Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Too many bad humans

Very sad.

 

[Ponypoor]

Remember to be careful that no chickens or wild birds can get a hold of rats/mice that have been poisoned.

Yep I put it into my locked office/feedroom and up in the loft were domestic animals can't get, only mice and rats.

In the house I throw it up in the attic.

I am ultra paranoid, I put a huge sign on the door in the barn stating poison in use and locked the Door.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Responsible pesticide use! Gold star for you!!! I need to set the traps DH brought but the stove mouse looked right at me the other night while it was eating my potatoes and was kinda cute. I’m going to feel guilty now, but I’m also sick of the poop from the top of the stove hole to my island and into my potato bag.

Yes, but rat / mouse poison is a balance with pros and cons - there was a story of a sickened snowy owl near us that had eaten a poisoned rat. It was caught, rehabbed and survived [EDIT the owl, not the rat!]

Mice - you might try a big old fashioned bread box to store your potatoes in, if it's big enough.

 

[Ponypoor]

Please remove feral goats from that list! Ours have actually helped bring back a local endangered orchid, control the scotch broom, and are not particularly “dangerous”… of course I may be biased

Hey I love goats! You know I want a dozen

But they are apparently causing terrible issues with destroying native plants, and erosion on the islands.

As for dangerous, I fell off my office chair a couple years ago while watching a goat baby video, laughing so hard hahaha.

 

[RoyalChick]

I bet they were eating @RoyalChick 's cat food! We found that was the case here, then found how they were getting in....now we hear them working on an alternate route around the old hole (stuffed with steel wool and blocked off on the house side by wood). But we are wiser and on to them

I did once open a sock drawer and found the back was full of kibble that the mice had carefully carried from the cats' bowl!

 

[Cynthia12]

I went to check the eggs in the incubator and found this! Three more are chipped so I'll check again before bed time.View attachment 3023134

I miss this.

 

[BY Bob]

Sharing!!

I love this!

 

[BY Bob]

I miss this.

 

[Cynthia12]

Chicken Back Taxes for whining about weather, medication availability and herbicide issues hereView attachment 3031396
I figure there’s at least 30 under there staying out of the rain… I think they have learned this from the goats. Here is “meatball” contemplating eggs while I contemplate turning some cockerels into sausage looking at her back and headView attachment 3031397
And finally, the real answer to why the Sasso girls, Ziptie, Trouble, and Mama have cleaner bottoms than the other curvy girls. Their little sister Tailess helps them preen the spots they can’t reach ewwwwView attachment 3031399

Love that big ol boy in your first photo. Handsome roo.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes, but rat / mouse poison is a balance with pros and cons - there was a story of a sickened snowy owl near us that had eaten a poisoned rat. It was caught, rehabbed and survived.

Mice - you might try a big old fashioned bread box to store your potatoes in, if it's big enough.

Yes those second generation pesticides are nasty news, which is why I prefer Ratak, it's been around a long time. I like to keep the pesticide inside and not outside where vermin can wander away outside - mice and rats in the barn will stay in the barn.

I have been also putting the chickens food away at night and not leaving it out over night.

The hen house has no feed in there at all, the gang only goes in there to lay eggs and sleep.

I will be a wreck until I get these vermin under control, until then I will be on tenter hooks....