days ago. It had chewed a big hole on one corner. I cleared out a space at the back near the hole, put a little penut butter thre the holes in the back of the trap, set it in place and flipped the switch. Next morning...a well-fed DEAD mouse. I have cought more rat/smice with that trap than any other method. You just dump them into trash, rebait and reset. No prying them out of snap traps and no smell of rotting dead rat that was killed by the bait. No risk of poisoning my pets.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Victor-Electronic-Rat-Trap-M240/100400789
