And the catfish feed that they ate during the first two weeks. Much protein = fast growth. You just need to reduce the protein content starting in week three or their wings develop faster than their muscles.SEE, @WannaBeHillBilly ??! You just have precocious duxlings! Must be all those peas!
Don't remind me! - Since then i have not found any poison ivy here. But this afternoon i mowed a yellow-jacket nest…Hey @WannaBeHillBilly
Remember the year we both had poison ivy? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/no-good-deed-ever-goes-unpunished-part-ii-.1399881/post-22985392
Oh no! Hope you didn't get stung! Those things are *nasty*!
One single sting that felt like my leg was dipped into lava.
I don't mind them,as long as they nest somewhere else and don't sting me. The yellow jacket nest in my grass got the Permethrin treatment. Especially because it is in the area where the Momma ducks and their ducknagers find refuge from Mayhem's corkscrew. I don't want any young duck become a Pincushion…
Fire sounds like a good solution for them
safety hazard in the places i’ve had nests fire world be too dangerous. When I had a nest in an old wood pile, and when I saw the opening where they were entering an exiting, I just put a tablespoon of sevin dust right at the opening. They landed in it and carried it inside. Problem solved, but the nest in my greenhouse all involved in a tub full of burlap sacks, I think if I had a beekeeper suit, I probably could’ve got that out myself, but I wouldn’t do it without one
