Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

I just had to save a poor little mouse from a glue trap my dad set up. It makes me so mad that he uses them. they suffer so much. I am going to release him way down in my woods so he hopefully doesn't make it back to anyone's house

I am letting him snack on some bird seed before I let him go as he is shaking so much

The little buggers are smart & know how to return ~ especially w/ your kind treatment

I agree about the stinking glue traps ~ all they catch are spiders, crickets, or lizards & sparrows get stuck trying to get at the sticky insects! We had to release lizards & sticky sparrows by cleaning them up first.

Now we use the more successful small cage traps both outdoors & garage after chickens' roost time. We bought the trap to catch a baby squirrel but we were surprised catching rats w/it. We caught over a dozen rats so far this summer. No more useless glue traps for us. Hanging sticky fly traps good ~ sticky mouse/rat traps yuch/useless!

This is the cage we got in small size. After catching wild rats we drown them in the cage by dunking the cage in a bin of water. Quick fast elimination. If the cage is opened the rodents escape fast so DH drowns them quickly inside the cage. I have a soft heart for animals but wild rodents are not like pet rodents ~ the wild ones carry fleas, ticks, bacteria, disease, poops, unfortunately all kinds of filth you don't want in your house, garage, storage sheds, or in your chicken areas.

 

[Sylvester017]

My SkyHawk doesn’t make noise inside the cabin. Just outside until we take off. Then it’s all wind sheer

COOL!!!

 

[Logar]

This is the cage we got in small size. After catching wild rats we drown them in the cage by dunking the cage in a bin of water. Quick fast elimination. If the cage is opened the rodents escape fast so DH drowns them quickly inside the cage. I have a soft heart for animals but wild rodents are not like pet rodents ~ the wild ones carry fleas, ticks, bacteria, disease, poops, unfortunately all kinds of filth you don't want in your house, garage, storage sheds, or in your chicken areas.

I am going to see if I can find that trap! I have zero problem with killing wild mice and rats, it is just the slow deaths that I will not tolerate.

 

[Ponypoor]

We burn a lot of wood. Since we're not as young as we used to be and splitting with an axe or a sledge and a wedge is hard on the body, we do most splitting with a 40 ton wood splitter. It'll handle anything hubby can get into position to split, and any of the woods we have. Oak and maple are easy. Get 'em started and they pop open. Walnut, on the other hand, is stringy and fights you all the way down. The wood splitter just muscles on through it.

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Sunny and Pip, sitting on my lap.

Yep and I have found Elm to be like that also, it splits but it’s stringy, and the fibres don’t separate so I have to manually pull it apart.

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Don’t bother me I am busy

Teeheehee she won’t find me up here!

Not sure why I bother to cover the hay and straw they just crawl under the sheets.

 

[Ponypoor]

Axe and young muscles: sons...alternatively, there's a wedge and sledge. The splitter is on the wish list.

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I bought an electric one which works great. I have even split large chunks up to 20” across, I just split off the edges a bit then I can split it in two.

I would never be able to use even a wedge to split chunks.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy Monday everyone.
Here are some food-obsessed mugshots. Poor Bernie is really looking very tattered around her neck.

 

[RoyalChick]

I am going to see if I can find that trap! I have zero problem with killing wild mice and rats, it is just the slow deaths that I will not tolerate.

I agree. Nothing beats a snap trap in my view. And if you aren’t squeamish you can reuse them. Maybe your Dad will appreciate the economy in that.

 

[featherhead007]

I don't mind snap traps but I hate the glue ones. They just sit there and can't move. some resort to eating off their legs to try and escape. I can't just sit by while that happens. Am I a bit sensitive? maybe. But mice are just so intelligent I can't imagine what they are thinking

Not smart enough I guess!! I hate rodents and they must be eliminated

 

[Logar]

I agree. Nothing beats a snap trap in my view. And if you aren’t squeamish you can reuse them. Maybe your Dad will appreciate the economy in that.

we actually have a bunch of them but they stopped working for a bit (I am pretty sure we had just gotten all of them at that point) so he bought them. And now he won't let me get rid of them

 

[featherhead007]

It also doesn't help that I could hear it squealing through the door.

Music to my ears!