11-04-2007, 11:54 AM
Aloha KathyH,
The County sprayer has a long hose so if you can get a truck with a trailer within several hundred feet, you could get the frogs. Otherwise, they just brought in some baking soda dusters which are hand held units and would be much easier to deploy. From what they said, though, you have to apply the baking soda as a dry dust on dry frogs and foilage, dunno when that would be! We usually spray with the hydrated lime since we know that works and we already have the lime.
How many hens would you like? I can inquire and see how many would be available and for how much. Our last batch of chicks which we hatched out about two months ago are almost adult sized. They live in a coop still, though, but we will let them out soon. We still haven't sorted the roosters out and they haven't started crowing yet so we aren't sure who's who just yet.
NanawaleJulie, I think the amount of folks who keep chickens is about the same here as for any other rural area. Although, I think we probably have a much higher number of rooster farms and fighting chickens than the mainland does. Also, chickens are becoming a trendy pet in some areas!
It doesn't take much room to keep a chicken and if you don't have the roosters, then they are pretty quiet, too. They can live entirely in a coop sort of as if they were an overgrown canary. Depending on the size of your yard and how much foliage there is and how much you mind them digging things up, you can have more or less birds. We have about an eighth of an acre back yard (fifty by a hundred feet?) and it has a lot of green growies in it. If we have six hens it is all fine but when we have a dozen, then they start digging holes and it looks a little worn and threadbare.
The County sprayer has a long hose so if you can get a truck with a trailer within several hundred feet, you could get the frogs. Otherwise, they just brought in some baking soda dusters which are hand held units and would be much easier to deploy. From what they said, though, you have to apply the baking soda as a dry dust on dry frogs and foilage, dunno when that would be! We usually spray with the hydrated lime since we know that works and we already have the lime.
How many hens would you like? I can inquire and see how many would be available and for how much. Our last batch of chicks which we hatched out about two months ago are almost adult sized. They live in a coop still, though, but we will let them out soon. We still haven't sorted the roosters out and they haven't started crowing yet so we aren't sure who's who just yet.
NanawaleJulie, I think the amount of folks who keep chickens is about the same here as for any other rural area. Although, I think we probably have a much higher number of rooster farms and fighting chickens than the mainland does. Also, chickens are becoming a trendy pet in some areas!
It doesn't take much room to keep a chicken and if you don't have the roosters, then they are pretty quiet, too. They can live entirely in a coop sort of as if they were an overgrown canary. Depending on the size of your yard and how much foliage there is and how much you mind them digging things up, you can have more or less birds. We have about an eighth of an acre back yard (fifty by a hundred feet?) and it has a lot of green growies in it. If we have six hens it is all fine but when we have a dozen, then they start digging holes and it looks a little worn and threadbare.
Kurt Wilson