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Originally Posted by zcaveman
This is how nature works. You can do what you want to try to circumvent it but it will go on.
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This is all VERY INTERESTING.....each post I've read so far.
We just came back from 4 days in northern Vermont visiting the grandkids and their new adolescent chickens (who grew very fast from baby chicks)..........they will soon vacate their original chicken coop for the bigger one on the hill.........our daughter & her hubby told us that a bear has been spotted plus a bobcat.
Makes me wonder how long these chickens will survive, especially considering the bobcat who broke into a neighbor's chicken coop a few days before we arrived. Our grandchildren have "laying hens". They hold them in their arms and bring them inside the house.
It seems to be all the rage with the younger generation these days; not just in Vermont. However, the fox are around as everyone knows....but now the bobcat and the bear? Is it even worthwhile to try to raise laying hens ????
I realize they are not bluebirds..........but in reading the interesting feedback on the bluebird issue.............I just figured I'd ask.
The other question for the experts out there on wildlife in the northeast or even in Florida.........do squirrels and chipmunks CHEW THROUGH THE SCREENED IN PORCH SCREENING?????
Our new 3 season screened porch is in it's last days of completion.
They are rolling in the screen tight screening after an "expert" refused to do so..........saying that the chipmunks and squirrels will just chew right through it.
We do have chipmunks and we do have squirrels. We don't feed them at all.
Does anyone think this will be a problem? I went online and read suggestions of mothballs and various home made potions with hot pepper, ammonia, etc...........or using D-con as bait/poison..
Has anyone had this issue in the northeast???? Trapping was another
option; however, after trapping at least 28 groundhogs a few years back, I doubt if he'd want to start that all over again for chipmunks and squirrels.
Thank you in advance . We didn't want a glassed in room "hot box"; we wanted screens.........but now this statement by the screening experts.
Go figure. It came out beautifully.........just don't want the critters getting inside the house. Until I read the online articles, I never even knew that chipmunks can COME INTO THE WALLS, ATTICS, ETC.
They are cute as can be.........but??? I also didn't know they chew screens. Ditto for squirrels.