The Old Folks Home

[hennible]

When I winterize my coops, it is always temporary and will not usually hang for more than a week or two.  I have many times stapled roll plastic on the outside and it worked fine for what I needed.  Here, Zip ties are fast, cheap, and can be taken down and then redone in two weeks if needed with no damage to the coop.


Maybe you could catch a mouse in a trap and quickly rub it on a papertowel and drop that papertowel or some mouse poop into the PVC pipe that CC was talking about.  That way, you catch the mink without killing it and don't have to buy/kill the mouses.  I would even try dropping in a dead mouse but the smell of a long dead mouse might not attract the critter. Then you could relocate it a long way from anyone else's chickens, or give it to someone who would dispose of it.

Oh yeah if I can trap it I will relocate it very far from any thing.....
I'm having a hard time figuring out what I can do here.... I can legally kill it it seems but it looks like I can't trap it legally.... Oh well no one will tell on me right? the last two we had where killed in under a week by the cats... 1 poor critter was chewed in half by a cat ( must have bit the cat and ticked him off )
Any way I appreciate all the ideas.
I wonder if the sent of the ferret would cause it to relocate or just make it feel more at home...
Regardless I will ( or the pets will ) take care of it shortly. I refuse to lose any more birds this year.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have to drive 100 miles to Atlanta to catch a flight. So if I can drive it in 5 or 6 hours it is a no brainer. That pretty much covers the Southeast for me.

Good point. Luckily Lambert airport is a 15-20 minute drive. That's great after a long trip or for an early morning flight. That said, it's still not worth the hassle and expense. Since the demise of Ozark, TWA and American, you pretty well can't get anywhere from here any more. If I had to fly a lot, I'd probably prefer to be 100 miles from an airport like Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, etc..

Oh yeah if I can trap it I will relocate it very far from any thing.....
I'm having a hard time figuring out what I can do here.... I can legally kill it it seems but it looks like I can't trap it legally.... Oh well no one will tell on me right?

the last two we had where killed in under a week by the cats... 1 poor critter was chewed in half by a cat ( must have bit the cat and ticked him off )
Any way I appreciate all the ideas.
I wonder if the sent of the ferret would cause it to relocate or just make it feel more at home...
Regardless I will ( or the pets will ) take care of it shortly. I refuse to lose any more birds this year.

I really don't like killing them either. Rare native wildlife often gets a pass here but I lost count of the chickens killed by mink here this year when it went over 70.

 

[Cynthia12]

Noticed the color coming on the mountain on our way home, so, decided to make a trip
to the canyon that is close..the colors either haven't turned, or we are late. Usually this canyon
has brilliant colors during Sept! This fist photo is of a mountain that we see everyday.

On our way up the canyon, we have these..not turning so fast today.

They are HUGE! Helps out Spanish Fork City Electric.



I love taking a ride up this canyon.

 

[perchie.girl]

Noticed the color coming on the mountain on our way home, so, decided to make a trip
to the canyon that is close..the colors either haven't turned, or we are late. Usually this canyon
has brilliant colors during Sept! This fist photo is of a mountain that we see everyday.

On our way up the canyon, we have these..not turning so fast today.

They are HUGE! Helps out Spanish Fork City Electric.



I love taking a ride up this canyon.

Nice..... we dont get fall colors like you guys do. But we do have windmills...

 

[drumstick diva]

Gorgeous scenic except for the huge, white pinwheels- they are UGLY!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I

windmills. That shows an attempt at progress.

 

[perchie.girl]

Kumeyaay Wind farm I drive past these every time I go home.





just for scale.... Now thats a big wind tower. The ones I worked on, as a design team member, were barely big enough to carry a ladder and allow a single person to skinny up to lube the bearings.

Each blade was almost too long for a flat bed tractor trailer.... 65+ feet.

Got to share a pitcher or two or three with the Field engineers that built them.... All from Spain. What a hoot they were.

deb

 

[vehve]

I always liked the windmills, they are pretty.

 

[perchie.girl]

I

windmills. That shows an attempt at progress.

when I was in my twenties I worked as a Detail Draftsman for a design group that specialized in composites. Two big projects One was for heliocopter blades for Huges.... and the other was for Cannon Wind farm in tehachape.

Both of those projects were headed up by my dad. We were a mad man team. He would draw the Whole mechanism to scale and I would pull details off and draw. At one point the owner of the company sealed a deal for a tuna cannery..... So Dad drew the whole mechanism but there was no time for details.... I pulled those details off the drawings and drew them up on grid paper.... by hand for the fab shop. I would do probably fifty or sixty detail drawings like that per week. Then hold the fab shops hand when either of us messed up.... I learned alot on that project.

I absolutely love Windmills though... All kinds.... Personally I want one of those vertical kind that dont care which direction the wind comes from.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I always liked the windmills, they are pretty.

Dad wanted to do the kind with Sickle style blades they dont need the feathering mechanism in them that these big tower kind need. But they are MUCH more complicated to fabricate...

deb