Good Morning! <=2017

[TomK]

You folks have all the fun...lol..predators...possums...pigs opening just about anything...chicken feed on the car roof and 9lb chickens flying up to scatter the feed for the whole world to enjoy....what am I doing wrong?...lol...

[baronrenfrew]

Be careful what you wish for tom!

[Skinny rooster]

ARGH!!!! we have a colony of possums living under our shed! our hyper dog had a tangle with one last night, it played possum and spent the rest of the next hour growling at us from under the shed....sigh. there's at least 2.....i haven't seen them myself but hubby scared one out of the wood pile a few weeks ago, and last night well, there's at least 2!!!!
all the turkeys and chickens are in today, barn is closed up tight.....maybe a horse can manage to step on them.....lol. was wondering how we were going through turkey feed at record speed....i think i know now! and why the guineas were always up on top of the pen.....a possum would be enough to scare them up for sure! so. short of a garden hose on high....not sure how to get them out. traps are baited, but no takers last night. we'll see if we can get them in the next few days.

I didn't know we have possums in Canada, that must be because you live in the tropical part of Canada! I don't know if this will work for possums but I use this on skunks that dig under the buildings to live. I take a 3 gallon pail of warm water, add in some bleach, enough to be smelly, even add in an old towel, pour the water down the hole, toss in the old towel and stand back. With the skunks it works in minutes, they hate the smell. Good luck.

[WLLady]

Lol omg that would be awesome to do....alas its freezing here...even the eggs in the traps are frozen solid....and theres no hole per se just the 6-8 inches between the ground and the floor of the shed....but thinking i might just go and dump some bleach through the holes in the shed floor anyways. No clue if bleach will freeze-or smell less below freezing...hm....apparently they are quite large-bigger than our normal skunks. The prehensile tails are cool.....oh here i am not thinking....i will use hot water lol takes longer to freeze!!! Ha ha its saturday....

[Jaye]

Ummm, honestly don't mean to be contrary, but thought I you'd want to know: hot water does, in fact, freeze faster than cold. This apparent quirk of nature is the "Mpemba effect," named after the Tanzanian high school student, Erasto Mpemba, who first observed it in 1963. The Mpemba effect occurs when two bodies of water with different temperatures are exposed to the same subzero surroundings and the hotter water freezes first. Mpemba’s observations confirmed the hunches of some of history’s most revered thinkers, such as Aristotle, Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon, who also thought that hot water froze faster than cold water.

[windwalkingwolf]

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his dram.

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,
"I drink, therefore I am."
Sorry, I had to :D

[WLLady]

Lol i know but at least the steam would smell for a nanosecond lol

[Skinny rooster]

Lol i know but at least the steam would smell for a nanosecond lol

Well how cold is it down there lol? It would probably soak into the ground anyway. I wouldn't worry about freezing, it will either work shortly after or not at all. Maybe do it in the evening to encourage them to leave. The skunks hate it and usually make a dash within ten minutes.

[WLLady]

Its -10 right now. Brrr. The wind is cold. We have snow and neither dog is sniffing around the sheds soi doubt the possums are there any more. We did really harrass themthe one night lol. No footprints either and neither trap sprung....
Chores soon and then maybe crawling into the woodstove to get warm again lol.
Looks like more snow on the way too.

[ross]

Caught a possum here last week in coyote trap . Fattest one I've ever seen as I turned it loose & it wattled down the trail lol . Great tick eaters .Trip to London University Hospital to see knee surgeon Tues at 8am .
Hope snow / storm holds off a bit . Luck