12-16-2006, 02:00 AM
Has anyone thought about chickens? I am not talking about your garden variety chicks but Buckeyes or some kid of agressive forager. My grandmother had Buckeyes to keep the rat and mouse population down on her farm. A weird thing about Buckeye's is they start foraging an hour before sunrise and and hour after sunset, besides all the general scratching during the day.
A couple of Buckeye hen chicks (rooster need not apply) fed early on a supply of hand caught couqui and you would have coqui killing chicken machines. You might be able to start with grown Buckeyes if you cast only a little feed (enough to force foraging) in coqui areas. And Buckeye's do pretty well with high pens/roost, that would keep away mongeeses.
Just and idea.
A couple of Buckeye hen chicks (rooster need not apply) fed early on a supply of hand caught couqui and you would have coqui killing chicken machines. You might be able to start with grown Buckeyes if you cast only a little feed (enough to force foraging) in coqui areas. And Buckeye's do pretty well with high pens/roost, that would keep away mongeeses.
Just and idea.