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jododger
03-08-2009, 05:49 PM
I live in Phoenix AZ - city. I thought I was losing my mind when I saw a rooster in my front yard walking across the desert landscaping into the yard next door. I went to water my flowers in the garden bed and the rooster jumped out from behind the geraniums and ran across to the neighbors yard.
It looks like he is digging up the dirt -- maybe catching bugs? Well, it has dug up and made some good holes and I am hoping it doesn't dig up the flower bulbs I planted in the fall. I put up a short metal fence but it doesn't deter this rooster from his daily visit to my garden beds.
So far, it isn't crowing in the morning...how do I get this rooster from digging? I put some red chili pepper seeds in the garden bed but hasn't deterred this rooster.
Jbuck
03-08-2009, 07:45 PM
"She'll be coming around the mountain when she...and we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes".
Problem solved.
Belle
03-08-2009, 08:04 PM
Lay some chicken wire on top of the dirt. No more digging.
hunybee
03-08-2009, 08:15 PM
"She'll be coming around the mountain when she...and we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes".
Problem solved.


LOLOL!!!
Summerthyme
03-08-2009, 08:45 PM
Chicken wire laid flat in the beds will solve most of it. Chicken soup would solve it permanently!

In plantings which I can't lay wire on (my established herb beds), I cut multiflora rosebush stems... they are absolute WEEDS on the farm. You could use prunings from your own roses if you have them. I cut them in 8-12" long lengths, and scattered them around the herb beds. It worked... I didn't see any "drastic" examples of hens who had learned their lesson, but there were NO "dust bowls" or other indications of digging birds, either.

Summerthyme
Belle
03-08-2009, 08:47 PM
Summerthyme, keep an eye on those multiflora cuttings so they don't root.
Navajo
03-08-2009, 09:21 PM
You eat him! Problem solved...
jododger
03-08-2009, 10:55 PM
I don't have any rose bush cuttings -- but have plenty of bouganvilla which should do the trick-- I get cut up just trimming them...I have lots of plants and would be hard to get the chicken wire down in there. I don't have the heart to hurt an animal -- I thought of rat poison but then again our Sheriff Joe would probably put me in TENT City!!! He is an advocate of animals more than humans...