The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

I have two like this:

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One has a float and hose connection and is an auto water system. The other I fill when it is empty.

They work great here. They are not as good in places where it freezes

I made some like that. In the winter I put in aquarium heaters plugged into a thermo cube that only comes on if it's cold out.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are to hit 80 tomorrow worst of that is 68 the next few days
mine love dirty water there is a remenant of the old water tank .. in the corner of their front yard I fill it when I fill their buckets

 

[ShrekDawg]

Chickens do seem to have understanding of things I wouldn't expect they could. The Ramik is supposed to be safe if a dead rat/mouse is eaten by something because it doesn't kill with poison.

I should try that then!!

 

[microchick]

Okay, everything is covered here. Chickens are tucked in, dogs fed...I just dumped a glass of iced tea on my main computer keyboard...........I love that keyboard. Hoping that it will dry out by morning and be as good as new. No sugar in the tea so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[Beer can]

Sometimes it's not that simple. I saw a news story a couple of weeks ago about a chicken farmer who has pretty much been put out of business by the coronavirus shutdowns. He was a contract farmer for a big egg company. The eggs his birds produced were sent to a plant that turned them into liquid egg product that was sold to cafeterias and that sort of thing. With all of the school closings, etc, sale of that product has plummeted. Apparently, for the company, redirecting the eggs to get them put into little Styrofoam containers for retail sale wasn't economically feasible; they decided to simply shut down the whole production system, so they sent a clean-out crew to his farm and killed all the birds.

I'm not sure a food bank could unload industrial quantities of liquid eggs.

Same with the dairy, many processing plants not set up for store/individual sales, bulk only. And if they did/could switch, and did have the packaging machines to do so, would run into shortages of material, labels, and be in competition with those already doing so. Same with the freebie dairy give a ways here. Everything given away takes from those that is for sale in a store = less sold. And billions of gallons of milk can not be given away, even if it could be pasteurized.

 

[Beer can]

My chocolate Irises
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We only have white one's. Iris's are awesome because they come up every yr, don't have to do anything with them. Ours came with the house.

 

[Beer can]

I haven’t seen any chipmunks in a long time....

My 7yr old boy's idea, watching YouTube videos, built many Paiute deadfall traps for chipmunks 🐿. They have been super predators in our garden, putting a dent on them now, traps working great.

 

[ShrekDawg]

My 7yr old boy's idea, watching YouTube videos, built many Paiute deadfall traps for chipmunks 🐿. They have been super predators in our garden, putting a dent on them now, traps working great.

That’s an excellent idea!!! Ours raided our garden too last year. We put out poison stations for the rats recently since nothing else was working and I think we got chipmunks too.

 

[Beer can]

Thanks to all you quitting driving and all the businesses closed, global warming cancelled, we now have a polar vortex snow storm and 6-12" inches of snow, record low temperatures, in May.....
In preparation cleaned out my outside wood boiler harvested 3/4 of a 55gal barrel of wood ashes, works great to prevent slugs from eating our beans when they sprout, just put a layer ring all around the row. Usually I leave the ashes in the boiler this time of year. But beings I knew this cold weather coming I needed more room for wood so cleaned it out.

 

[Beer can]

That’s an excellent idea!!! Ours raided our garden too last year. We put out poison stations for the rats recently since nothing else was working and I think we got chipmunks too.

I have a video somewhere on the trap, just takes a flat rock some string and sticks. Easy to make and set. I actually love chipmunks. But when they start to dig up and eat every seed you plant it becomes WAR!