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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:48:10 -0600 (CST)

Weston

Have you used this approach? How expensive is it? Where did you find the
product?

Bill



---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:44:16 -0500
>From: Weston Lant <weston AT luckyfieldorganics.com>
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar
>To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
>
> Quintox is a good solution, OMRI approved, and it
> is not a poison, rather it is a form of vitamin D I
> believe. Rodents can't process excessive amounts of
> it and it is safer that high or low explosives.
> There is no danger of secondary kill (unless another
> vole goes onto a protein diet). Best presented
> before the introduction of a salad bar, as given a
> choice....
>
> Voles 2 wstn 3
>
> wstn
> Lucky Field Organics.
>
> On 2/28/2010 2:15 PM, BarbaraJ wrote:
>
> Maggie,
> My only moderately successful plan of attack has
> been cats. I have six, they live outside, I
> replace them if necessary (i.e. they are lost to
> another predator). I do believe there are nasty
> chemical controls, but I can't use them. Cats,
> gotta love them when they do the job they are
> designed to do. :) All the best of luck to you
> in your war. And honestly, Caddyshack takes on a
> whole new meaning when battling the varmints.
>
> Barb
> Front Range, Colorado
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Maggie Palmer
> To: 'Market Farming'
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar
> They chowed down on the Pac Choi and the Te You
> (Chinese Broccoli) and the Hon Tsai Tai
> (Broccoli Raab), were only half interested in
> the onions.
>
> We are moving the cat to the greenhouse, getting
> another cat, adding one of those sound devices
> and building Coleman style vole traps. If I put
> more seedlings in, I'll definately put them up
> on a vole-proof bench--Thanks Steve.
>
> It kind of puts you at a standstill when the
> greenhouse is ready for planting and the voles
> will decimate them if you do. Voles 1 Maggie 0
>
> Maggie Palmer
> Painted Sage Farm
> Quanah Parker Place
> Daniel, Wyo
> 307-859-8349
>
> www.paintedsagefarm.wordpress.com
>
> Facebook: http://tiny.cc/QZG7n
>
> "The purpose of agriculture is not the
> production of food, but the perfection of human
> beings."
> ~ Masanobu
> Fukuoka
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]
> On Behalf Of clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:32 PM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar
> Thanx for the vole proof bench details.
>
> My ? about types of things that voles like,
> wasn't necessarily directed at you, Steve, but
> anyone who can or cares to comment.
>
> I wondered what kinds of seedlings voles like,
> whether green or brown or white or...
>
> Kurt Forman
> Clearview Farm
> Palmyra, NY 14522
>
> --- MAsteveINE AT 207me.com wrote:
>
> From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
> To: "Market Farming"
> <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:53:56 -0500
>
> ?
>
>
>
> >Pardon my ignorance, but, what are green
> things that voles would eat? For that matter,
> what are non-green things that voles would
> eat?
>
> Kurt Forman
> Clearview Farm
>
> =========================================================================
> Pardon me, I do not find "green" in my post!
>
> check for yourself:
>
> ""Things that voles would eat, placed on
> benches that voles cannot climb onto are not
> eaten by voles.
>
> MAsteveINE""
>
> ====================================================
>
> >Are benches that voles would not climb on to,
> special kinds of benches or just any old
> bench?
>
> Kurt Forman
> ======================================================
> At this place 4' x 8' bench sections are
> placed on inverted 5 gallon plastic buckets,
> or
> 8" x 8" x 16" concrete blocks placed on end;
> and to date, voles have not attacked the
> contents.
>
>
>
> OMMV
>
> MAsteveINE
>
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