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[erinszoo]

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How long was the camping trip, 6 months? Lol, or do you have teenagers and you were there for an hour?

It only seeeeeeeemed like six months!!!! It was a weekend but it was young teens of which three were foster children who thought they were the coolest things alive. None of them would eat the ants though! Ha!

 

[nickie]

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How long was the camping trip, 6 months? Lol, or do you have teenagers and you were there for an hour?

It only seeeeeeeemed like six months!!!! It was a weekend but it was young teens of which three were foster children who thought they were the coolest things alive. None of them would eat the ants though! Ha!

I love it!

 

[peterlund]

I wish my chickens would figure out that squirrels are edible. I now figure the feed ratio is 50% for the birds, and 50% for the very fat and happy squirrels... (maybe a mere 2% for the cute chipmunk but that doesn't count).

 

[wood&feathers]

Adult ants produce formic acid, if I am remembering right...

My chickens love the larvae, just not the adults

 

[moodlymoo]

Mine know that squirrels are edible lol. There is nothing worse than looking out your back door and seeing your delaware covered in squirrel blood feasting on one. She is my zombie chicken lol. I ended up putting DE around the house and dumped baking soda in the nests followed with some vinegar just for laughs and a sorta science lesson for my 4yr old

 

[galanie]

I wish mine knew squirrels were edible! They'll eat toads and lizards and snakes, you'd think a squirrel wouldn't be such a big deal but NNoooo those destructive little rats are everywhere! They won't eat fire ants either. Can't say I blame them but still, I wish they would. If they ate squirrels and ants I wouldn't have to feed them for a year or more! And we'd both be thrilled.

 

[moodlymoo]

We had a huge squirrel problem until the chickens got here. I think squirrel is their favorite tread but I hate picking up pecked to death bodies. I just want to get them to eat those ants.

 

[123ChickieLou]

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Grits work well too.

 

[Godiva]

If the squirrels are eating your chicken feed mix in a generous portion of cayenne pepper and they will take their appetites elsewhere! I try to sprinkle it liberally on the top and the rats stay away as long as the cayenne is present, a few hours without the cayenne and they are back! But this way the chickens get food without rat droppings in and I don't have to feed the local rodent population

 

[Godiva]

Oh, and for the ant nest, get the DE from shadowridgedonkeys.com that is for fireants etc and it will be the end of that nest, works like a charm on the notoriously hard to get rid of fireants and it is not toxic to the soil etc. We swore by that stuff!