Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Flash laid her first egg of the season. Noticed the trauma on my thumb cuticle. It took a rat snap trap.

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Nice egg! Hey what happened to the pedicure! I loved those nails!

 

[Ponypoor]

I read they tend to lay more in the winter and slow in the summer, nifty adaptation for cold hardy breed.

Interesting I didn’t see that, I guess I will see how that goes then!

 

[Chicken poppy]

Hey ! I am enamoured with the barring pattern chicken, horse, cat, dog....

Have to agree, and im a sucker for partridge/pencil laced, its so pretty!

 

[Ponypoor]

I have two kinds. Regular Victor snap traps that I reuse a few times before discarding. And fancy electric ones which are really easy but seem to break down after a while. The electric ones are safe around pets. The snap traps need to be covered somehow or other.

I also have the elect zap ones and there in the Fall there was a couple weeks I was getting a couple rats a night! Cant wait to get home - seeing them in the barn after the kiddos go to bed is frustrating

 

[Ponypoor]

Im especially worried about the snap traps around here because i have some very tiny Japanese bantam chicks with broody chickens hatching them.

I would use catch and release for larger animals and i would walk outside seeing the baby chicks all running in the cage stepping on the sensor trap.
The broody hen was having a panic frenzy but her rebellious little chicks wouldn’t listen because mom can’t fit so she can’t bust them!

She did her little chirps calling them out and they were talking away paying no mind, then all of the sudden she made a very loud chirp that seemed angry. They all stopped and ran under her in awkward silence. They never did it again after that.

That’s amazing!

 

[Chicken poppy]

That’s amazing!

She almost never got mad at them so i think they knew she wasn’t messing around when she did that!

 

[Ponypoor]

Have to agree, im a sucker for partridge/pencil laced, its so pretty!

I wanted a silver spangled Hamburg….

 

[Chicken poppy]

I wanted a silver spangled Hamburg….

Yes! So pretty. There are none near where i live unfortunately.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I wish I had a coop cam and I am also simultaneously glad I do not. I go in every evening to do a head count and look them over and the arrangement I find them in changes nightly. The only constant is Oreo is always surrounded by the girls but which ones are closest change. I swear its like they take turns. I agree they are crazy!

I have one. Im a little concerned though.
Day one with it consists of a picture taken roughly 4 times a minute (over 800 by morning) Peep was on his spot resting for the night, then next video (does NOT show how he got down) shows his face in the camera pecking at it.

Then the ladies flung dirt on it and tried to sit on it. I swear these chickens.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I just made a thread about this but curious if anyone here has seen it.

If you look at threads there is a gibberish name with gibberish titles and posts. Many of them by many different people.
What is this? Its strange. Its also annoying because it covers up real, important threads.