San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[perchie.girl]

LOL there used to be a restaurant in Ramona called Road Kill Cafe.... seriously sick people made up the menu..... it was a barbque place ....I doubt if it still exists.


deb

 

[hillfloweranch]

LOL  there used to be a restaurant in Ramona called Road Kill Cafe....  seriously sick people made up the menu.....  it was a barbque place ....I doubt if it still exists.


deb

LMAO!! I wanna go there

 

[OffGridMAMA]

Oh wow I missed all this squirrel fun

We are near a creek and on the side of a mountain...so the critters greatly outnumber us but I won't go down without a fight! I want to grow my own food!!! Um carne-asada squirrel will be featured at the meetup lol.

 

[hillfloweranch]

Oh wow I missed all this squirrel fun

We are near a creek and on the side of a mountain...so the critters greatly outnumber us but I won't go down without a fight! I want to grow my own food!!! Um carne-asada squirrel will be featured at the meetup lol.

I'll bring the salsa!! lol

 

[alisar]

Mmmm, squirrel asada!

I was a little irritated at the hawk couple that lives up in the eucalyptus trees a house down from my chicken runs. They kept picking off my dutch bantams and my buttercups (but it was my own fault, the pen wasn't secure enough for those tiny tiny teenage chickens) but I have to say there are no squirrels around there!

I'm going to be planting a chicken salad plot there, I think I'm going to be laying down galvanized chicken wire and doing raised beds. There's a ton of gopher holes all over the place. I also suspect they are eating some of the chicken feed

 

[RHRanch]

Ordinarily I am a live and let live sort of person, but the past 2 years the squirrels around here have gotten out of control. I refuse to drown them in that squirrel-a-nator thing, so I am working on exclusion, but it is not easy, especially since my neighbors across the street that have horses have allowed the squirrels to put in a small apartment complex around thier arena.

 

[sarah92107]

I'm going to be planting a chicken salad plot there, I think I'm going to be laying down galvanized chicken wire and doing raised beds. There's a ton of gopher holes all over the place. I also suspect they are eating some of the chicken feed

Place your raised beds off the ground like up on cinder blocks. Then you will save your back from bending over and you'll never have a gopher problem that will make you act like Bill Murray in Cadyshack. Whom i felt like till i put in double layers of chicken wire under my raised beds.

 

[perchie.girl]

Ordinarily I am a live and let live sort of person, but the past 2 years the squirrels around here have gotten out of control. I refuse to drown them in that squirrel-a-nator thing, so I am working on exclusion, but it is not easy, especially since my neighbors across the street that have horses have allowed the squirrels to put in a small apartment complex around thier arena.

OK I took a kind of serious look at the Joking side of eating Ground squirrel. NOT a Good idea from all reports. AND a very good idea to do due dilligence in reducing the populations. They carry Plague. Once the squirrel dies the fleas leap off and find another host. So handle them with gloves if you dispatch them....

deb

 

[alisar]

OGM, I wonder if putting up some owl boxes or something would eat them? There's this one owl that lives on the property where I have my chickens and he's out and about during the day.

OK I took a kind of serious look at the Joking side of eating Ground squirrel. NOT a Good idea from all reports. AND a very good idea to do due dilligence in reducing the populations. They carry Plague. Once the squirrel dies the fleas leap off and find another host. So handle them with gloves if you dispatch them....

deb

I was thinking of just forage grassy sort of plants that I could just cut off the tips for the chickens to eat. But that's a great idea here at home for the veggies. Just can't do squats like I used to!

Place your raised beds off the ground like up on cinder blocks. Then you will save your back from bending over and you'll never have a gopher problem that will make you act like Bill Murray in Cadyshack. Whom i felt like till i put in double layers of chicken wire under my raised beds.

 

[chef glenn]

Hi Guys..

As some of you know, we have a serious situation with ground squirrels on Palomar.
NOT Tree Squirrels.
The plague somehow got carried over to our tree squirrels or maybe they had it
as well (?) and they were pretty much extinct for few years.

I treat ground squirrels as the vermin they are.
A powerful (1300 FPS) pellet rifle has difficulty penetrating their hide, whilst a
.22 is better but neighbors may interfere with your fire field.

My vote therefore is a single shot 410.
Really don't require an over & under as the pellet pattern can be
controlled for fairly upclose safe effectiveness.

As far as squirrel recipes, no thanks, too many other things to eat on this wonderful planet.
Ground squirrels CAN be skinned and fed to chickens BTW according to a friend from Georgia.
(My chickens weren't fond of THAT meal I am relieved to say).

Be Well
Glenn