Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[knoturavggrl]

What a day, it started with hearing weird noises coming from inside the back wall of the coop. It ended with finding a rat doing a complete clean out of the coop a few days before intended.
I have mostly bare floor for tonight, till I can get some fresh wood chips tomorrow.
As for the rat uggg, I knew it was probably only a matter of time. There are alot of tunnels under my coop I found today Also after deep diving into posts on BYC I am fair certain its a Norwegian rats, I saw one but I have no doubt there are more.

The battle has begun! Stripping the coop was step one. I also flooded the area I saw one in, Inspection of the hardware cloth and moving the food and water out into run is step 2. If they don’t depart I will get an electric trap and use one bite poison as a lure.

Needless to say I am exhausted after all the shenanigans today. I also don’t know what to do about the timeline for putting Brownie and the babies back out into coop. This throws quite the wrench in the works.

If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears for now I think I am going to find my pillow.

Rat tax:

 

[featherhead007]

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No, Bob, they pushed you to 14919 pages.

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[featherhead007]

I so much love my rooster buddy. He watches over his ladies every moment of the day. He keeps them calm while I’m away. No harm to come to him, I pray
Let’s have some pizza !

 

[notabitail]

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Bob said his posts help push him to 3000 pages. That is irrelevant now. His posts ended up pushing him to 14920 pages.

 

[GregnLety]

Tomorrow I gotta put the tractor back to work on the rutted portion of our pasture. Chances are that Lety will be going on a fuel (beer) run early tomorrow.

Poofy Jr, mama extraordinaire

 

[Ponypoor]

What a day, it started with hearing weird noises coming from inside the back wall of the coop. It ended with finding a rat doing a complete clean out of the coop a few days before intended.
I have mostly bare floor for tonight, till I can get some fresh wood chips tomorrow.
As for the rat uggg, I knew it was probably only a matter of time. There are alot of tunnels under my coop I found today Also after deep diving into posts on BYC I am fair certain its a Norwegian rats, I saw one but I have no doubt there are more.

The battle has begun! Stripping the coop was step one. I also flooded the area I saw one in, Inspection of the hardware cloth and moving the food and water out into run is step 2. If they don’t depart I will get an electric trap and use one bite poison as a lure.

Needless to say I am exhausted after all the shenanigans today. I also don’t know what to do about the timeline for putting Brownie and the babies back out into coop. This throws quite the wrench in the works.

If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears for now I think I am going to find my pillow.

Rat tax:
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Job well done with the clean out.

Rats are the bane of my existence. I use my electric zapper when I remember…

My silkie chicks will be 4 weeks this Thursday but I still keep them in a sedate are at night.

 

[featherhead007]

Some men prefer blondes. But I’m partial to a good looking redhead any day!
(Ps. She makes breakfast!)

 

[featherhead007]

Tomorrow I gotta put the tractor back to work on the rutted portion of our pasture. Chances are that Lety will be going on a fuel (beer) run early tomorrow. View attachment 3516497Poofy Jr, mama extraordinaire

Tractor fuel?

 

[The Chick Addict]

Some men prefer blondes. But I’m partial to a good looking redhead any day!
(Ps. She makes breakfast!) View attachment 3516472

 

[Ponypoor]

Job well done with the clean out.

Rats are the bane of my existence. I use my electric zapper when I remember…

My silkie chicks will be 4 weeks this Thursday but I still keep them in a sedate are at night.

Meant separate area not sedate - jeeeesh autocorrect.