I have used staples to put up winter plastic. I also have found staples in the gizzard when cleaning cockerels. Hardware disease is problems from the chickens eating metal.
Like a game bird pen
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Also a friend had bird netting over his turkey pens. A bobcat went through it like butter. Killed all in one pen. Left the carcasses and came...
I put straw around the potato plants. After Halloween I post on my local FB page for pumpkin and bales. Sometimes people want to drop off others want me to pickup.
I hate when they say no rain or frost at 9pm and by morning they are wrong. Can't predict the future 12 hours in advance, even with all the fancy radar, computers and half a dz different models.
Aluminum cans can be sold
By me they want smashed usually 24 cents a lb. 32 cans per lb. Not cost effective if you have to go far unless you're going that way.
So I give mine to my cousin who has several outbuildings. Her husband takes them in on the flatbed car hauler when the price is up. Has...
I had several Wren houses hanging around. They keep getting the hole chewed larger. I assumed chipmunk or such, until I went to open one up late winter . It had just been chewed. When I started to open a Downey or hairy woodpecker few in my face so fast I couldn't tell which it was. :eek: