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I have not seen the poultry protector...I just grabbed the little bottle of Permetrin II at the feed store in chehalis and loved it.
Since you do not spray the birds with it, and the product is dry when they come in at night to roost, I think it is perfectly fine to spray everything with.
Long waite on the potatoes after you dust but that is due to the fact that taters sponge up eveything as the roots they are, and store it....any root crop would I assume.
Chickens do not sponge up much from their hienies....I do stress keeping the dust bath box dry...and it will make dust so sometimes the whole coop is way dusty and I have to vacuum...
But it is so much easier, cleaner and less stressful than catching, and subdueing on the floor, each chicken and then having DH dust and pat each bird's bottom, wingpits and crotch...do chickens have crotches ???
Well, ya know the area.
**************************AND UPDATE ON THE WELL***************************
It appears since we did not go through the shale layer that at best we will only get a few gallons an hour and that is unacceptible as a family well here in Pac Co.
It must produce 4+ an hour and have to be fitted with a "dry well management system" that senses the well running dry and automatically shut the pump off, requireing a 6+ inch pipe, ours is 4....another mistake.
But DH thought we would just be using the shallow well pump, not a submersible.
Anyway the well pump activates and pumps when the water replenishes, into a tank, and then the shallow well pump comes on and off as needed in the house, and pumps from the tank to a pressure tank, and that shoots the pressurized water into the house.
All well and good but the well managment system, special 2 pump sytem and all is at best another $2K and even after it all it may be unacceptible to the County as too slow...in the rainy season this well may overflow with water (it happened in that area last year) but it is not good now...surface water anyway, SO I talked it over with my Dad and asked him (of the sliced bread fame) what he would do, which way would he go?
And ya know what he said ?
He said he would have had a driller do it in the first place.
It is a basic necessity...gotta have it, so I go with the driller who gave me an earlier quote over the phone at $2500 for 60 feet, and we will not go past 40 I think...but have to pay a 60 minimum, that was the thing that mad us mad, technically they charge an 80 foot minimum, at $35 a foot, and the permits and all, but this guy said he'd even lower it to a 60 minimum, so it all comes out to $2500 or so...I I am going to do it with half the foundation money, but gotta do it.
Be thankful because here, most wells are well over 100 feet deep. Many in the 200+ feet deep and I know of others even deeper. But, we can get away with 1 gallon minute. There are some crummy wells out here.
I have not seen the poultry protector...I just grabbed the little bottle of Permetrin II at the feed store in chehalis and loved it.
Since you do not spray the birds with it, and the product is dry when they come in at night to roost, I think it is perfectly fine to spray everything with.
Long waite on the potatoes after you dust but that is due to the fact that taters sponge up eveything as the roots they are, and store it....any root crop would I assume.
Chickens do not sponge up much from their hienies....I do stress keeping the dust bath box dry...and it will make dust so sometimes the whole coop is way dusty and I have to vacuum...
But it is so much easier, cleaner and less stressful than catching, and subdueing on the floor, each chicken and then having DH dust and pat each bird's bottom, wingpits and crotch...do chickens have crotches ???
Well, ya know the area.
**************************AND UPDATE ON THE WELL***************************
It appears since we did not go through the shale layer that at best we will only get a few gallons an hour and that is unacceptible as a family well here in Pac Co.
It must produce 4+ an hour and have to be fitted with a "dry well management system" that senses the well running dry and automatically shut the pump off, requireing a 6+ inch pipe, ours is 4....another mistake.
But DH thought we would just be using the shallow well pump, not a submersible.
Anyway the well pump activates and pumps when the water replenishes, into a tank, and then the shallow well pump comes on and off as needed in the house, and pumps from the tank to a pressure tank, and that shoots the pressurized water into the house.
All well and good but the well managment system, special 2 pump sytem and all is at best another $2K and even after it all it may be unacceptible to the County as too slow...in the rainy season this well may overflow with water (it happened in that area last year) but it is not good now...surface water anyway, SO I talked it over with my Dad and asked him (of the sliced bread fame) what he would do, which way would he go?
And ya know what he said ?
He said he would have had a driller do it in the first place.
It is a basic necessity...gotta have it, so I go with the driller who gave me an earlier quote over the phone at $2500 for 60 feet, and we will not go past 40 I think...but have to pay a 60 minimum, that was the thing that mad us mad, technically they charge an 80 foot minimum, at $35 a foot, and the permits and all, but this guy said he'd even lower it to a 60 minimum, so it all comes out to $2500 or so...I I am going to do it with half the foundation money, but gotta do it.
Be thankful because here, most wells are well over 100 feet deep. Many in the 200+ feet deep and I know of others even deeper. But, we can get away with 1 gallon minute. There are some crummy wells out here.
