San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[MissusC]

Thanks. Emily says it is a male black widow.
I have since found half a dozen more adults, as well as babies. Just having a minor freak here. Hate using chemicals but this is a safety issue.

Phage: chemicals are not all that effective against widows (brown or black). The best control of widows is making sure you sweep webs regularly and destroy egg sacks (we use a butane torch and go out on patrol). The spiders themselves must be a contact kill, whether that be a wasp spray or a show. "Normal" pesticides and barrier pesticides don't work on these guys.

 

[MissusC]

"The spiders themselves must be a contact kill, whether that be a wasp spray or a show."

Sorry that should be "shoe" not show. I can't imagine taking them out to dinner and a show being very effective...unless it was a really bad show.

 

[dfdesigns]

I am in full-on gross out mode this morning... holy crap, Deb!

We have lots of black widows here, and they meet the underside of my shoe regularly. Rattlesnakes get introduced to our super-sharp cutting blade. Glenn just relocated a tarantula from the barn last week...she/ he was fortunate that the chickens didn't find him first!

Does anybody here use roll-out nest boxes?

 

[ozexpat]

I am in full-on gross out mode this morning... holy crap, Deb!

We have lots of black widows here, and they meet the underside of my shoe regularly. Rattlesnakes get introduced to our super-sharp cutting blade. Glenn just relocated a tarantula from the barn last week...she/ he was fortunate that the chickens didn't find him first!

Does anybody here use roll-out nest boxes?

I have used a roll out bed - but I am a little big for a nest

 

[perchie.girl]

"The spiders themselves must be a contact kill, whether that be a wasp spray or a show."

Sorry that should be "shoe" not show. I can't imagine taking them out to dinner and a show being very effective...unless it was a really bad show.

 

[perchie.girl]

I am in full-on gross out mode this morning... holy crap, Deb!

We have lots of black widows here, and they meet the underside of my shoe regularly. Rattlesnakes get introduced to our super-sharp cutting blade. Glenn just relocated a tarantula from the barn last week...she/ he was fortunate that the chickens didn't find him first!

Does anybody here use roll-out nest boxes?

I have a design for a community roll out nest box. Essentially a Tunnel nest with a tray that collects the eggs underneath. My idea is to have just the tray pull out through an access point in the wall of the coop. Sort of like about the size of a silverware drawer. But it would be the length of the roll out nest box. A single tunnel nest box is good for at least twenty hens. Tunnel nests look somewhat like a kids toy chest about as long and deep with a single nesting chamber inside. Several hens can go in at once to lay eggs.

My concept:
The box itself will be three feet long with a single hole for a darkened interior The whole inside is sloped to the back with a slot to allow the eggs to roll into the collection tray in the drawer. I have to build a prototype out of scraps in order to do Proof of concept.... or make sure I got the slopes right so on eggs break.


For what its worth Roll out nest boxes are an excellent solution for keeping eggs clean as well as discouraging egg eaters. I am actually figuring a way to chill that lower tray just a few degrees because of my own egg collection circumstances. With no electricity.

deb

 

[alisar]

I have some young BBR's (unsexed) that I'd like to find homes for.. I'd love to trade the bantam pairs for a large bag of lay crumbles or pellets.....

Why, why did you say this!!!!

 

[salkxsj]

I will if you still have them

 

[BANDT]

Hi Everyone, This is my first post but I have been monitoring this thread for over a year. Even attended a couple meet-up's. I have gotten myself in situation that I now need to resolve. I adopted three hens a few weeks from a co-worker of my Wife's who was moving from a house into an appartment and could no longer keep their chickens. I took in two Rhode Island Red's and one Red Sex-link. I had hoped I could intergrate them into my small flock of Buff Orpingtons but needless to say the results have been un-successful. Perhaps if the new addtions were younger I might had more luck but in any case the RR's are causing havoc and have to admit defeat and try to find them all a new home. They need to go to a home with other chickens of similar temperament or dispostion. In the end however they just need to go. The one Red Sex-link is a sweetheart but it would not be fair just to keep her, she needs to be with her flock mates. Ages? To the best of my knowledge the RR's are about a year old and the Sex-link about nine months older. Appear to be good layers, all three of them. Not looking for any money for them and I would be willing to deliver or meet in north county area or in the Temecula area.

 

[Phage]

Hi Everyone, This is my first post but I have been monitoring this thread for over a year. Even attended a couple meet-up's. I have gotten myself in situation that I now need to resolve. I adopted three hens a few weeks from a co-worker of my Wife's who was moving from a house into an appartment and could no longer keep their chickens. I took in two Rhode Island Red's and one Red Sex-link. I had hoped I could intergrate them into my small flock of Buff Orpingtons but needless to say the results have been un-successful. Perhaps if the new addtions were younger I might had more luck but in any case the RR's are causing havoc and have to admit defeat and try to find them all a new home. They need to go to a home with other chickens of similar temperament or dispostion. In the end however they just need to go. The one Red Sex-link is a sweetheart but it would not be fair just to keep her, she needs to be with her flock mates. Ages? To the best of my knowledge the RR's are about a year old and the Sex-link about nine months older. Appear to be good layers, all three of them. Not looking for any money for them and I would be willing to deliver or meet in north county area or in the Temecula area.

Welcome to BYC San Diego page!!

I am sure you will find takers for your hens