Our big friendly sweet tame beautiful purebred Bielefelder cockerel is crowing.
We cannot have roosters where we live. He is 12 weeks old.
He needs a home today. If anyone is interested please let me know.
I will drive him to his forever home if you're in the southern Arizona area. We are...
Our big friendly sweet tame beautiful purebred Bielefelder cockerel is crowing. We cannot have roosters where we live.
He is 12 weeks old. He needs a home today. If anyone is interested please let me know. We are near Tucson. I can drive to meet you.
8:00 PM
100F
3% humidity
clear
From earlier today:
These guys are everywhere right now. Bark scorpions glow in black light if they've shed recently. We use a black light to check patios, garages, and bedrooms. We check our clothes and especially shoes before putting them on and bed linens...
{offers you a strawberry lemonade popsicle}
The dewpoint is -8° right now. I didn't even know that was a thing.
I've been in the dripping wet heat of the south, not in Florida, but in Georgia, Alabama, etc. That is far easier to deal with, at least for me. Air conditioning is a real blessing...
No food is stored outdoors, we keep it in the house. The coop feeders are removed at dusk and also brought indoors. Those are on concrete so it's easy to sweep up any spilled food.
The extant rodent populations established themselves long before we got here, when the house sat empty for a few...
Unfortunately we're in the desert where they have natural food sources. Two large squirrel populations established themselves in the yard when the house was uninhabited for several years. There was no chicken feed or any other human food source and they thrived.
We can't use poison. I think the...
We use umbrellas for shade, too! Walking shade. Sometimes called parasols. It must look so odd to outsiders to see a bunch of people walking around with open umbrellas when there's not a cloud in the sky, lol.
Pee goals... this is my life now.
Coyotes eat squirrels and other rodents, their urine is supposed to be a signal to move on because a predator is in the area.
I keep reading that baking soda will kill squirrels and other rodents, mixed with equal parts of cornmeal as an attractant.
Has anyone here had success doing this? It seems too easy to be true.