NY chicken lover!!!!

[stonykill]

and "mama" my professional broody and 2 of her 4 fuzzy butt Sumatra's!



the other 2 are already in their shed here. She is leading these 2 in.

 

[Glasshen]

Vm, I didn't know that honeybees drill. Here we have boring bees that look like bumble bees with shiny butts and bore into the soffet of our house. Them we use a special powder on, which isn't good for them and wouldn't be good for your horses.

Could you do something like mashing garlic in that area and into the hole so they would find it less of a perfect place?

 

[featherz]

I looooove Manhattan! Used to be there half the week every week (DH works there) but with the animals I just go down on the occasional friday now.

It's too durn hot out here! I let all the birds out this morning even though I'd be at work - easier than setting up fans - just let them go hang out in the forest and they'll be just fine. Everyone was a-ok when I got home. Baby chicks in the barn are very happy and were sprawled out on top of the ecoglow =)

My broodies are all still sitting and yesterday I saw my AWOL broody - saw an extra SS running around doing that broody 'stay out of my way' cluck and realized my chicken was back. Tried to find her hidden nest but she evaded me. grr. There's seven eggs under each of the 'coop' broodies thanks to Java Girl (who took home a couple of pretty baby roos in exchange) and I have seven poor little eggs in my brinsea from my own girls as backup in case those don't hatch (or even if they do, they can go under mama too).,

 

[marquisella]

Those are "carpenter bees" not honey bees. They will destroy the wood. Honey bees do not make holes in wood. The best thing you can do is spray with wasp killer & destroy them before they destroy your barn.

OK you honey bee people out there. I have a slight problem. I have honey bees drilling into a beam(pressure treated) in my horse barn. They are right wear my horse lets his nose hang. The bees are going in and backing out, several a minute. I would love to encourage them somewhere else on the Property, but they can not stay there. I do not want to kill the poor things, but you know, they can't stay there. Any suggestions, anything? Help. Honey bees have had a very hard time these past few years.

 

[Sachasmom]

Awww how cute! Are those baby mini rex bunnies? That's another pet we'll be adding - but definitely not until July/August sometime. Baby bunnies! Not sure what kind yet. I've always been a fan of Holland Lops.

They're Rex or Rex/LH crosses, the offspring of whatever is loose ATM basically! (I raise Silver Fox, Rex and Lionheads, so it could be a mix of any/all of them, lol) If anyone wants one, come get it, FREE! You Catch.

I have extra fertile hatching eggs if anyone needs any, $6 dozen mixed duck eggs (Crested Cayuga over Cayuga hens and Buff hens, The buff/Cayuga crosses hatch out blue, very pretty!) All of my ducks go broody too.

I also have Black/Lav Ameraucana eggs, $8 dozen (Black Roo over Black and one Lav hen) The Roo might be split for Lav. All very nice typy birds, laying blue to blue green eggs (I need to get a chart, since my blue green might be your green, ya know? )

PM me if you're interested, I can do PU in Bloomfield NY or ship them if my car ever gets fixed!

 

[vmdanielsen]

Vm, I didn't know that honeybees drill. Here we have boring bees that look like bumble bees with shiny butts and bore into the soffet of our house. Them we use a special powder on, which isn't good for them and wouldn't be good for your horses.
Could you do something like mashing garlic in that area and into the hole so they would find it less of a perfect place?

Those are "carpenter bees" not honey bees. They will destroy the wood. Honey bees do not make holes in wood. The best thing you can do is spray with wasp killer & destroy them before they destroy your barn.

Ran into a local bee keeper at my son's ball game.. We have had wood bees....the shiny butts, they are not wood bees. The local bee keeper will stop by tomorrow. If they are honey, he will take them. anything else will be eradicated. Thanks for the input!

 

[stonykill]

I was always told the wood boring bee's don't live where they bore. They are just taking the sawdust to their nest. A few year ago I had a lazy wood boring bee. He would come in my shop and pick up sawdust off the floor

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Here is what I was told would work, and it did work for me. Put Sevin in the hole. I used a dollar store turkey baster to puff it in their holes. They bring the sevin back to their nest and it kills them.

 

[Cass]

I was always told the wood boring bee's don't live where they bore. They are just taking the sawdust to their nest. A few year ago I had a lazy wood boring bee. He would come in my shop and pick up sawdust off the floor

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Here is what I was told would work, and it did work for me. Put Sevin in the hole. I used a dollar store turkey baster to puff it in their holes. They bring the sevin back to their nest and it kills them.

Wonderful. I have borer bees (Carpenter bees) in my buildings. If it's wood they are there. My favorite sport is Carpenter bee badmitten....they usually don't survive the volley, but it's a fun sport. Now I know how to really kill them....after all these years I can finally kill the little buggers.

 

[Henicillin]

We have the Ultimate Chicken Roundup Weapon now. Last year, we got this huge inflatable frog for the pool. It was pretty well impossible to sit on, but it was adorable, so we kept it. At the end of the season, rather than putting it in the shed or garage, Alan stuck it in the playroom half of the coop. A few days ago, we discovered that the ratchafratching mice had found it and made a handy-dandy nest in the middle of the folds. As he was in the middle of something at the time, Alan tossed it out of the coop, where it landed outside the run. Cue absolute hysteria as the roos went berserk. All three of them started screaming their heads off (like a loud, screeching version of the egg song), and they first herded the girls to the far end of the run, and then into the coop. They didn't let up for a good ten minutes, as they're drama queen boys. Of course, we thought this was hilarious. We finally put the thing up on the deck, as removing it from their sight was the only way to shut the lunatics up.

So, yesterday, because it was nice out, he let them out of the run to wander around a temporarily fenced area for a while. After a couple of hours, he wanted to put them back in the run, but they were having none of it. He tried food - nope. He tried coaxing them back in - yeah, right. Then, he spotted the frog. He picked that up and waved it in their general direction, and every last one of them practically tripped over his or her own wings in the headlong flight to the coop. Success! So, now that's the Official Chicken Herding Frog.

 

[demp4]

We have the Ultimate Chicken Roundup Weapon now. Last year, we got this huge inflatable frog for the pool. It was pretty well impossible to sit on, but it was adorable, so we kept it. At the end of the season, rather than putting it in the shed or garage, Alan stuck it in the playroom half of the coop. A few days ago, we discovered that the ratchafratching mice had found it and made a handy-dandy nest in the middle of the folds. As he was in the middle of something at the time, Alan tossed it out of the coop, where it landed outside the run. Cue absolute hysteria as the roos went berserk. All three of them started screaming their heads off (like a loud, screeching version of the egg song), and they first herded the girls to the far end of the run, and then into the coop. They didn't let up for a good ten minutes, as they're drama queen boys. Of course, we thought this was hilarious. We finally put the thing up on the deck, as removing it from their sight was the only way to shut the lunatics up.

So, yesterday, because it was nice out, he let them out of the run to wander around a temporarily fenced area for a while. After a couple of hours, he wanted to put them back in the run, but they were having none of it. He tried food - nope. He tried coaxing them back in - yeah, right. Then, he spotted the frog. He picked that up and waved it in their general direction, and every last one of them practically tripped over his or her own wings in the headlong flight to the coop. Success! So, now that's the Official Chicken Herding Frog.

Thanks for the laugh. I could just picture that!


I have another silkie that went broody is must be catchy now that she sees her sister raising chicks. But all our roos ended up in freezercamp so now I have to go get fertile eggs for her...

Rancher- Have any eggs I can swing by and get when you feel better of course! Hope you are feeling better!