Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Maybe they were looking for an electrifying experience? Certainly it would jolt them out of their doldrums!


I don't know about household wires, but GMC/Chevrolet, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, use a soy based coating for their wires. Mice seem to LOVE it!

Have you shared a review of this on their website?

 

[rural mouse]

So I've had a busy morning. Took a trashcan, half a wire coat hanger, a couple of boards, and an empty toilet paper roll and built a mousetrap. We'll see how it doesover the next week.

Warm day (pushing 60f) so have been out working on cleaning the coop. 5 wheelbarrows out and not finished yet. Had feathered helpers sporadically.

Cheetah kept calling out alerts. Doves, magpies, starlings....all slightly different sounds. Then I heard one I've never heard from him before: the pair of hawks that nested in the willow trees up the creek a ways are back. He used that sound EVERY time they circled past. All the hens froze and watched until hawk passed by. I'd been thinking him a bit of a teenage ding a ling, alerting to everything. Hearing that sound made me realize he was calling out aerial birds vs DANGEROUS aerial birds. Ladies have been crossing the yard via sheltered locations, until he started crowing again. Guessing is the all clear sound?

 

[RoyalChick]

So I've had a busy morning. Took a trashcan, half a wire coat hanger, a couple of boards, and an empty toilet paper roll and built a mousetrap. We'll see how it doesover the next week.

Warm day (pushing 60f) so have been out working on cleaning the coop. 5 wheelbarrows out and not finished yet. Had feathered helpers sporadically.

Cheetah kept calling out alerts. Doves, magpies, starlings....all slightly different sounds. Then I heard one I've never heard from him before: the pair of hawks that nested in the willow trees up the creek a ways are back. He used that sound EVERY time they circled past. All the hens froze and watched until hawk passed by. I'd been thinking him a bit of a teenage ding a ling, alerting to everything. Hearing that sound made me realize he was calling out aerial birds vs DANGEROUS aerial birds. Ladies have been crossing the yard via sheltered locations, until he started crowing again. Guessing is the all clear sound?

Clever Cheetah!
Mine definitely distinguish between different kinds of overhead birds. It is only me that gets freaked out and then it turns out to be only a Turkey Vulture, though in my defense they are very big scary looking birds and there are dozens of them and they fly really low over the field.

 

[featherhead007]

Jaffar can’t get a break! He goes to lay down in the sun, and gets surrounded by his ladies.
(That’s what he gets for being so handsome I guess !)

 

[bgmathteach]

Have you shared a review of this on their website?

My husband did.

 

[rural mouse]

Break time over, back out to working on the coop

 

[featherhead007]

Break time over, back out to working on the coop

No, wait! You can procrastinate a little bit longer!

 

[fuentemoon]

I bet it is more like " Hey, don't leave me behind! No fair, you escaped and I can't Hey...WAAAAIIIITTTT UP!'

She can get out just as easily as they. She always tattles on them.

 

[fuentemoon]

That is a big egg!

Normal for her

 

[featherhead007]

It’s a good afternoon. I’m having my cup of Coco