No food is stored outdoors, we keep it in the house. The coop feeders are removed at dusk and also brought indoors. Those are on concrete so it's easy to sweep up any spilled food.
The extant rodent populations established themselves long before we got here, when the house sat empty for a few...
Unfortunately we're in the desert where they have natural food sources. Two large squirrel populations established themselves in the yard when the house was uninhabited for several years. There was no chicken feed or any other human food source and they thrived.
We can't use poison. I think the...
We use umbrellas for shade, too! Walking shade. Sometimes called parasols. It must look so odd to outsiders to see a bunch of people walking around with open umbrellas when there's not a cloud in the sky, lol.
Pee goals... this is my life now.
Coyotes eat squirrels and other rodents, their urine is supposed to be a signal to move on because a predator is in the area.
I keep reading that baking soda will kill squirrels and other rodents, mixed with equal parts of cornmeal as an attractant.
Has anyone here had success doing this? It seems too easy to be true.
1. If you buy predator urine online, how do you know that's really what you're getting? I imagine it's not easy to farm coyote or fox urine. How can you be sure the urine you buy is from a predator and not another animal (or a human - yuck)?
2. If it's legit predator urine, are chickens aware...