grannys gone and done it

[Wishing4Wings]

bbq chicken, until the gas ran out on the grill

so part baked, corn on the cob, and green salad. Too hot here for much else. We hit 100. I get sick from that kind of heat.

The chickens like the corn silks!

 

[campingshaws]

So much for the final possum. Went out to lock the coop and the feeder was swinging. BIG one again. Ugh. So I ran back in and got two shots, no good. Guess my fun's not over.

 

[prostar]

Bloody things.

I need to do some target shooting with the hubs' pellet gun.

Stupid squirrels.

Saw something rather questionable on Pinterest today. How to stop a rooster from crowing...by putting a band of Velcro around his throat so he can't get as much air in his voice box.

Even put up a video of their rooster "not crowing"

Was a rather sickly sound but still had volume. :/

 

[campingshaws]

 

[enola]

Bloody things.

I need to do some target shooting with the hubs' pellet gun.

Stupid squirrels.

Saw something rather questionable on Pinterest today. How to stop a rooster from crowing...by putting a band of Velcro around his throat so he can't get as much air in his voice box.

Even put up a video of their rooster "not crowing"

Was a rather sickly sound but still had volume. :/

The Velcro collar you saw is a knock-off of a No Crow Collar. Some people say they work, some people say they do not work, and some people report killing their rooster with them.

I say if you think you need a No Crow Collar for your rooster, you don't need to keep the rooster......

 

[enola]

Granny, sending get well wishes for every body and everything at your house. Hugs too.

 

[prostar]

The Velcro collar you saw is a knock-off of a No Crow Collar. Some people say they work, some people say they do not work, and some people report killing their rooster with them.

I say if you think you need a No Crow Collar for your rooster, you don't need to keep the rooster......

I say I can agree with that.

Course though my landlord has said if one of my chicks ends up being all rooster like I can keep him...the way I've heard him talk about neighbors roosters makes me think he'd find his way in the soup pot rather quickly. :/

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

The Velcro collar you saw is a knock-off of a No Crow Collar. Some people say they work, some people say they do not work, and some people report killing their rooster with them.

I say if you think you need a No Crow Collar for your rooster, you don't need to keep the rooster......

Thank you for saying that - I find myself removing my fingers from the keyboard every time I see mention of wanting/needing/using one of these contraptions - I just do not see how keeping an animal in a contraption that directly impacts it's ability to function as that animal is designed to function is so widely accepted and, indeed, applauded. Roosters crow - don't want/can't have crowing, don't have a rooster. I just do not see how this sort of device is considered a good idea, at all.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

bbq chicken, until the gas ran out on the grill

so part baked, corn on the cob, and green salad. Too hot here for much else. We hit 100. I get sick from that kind of heat.

The chickens like the corn silks!

LOL - have so been there. It's so hard, anymore to find a place to have your cylinder filled (w/out buying into one of those ridiculously overpriced "exchange" programs) - our TSC does it, and beyond that the only other option w/in 30 miles is the local LP gas delivery place, but they have strictly "business office" type hours, so getting it from them requires serious planning ahead and making a mad dash on my lunch hour to try to get to them, get filled and get back to the office in my allotted time since I work those same hours.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Put Walmart bags over your hands. No actual contact, and cheaper than gloves. Clean cases with Clorox wipes. Get the big stuff with bags, vacuum, then move the case? Having a hard time picturing what needs to be done. Mice have been bad for us this year. In the cabins more than anywhere else.

X 2 - I use plastic grocery bags for handling anything remotely "yucky" -- keeps whatever you are dealing with from soaking through paper towels, etc and getting on your skin. For smell - a little Vicks vapo-rub under the nose does a good job of helping to block most of the nasty smells.