"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[TerriLaChicks]

Congrats on the Golden Marans! Whoo-hooo!!!!

We have armadillos around but they never have tried to do anything to any of the poultry, just dig up my caladium bulbs & plants. I don't mind if they stay down at the bayou but I dont' want them digging around the hedges, which they like to do sometimes. When I find their tunnels I pour a box of mothballs down it & that makes them go away.

funny story: last summer I had just finished putting up a batch of pickles late one night & I heard a thumping & bumping along the living room wall - it was an armadillo - they can't see well at all & go stumbling around running into things -- I had a pot of leftover vinegar in my hand & I ran out the front door & poured it right on top of the hedge -- a young armadillo jumped up about 4 feet in the air, lept over the hedge & flew across the field. I never saw it come around my hedge again! Guess it didn't like being pickled.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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LOL @ it didn't like being pickled.

My laugh for the day. Thanks!

 

[grambysfarm]

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I didn't know about the mothball trick. Pickled Armadillo! You may be on to something

 

[Cajun_Magnolia]

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I didn't know about the mothball trick. Pickled Armadillo! You may be on to something

I bet you could sell it as a delicacy!

 

[Paisaneaux]

I had an armadillo in my pool that looked like a VW beetle! It took a great deal of effort to rescue it.

I had one as a pet when I was a kid. His name was Freddy Krueger, and he would sit on an ant mound and slurp them up for hours. I nearly starved it to death with potatoes and carrots and found out that they are insectivores only after I turned him loose and watched him go to work on the ants. They love the grubworms and nightcrawlers, and will destroy your yard if they smell them there.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Someone contacted me and is interested in purchasing Blue Wheaton Ameraucanas and Buff Brahmas but I do not have any to sell. If anyone here as any to sell, let me know and I will connect you to that person so that you can make a sell. Thanks!

 

[NonnasBabies]

Well, so far I have 8 that have hatched. I waited till this last one came out and hurried up and got the other 7 out! Was getting way crowded in there!! Keeping my fingers crossed that the last 2 hatch!!

 

[grambysfarm]

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That is so cool! And, these are shipped eggs?

 

[amylou22]

Babies!!! Mine got big so fast.

 

[amylou22]

In the middle of the night, I found the post about butchering your own chickens. The one with pics. I made it to pic 3 and realized that there is no way I can do it.