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Yeah, you know a bug is bad when the chickens won't even eat them. Those orange ones are the ones we have around here and you are so right. Not only do they bite, they bite DARNED hard.

My project for the afternoon was rigging a light for my standard sized birds in their coop. I went out last night to lock them up and the little idiot dears were standing at the fence watching for me. They didn't want to go into their coop because it was dark in there. When I went into the run, they finally trickled into the coop. Several I had to boost in. Makes me wonder how good their eyesight is at their age. Do chickens loose visual acuity as they age?:confused:

I doubt if I can sway my husband into fitting them with little tiny glasses.
 
we do not really have a huge amount every few years a black and yellow Caterpillar will make the biggest nest in trees hatch in the fall they do not live very long then you see only a few nests for 3 or 4 years then in all but pin and ceder trees again
 
microchick said:
Yeah, you know a bug is bad when the chickens won't even eat them. Those orange ones are the ones we have around here and you are so right. Not only do they bite, they bite DARNED hard.
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We lost the last of our good old "lady bugs" (the red and black ones) years ago. They were completely crowded out by those stinky biting Asian Lady Beetles. They may serve a purpose for you folks further south but up here they are a totally worthless pest. I guess when they were imported they were never supposed to be able to survive in the north, surprise. Since they are a non native they have no natural predators (I can certainly understand that). Last time I discussed this with the DNR, which was some time ago, the dept.of Ag was supposed to be trying to figure out what to do to control their numbers. Yep, get the government to come up with a fix for the mess they caused, that always works out so well, right?

We're under another winter weather advisory tonight into tomorrow. The chickens are NOT going to be happy, again. Had to literally chase them out of the coop this morning. We had just enough sunshine earlier in the day to melt a lot of what we had so this afternoon they were happily rototilling away in my herb garden. I'll be getting the stink eye again in the morning :hmm :lol:
 
We had the first sunny day in about 5 days here. Loved it. Beautiful fall day. DH and I went for a long walk in the woods with our two youngest dogs and set up the game cameras. Deer season here starts next Saturday. They are calling for rain. No way will I sit in a tree stand in 40 degree weather with rain coming down. I'll thaw a steak and tell myself it's deer while dining in front of a crackling fire in a dry house. :lau

But Sunday is another story. Sunny. High near 60. Unfortunately the area we live in has been so heavily hunted by the Amish that our chances of getting a deer is slim at best. Still if it's nice I'll be in the timber soaking up nature even if I don't get off a shot.
 
The deer here are pretty brazen. We will find deer prints in the snow in our front yard and they will raid the orchard which is about 150 feet from our house. We used to let our Australian cattle dog out at night and he would keep the varmints at bay but his degenerative myelopathy has progressed so rapidly that he can barely get outside without our help any longer. The two young dogs are air heads and our Border Collie is 13 now and content to stay in where it is dry and warm.

This year we have seen a lot of does on our camera but no bucks. Today we found a cedar tree not far from my tree stand that a big buck has been beating up with his antlers so there is at least one around. What matters is if it's an old buck or a young one. The young ones are careless. The old ones go nocturnal. That's how they get to be old bucks.

With the CWD around us the conservation department wants hunters to kill deer to keep the disease from spreading. What's really happening though is the Amish families with 7 sons plus dad are each hunting, and going at it until they get a deer then filling other tags. Not unusual to have a family take more than 10 deer. Last year the number of harvested deer in our county was down considerably so no doubt the number will be down again this year especially since we are seeing fewer deer on our camera.
 

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