LOL. Maybe!Well I just flashed back a year when there was one in the barn this morning, then 3 in the garage, then 2 more next door at the other house. I've read 2 convincing theories. 1: they fly west from Nebraska corn fields every year and make it to about Utah. 2: the larvae live underground 'till it starts to warm up. Both could be true. Last year I sealed every window and door and replaced any screens with holes in them. I actually repainted the TV room because of all the splotches in the walls. 2 more things as well. If you hang a light bulb over a container (like a litter box) full of soapy water they fly towards the light then get stuck in the soap. Also Vortex makes these traps with little blue LED lights and a fan inside. The fan sucks them into a trap when they get too close to the lights. They're made for smaller insects but you can remove the safety with a screwdriver. It makes quite a commotion when they go through the fan but it makes me smile every time.They are about the size and shape of a can of tomato's and are generally pretty quiet. Still these little squirts know exactly when it's time to watch a movie and where the TV is, and I'm barely holding on to a thin shred of sanity already
Sorry Wendell! I was still typing when you wrote that, Wierd eh? Do you think we're Corsican brothers?
Sweet! I read the article. If that's the case I have nothing to worry about this year, as there isn't a single plant left as far as the girls free range
Ugh, I hate those things about the same as mice. But I'll deliberately let the chickens out and then love to open the basement door where those dog gone things like to hide. Its a moth & chicken frenzie. I just love seeing my chickens gobble them up.
Sweet! I read the article. If that's the case I have nothing to worry about this year, as there isn't a single plant left as far as the girls free range
Bob would say they are dumb as a box of rocks, but they have only been out in this new to them setup since Sunday, so I won't think they're dumb until it's been a week and they still aren't figuring it out. At least they are smart enough to stay under the coop when it's raining Luckily there are no problems between them and the two hens, barely a peck.
I was so hoping your girl would show back up like mine did, so sorry she is gone. Glad your wry neck Silkie is all better, just amazing something like that can happen. What did you end up giving her? Vitamins?I checked the Silkie eggs scheduled for lockdown tonight and believe the cold weather while they were laid, combined with recovery from shipping stress, impeded development, and I have no eggs headed for hatch. I will have some in three days going to the hatcher, some Cream Legbars (so have my fingers crossed!) and more Silkie eggs laid here, and the Silkie eggs I set last Friday are almost all showing veining, so at the least I should have some hatching the 31st. In between the CL and the last Silkie eggs from here I have a set of Silkie eggs shipped that are about 50% showing good development, mainly Blues, so maybe I will have some of those hatch as well in about a week and a half.
The Speckled Sussex juveniles I put in the layer coop and run have still not figured out how to put themselves to bed, so I just finished putting them in for the night, but I just can't get mad at them, they are so pretty and sweet
The recovered wry necked Silkie is acting as if nothing was ever wrong, bless her heart, re-integrated with no issues.
Sandy, that link to the pictures at random thread is incredible, jeepers, I could spend days looking at that thread!
Gypsy moths - Margie, right there with you, they are created for the entertainment of cats LOL! My first spring here in CO I had show dogs eating themselves sick on them - had never experienced anything like it. That was 1998 - moved here in August of 1997 - I had hairless dogs, and quickly learned about the proximity to the sun and its relation to sunburn. Preston, I would say even if your chickens have destroyed some gardens there are almost always some cutworms anywhere there is grass, that has been our experience anyway. I love when thechickens dig them up and devour them, those things are flat nasty on plants.
Since the dog attack the girls have been mainly confined to the run, which they hate. Me too. Considering electronet. Anyone here use it?
We finally got our coop/run set up secured enough to house chickens! The coop still needs paint, a pop door, ramp, and watering system, but I am SOO excited to just have the girls out of my house. And they sure love their new home.
