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[Pensmaster]

Thank you for thinking I was worth that.

You are the reason that picture even exists.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I dug up a mole in the run. I wanted to stomp on it. How nauseating! But the idea of it eating the chicken feed was upsetting too. So, I called over the lead drake. He looked at it, then came over to me. A few chickens came, and jumped out of the way of it. They followed it, but none would eat it. I am disappointed in them.

Mole IS NOT a rodent! It belongs to Insictivora order, or the insect eaters, wich the hedgehog and the shrew also belong, and they are voracious predators! The most significant sign that defrinciat them from rodent is that rodent have 4 toes on their front legs and the insectivora members have 5!

 

[Akrnaf2]

You only need one brunch! Put it in the soil and you get a plant!

Just want to get the right variety. We have several bushes from slips here. One that my dad got when he was 6 years old from his neighbors that we have kept slipped from place to place. Dad is 99 will be 100 at Christmas. It's flowers remind me more of an apple blossom than a geranium.
Here's a picture of it but it's very dried out.

No it isn't the one this is the one

It has a very nice and distinctive smell!

 

[BullChick]

My problem is with them killing songbirds, lizards and amphibians.

I've had a couple good house cats and one very bad one.

My son has a great cat that lives with us now. In the house.



I wouldn't have a barn cat though regardless of how much property.

My chickens have never eaten a mole, no matter how small. They eat mice pretty often.

That is good. I have renewed hope that the mice in the barn/coops are being eaten.

You are the reason that picture even exists.

It's amazing that it is so. It must be because you have never met me.

 

[kwhites634]

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[BusyBearMama]

So my husband was mowing by the cockerel cages and we had 33 mix breed cockerels in there separated by chicken wire and there are 2 separate coops. While he was going past one spooked and jumped through the wires and the he's 5 weeks the others are 4 months, so at least 1/2 the size and he doesn't know how it got through but it did and we think between the wire and the dozen young roosters jumped on him and scalped him... We had to cull him I'm really upset because we have a small homestead and it's not like we have to cull many chicks and this was so preventable... And grotesque and sad. I feel kinda sick about it, farming is hard and I hate this part of things. I haven't been on in a while because I've been so busy but I thought y'all might be able to tell me that these things do happen and that I just need to come to terms with that. Clearly I can tell myself but that doesn't really cement it. Also my young rooster had a band on (I don't band the boys cause big legs) and when we thought we should take off the bands his was cutting his leg a bit, it was a day of injury but his leg is so swollen... Feeling like a bad homsteader today... Will the swelling just go down, I've been keeping it clean and treating with non pain relief neosporine.... Oh and I left chicks in the bator for about 30 hours and one got messed with and I think it's got a cross beak, they're olive eggers and some of the shells were a little too round I think, maybe and being messed with while they were hatching plus having Easter egger genes... I've had some I assisted hatch get cross beak and I'm sad because I think it might be two of them actually... Sad what a cruddy week for homesteading/ chicken keeping

 

[Pensmaster]

No it isn't the one this is the one

It has a very nice and distinctive smell!

Oh, I know it wasn't the one. We used to have pelargonium here but the freezes must have got to them. Also I think we had the lemon and mint one. I'll have to check at the nursery tomorrow to see if they have the apple one. The orange was the oil right?

 

[BantyChooks]

So my husband was mowing by the cockerel cages and we had 33 mix breed cockerels in there separated by chicken wire and there are 2 separate coops. While he was going past one spooked and jumped through the wires and the he's 5 weeks the others are 4 months, so at least 1/2 the size and he doesn't know how it got through but it did and we think between the wire and the dozen young roosters jumped on him and scalped him... We had to cull him I'm really upset because we have a small homestead and it's not like we have to cull many chicks and this was so preventable... And grotesque and sad. I feel kinda sick about it, farming is hard and I hate this part of things. I haven't been on in a while because I've been so busy but I thought y'all might be able to tell me that these things do happen and that I just need to come to terms with that. Clearly I can tell myself but that doesn't really cement it. Also my young rooster had a band on (I don't band the boys cause big legs) and when we thought we should take off the bands his was cutting his leg a bit, it was a day of injury but his leg is so swollen... Feeling like a bad homsteader today... Will the swelling just go down, I've been keeping it clean and treating with non pain relief neosporine.... Oh and I left chicks in the bator for about 30 hours and one got messed with and I think it's got a cross beak, they're olive eggers and some of the shells were a little too round I think, maybe and being messed with while they were hatching plus having Easter egger genes... I've had some I assisted hatch get cross beak and I'm sad because I think it might be two of them actually... Sad what a cruddy week for homesteading/ chicken keeping

 

[Akrnaf2]

No it isn't the one this is the one

It has a very nice and distinctive smell!

Oh, I know it wasn't the one. We used to have pelargonium here but the freezes must have got to them. Also I think we had the lemon and mint one. I'll have to check at the nursery tomorrow to see if they have the apple one. The orange was the oil right?

Yes oil from the flowers not the fruit! be very careful with it! A drop for the all pot!
And only after the coffee is off the heat.
Read this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_flower_water

 

[BunnynChicks]

So my husband was mowing by the cockerel cages and we had 33 mix breed cockerels in there separated by chicken wire and there are 2 separate coops. While he was going past one spooked and jumped through the wires and the he's 5 weeks the others are 4 months, so at least 1/2 the size and he doesn't know how it got through but it did and we think between the wire and the dozen young roosters jumped on him and scalped him... We had to cull him

I'm really upset because we have a small homestead and it's not like we have to cull many chicks and this was so preventable... And grotesque and sad. I feel kinda sick about it, farming is hard and I hate this part of things. I haven't been on in a while because I've been so busy but I thought y'all might be able to tell me that these things do happen and that I just need to come to terms with that. Clearly I can tell myself but that doesn't really cement it. Also my young rooster had a band on (I don't band the boys cause big legs) and when we thought we should take off the bands his was cutting his leg a bit, it was a day of injury but his leg is so swollen... Feeling like a bad homsteader today... Will the swelling just go down, I've been keeping it clean and treating with non pain relief neosporine.... Oh and I left chicks in the bator for about 30 hours and one got messed with and I think it's got a cross beak, they're olive eggers and some of the shells were a little too round I think, maybe and being messed with while they were hatching plus having Easter egger genes... I've had some I assisted hatch get cross beak and I'm sad because I think it might be two of them actually... Sad

what a cruddy week for homesteading/ chicken keeping

I am soo sorry.

I had one of my chicks eaten by my dog so I know its hard.