Daydream thread continues.....

Lotus-eater

I'm here, nothing useful to say atm

lostinrates

First weather report of the new thread!

this morning i did critters in a light cardi ....and other clothes of course. It is unbelievably mild. I feel the itch to sow these annuals with a march sowing date today.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

weather is a bit pants here... murkey, drizzle type rain:o

free listing weekend on fleabay, so it looks as though they are doing 2 a month on average....

what i have read on other threads, people are doing the listings on fleabay, but putting them to start on x day and x time ( so actually starting doing the listings on a friday), BUT when the free listing days arrive, they are then going into the listings and changing the listing time to start straightaway...so this saves some of the hassle of doing the listings one after the other etc, and the listings can finish on a certain time in the evening;)

Do you know anywhere, where i can sell my body for medical research after i snuff it, but get paid now:rotfl:

soooooooooooooooo close, but yet so far..:o

Lotus-eater

I did some tidying up of the garden yesterday in a T-shirt!

The PSB don't seem to have liked this warm winter at all and aren't looking very happy. But the weeds are starting to grow in earnest. Some haven't even stopped since last summer.

I need some advice about the rats infesting the greenhouse, I haven't been able to trap them all and poison doesn't work on these ones. I've tried everything and the ones left are too wily to be caught.
I'd prefer to kill them all while they are in the GH, as it's a safe place to set any sort of trap.

I've got a live trap and a few snap traps, no baits seem to work anymore, they'll eat the same stuff on the ground next to a trap, but not in it. I don't know what to do tbh...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I did some tidying up of the garden yesterday in a T-shirt!

The PSB don't seem to have liked this warm winter at all and aren't looking very happy. But the weeds are starting to grow in earnest. Some haven't even stopped since last summer.

I need some advice about the rats infesting the greenhouse, I haven't been able to trap them all and poison doesn't work on these ones. I've tried everything and the ones left are too wily to be caught.
I'd prefer to kill them all while they are in the GH, as it's a safe place to set any sort of trap.

I've got a live trap and a few snap traps, no baits seem to work anymore, they'll eat the same stuff on the ground next to a trap, but not in it. I don't know what to do tbh...

Sounds as though you have super rats....

we found we would put loads of traps down, maybe catch a few, and then the others would get wise to them:mad:, we just sit in our caravan ( as it overlooks some of their regular visiting places) and pop them with the air guns...

we move the traps around, and also change the diff type of food we put in them, ranging from chocolate, bacon, tinned dog food, etc...

I think they become amune to rat posion, so you have too try diff ones ...have your agri merchant got super strength posion?

would un-cooked rice make them seriously ill? (by expanding in the stomach) so then they would be an easier target to shot?

sorry if this sounds awfull, but you get to a point where its no joke, and you need to try anything just to get rid of them....

we havent seen any for a while now, but i am sure as soon as they start disturbing the waste ground again ( when they start building the supermarket) we will get over-run again

lostinrates

I am very, very seriously considering a terrier. I have no hatred for rats in their own right. Just not where their presense has health implications for me and mine, and feed stores etc.

Davesnave

We don't have much experience of rats, and none since moving here. They must be about, but whether it's the cats or a lack of interesting stuff for them, they aren't a bother at the buildings end of things. It helps that the old agricultural barns around are now being used by builders and similar.

TBH, rats are one reason why I'm still a bit wary about having pigs. When there were pigs here, I'm told there were rats; lots of them.

I know there's a certain person not a million miles from here having rat bother ATM.....and he's blaming someone who feeds the birds. It isn't me, and I haven't, but all this is very useful stuff to know.

I guess he'd not like pigs either....;)

CTC, my 'puter is playing up and I can't download Adobe stuff this morning, so please bear with me. I will try to reply to your PM later. It depends if a re-start will fix it. Must get a new one!

lostinrates

We only had rodents return here this winter davesnave. Chickens are a huge draw for rodents. With the feral cats...at least two left, and my cats and very little food left down its a huge shame. But...we have loads of barns, and stacked hay for a nice warm home, water to drink, and inevitably stuff to eat...so in is to some degree inevitable, not least with the farm yard next door too.

I think that our place was empty for a while had meant pickings were sli so they stayed where there was more happening.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

There has been a good point made by Davesnave a while back, about the amount of land which is manageable, and also cost effecient... I think it came up in a conversation between davesnave and our rhiwie...which made me realise... for us maybe less is more... and in reality, maybe a little bit more realistic to reach...Plus.... older we are getting.... and not as fit as we used to be:cool:

Yes, I feel that's right. Properties with under an acre put the larger animals out of the equation, which reflects in reduced asking prices. That's a good start. Those beasts certainly cost the purchase stage.

How many folk settle for a crummy house to compensate?

I won't answer that!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, I feel that's right. Properties with under an acre put the larger animals out of the equation, which reflects in reduced asking prices. That's a good start. Those beasts certainly cost the purchase stage.

How many folk settle for a crummy house to compensate?

I won't answer that!

:cool::cool::cool::cool: i will settle for a crummy house, even if it a little bit of land:cool:;)