Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Tomorrow I gotta put the tractor back to work on the rutted portion of our pasture. Chances are that Lety will be going on a fuel (beer) run early tomorrow. View attachment 3516497Poofy Jr, mama extraordinaire

I she living up to her late mamas mothering skills?

 

[featherhead007]

Meant separate area not sedate - jeeeesh autocorrect.

Your auto correct is on drugs!

 

[Ponypoor]

Truly is upright and eating, and looks like she cleaned her feed with her meds from her feed bucket.

I rarely leave her door open with just the rope stall guard, but did tonight

The chook and Tweens are also snoozing ok

 

[Ponypoor]

I so much love my rooster buddy. He watches over his ladies every moment of the day. He keeps them calm while I’m away. No harm to come to him, I pray
Let’s have some pizza !

Jaffar is such a good boy

 

[notabitail]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/is-something-wrong-with-my-chickens-foot.1581549/

 

[fuentemoon]

A last minute twofer

 

[RoyalChick]

What a day, it started with hearing weird noises coming from inside the back wall of the coop. It ended with finding a rat doing a complete clean out of the coop a few days before intended.
I have mostly bare floor for tonight, till I can get some fresh wood chips tomorrow.
As for the rat uggg, I knew it was probably only a matter of time. There are alot of tunnels under my coop I found today Also after deep diving into posts on BYC I am fair certain its a Norwegian rats, I saw one but I have no doubt there are more.

The battle has begun! Stripping the coop was step one. I also flooded the area I saw one in, Inspection of the hardware cloth and moving the food and water out into run is step 2. If they don’t depart I will get an electric trap and use one bite poison as a lure.

Needless to say I am exhausted after all the shenanigans today. I also don’t know what to do about the timeline for putting Brownie and the babies back out into coop. This throws quite the wrench in the works.

If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears for now I think I am going to find my pillow.

Rat tax:
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@BY Bob had success with a situation that sounds like yours.
He used dry ice in the tunnels and killed them all.
I think it might work well for you.

 

[Marie2020]

Oh yeah. Totally. I may need some water in between though.

 

[Marie2020]

Thank you! *slips in chicken poo and lands with a hard thud on a mountain of giant land chicken poo*

I've been there and done that countless times.

 

[Marie2020]

Good night ladies sleep tight

Good morning Kelly