"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Cody A]

^Good to know the hummers are here. SPRING!

 

[campingshaws]

Any suggestions for mosquitoes? My entire yard is still holding water, with more rain coming. I'm extremely tempted to sprinkle sevin around the coop. Tonight I went to lock up and it sounded like a hail storm with all the pecking.

Maybe a bug zapper? Will it attract mosquitoes? Or maybe a fan to blow them around. I'm looking for catnip and lemongrass to plant in the yard, but no luck yet. I just feel so bad for them.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Lemon I ordered the broiler booster from Mcmurry. The feed stores around here only have Durvet http://www.durvet.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=99:vitamins-and-electrolytes&Itemid=66 It has some but not all of what's in the broiler booster. It may have been fine to use but I don't know.

Thank you again for the advice  I'll probably have more questions along the way.

I would still finish the last two weeks with grain and dariy. Maybe do a test half with and the other without. I'm curious if you taste a difference.Pam

 

[Cody A]

Pam I'd like to know if there is a difference also but probably won't have the room to split them up. The BR's I processed sure are tasty though. They were fed a 50/50 ratio of "scratch-n-peck" scratch grains and Dumor grower and free ranged everyday except for the last three weeks.

 

[LemonMeringue]

Any suggestions for mosquitoes? My entire yard is still holding water, with more rain coming. I'm extremely tempted to sprinkle sevin around the coop. Tonight I went to lock up and it sounded like a hail storm with all the pecking.

Maybe a bug zapper? Will it attract mosquitoes? Or maybe a fan to blow them around. I'm looking for catnip and lemongrass to plant in the yard, but no luck yet. I just feel so bad for them.

I don't know if Sevin does anything to mosquitoes. But if you have standing water maybe those granuals that you can throw into ponds would work. But you would have to check and see if they are safe for the chickens in case they eat any. As far as the catnip is concerned, I won't pay the prices for as many plants as I need to work on the amount of mosquitoes we have, HAHaHA!!! So my solution was to go buy a few packages of seeds. I still need to check on safety for having it close to where the chickens might eat it. But I have plenty of places to put it.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Any suggestions for mosquitoes? My entire yard is still holding water, with more rain coming. I'm extremely tempted to sprinkle sevin around the coop. Tonight I went to lock up and it sounded like a hail storm with all the pecking.

Maybe a bug zapper? Will it attract mosquitoes? Or maybe a fan to blow them around. I'm looking for catnip and lemongrass to plant in the yard, but no luck yet. I just feel so bad for them.

We use a fogger for mosquitoes. We have the bayou just a little ways down from the coop & they are a real problem for us. We have 3 purple martin houses but they can only do so much. Jim fogs at sundown, the hedges all around the house & the coop & barn. We've been doing it for years & I've never noticed any ill effects from it - usually do it about twice a week during the times when they are really bad.

 

[LemonMeringue]

Hey Cody, even with raising 25 brokers we didn't use that whole package. But I wasn't able to keep it because I didn't realize that it would absorb so much moisture in our humid environment. By the time we got to the end of that batch it was very much stuck together and clumpy. If I got it again I would take half at least and store it very air tightly. I hated that the remainder got wasted.

 

[campingshaws]

Thanks y'all. I don't know why I didn't think of the fogger.

I can't find catnip seeds, either. I'm not looking in garden centers, though. Just the little dollar stores around here.

I found this website of plants: http://m.dummies.com/how-to/content...our-chicken-.pageCd-storyboard,pageNum-1.html

And I want to try them all. Catnip, feverfew, lavender, and wormwood. The first two are particularly compelling. I also want to plant borders of lemongrass around. And I could use a fogger in the meantime.

A guy who came over to see the flock was telling me about "mosquito barrier" which is essentially a garlic spray. It sounded promising also.

I've wanted bat boxes forever. Maybe I should look more into the purple martins also. I was reading The Chicken Chick's blog and she said her chickens solved the mosquito problem. Sounds like she must have had a mosquito inconvenience and not a full-out problem.

 

[Cody A]

Hey Cody, even with raising 25 brokers we didn't use that whole package. But I wasn't able to keep it because I didn't realize that it would absorb so much moisture in our humid environment. By the time we got to the end of that batch it was very much stuck together and clumpy. If I got it again I would take half at least and store it very air tightly. I hated that the remainder got wasted.

I read the fine print on the package and it says it can be used if becomes hard. I guess it would have to be crushed up to get a good measure. I imagine a lot of moisture would eventually ruin it though. Do you think it would hurt to use this for regular large fowl chicks? To take the place of the expensive Save-a-Chick vitamin and probiotics. I'll have more Barred Rock chicks in a couple months.

 

[campingshaws]

Blackberries? This is a fairly big plant growing up fr that pipe. We've always mowed it down. :/ There are little thorn suckers all over the yard, 6-12" high. Maybe they're blackberries too? I'm thinking now about moving them along the low spots in the perimeter fence for some cover. The chickens don't touch them.