I've been mixing ff with dry feed about 50/50, and then when it freezes it"s crumbly, so I can easily stir it around. Then at least they're getting
some food that's been fermented!
Hows about you send some of that my way?
Actually, I think we're warming up and supposed to get freezing rain (instead of snow) at the end of the week. Not so sure that's better...
Hey, that was me! To be fair, it was a pullet that hadn't laid an egg before, but I could tell she was just about to because she kept trying to make a comfy nest is the same place (under the nest boxes) that the other laying hen had gone. So I took the other hen's freshly laid egg and showed it to the new hen - she pecked at it a few times, and then watched me put it in a nest box. Then she looked away, so I took it out and did it again. Then I picked her up and put her in the nest box with the egg, and she rolled it around a little, and then I guess she decided that was where to lay, because she's laid all her eggs in nest boxes. And now the first one does too!
Oh, good!!! One of the things I say "all the time" (according to my kids, anyway) is Whatever works. Literally, if it works, then do it.
I'm glad the first hen is laying in the nesting box instead of under it too!!!
Good idea not to use poison. That stuff is incredibly nasty. If you have any mammal pets or kids, I would advise never using poison, just in case. It can be toxic to animals (like dogs & cats) that eat the animal initially killed by the poison. It's a slow, horrible way to die, too - it makes the animal bleed out internally.
Traps are much faster and more humane in general. We often use live traps, and then drive the animals (haven't had rats, but have mice and raccoons) a few miles away across a river and release them. I don't know what we'd do if we had rats, though. Probably live trap them too. But it takes more time and effort, and in this weather, might make the captured animal freeze to death! But I hear that's not really too bad a way to go.
I'm just rambling now. I guess I should get off the computer and help my daughter get her stuff ready for going back to school tomorrow. She can't find her scissors or her
favorite eraser. Panic time... Hey! Favorite erasers are no joke!!!
I kid. We have four, there's a favorite something that causes panic time for each of them (some more things and others more panic). I guess we're all like that as kids; I'm glad I don't remember being that way. lol
