Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Latest Bedtime News

See how I changed the headline to confuse you and make you read this post.

Everyone has roosted tonight, in the coop, on a roost. That is all.

(Sansa is tucked behind Lilly. You can see 3 tails if you look closely.)

 

[WhoDatChick]

Latest Bedtime News

See how I changed the headline to confuse you and make you read this post.

Everyone has roosted tonight, in the coop, on a roost. That is all.

(Sansa is tucked behind Lilly. You can see 3 tails if you look closely.)
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Wonderful! Have you been spending more time with them..? Say... seeing them past 9am.... .... perhaps I was right

 

[WhoDatChick]

Looky what someone is selling on Craigslist.... if I didn’t have TRUMP... I’d go get him... ❤

 

[drstratton]

WOW!! This is WAY cool!!!

He does an amazing job...he would have made a great engineer...he just couldn't stand all of the required non essential classes in college & refused to pay for them! I believe we need to get away from today's college programs & move towards vocational education!

 

[drstratton]

Those are awesome. Thanks for sharing! Way cool.

Thanks, I think so too...

 

[drstratton]

Charlie, in her private outdoor nesting box.

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Ah, it must be Caturday!

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Love these!

 

[drstratton]

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Hi Rocks-Anne...yes you are a lovely girl!

 

[drstratton]

Looky what someone is selling on Craigslist.... if I didn’t have TRUMP... I’d go get him... ❤View attachment 2410291

He's adorable!

 

[Kris5902]

My son just bought a couple of these for his storage trailers...they work really well, I'm thinking for rats you might want a taller bucket! They have worked really well for catching mice!

I’m just too much of a softie to drown them... and releasing them doesn’t work. I’ve accidentally caught mice in just plain old 5 gallon buckets accidentally and felt awful when theY have turned cannibal or starved in them because I’ve not needed the bucket... I like the good old snap traps in good repair, quick and clean and I don’t usually have to finish anything off. Which is something else I can’t stand having to do.

 

[Kris5902]

Oh yes, they don't have any problems getting in if they want to, but once in they're trapped. The coops are open all day so they could just walk up the ramp.
What they can't do is gnaw their way in from the ground and that is how most get in to coops. There used to be a coop here (a garden shed in fact) and that had terrible rat problems to the point of a pack getting in and killing partly hatched chicks. That was it for me. No more ground coops.

I really like your coops on stilts... I would like to try something similar, but unless I can exclude the cows from the area I don’t see it working out here. “oh look, humans built us another scratching spot... oops, knocked it over, hey what’s that strange squawking noise?”