Re: Itchy
- From: A _L_ P <hay_hell_pea@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:09:27 +1300
Jill wrote:
A _L_ P wrote:It's started. Poor chooks, I got side-tracked and somehow it was dusk and I still hadn't nailed a board across the end of the covered run for a "door-step" and cut a hole above it in the netting for them to get in. So they were trying to get up the ramp into their house.
It's not like it's a joists and dwangs set of rectangles framework
with cladding on top, purpose built as a chook house. This was made
ultra strong with 2 layers in places either in the first place to
withstand handling during shipping , or later to re-clad it.
Its the layers that are the real problem, this can be the place the mites accumulate.
Its issues like this that is why destruction is so often the final solution, so as to prevent this house being a source of more mites in the future.
Then they're clustering ON the ramp and trying to go by-byes, and I'm dropping screws and scrabbling for them and pushing drowsy chooks out of the way, and Papa rooster came up the ramp like he owned it and I sent him bowling with a furious arm and a loud tirade of foul language to which he responded with fowl ditto, and all in all it was not pretty.
Then everyone was too sleepy to go through the hole so I had to pick them up, each and every one of them, and push them through, and this occasioned further loudness from the congregation at large. Evenings chez A L P may lack the elegance of more elevated sectors of society but that doesn't mean they're dull.
What do you think about the use of Maldison for treating the remaining
woodwork, Jill? These little sods need the heavy artillery, and while
I'm not happy about using strong poisons around livestock or myself
I would say do your own homework on the product and decide for yourself.
I am no fluffy bunny, LOL, but I avoid them where I can, I have seen a few too many rough tough farming types being KO by health issues later in life which have strong OP associations.
Yes, same kind of thing here. Not proven, but I still prefer to be cautious and only use these things when it's the only practicable way to solve an important problem.
Thanks HUGELY, Jill. If I get struck filthy rich I'll leave you my tiara in my will :-)))
We have something called Poultry Shield over here, which is a natural product and VERY effective against the blighters, its being used a great deal within the poultry industry.
I will give them a bell on Monday and ask if they have any agents in NZ or any similar products they know down there.
A L P
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