Canesisters 2023 journal - turning my Disasters into Delights

[Baymule]

That’s a neat idea. You are right, pepper flakes won’t bother the chickens at all. Supposedly if they have worms, the pepper will cause them to turn loose of the intestinal wall and pass out through the feces.

 

[Ridgetop]

I like that idea. I wonder if it would work on sheep? Pepper in the giant economy size is cheap from restaurant supply stores.

 

[canesisters]

He seems pretty content with the hot pepper flakes......

 

[Baymule]

You need a big farm dog to keep Mr Possum away.

 

[Mini Horses]

Trap cage by feeder.....then dispose of Mr possom!

 

[farmerjan]

Heard some noise and went out the other night and had one climbing around on the boxes piled on the front porch... setting trap for it and hope to dispose of it. They eat feed, eggs and will kill chickens... Carry too many diseases......

 

[canesisters]

When I still had a pickup, I'd trap them and bring them to work with me. Possums can always survive at a landfill.
But I don't want to put him in my car... and I'm no good anymore at shooting them in the cage. I just barely missed one once and he bled & thrashed terribly for a couple of mins. Now I flinch when I pull the trigger and am much more likely to miss & repeat the drama.
Someone should breed little miniature livestock guardian dogs specifically to live with the chickens. Sleep in the coop, hang out with them and chase off crows & hawks.... bark at nightime visitors.....

 

[Mini Horses]

You have a trunk?? Plastic on floor....load it up

 

[SageHill]

When I still had a pickup, I'd trap them and bring them to work with me. Possums can always survive at a landfill.
But I don't want to put him in my car... and I'm no good anymore at shooting them in the cage. I just barely missed one once and he bled & thrashed terribly for a couple of mins. Now I flinch when I pull the trigger and am much more likely to miss & repeat the drama.
Someone should breed little miniature livestock guardian dogs specifically to live with the chickens. Sleep in the coop, hang out with them and chase off crows & hawks.... bark at nightime visitors.....

I know it's too big - but food for thought --- we have a Squirelinator -- a very good trap. It came with a pan that you fill with water - get squirrels in the trap, set the trap in the waterfilled tray, (walk away) , and presto dead squirrels - that we put out on a boulder and the hawks take care of the rest.

 

[Margali]

I know it's too big - but food for thought --- we have a Squirelinator -- a very good trap. It came with a pan that you fill with water - get squirrels in the trap, set the trap in the waterfilled tray, (walk away) , and presto dead squirrels - that we put out on a boulder and the hawks take care of the rest.

I did the same with livetrap and trash can for an evil woodchuck in Iowa. It would come up to my old dog Umbra and chase her the distance of her teather.