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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2006 9:38:01 GMT -5
I planted about 25 strawberry plants yesterday. I poured tabasco sauce on them. Do chickens have a good sense of smell? Will this keep the chickens away from my plants?
tnborn
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Post by Kathy on Jan 30, 2006 9:50:16 GMT -5
I don't know about the tabasco but my chickens would pick the habenero peppers off the plants and eat them. ;D
Do you have some old chicken wire that's past it's prime for actual fencing needs? You could make a quick cage for the strawberries with a few pieces of rebar, stout sticks or even old curtain rods and some old chicken wire. It's not meant to be pretty; just a way to keep the chickens from pecking and scratching up the plants.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2006 10:30:52 GMT -5
Kathy,I will try that.  Those crazy chickens  tnborn |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2006 20:08:52 GMT -5
What's the tabasco for? I've never heard of that I do know that you had better protect your peppers though...they love them.
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Post by Kathy on Feb 3, 2006 20:22:13 GMT -5
What's the tabasco for? I've never heard of that I do know that you had better protect your peppers though...they love them. I think tnborn was hoping the Tabasco would be a chicken detterant so they didn't tear up her strawberry plants. If anything that might make them more appealing-Ayy Eeee!!  |
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Post by thrillbilly on Feb 3, 2006 23:52:15 GMT -5
Just for a comparison I add cayenne pepper into my fowls feed. I see them eating jalepenos etc when available. I bought some pepper plants off the net. Some were supposed to be hottest available. They eat them right off the plant.
I raise several hundred a year and last year at once I had close to 200 hundred pullets and stags running loose for all my growing season. I had a nice garden about 100x150 feet. I trained the chickens to stay out by buying some of the motion activated sprinklers like you buy for deer.
After getting about ten feet from the juicy garden and getting a blast of water they learned quick. If you have a small garden etc this will work for you and reasonably cheap as well.
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Post by thrillbilly on Feb 3, 2006 23:53:53 GMT -5
btw hot sauce peppers etc are good for fowl just like human its a good antioxident. If you need something powerful to keep mites etc off your fowl that you can make for a few bucks and guaranteed to work let me know and I will post it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2006 8:17:35 GMT -5
Please post your receipt. It never occurred to me that tabasco sauce might attract the chickens to my strawberry patch Thanks, I will keep this in mind the next time that I have a brillant thought. tnborn |
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Post by Kathy on Feb 4, 2006 9:03:03 GMT -5
tnborn, at least you'd have pre seasoned dinners on the hoof!! Just name them Gumbo, Jambalaya, Ettoufee...  Sorry, I know it's not funny-I didn't have strawberries but my chickens tore up all of my onions in KY, then the geese ate the tops!  I'm anxious for the recipe too! I don't have any poultry now, but I hope to have them in the future again, so this would come in very handy. |
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Post by thrillbilly on Feb 4, 2006 14:17:28 GMT -5
here are three cheap and easy ways to delice and demite your fowl
1 cup 50% malathion and five ounces of good dishwashing soap. A good name brand that will suds real good. Put in a five gallon bucket add water til bucket is about three fourths full and take your chickens and put your thumb and index finger around their necks right below their heads. Dunk them up to your fingers in the water. Hold long enough to completely saturate the feathers. DO NOT pt their heads under. (I know yall wont but I ad one guy that did lol)
There used to be stuff called Black Leaf 40 but its hard to find so make your own heres how
nicotine sulfate ingredients==,6 oz of melted vasaline 1 tblsp.snuff(not copenhagen or skoal real sbuff like Top the ol timey stuff) 1 teaspoon flowers of sulfur.works like a champ on the vents of fowl. Use popsicle sticks to apply around vent and a tiny dab about the size of a dime real thin right under the wing at the joint. This will last three months.
If your fowl are in pens where the rain wont wash it off buy some Adams Flea and Tick spray and spray em good.
Any of these will work.
For mites and lice in the pens I use 1 cup clorox with a 2 gallon sprayer of water and coat everything really good. Get in the cracks etc. But make sure the fowl dont go in til most of the smell dissipates.
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