Curmudgeonland...home Of The Old Farts Club

[Sunbaked]

rat poison boys . Got rid of most of the bastards. got one more chipmunk that won't take the bait.
I'm off to another auction, looking at a wood lathe. I hope it is not one of those big ones. Also a 200 Honda. If it's a dirt bike ,I'm in.

 

[Sunbaked]

one year, I had 400 pounds of food out back for the deer. apples, corn, carrots and sugar beets. I look out the window and a damn deer is eating all the leaves off my peach tree. I was pissed.

 

[yooper420]

Yup, them damn deer like a varied diet. Got a feeder behind the garage and transplanted about 18 small cedar trees in the vicinity of it thinking that the corn from the feeder would keep `em away from the cedars......WRONG. Them damn deer ate the hell outta them cedars. Got 3 left, only because I put a 3 foot high fence around `em. Have lost more cedars then that to the deer through the years. Have lived here over 12 years now and the trees that I transplanted 10 and 11 years ago at 12 to 18 inches tall are now 8 to 10 feet tall. Proud of them damn trees, about 100 of `em.

 

[yooper420]

rat poison boys . Got rid of most of the bastards. got one more chipmunk that won't take the bait.
I'm off to another auction, looking at a wood lathe. I hope it is not one of those big ones. Also a 200 Honda. If it's a dirt bike ,I'm in.

One summer I put rat poison under my shed. The damn chipmunk dragged it out and luckily I saw my dog eating it. Hydrogen Peroxide down the gullet and up come all of the poison.

 

[G gnome]

One summer I put rat poison under my shed. The damn chipmunk dragged it out and luckily I saw my dog eating it. Hydrogen Peroxide down the gullet and up come all of the poison.

Smart lil bastard huh? Lil payback

 

[yooper420]

Smart lil bastard huh? Lil payback

He won the battle, but I won the war. Crunchy peanut butter in a live trap. Ya cram a nut into a space in the trigger plate and the little mo fo can lick all of the butter off, but that damn nut gets `em every time. Take `em a couple miles down the trail and instant new home.

 

[yooper420]

@G gnome, think I forgot to say something about my dog and the poison. He was fine, also did this with my peeps Rotty at hunting camp. Had to mix it with milk to get her to take it, lapped right up. My little dog, we took a baby syringe and squirted it down his throat. Both dogs were none the worse for wear.

 

[Hippie]

One thing the deer won't touch at my place is apples. I've got two regular apple trees. The squirrels will gnaw on 'em once they hit the ground, but the deer won't touch 'em. I've seen them nibble on the crabapples, though. Weird.
They will, however, walk down a 140' row of corn or sunflowers and eat every damn one off to around three inches off the dirt. Fuckers.

 

[Seamaiden]

Good morning OFC, how`s it hangin` ? Yesterday we finally got some relief from the heat, but it`s coming back in a day or two. Them critters are known rippers. Had something break branches off my tomatoes. Damn critters like them "Super Sweet 100`s" as much as my wife does. No luck growing the big ones. Always get "blossom end rot" on the big ones, so I quit growing `em. Sure like growing cannabis a lot more, results are better. Time for our morning ritual of "wake n bake". So, get a cup of coffee and pack a bowl and let`s all get stoned. Here we go, puff, puff, cough and passing to ya.

Try using Sea-90 as a foliar. It stopped my BER problems dead in their tracks.

 

[yooper420]

Try using Sea-90 as a foliar. It stopped my BER problems dead in their tracks.

Thanks, will have to write that down, no big ones growing this summer.

 

[yooper420]

One thing the deer won't touch at my place is apples. I've got two regular apple trees. The squirrels will gnaw on 'em once they hit the ground, but the deer won't touch 'em. I've seen them nibble on the crabapples, though. Weird.
They will, however, walk down a 140' row of corn or sunflowers and eat every damn one off to around three inches off the dirt. Fuckers.

Deer not eating apples, just don`t seem right. Do you spray the apples ?

 

[Hippie]

Deer not eating apples, just don`t seem right. Do you spray the apples ?

No, sir. They'll eat everything else, but not the apples. The apples are good, too. I've eaten them before. Nothing weird about 'em.

At the old ranch, I used to raise Asian Sika deer. Everyone said, "Get salt/mineral blocks. They love 'em."
They wouldn't touch 'em. Only wear and tear the blocks saw was from rain wearing 'em down. Those little shits would rip your back pocket off to get an apple out, though.

 

[yooper420]

Them deer raid my apple trees, that`s my signal to pick `em. Then I give some every time I feed `em. Try cutting some apples in half, see if the`ll eat `em then. We lay pumpkins out, they won`t touch `em, smash `em on the ground in pieces and they eat `em right up. Same with sugar beets after they get frozen. Before they get frozen the deer can bite chunks off. After they leave `em alone unless you cut `em in pieces.

 

[yooper420]

My one hunting partner raised some type of exotic deer for a number of years, forget what species.

 

[stonestacker]

I don't know who eats more out of the garden me or the deer.

 

[stonestacker]

Good to see you around @Seamaiden

 

[Hippie]

Good to see you around @Seamaiden

Love her name. Makes me itchy to go sailing. Hopefully, I'll get one of 'em wet next week. Watch the wind go away.:(

 

[G gnome]

My one hunting partner raised some type of exotic deer for a number of years, forget what species.

Fallow?

 

[Sunbaked]

back from auction. Got the lathe for 90 dollars, but the lathe tools cost me 27.50. A Amish guy wanted them too. Also got a fox mount under a plastic and wood box. real nice mount for 75 dollars. Also a old cane seat rocker. 50 dollars. and a real nice black rotary dial phone. a dollar was the best buy. I hope it will still work. time for a big one. Oh yea the wife is not home yet, but she told me when I left that I better not come home with a lathe. lol

 

[Hippie]

So, where ya hidin' it?