Preparing for take off.What on earth is that chook doing in the background?
She runs along the length of that cover and launches herself off the end.
She is a Legbar and so I am not surprised she is already quite good at flying.
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Preparing for take off.What on earth is that chook doing in the background?
I think you may be a newcomer to this thread. Welcome!Dame happened to us! And looks like our rooster Snowball
Ours are decent at flying. Felicitas thinks she can land on top of a bubble wrap mailer that i use to block access to my plants. She is quite disgusted when she lands on the floor behind her. Agathae will fly off of my lap when she is sick of being on it.Preparing for take off.
She runs along the length of that cover and launches herself off the end.
She is a Legbar and so I am not surprised she is already quite good at flying.
@Valerie25106I think you may be a newcomer to this thread. Welcome!
We are a chatty lot but try to keep it all about chickens and we love pictures of chickens.
@BY Bob’s stories that started this thread are truly wonderful. So don’t get out off by the length of the thread - it is well worth reading his stories at the start.
I don't once they are there, without tossing (to the chooks, that is!), cleaning/sanitizing, and starting over. That said, I have read that you need to heat your grain in the oven to kill any potential grain moths, etc., then store in a tightly closed container to prevent this from happening. Here is a great video about keeping mealworms. . He starts talking about heat treating at about 16:50. I had a small mealworm farm once, but with my crazy life I didn't keep up with separating the pupa/adults. Since it was so small, I ended up just giving them all to my chooks. I want to get started again, but need more work on the house so there is space. (house is a work in progress - it needed so much work when we bought it a few years ago!)Does anyone here know how to get rid of grain moths in a mealworm colony without tossing the whole thing?
@Ponypoor
Agathae and her comb are doing fine. Everything with the chickens has been pure chaos since the death of Little Chicken (she had no name yet).
We also think one is a rooster. Probably going to need help with that one in the future as well...
I really do not want to have to get rid of the mealworms. If I do I probably will not bother raising them ever again.
Congratulations!Aaand...
I am done the Hattie picture!
I will post it tomorrow. It is too late today.
But at first she looked like a water-bellied cochin. Then I corrected that and she looks better. She still looks like a cochin though.
I have mine all togheter in one tank. Never needed to sort and works just fine. My brother now picks out the caterpillars and feeds those to Dominica. Still not enough to reduce the population. Going to have to move the moth trap closer.I don't once they are there, without tossing (to the chooks, that is!), cleaning/sanitizing, and starting over. That said, I have read that you need to heat your grain in the oven to kill any potential grain moths, etc., then store in a tightly closed container to prevent this from happening. Here is a great video about keeping mealworms. . He starts talking about heat treating at about 16:50. I had a small mealworm farm once, but with my crazy life I didn't keep up with separating the pupa/adults. Since it was so small, I ended up just giving them all to my chooks. I want to get started again, but need more work on the house so there is space. (house is a work in progress - it needed so much work when we bought it a few years ago!)
Jabberwokie like the poem???? Oh, the terror! The Jaws that bite the claws that scratch?Our other two residents came to us in April as chicks. My wife raised them until they moved outside and then they became my responsibility.
Hattie is our lavender orpington hen. She has not starting laying yet but i expect she will once the days turn longer.
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Jabberwockie, Jabber for short, was supposed to be an Easter Egger hen, however, he is clearly not a hen.
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He and Hattie are inseperable.
I would guess so, according to a old post on here.Jabberwokie like the poem???? Oh, the terror! The Jaws that bite the claws that scratch?