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Post by WVsnowflake on Aug 8, 2012 18:18:23 GMT -6
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Post by tentfire on Sept 26, 2012 0:57:34 GMT -6
Thank you for sharing this! I have been trying to find better ways to save water, other than in just the buckets I put out. Course, it will have to rain, first.
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Post by WVsnowflake on Sept 26, 2012 14:20:29 GMT -6
Cant believe hubbies uncle got rid of all the rain barrels ! Mum used to water her flowers and gardens with them. But his wife was worried about Mosquitoes ! She is always worried about something or other !
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Post by olhillbilly on Sept 26, 2012 14:24:40 GMT -6
A goldfish in each barrel will take care of that.
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Post by WVsnowflake on Sept 26, 2012 14:29:20 GMT -6
Hiya Hilly ! You know I never thought of that !
I was watching a show the other day and this guy had sheep on his farm and he kept a donkey in the field with them to keep the predators away. Might have to have one lol
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Post by olhillbilly on Sept 26, 2012 23:42:48 GMT -6
Just go to bout any animal shelter in Texas and you can prolly get all the donkeys you want. I hear they been dumping donkeys all over texas just to get rid of em. Here at the sale barns, you can pick one up fer bout $20 bucks. Horses are cheap here too. Dunno bout texas. Folks can't afford to feed anything that don't make it's own way.
And ya, they do make good guard animals or so I hear. As do Llamas. A friend of me and Flwr has Llamas. A feller down the road useta have a donkey till it got to where it wouldn't let him near the herd. He got rid of it.
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Post by tentfire on Sept 27, 2012 0:58:52 GMT -6
I was going to get a llama, but decided I want an Alpaca instead. Been looking for a reasonable priced one for awhile, now. I put a few goldfish in my pool, once to keep the mosquitoes out because I didn't want to use it to swim in any more but it is a good place to save water for fire emergency. The next spring there were a few hundred gold fish in it! Lost quite a few in our past two high-heat summers, but still quite a few and the original one is now about a foot long! A donkey sounds fun. Someone that lived on route to town had the mini ones and they were adorable. They were often laying on the front porch when I went by. I can just imagine why the eventually fenced them off away from the house.  |
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