"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[TerriLaChicks]

Hi everyone! I'm lovin all the duck and pea pics. My friends were changing the water in their duck pond every day or so, and I suggested Duckponics. They looked at me like I was crazy, then actually built the darn thing
The plastic grow bed was the original pond. They drained it, and dug another pond next to it (they moved the old pond outside the fence to keep all of the birds/goats out of it.

In this pic, you can see that the ducks/geese have it stirred up, but you can still see the bottom. Its knee deep there.

additional solids filter.


Clear water!

The gravel bed is a piece of floating dock that my pal salvaged, and the swirl filter is an old swimming pool filter that I salvaged from a pool shop dumpster. He built a bell siphon in the bed that fills/drains every 15 minutes. When the swirl filter gets loaded up with solids, one can just oped the valve at the bottom and clear it.

That's amazing! what a great setup!!!

 

[Chris Herzog]

I'm sorry...#13176

Thanks I'll give it a try

Chris

 

[NonnasBabies]

Do you all have anything like that but something that would work for flies?

CH

Chris, I can tell you the vanilla doesn't work for me. I had a 16oz spray bottle mixed almost a whole bottle of pure vanilla extract and sprayed all in the coop. Spray, the fly flew away and then came right back. Tried spraying it around the porch and didn't help at all. The hubs even joked that "yea that stuff works great!" And pointed to the spray bottle.. There was a fly sitting on top!!

I still plan on trying the hanging air fresheners so see how they work!

 

[NonnasBabies]

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone is doing well this morning. I don't know if the mosquitoes are over populated in your area but they are in mine. I had been spraying Skin So Soft by Avon and that was helping with the mosquitoes but I forgot to spray for a few days and the mosquitoes tore up my baby turkeys. They don't look to good. I washed them down last night with saline solution and put ointment on their scabs. I sprayed them down very well last night and will continue to spray for the entire summer. I just ordered (2) 24 oz bottles from one of my customers who sells Avon and I will be ordering another (2) 32 oz bottles (on Sale for $9.99 at this time). Please be careful out there with those mosquitoes everyone . I forgot how bad they can be and the damage. I know it's too late to get the vaccine but I am DEFINITELY getting the vaccine next year. I have never lost any birds yet and I don't want to. I have open/air coops, so that doesn't help. For those of you that have closed chicken houses or coops, YOU ARE LUCKY. You don't have to worry too much about mosquitoes getting in there.
Missi, keep an eye on your baby turkeys. Mine look horrible!
On a lighter side, I had 1 (yes, I said ONE) duckling to hatch on yesterday. I had a broody duck that I felt sorry for, so I put 4 duck eggs under her. I now have the baby duck inside with the baby pea chick. I hope no more ducklings hatch.

I will put the baby back with her so that she can enjoy her baby.

One more week before lock down for the pea eggs. I am on pins and needles.

I'll keep an eye on them for sure!! Thanks for the heads up Julie!!

Keeping my fingers crossed for you!!

 

[Sprinkles212]

Good to know for future reference (the vanilla or orange in water spray bottle).

 

[catdaddyfro]

Anybody ever tried citronella oil I got this from wikipedia:

The United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ considers oil of citronella as a biopesticide with a non-toxic mode of action.[3] Research also shows that citronella oil has strong antifungal properties,[4][5][6] and is effective in calming barking dogs.[7

Works wonders in keeping mosquitos away at nighttime too

 

[RusticDreamer]

Chris, I can tell you the vanilla doesn't work for me. I had a 16oz spray bottle mixed almost a whole bottle of pure vanilla extract and sprayed all in the coop. Spray, the fly flew away and then came right back. Tried spraying it around the porch and didn't help at all. The hubs even joked that "yea that stuff works great!" And pointed to the spray bottle.. There was a fly sitting on top!!

I still plan on trying the hanging air fresheners so see how they work!

Barred, try rosemary, mint or bay leaves (we used real, not dried) for the flies. Vanilla or the citrus fruit is good for the mosquitos

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good morning everyone. Hope that everyone is having a good day. I wanted to post a few pics that I took yesterday in the chicken yard.

Here are pics of the TMT (TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE) group. I have to keep my camera on hand because I never know what I'm going to see. There was a lot of chest bumping going on in the chicken yard yesterday. They are headed for the POT if they don't sell first.

Sorry about the blurry pics. There was a LOT of movement going on. :/

WHY ME?

 

[grambysfarm]

Good morning everyone. Hope that everyone is having a good day. I wanted to post a few pics that I took yesterday in the chicken yard.
Here are pics of the TMT (TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE) group.

I have to keep my camera on hand because I never know what I'm going to see. There was a lot of chest bumping going on in the chicken yard yesterday. They are headed for the POT if they don't sell first.
Sorry about the blurry pics. There was a LOT of movement going on.

WHY ME?

Beautiful birds!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good morning everyone. Hope that everyone is having a good day. I wanted to post a few pics that I took yesterday in the chicken yard.

Here are pics of the TMT (TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE) group. I have to keep my camera on hand because I never know what I'm going to see. There was a lot of chest bumping going on in the chicken yard yesterday. They are headed for the POT if they don't sell first.

Sorry about the blurry pics. There was a LOT of movement going on. :/
WHY ME?

    Beautiful birds! 

Thank you.

Don't let the looks fool you.

They will rip your eyeballs out and won't even think twice.