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  • From: "Robin & Steve Follette" <follette AT ainop.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: grasshoppers (was squash bugs)
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:51:46 -0400

>We don't have a single grasshopper where our chickens are.
>Now if we could just teach them to live where the garden is supposed to be!
>They won't even get near that area for some reason.
 
I lured ours to the gardens when I let them back out by moving their feed closer to the gardens each day.  I don't put food into the container until they're out and can see me walking to it with the five gallon bucket.  They associate that with food.  I stopped filling the hopper in the hen house so that they're hungry when I let them out in the morning. 

Robin
Thyme For Ewe Farm, Maine



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