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[Slinglings]

Whooooot! Yes I can. My CB handle on the 18 wheeler was the "Blue Knight".
Whatta think about that for his name? Or maybe someone can come up with something else?

I like it!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I've been told that vermin & pests are moving closer into human territory due to lack of water & food out in the woods. >snip for emphasis< Rats learn, once one family member is killed in a trap, the rest see it & steer clear of the trap. Darn it all !!

Yeah, on both points. We can't control access to water- cattle drink all night- they do everything all night, except graze when the grass is short- but everything I can keep in rat-proof containers is; there's no way to keep them from apples and blackberries, though, which is why I'm trying to get the blackberry guy before next year. About trapping: Dad taught me that no matter what you're trapping for, never trap where they nest: it teaches the whole group to recognize the trap. The trap should be where they feed, or on a path to their feeding areas, and should be moved every time you're successful. He also said that when you're trapping pests, it doesn't make any sense to keep from getting your scent on the trap: everythingb they eat is almost certainly already stinking of humans. Wild animals are different, they are more likely to associate human scent with danger than fear, but rats, mice, and raccoons either don't care or find stuff that doesn't smell of human beings really suspicious.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Quote: I thought Seattle use to have those when I was a kid downtown.
Wish I had the $$$$$$$$$.
Love that clock.

 

[Justahannah]

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I thought they ate bulbs & root vegies too...like radishes or beets, daffodill bulbs ?
They are fun to run over with the riding mower too !
They cannot run very fast or near fast enough.
DH stomps them.....yuck, I cannot stand the crunch !

They do. They come in and will eat the pellets, though. We have a lot of them out by the edge of the pond. Little tunels through the grass down to the water. We have quite a few acres with grass marsh here. Normally the hawks go for them and not for the chickens. And yes, I've ran over many a vole while mowing. Don't usually see the suckers until I'm coming back for another pass and it's lying in the previous path twitching.

I'd had them all cleaned out from near the coops, but we went down to visit family a few weeks ago and had food down for the chickens the whole time. After it's up for a few weeks at night, they head on back out into the grass since no easy food.

I have pits out in the grass I have to watch out for where the dogs have dug them out. Our GSD is so pleased with herself when she gets them. Has to bring them in to show me. The chickens have gotten smart to her digging as well, there are always things in the dirt. She turns up nests occasionally and the chickens have a party. They have no qualms about taking stuff out of the dog's mouth and because she's so good tempered, she lets them.

My cat brought me one this morning. If he can't get inside, he kills them and leaves them on the stoop, but it we leave a window open he brings them in live and and plays with them, I think to prove how manly he is. This morning it was a shared experience, those buggers squeal loud enough to bring me out of a dead sleep...not what I wanted to wake up to after only a few hours in bed! Of course, the bugger ran under my dresser where we couldn't get him , so I pulled out my secret weapon...my ferret Akiko could fit, and she's a much more efficient hunter than the cats.

 

[Farmin Momma]

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I thought Seattle use to have those when I was a kid downtown.
Wish I had the $$$$$$$$$.
Love that clock.

They did but a lot of places got rid of them for some STUPID reason. If you have ever been to the Maltby Cafe, (In Maltby, Snohomish county) there is a small street corner clock in the parking lot/driveway and that one was also built by Jimmy Collier.
I have two other clocks built by him, one is a grandfather clock (not for sale) and another huge street clock (also not for sale). Let me see if I have a pic of the other street clock......
Well I can't find one durring the day so you can see the details but this is one of my favorite pics.


This one you can see both clocks, as if you had just come in our drive way.

 

[Justahannah]

Quote:

I thought Seattle use to have those when I was a kid downtown.
Wish I had the $$$$$$$$$.
Love that clock.

They did but a lot of places got rid of them for some STUPID reason. If you have ever been to the Maltby Cafe, (In Maltby, Snohomish county) there is a small street corner clock in the parking lot/driveway and that one was also built by Jimmy Collier.
I have two other clocks built by him, one is a grandfather clock (not for sale) and another huge street clock (also not for sale). Let me see if I have a pic of the other street clock......
Well I can't find one durring the day so you can see the details but this is one of my favorite pics.


This one you can see both clocks, as if you had just come in our drive way.

Gorgeous photos!!!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Quote:

I thought Seattle use to have those when I was a kid downtown.
Wish I had the $$$$$$$$$.
Love that clock.

They did but a lot of places got rid of them for some STUPID reason. If you have ever been to the Maltby Cafe, (In Maltby, Snohomish county) there is a small street corner clock in the parking lot/driveway and that one was also built by Jimmy Collier.
I have two other clocks built by him, one is a grandfather clock (not for sale) and another huge street clock (also not for sale). Let me see if I have a pic of the other street clock......
Well I can't find one durring the day so you can see the details but this is one of my favorite pics.


This one you can see both clocks, as if you had just come in our drive way.

Gorgeous photos!!!
gorgeous photos x2!

 

[Chickielady]

Whooooot! Yes I can. My CB handle on the 18 wheeler was the "Blue Knight".
Whatta think about that for his name? Or maybe someone can come up with something else?

My CB handle was Moon Dance~~~~~~~~~
YES the Blue Knight is perfect...so ya call him Blue ? Or Knight ?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Oh, yay! I've found a use for my extra roosters: an old friend is interested in taking them, and since she once gave me the huge antique mirror that makes my otherwise too-dark bedroom livable, its a pleasure to send them to her for dogfood and chicken and dumplings!

One less thing to worry about!

 

[Chickielady]

I just had a lovely nice reply written to CL that was hardly whiny at all (except for the part where I was griping about Ian beating up on his hanging feeder this morning and spreading Layena all over outside his run, so that there's been offspring of the Blue Auraucana rooster in the yard all day eating up everything he's spilled.
Anyway: I'm not in need of an apple picker that I can fill with eating apples, just one I can strip apples off the trees for the cattle, who need green food to go with their hay: the only grass here is where I've been putting misters to stop a little dust before it comes in the house. I basically feed animals all day: cats, dogs, chicken feed, sheep pinned out to graze, apples for the cows (lunch for me), chicken treats (today it was baked sweet potatoes) cats again, then the sheep gets his alfalfa for the night and I do one more check of feeders, waterers, see if there's late eggs...I'm supposed to make real dinner tonight (Pad Prik Kring, thai chicken with basil, onions, peppers, and green beans; the chicken and onions are from off the place) but since that's always a question of what I feel like when the time comes.
We had pasture into late July, the latest we've been able to go without hay here since we stopped irrigating, but it's like the dust-bowl out there now. I hope the weather people are right about rain Friday, seems strange to say, doesn't it.

That's all needed !!!!!!!!!!!!