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  1. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Its hard to trust 1000 lbs of sweetie. Our 120- lb Rotts could knock me over just wagging their tailess rumps💕
  2. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Fuzzy legs?
  3. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    :lau I thought she was your brat, feather-picker, & escape artist?!
  4. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    How many flight miles is considered old for a Skyhawk? W/ cars I consider non-diesel between 150K to 200K miles too old to be safe. Tx BFTP my favourite mixed flock ~ 2 Silkies, a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana & a Blue Breda ~ they were gentle souls together. 2016
  5. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I'm so sorry but keep the baited trap in use & don't move its location around & leave the droppings trail untouched. All it takes is one smelly droppings rat to get caught & others will follow later if there's more than one rat around that you don't know of. DH picks up our rat cage to dispose...
  6. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Bantams are so sweet. House chickens get very attached to humans away from other birds. All our house birds were sweet & asked for attention or pulled on our pant leg to get picked up.
  7. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    & our 5 are the BEST!
  8. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    That's precisely why we never got a top lid feeder ~ looked like a death trap for Silkies. We had 3 bottom treadle feeders & the birds wanted nothing to do w/ them! Followed all the instructions, videos, & BYC advice... nothing worked.
  9. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Silkies were our easiest breed to integrate one at a time... as long as there was another Silkie already. They would toodle together... not really bosom buddies... but always together. Later we started getting them in pairs or trios... easy to get here cuz Silkies are so popular. I imagine...
  10. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Are Polish good flyers? Will they stay behind a barrier/fence?
  11. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    One man on youtube yells at the top of his voice at dusk & all the birds run to the hen house... about 100 of them! My farm mom used outstretched arms to herd ducks. I found it works pretty well on a stubborn foraging hen too. c. 1930's
  12. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    The mink man on youtube uses water hoses to fill up the rat hole/s but only cuz he has a mink & rat dogs to kill escaping rats out of the hole/s.
  13. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    DH got another rat this morning... a really big one. I asked what bait caught this one ~ he uses a cheese or p-nut butter filled cracker w/ a cubelet of pre-packaged cheese cube next to the cracker ~ the rat's choice. ZAP! 2nd rat this week...
  14. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Just my 2 cents but I would not traumatize a live chicken in that partitioned trap... maybe use a slab of beef or carcass from the deli market to lure the coyote? A live chicken would have a heart attack in that coyote cage ☹️
  15. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Moving a trap makes rats suspicious/wary. Keep it in one place near telltale droppings w/ really yummy food bait & change the bait fresh daily. Leave the yucky droppings alone so other rats know it is a safe well traveled rat trail... then ZAP!
  16. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Rats are sneaky burrowers. You may have them in the area & never see them ~ it may depend on whether they are an underground burrowing community type, or junk pile inhabitants, or barn dwellers, or heaven forbid, house/building dwellers, etc. They are everywhere whether we see them or not...
  17. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Depending on what style/model treadle feeder it is this could work very well. On the two model types we had it would never have worked cuz our lids were at the bottom. This model would work using a brick or weight to hold the top lid down. Something like this would scare the crap out of our...
  18. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    We gave up treadle feeders... the Silkies were too spooked & we had the bigger metal feeders on the ground. Funny that our smaller quieter feeder was on the patio cement & one standard chicken used it but never used the bigger noisier metal feeders on the ground. Such a waste of time, $$$, &...
  19. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    So glad you got another. I didn't want to say anything earlier but I guess you know by now I believe in getting at least 3 birds at a time to allow for losses... dang, losses do happen. We did the one at a time in the past but after so many failures we started getting 3 chicks at a time so if...
  20. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Wouldn't be the 1st time we've done a house chicken & we'll cross that bridge when we get there w / a lone Silkie. Silkies are great no matter where they reside. We've allowed dogs, cats, parrots, cockatiels, budgies, & chickens have free roam in certain areas of the house so we're no strangers...
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