Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[WhoDatChick]

We do have the brown recluse spider. Copperheads and timber rattlesnakes are here as well but they live mostly in the mountains not around where I live.
None of then are "prevalent" here enough to be a real worry. I guess we are lucky in that.

Yea, we don’t see many rattle snakes but I’ve caught a few copperheads in my yard.. I wanted to keep them as they are gorgeous.. and they were small.. but up the road where I walk you will always see one going across the road.. and big! I’ll throw sticks at them to get them to go so I can pass ... And the water moccasins are everywhere....

 

[BY Bob]

Yea, we don’t see many rattle snakes but I’ve caught a few copperheads in my yard.. I wanted to keep them as they are gorgeous.. and they were small.. but up the road where I walk you will always see one going across the road.. and big! I’ll throw sticks at them to get them to go so I can pass ... And the water moccasins are everywhere....

I would think that baby snakes would not survive around chickens. They would wind up as snacks, poisonous or not.

I would need a very long stick to walk where you do!

 

[LozzyR]

Now that's an idea! I'd love to know how she terrorized it.

• Show it pictures of its family and tell it she knew where they lived
• Put bamboo under its talons
• Slowly drip water on its forehead
• Tickle it until it wets itself
• Make it eat dirt
• Give it noogies

I wonder?

I picture her grabbing it, shaking it whilst yelling in its face and launching it back into the air. I’ll have to ask her.

 

[LozzyR]

I would think that baby snakes would not survive around chickens. They would wind up as snacks, poisonous or not.

I would need a very long stick to walk where you do!

If the lizards are anything to go by!

 

[BY Bob]

If the lizards are anything to go by!

The way mine eat spaghetti I think they would slip right in with little troubles at all.

 

[WhoDatChick]

I would think that baby snakes would not survive around chickens. They would wind up as snacks, poisonous or not.

I would need a very long stick to walk where you do!

They did see a garter snake and they just eyeballed it suspiciously... I would’ve stopped them from eating that one though.. I like snakes

 

[LozzyR]

Waiting patiently for breakfast.

Meanwhile, Charlie is back in the garden nest and Chickie is in the henhouse. I’m giving Charlie another 20 minutes before I check under her and boot her off.

 

[LozzyR]

No need; Charlie got off herself and there was no egg. Chickie laid one though, then went off on a cacklecophony because she couldn’t see the other two! Do anyone else’s girls do that?

 

[LozzyR]

....aaaaaaannnnnnddddd she’s back on again.

 

[BY Bob]

Waiting patiently for breakfast.

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Meanwhile, Charlie is back in the garden nest and Chickie is in the henhouse. I’m giving Charlie another 20 minutes before I check under her and boot her off.

You must have the most patient hens ever! I love these photos.