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[ronott1]

To keep the birds and squirrels from eating my plants. Plus a plastic garden owl.

I hope it works!

 

[chickadoodles]

I hope it works!

It did but mostly because they were ia cold frame over last winter. This spring I had some problems but I also covered the tomatoes with tool.
Dh did get a 410 with bird shot to get rid of the squirrels eating the plants.
It's helping

 

[ronott1]

growing up, we had to shoot magpies too. Mom got 6 with one shot once using the scatter barrel on a 12 guage

 

[CapricornFarm]

It did but mostly because they were ia cold frame over last winter. This spring I had some problems but I also covered the tomatoes with tool.
Dh did get a 410 with bird shot to get rid of the squirrels eating the plants.
It's helping

It is also helpful to regularly move your plastic critters.

 

[chickadoodles]

I do. It stopped them for a day or two. Hahaha

 

[microchick]

Hey guys. Need to play catch up. I've been dealing with dentist appointments, farm fall projects, aka working in the timber clearing trails, and dealing with a 12 week old pullet with a possible growth on her eyelid along with our Cattle Dog who's Degenerative Neuropathy is progressing. He is now wearing traction boots on his hind legs, which help him tremendously but he keeps loosing them outside so we have to go out and hunt them down. Thank goodness for reflective strips.

I was surprised to find out when I logged on that I'd been awarded my first badge!VERY honored and my thanks to all involved.

Chicka, we have wild elderberry bushes in just about every ravine on our property. I was able to harvest berries one year and made syrup out of them. The trick is to get them before the birds and deer do. The bags are a great idea.

Rubber snakes work great. Only 1$ at Dollar General. We put them up in the rafters of the car port and barn to keep the birds from roosting over our cars and tractors and leaving us a load of poop on our vehicles. I set one by my chicken feeder one night to see if it kept the vermin at bay during the night and forgot to remove it the next morning. The chickens response to it was hysterical.

 

[ronott1]

Hey guys. Need to play catch up. I've been dealing with dentist appointments, farm fall projects, aka working in the timber clearing trails, and dealing with a 12 week old pullet with a possible growth on her eyelid along with our Cattle Dog who's Degenerative Neuropathy is progressing. He is now wearing traction boots on his hind legs, which help him tremendously but he keeps loosing them outside so we have to go out and hunt them down. Thank goodness for reflective strips.

I was surprised to find out when I logged on that I'd been awarded my first badge!VERY honored and my thanks to all involved.

Chicka, we have wild elderberry bushes in just about every ravine on our property. I was able to harvest berries one year and made syrup out of them. The trick is to get them before the birds and deer do. The bags are a great idea.

Rubber snakes work great. Only 1$ at Dollar General. We put them up in the rafters of the car port and barn to keep the birds from roosting over our cars and tractors and leaving us a load of poop on our vehicles. I set one by my chicken feeder one night to see if it kept the vermin at bay during the night and forgot to remove it the next morning. The chickens response to it was hysterical.

It is well deserved!

 

[getaclue]

micro, Congratulations on your first badge. It's well deserved.

 

[pennyJo1960]

micro so happy you did get your first badge

 

[microchick]

Thanks everyone. IT was a very pleasant surprise for me!

I have spent three days trying to find where my bantam hens are stashing their eggs. I was getting 4-5 eggs a day from them and suddenly nothing. Today I found their stash of 14 eggs carefully tucked behind a portable nesting box. The little biddies have been hording eggs on me, probably waiting for somebody to go broody and park their backsides on them. I cracked a couple of them and sure enough, one had a few days worth of growth showing in the yolk so somebody was spending some time on them. I swear I looked in that corner and saw nothing until today. Little devils.

We have gotten over 3 inches of rain here since last night. They were calling for rain, but it just drizzled and showered here for two days and then last night somebody unzipped the clouds and it poured all night. We just went out and cleaned out some gutters while there was a break in the downpour. We've had enough leaves falling that they were creating dams in the gutters and they were overflowing. They are calling for rain for us through next Tuesday with the exception of Sunday. We need the rain but goodness, not all at once.