Coffee anyone ?

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on, canned cinnamon rolls in the oven. Good luck @Mini Horses with your visitors... not sure if skunks or ground hogs are worse. Supposedly if you live trap them and put a blanket over the cage they won't spray...
Got hay moved yesterday, still need to get rabbit cages cleaned. But am catching up.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffeePA. Canned cinnamon rolls sound good. I’ve actually bought some since you revealed your culinary secrets. LOL Well have our granddaughters for 10-11 days starting Thursday. I’m going to buy canned biscuits to make monkey bread.

 

[Mini Horses]

A crisp 71 out there this morning. Feels real good actually! Heavy dew...but none affects my morning coffee. Thinking I will mow lawn later.

So googled my skunk family options last night. Interesting. They don't take them off in a group until about 2 months old. At that time they can be rather nomadic and with some insistance they can be evicted, moving to other locations. This is a nice bunch of kids, polite and probably needing larger digs. my past real estate years will help them out. Hoping to find them at another site this week!

That still leaves mr groundhog....maybe it will encourage him to leave also.

In the scheme of our lives, these critters are a small thing to deal with. Just a minor problem really. By the way, my little family is much cuter than those mostly black ones the nuisance pet remover was dealing with. Mine are "special".

Wishing everyone a happy and blessed Independence Day!!

 

[CLSranch]

Next thing I know, there's a black & white face, then 2 & 3...little skunks

They really REALLY like chicken.

I pulled the live traps out today but, don't want to catch these!

Canned cat food, tuna or sardines is a great bait for skunks. Walk up holding a tarp or pre tarp the cage before setting it. A .22 dismissal will send an automatic release. They make a syringe with holder to put on a broom handle specific for skunks to dispatch them humanly.
I'd follow them off the property then use a scatter gun myself, but that goes with anything that may eat my chickens. Then what you don't get can move to another residence.

Wishing everyone a happy and blessed Independence Day!!

Thanks and the same to you.

 

[Bruce]

Window film will be much easier.

But awnings work every year and no bubbles to "iron" out

Then I guess animal control.

Don't know about there but here animal control won't bother with small animals.

These are hugely white, notice that?

I DID! In fact I was going to mention it. The juveniles I had here had very narrow stripes. In fact one I called "shorty" had stripes that only went half way down toward its tail. The adult had what I would consider normal width stripes.

I'm open to any suggestions!!

Presumably you can make a skunk deterrent with onion, jalapeños and a few other ingredients. I bought the onion and jalapeños and before I could make any of the solution my skunks were no longer around. Mom (I presume) was relocated out to the woods and I found 2 of the juveniles later in the day dead in the drive bay. No idea where the other 2 ended up. Anyone want some jalapeños? I'm sure not going to eat them.

Supposedly if you live trap them and put a blanket over the cage they won't spray...

Worked for me. I approached with an old sheet between me and the trap, the skunk didn't seem to care much. I put the trap in the bucket of the tractor and went out as far as I could into the woods. The skunk wasn't in any hurry to leave the trap which had me a bit worried but eventually I was able to dump it out and it ambled some distance.

 

[Mini Horses]

My skunk saga may be over...none seen since the family ambled off in pics. They had been seen, as a group near the woods at the back, two days before. Headed in that direction as the caravan left. I've had these mostly white ones around for a couple years. They have black on legs and some on nose but the white is entire back and tail. They are long haired, too. This group looked to have 2 more traditional but, mostly the heavy white. At any rate...no evidence of them currently. I'll set a trap for Mr groundhog. Need to go get a cantaloupe. Hear that's a fav.

Today is lovely out there! Sun, breeze, low humidity. Perfect. Did get my lawn mowed yesterday, most of the weed eating done, plus an acre or so bushhogged. No heavy plans today. Back to work tomorrow! I've enjoyed this couple weeks of being home a lot.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Sb tournament 1 starts tonight, making cookies for the girls.
Start the day chores then weeding, have cucumbers almost ready . Maybe some softball practice.

 

[Baymule]

I got a early morning call yesterday that nobody wants to get. Our son was on his way to work and rolled his truck. 4 deer were in the road, he hit one, swerved, over corrected and the truck started rolling. His cousin is a Groveton police officer, dispatch called him, the state trooper called him and he got there as quickly as possible. DS didn’t want to get in the ambulance, Cousin told the state trooper to wad him up and make him go in the ambulance, that he rolled his truck some 10 years ago and broke his neck. A couple of his friends also showed up and they also insisted that he go to the hospital to get checked out.

The good news is that he is ok, bruised, banged up, but no internal injuries or broken bones. The bad news is he loved that truck and I’d heartbroken. He has a beautiful 2019 Ford King Ranch 1ton dually with 20,000 miles on it and he wished he had been driving that instead. The man loves old trucks.

I got to Lufkin as soon as I could and spent most of the day. Cousin will take him home from hospital today. DS was darned lucky.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Yepper...darn lucky to come out of that with no major injuries...must of scared you half to death Bay !

 

[Bruce]

Glad his cousin forced the trip to the ER! Given the shape of that truck he is SO lucky he didn't break anything.

I suspect he still has some "soft tissue" damage that will take time to heal. I still have issues with my neck from the accident 2 years ago and the airbags didn't even go off in that one (though I wonder if they should have). Massage therapist says I might have issues for life.