YO GEORGIANS! :)

Pics
Date sort Score sort
The day i have long been waiting for!!! HATCH DAY!!!!!
ya.gif


This is my first time with letting my broody hen hatch eggs the natural way and let me tell you when i heard the little ones chirping this morning i was excited!!! Of course i did not disturb the hen or the nest area but i did sit and watch for a bit which brings me to a couple of questions!

1: What is a hen supposed to do when the eggs hatch? I've noticed her moving around a bit whenever i heard chirping or she would look under herself and sit back down.

2: Is she supposed to be moving around while they hatch?
 
missy1971 said:
Insecticide question. I bought some of that stuff Demon something, safe for chickens, but I have ants in the coop and run. I was going to spray the coop this morning so it can dry, then tonight after they go to roost, spray the run...do y'all think that would be a good idea?
Click to expand...

A good natural insecticide to combat ants is soapy water. Just a give a good squirt of a non-anti-bacterial dishwashing liquid like Dawn into a one-gallon sprayer and add water. This works on wasps and ants. It works best on ants if you pray them directly. Also, if you have a fire-ant nest, just pour the solution directly on the ant hill. Check it the mound next morning, and you will see all of the dead ants piled at the top of the mound. The mounds take a few treatments kill all the ants, but the good thing about use dishwashing liquid solution is that it is non-toxic to your chickens, and the lawn loves it. I've been using this for years. Also, pyrethrin-based insecticides are derived chrysanthemums and relatively safe. What the soapy water does is break down the natural waxy coating that ants produce to protect themselves against moisture loss. Once that coating is removed, ants quickly dehydrate and shrivel up and die.

The thing to really stay away from is the herbicide Round-Up. That stuff is an environmental disaster and has been found to be carcinogenic, yet Monsanto is still allowed to sell it. Round-Up (glyphosphate) is still used extensively on farms has been been leaching into streams, lakes, and rivers for years now. I guess Monsanto is so large that they can somehow get away still marketing that product.
 
Moesmom12 said:
The day i have long been waiting for!!! HATCH DAY!!!!!:ya

This is my first time with letting my broody hen hatch eggs the natural way and let me tell you when i heard the little ones chirping this morning i was excited!!! Of course i did not disturb the hen or the nest area but i did sit and watch for a bit which brings me to a couple of questions!

1: What is a hen supposed to do when the eggs hatch? I've noticed her moving around a bit whenever i heard chirping or she would look under herself and sit back down.

2: Is she supposed to be moving around while they hatch? 
Click to expand...


Am excited for you!!! Also, the babies are moving all over under her. Just like Robo said, she is ill adjust for the babies! Soon you will see them peeping out from under her. Then they will be just MRI g all over her!
700

700
 
missy1971 said:
You are absolutely entitled to that! My mom says that all the time to me. I don't necessarily like to kill things either, unles its for food or when something places me or my family in danger.I do know when I lived in paulding county and Marietta we had several instances of bears being in neighborhoods and such, and just as many where I live now, coyotes are a different story around here. We actually get paid, by the state I think, for coyote kills, due to the fact that we are so over run with them.
Oh and i am the same on the spiders, but I only do that with daddy long legs ...lol but I leave all the spider webs around the outside of the house..
Click to expand...

I was raised being drummed in me you eat what you kill unless it's a danger to you our your livestock but only kill when no other choice! Yes I kill deer I eat deer I kill only to protect my animals or family. So it's f I can I chase dogs off with bottle rockets also owls and hawks. I'm not harming them but just telling them it's better to go somewhere else!!
 
missy1971 said:
eh bears are known to show where they dont belong in GA...but a nice rifle or shotgun usually does the trick...unless illegal up north ga
Click to expand...
Many don't believe bears are around here but I've seen them and many pics of them around the lake! Usually they scare off easy as is with coyotes but the gators and snakes are another problem!
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom