Texas

[AllenK RGV]

Georgie here is still available!

If you love the roo have you considered trying to get away with the "no crow collar" that bow tie add on just cracks me up.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Anyone else in TX experiencing the Caterpillar Apocalypse? Fortunately the chicken love these things and seriously only take 5 minutes to completely fill out their crops. I just hate it cause when supervising their free ranging these stupid things crawl all over my feet. No idea what kind of butterfly these turn into it has mostly yellow wings with like a 1 inch wingspan with white wingtips and possibly some diffuse black spots in the white tips.

 

[TexasSam]

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Anyone else in TX experiencing the Caterpillar Apocalypse? Fortunately the chicken love these things and seriously only take 5 minutes to completely fill out their crops. I just hate it cause when supervising their free ranging these stupid things crawl all over my feet. No idea what kind of butterfly these turn into it has mostly yellow wings with like a 1 inch wingspan with white wingtips and possibly some diffuse black spots in the white tips.

I have big hairy ones here and my birds don't like to eat them but they love locas and junebugs

 

[AllenK RGV]

Yeah anything in Texas that is hairy probably stings or at least irritates the skin. Also things that live in the dark between logs or under stones are a bad choice for handling. I'm just thinking about all the times I find scorpions, recluses, or those freaky colored centipedes that are 6 inches long and lightning fast. Tomato hornworms just look scary but are harmless but I was adraid of those things for years in the metroplex.

 

[TexasSam]

Yeah anything in Texas that is hairy probably stings or at least irritates the skin. Also things that live in the dark between logs or under stones are a bad choice for handling. I'm just thinking about all the times I find scorpions, recluses, or those freaky colored centipedes that are 6 inches long and lightning fast. Tomato hornworms just look scary but are harmless but I was adraid of those things for years in the metroplex.

Shoot my chickens eat wasp and yellow jackets they chase them down and snatch them out of the air

 

[AllenK RGV]

Shoot my chickens eat wasp and yellow jackets they chase them down and snatch them out of the air

Mine haven't gotten to that level they will chase butterflies for about 2 seconds before they just give up and go back to foraging. I have no doubts that these Sumatras will get there too!

 

[AllenK RGV]

Getting kind of excited the weatherman says we are going to get to experience 2 days of Fall like Temps here after midnight with this cold front. I am really looking forward to being able to mow the yard without sweating like a pig. I'm sure the mowing will put an end to the caterpillar apocalypse as well we are experiencing. I love this time of year when you can just open up all the windows and not turn on the A/C until late March or early April.

Any other Texans looking forward to the cold front? I know my chicken want a break from the heat.

 

[TexasSam]

Getting kind of excited the weatherman says we are going to get to experience 2 days of Fall like Temps here after midnight with this cold front. I am really looking forward to being able to mow the yard without sweating like a pig. I'm sure the mowing will put an end to the caterpillar apocalypse as well we are experiencing. I love this time of year when you can just open up all the windows and not turn on the A/C until late March or early April.

Any other Texans looking forward to the cold front? I know my chicken want a break from the heat.

It is in the 60s here I wish it would stay this way all year

 

[AllenK RGV]

It is in the 60s here I wish it would stay this way all year

Yes move up into the mountains of Puerto Rico you can pick your temperatures there. But to do that I think I would plan on generating my own power. Oh turns out my caterpillars are moth larvae from something called Army Moths according to my wifes facebook friends. I got to mow about .25 acres today and sweat like a pig hopefully mulched a few in. Tomorrows high should be 77F for us will be a nice mow day=)

 

[AllenK RGV]

Yippee, on monday I was able to mow the rest of my lot with a push mower. Took me about 5 hours as I'm lazy and take loads of breaks, but that saved me 100 dollars by not hiring "my guy" to do the yard. It was in the 70's and so pleasant of an experience it just took so long as I found way too many native milkweeds of the "Zizotes" variety and had to dodge those and all of the other natives that were flowering per my wife's wishes. Regarding the zizotes man if I can get those to go to seed I can make some serious internet bank it seems to be impossible to source online, at least when I was trying to find them 6 months ago I failed. Now I know where 5 of them are so i'll be on the lookout for seed pods.