The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah we would rather have goats 'mow' the lawn also. Now if they could do dishes and fold laundry, life would be perfect and I'd buy 6!

Even if they could my husband would not let them in the house. He has the most sensitive nose of anyone i know. He was saying he smelled the cat litter on the main floor of the house. I cleaned it last night and the box is upstairs. The only other litter is outside in a garbage container. And he said the guineas smell bad. Really, i could smell it from about 10 feet but the cage has not been there long. He said he smelled it from about 100 feet away! Lord help me!

 

[microchick]

I have a sensitive nose but it takes real intense smells to put me off. I mean, horses and chickens poop. Poop smells, the end but the one smell that really put me off this summer was the stench that the fly bait I used put off. Horrible Horrible Horrible. I swear it smelled as though something fell into an open outhouse pit and died badly.

The flies loved it. Seriously loved it as in I didn't even have nearly the fly problem this year that I had last year and there was a 3 week period where the flies were bad, I put four bait traps out with this truly horrible smelling bait in it around the run and coop and every time we walked by it my husband would say "The chickens stink!"

In all honesty the only way the chickens would smell that bad is if they fell down an open outhouse pit and died badly.

I gotta remember to order more of that stuff.

 

[pennyJo1960]

the son James found these fly bags you add water cut small whole in top for the fly's to come in but cannot get back out there will be 20 in the bag dying cuts them down to nothing in minutes

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh, husband would veto that. I heard those vanilla scented pine tree deodorizers kill flies.

 

[drumstick diva]

I don't know if those pine tree vanilla deodorizers really works., I use them indoors but, usually don't get flies till the weather gets colder. Then they are desperate to become house flies.

Does your husband like the chickens at all? Maybe he doesn't so complains about smell instead.

 

[CapricornFarm]

He complains about every smell, unless it's a smell he likes. I don't think he cares one way or another about chickens. He rarely eats eggs, but will eat chicken meat.

 

[perchie.girl]

I have 2 of them and I haven't had them attempt to wash dishes, yet.

However, their dinner is late and you should hear the sounds coming through the window.

I know that sound.... Desparate pitiful cries... the sounds of throats that have been cut.....

 

[Alaskan]

Son #3 was saying how he would be happy to have new undergarments...

He said the boxers I bought are made of such thin material that all you have to do is walk across the room and the back rips wide open, which doesn't really matter since there are so many holes in the front that they are really just a "suggestion" of underwear.

He said he didn't like the short boxer briefs that I had bought him....because his, achem, "junk" dangles further down than there is fabric. He says that this also defeats the purpose of underwear.

He says that there are still a few pairs of boxer briefs that cover all parts, but they bunch up between his legs and chafe.

He said it would be nice to own underwear that actually covered all parts and did not chafe.

He then told me about the page in the Duluth Trading Co. Catalog where they were selling the perfect pair of boxer briefs, for over $23 EACH!!


I almost ran off the road. I laughed so hard.

I told the child that commando was the only way to go, and that I had NEVER owned a pair of underwear that cost that much.

He said he couldn't go commando.. the inside of carhartts were too rough.

I said fine, make yourself a kilt and go commando.

He said that he is disinclined to follow my suggestion.

 

[microchick]

I think this bait is called POP! I bought it from Jeffers on line. There are bait traps you can buy specially made for the bait but I just took 2 liter pop bottles and cut the tops out of them, turned the top upside down in the remaining bottle, punched two holes on either side to accommodate a wire hanger and added the bait along with about 5 inches of water. The traps you buy you can dump out wash and reuse I guess but in all honesty I don't know who would have the stomach for it.

The longer it hangs the better it works and the worse it smells. I swear though, when they stopped working, I never failed to have a trap filled solid with flies, and yes, maggots, at least two inches over the six inches of water. Sometimes the flies would be all the way up to the bottle neck. Just an amazing number.

It's probably the best fly deterrent I've used....except for the smell.

 

[microchick]

Alaskan, remember.....someday this child will have to choose a nursing home for you.....buy him the 23$ underwear. It's cheap insurance!