North Carolina

[2Sesslers]

Beer traps do work. My hubby would call that alcohol abuse, though!

I think my husband would agree! However I don't see me emptying one of those. Ew! I also read about a mix of crushed egg shells and coffee grounds. I will let y'all know how that goes

Thanks for all the help!

 

[2Sesslers]

Here's a link with natural suggestions. http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_slug_cntrl.htm I want to try the beer one but my son-in-law doesn't want to give up one of his beers!

Thanks!! I am trying the coffee grounds/crushed egg shells combo now. Will let you know how it goes.

 

[chicken dad]

Dutch, yes I used it through last summer. I meaured off 4 feet and built a wall and put chickenwire across it. I made a door for people acess. they can go out the pop door to get to the run anytime they want. With the fan in there it seems to really help. by leaving the doors open and having that fan run when it hits the set temp, it really pulls a good breeze through the shed. The fan is one of those actic fans from Lowes. Didn't really notice that much of a jump in my electric bill either. Hope this helps.

 

[greenchickenman]

Feed them to your chickens
You can pour salt on them to kill them, but it seems like a waste if it could be a chicken treat.....

I have always been told that slugs are poisoness to chickens. I think you will find they won't eat them.

 

[Matt A NC]

I have had a few hens that ate slugs. No idea why and they always ended up with a sticky mess on their faces, but they did eat them and came back to find another.

Matt

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

My son, Jonathan, had chores... if he got bored.... I could always find him something to do.

He still played video games, but he had to earn the privilege.
Even my mentally handicapped son, Joshua, has chores... like picking up his room and yard chores. We try to keep him mobile and motivated.

When I was a kid... both my parents worked and didn't get home until 5:30 - 6pm.
Me and my brother (who was 2 years my senior) were expected to clean the house and have dinner started by the time they got home... and this was when we were 10-12 years old. Kids today would have the house burned down.

We heated with wood... so there was wood to chop (with a mallet & chisel) the hard way... on weekends we'd go to a wooded area with our dad and he'd cut down a tree, cut it up, & we would load the truck up. When we got home we would unload the wood into a pile, that later would have to be busted up and moved to the burn pile, for the woodstove.
During the summer it was gardening... my grandma lived across the road from us and we'd plant, weed, harvest, shell & put up veggies.. So summer vacation wasn't a big vacation for us.
Our payment you ask??? We got to eat, we stayed warm, had a roof over our heads and learned to value what we had..... because even as kids... we had to work for it.
There were pigs to be slopped... cows to be fed... and when they were slaughtered we had meat in the freezer. We didn't have any chickens.. my dad hated them for some reason.

Sometimes we'd take on a summer job barning tobacco, to help buy our school clothes.
I don't regret my childhood.... we didn't have the spare time to be bored.

 

[FireAntFarmer]

Kids today..... I spent my summers on my grandparents farm. I was plowing, sowing, combining and shoveling grain, driving the grain truck and everything else by the time I was eleven. When I was twelve, I hauled and barn stacked 1200 bales of hay by myself using the choke to keep the pickup running as I stood on the running board (funny they named it that!) and steered to the next bale through the window and jumped off to meet the next bale so I could toss it in and jump back on the running board. Don't get me started about the cattle and goats!

One bath a week whether I needed it or not. The only entertainment was Johnny Carson's show then off to bed for sunrise and more work was on it's way.


What a sense of accomplishment. I learned I could use my mind and body to accomplish anything. I am sad for today's generation that they don't have or appreciate that opportunity to learn the things I did.

And could someone please turn off the rain, heat, and humidity and give my cool spring weather back?

 

[Matt A NC]

Put 21 eggs in the Suro 20 Sunday that I got Saturday at Chickenstock. 6 Marans, 6 Faverolle, and 9 polish. All Large Fowl.

The LF cochin eggs I set after Big Boy dropped dead were of course infertile. He was show quality and I had not trimmed him yet for breeding. I knew with the volume of feathers/fluff he had would never allow any sperm get to a hen. Even knowing the eggs were most likely infertile I still had to try, oh well.

Matt

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

Like everyone, I grew up doing chores and passed
the tradition on to our children and like me they
didn't like it at the time but appreciate it now and
the lessons learned. I think all kids would like to have
things but not chores and all parents want better for their
kids than what they had when they were kids.........and
to me that is where the problem starts.......some folks
forget the that giving kids chores helps them to learn
skills and be prepared for life. As was said......I'd be a
bad parent if I didn't teach my kids how to care for
themselves and be able to do for themselves.....JMHO

hope everyone has a good day

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

[COLOR=008000]Good morning folks  [/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]Like everyone, I grew up doing chores and passed[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]the tradition on to our children and like me they[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]didn't like it at the time but appreciate it now and[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]the lessons learned. I think all kids would like to have[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]things but not chores and all parents want better for their[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]kids than what they had when they were kids.........and[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]to me that is where the problem starts.......some folks[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]forget the that giving kids chores helps them to learn[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]skills and be prepared for life. As was said......I'd be a[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]bad parent if I didn't teach my kids how to care for[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]themselves and be able to do for themselves.....JMHO  [/COLOR]


[COLOR=008000]hope everyone has a good day  [/COLOR]

CSB, you always say things exactly right.

Good Morning, Happy Chicken People!
Looks like another day of intermittent rain. At least I manage to get work done inside on rainy days!