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[FirewifeJess]

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Did I mention that the BCM was either yelling at me (screeching) or purring all day yesterday? She's got a 'tude!

 

[itsren]

Aaaaaaw! So cute! Then they grow up and follow you around like adorable little puppies would, you laugh at their funny antics, trip on them because they stand right beneath your feet any time you're out with them, they develop different personalities and you can't imagine life without 'em.

 

[SadieSue]

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Um... Yes. I'm not sure what's so funny.

Yes Erin, you are welcome to come over and look at what used to be my backyard and is now a big chicken lot. We had landscaping done last year and much of the planning was done around what would be best considering all those chickens we had.

I just did my big end of summer, preparing for fall 4 hour scrubbing/cleaning out the big LF coop so it's almost presentable.

I'd love to have you over sometime so that you can see what your future will look like what to avoid.

 

[RaZ]

What a day! We had a great morning (more like late morning and afternoon) at the park. We brought 10 library books covering topics on ants, moles, worms, and mushrooms and loved how intertwined they all were. We brought a piece of honey-soaked bread to leave near an ant hill and observe what happened; that part didn't go well. What the heck is wrong with ant who won't touch honeyed bread? We left it there for an hour and kept moving it closer and closer but still they ignored it. Then we brought the piece of bread back to our own neighborhood and found an ant hill 2 houses down. Still it sits there untouched 90 minutes later. ???? Weird ants. Poor John has nothing to draw in his nature notebook! LOL Read math books on patterns and played some games and went over our AWANA verses for tonight's club, and now we're totally vegging out and resting from a crazy morning. William was so tired he fell asleep at lunch.

When we did field experiments, we always used tuna for ant bait. It seemed to draw ants in every case.
I asked 2 different professors why ants are attracted to sea creatures when they are terrestrial creatures. Both were stumped.

 

[SadieSue]

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You're welcome. And it is true, I have not hatched since May 13th. One day at a time.

 

[ErinMartin927]

Um... Yes. I'm not sure what's so funny.

Yes Erin, you are welcome to come over and look at what used to be my backyard and is now a big chicken lot. We had landscaping done last year and much of the planning was done around what would be best considering all those chickens we had.

I just did my big end of summer, preparing for fall 4 hour scrubbing/cleaning out the big LF coop so it's almost presentable.

I'd love to have you over sometime so that you can see what your future will look like what to avoid.

HAHAHA, you crack me up! PMing you...

When we did field experiments, we always used tuna for ant bait. It seemed to draw ants in every case.
I asked 2 different professors why ants are attracted to sea creatures when they are terrestrial creatures. Both were stumped.

Borax. I always have it for laundry, and it gets rid of ants in a jiff! Sprinkle it around wherever the problem areas are - they take it back to their colony and accidentally murder them all! mwuahahahaha!

 

[SadieSue]

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I think you'll want to avoid hay in the coop. You probably meant straw anyway. As a city girl I can tell you it took me about a year to figure out the difference. I use pine shavings in my coop and use the deep litter method. Some use straw, pellets, coffee chaff, sand - it's a personal choice.

 

[silkiechicken]

What doesn't like tuna? LOL. Think ants are often hunting for fats when sugars are abundant.

 

[SadieSue]

My other sickness is gardening. Always another plant I can't live without.
Here are some summer blooms.
Wish you all could smell these David Austin roses....


Evelyn


Mistress Quickly (I would have named it Rumpled Bedsheets)


Abraham Darby

Oh! Those are just lovely! I can almost smell them from here... "Mistress Quickly" is an interesting name for your "rumpled bedsheets" rose. Brings to mind naughty doings in a Victorian romance novel. Or, maybe that's just me...

I should have known you were a wonderful gardener - the photos of your place have always looked like they were from a magazine!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Oh ok! Maybe we'll try that tomorrow just so he has something to actually observe! Then he can make a note that ants didn't want the sugar but wanted the fish.

He's only 6 I know I'm making to big a deal of them not cooperating for our experiment today, but he was really excited when we made our speculations on what would happen and pretty deflated after they did nothing at all. LOL