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  • From: Marsha Hanzi <hanzibra@svn.com.br>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Grasshopper control.
  • Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:51:41 -0800

Say... Didn`t Bill Mollison say that grasshoppers were delicious and an
essential element in couscous?....;)

Marsha


blissv@nmhu.campus.mci.net wrote:
>
> I dunno, Jack, the chickens here were picking off the big full-grown hoppers
> pretty well! Early in the season there are the newly hatched buggers and
> then a whole generation of those that made it through full grown.
>
> Mowing the perimeter is one of those things you keep saying works. Will have
> to try it though the Nosema(Nolo Bait) didn't do any noticeable good here.
> Perhaps I didn't start early enough, and it does require several
> applications with the hoppers still hoppin' several weeks after application
> even if it does work!
>
> If you still had food after the hoppers came through, Bobbi, then you had
> them like I did this year or last...NOT like the year I got totally wiped
> out. There is really a difference. Good that you at least still had hole-y
> leaves and yes, you must be doing something right.
>
> No, I do not think the wild and domesticated turkeys will compete since
> yours would be penned, presumably. As some one mentioned, it is helpful to
> get turkeys bred as a cross.
>
> The toms get huge! The hens, not so big. Frankly, mine vanished when they
> were smaller than full grown as we were traveling and the house sitter left
> for a few days. We'll never know if the coyotes got them when left out at
> night or if they drowned (there's quite a story... true? not sure.. about
> turkeys looking up when it rains and drowning...like I said, they're not too
> bright) So you get the turkeys in there when they're still small and young
> and if they do get too large, eventually, you move them out. I do not think
> they would fly over a 7 foot fence.
>
> v




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