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[microchick]

@CSolis I am so sorry. You really need to consider getting your birds behind some hardware cloth where snakes can't get to them. Didn't you just kill a big rat snake a week ago or so?

Only think I'm battling here now are mice. I get them pretty much under control in the coop and go out a few nights ago to find field mice running around outside in the runs. No food for them to be drawn to so I have no idea why the influx. Still I put out a Tom Cat bait holder. Sooner or later a rat will come visiting. The trick is to place them so the stupid chickens can't get to it.

So far no snakes...yet.

We started filling in the lagoon behind our barn that the dogs love to play in. It's the only source we can come up with for the Pythiosis. DH used the bucket on the tractor to star doing the fill using the dirt that made up the levy. Neighbor who has excavating equipment came by to look the situation over. He has an SIL and son who want to work with him so he asked if he could bring them down with his skid steer and let them sharpen their skills shoving dirt around in exchange for fuel. Of course we jumped at the offer. I'll have to get a picture of the project.

Of course, it's been raining all day and it's going to be raining off and on all week. Go figure.

 

[CapricornFarm]

My problem here is snakes... Found my broody dead this morning and all but 1 of the chicks gone.. last one was dead but not eaten. There was not a single mark on the hen, but feathers everywhere. Rat snakes are constrictors.. I'm really heart broken.

I had a bantam hen killed by a snake. It also ate the eggs she had been sitting on. Sorry for your loss. Now when they sit, I lock up the coop and the snakes can't get in.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Ah gosh Old Folks really wish my CO2 pistol was here.
Still battling rats..
When they cleared blackberry land behind to plant Christmas trees we got rats ..
Sitting here with coffee no day yet please

Those C02 pistols lose power fast, we had one when I was a teen .

 

[pennyJo1960]

I bought a 10 pack of the tubes plus 1500 steal bb's

 

[sourland]

Good morning, OF. 'Up and at 'em".

 

[NotAFarm]

Good morning! Misty rain here this morning.

 

[getaclue]

Good morning everyone. No rain in the forecast until next week. We really could use some rain.

 

[cheepteach]

I bought a 10 pack of the tubes plus 1500 steal bb's

I bought a 9mm Springfield Armory Hellcat for my new pistol permit. Ammo is scarce around here, though

 

[bruceha2000]

Peep, look into Ramik. I got it at TSC. It isn't a poison but an anticoagulant. The rats eat it and die but any animal that eats them is not harmed. That said I've never seen a dead one just their absence. Doesn't take but a couple of 'pills' placed where other animals won't get to them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon Old Folks We ran out bb's glad I orderd some should be here today .. Bf said there is rat outside on the walkway dead I do not care how. Shower on my agenda