Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Here’s a follow up to @Ponypoor . I think this is a better “winter of our discount-tent”

 

[featherhead007]

Here’s a follow up to @Ponypoor . I think this is a better “winter of our discount-tent”
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Fits: Kelly and 14 chickens (just saying)

 

[Marie2020]

Bumble foot can be alleviated by Vaseline, witch Hazel, and sterile bandage. I was able to help Hen-Rietta with her problem. Clean foot with witch hazel. Than a generous Vaseline rubbing. Then wrap it up with a strip of breathable athletic tape. And administer lots of love !

Thanks Alex. I have witch Hazel and lots of plasters the animals wrap kind.

I soaked it again twice today and used colonial silver before putting on the caster oil. I'll so as you suggested tomorrow. Bless her she'll look so cute with her legs wrapped up

 

[Marie2020]

Fits: Kelly and 14 chickens (just saying)

Naughty Alex

 

[knoturavggrl]

They are not going to just move on. They will now spend their time trying to defeat your measures. You will need to kill them somehow. In general, rats do not move on once they have moved in.

Your right, I am sure the fight will not end so easily. We live in a very rural area, they are everywhere. I figured it cant hurt to make the coop a less appealing place. Otherwise more will simply move in once I kill the ones that are there now.

So, it will be a multi pronged approach. I will stop “feeding” them by moving the food outside the coop and into the run. Water is everywhere here I can’t take that away from them but I did switch to a nipple waterer just to make it less convenient for them. We also got rid of many many hiding places.

I would very much like to leave poison as a last resort. It places my cats, my chickens, and other wildlife in jeopardy of also being poisoned.

The dry ice method you mentioned will be first on the list of killing them. Then electrocuting traps.

If they are still present I will have little choice left but to put out poison in tamper proof boxes out of reach of the chickens of course.

I have seen and heard them during the day and from what I read that almost certainly means we are essentially overrun with them. It will likely require all of the above.

 

[featherhead007]

Your right, I am sure the fight will not end so easily. We live in a very rural area, they are everywhere. I figured it cant hurt to make the coop a less appealing place. Otherwise more will simply move in once I kill the ones that are there now.

So, it will be a multi pronged approach. I will stop “feeding” them by moving the food outside the coop and into the run. Water is everywhere here I can’t take that away from them but I did switch to a nipple waterer just to make it less convenient for them. We also got rid of many many hiding places.

I would very much like to leave poison as a last resort. It places my cats, my chickens, and other wildlife in jeopardy of also being poisoned.

The dry ice method you mentioned will be first on the list of killing them. Then electrocuting traps.

If they are still present I will have little choice left but to put out poison in tamper proof boxes out of reach of the chickens of course.

I have seen and heard them during the day and from what I read that almost certainly means we are essentially overrun with them. It will likely require all of the above.

Rats!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m relaxing inside the house with my little Dakota. On TV there’s a documentary about dolphins. I actually turned to Dakota and said “hey look at this, chicken of the sea!”

 

[knoturavggrl]

Rats!

Oh yes, its madding and I still don’t know what I should do about the chicks they are three weeks old tomorrow and I really wanted to be integrating them this week before Brownie will not defend them much anymore but I cant put them out there yet as they are to small to roost and therefore seriously at risk of being killed by the rats.
I will hope that the dry ice method takes a bunch of em out at once! I will be trying that tomorrow. It would be awesome to take a bunch out all in one go.

 

[RoyalChick]

Your right, I am sure the fight will not end so easily. We live in a very rural area, they are everywhere. I figured it cant hurt to make the coop a less appealing place. Otherwise more will simply move in once I kill the ones that are there now.

So, it will be a multi pronged approach. I will stop “feeding” them by moving the food outside the coop and into the run. Water is everywhere here I can’t take that away from them but I did switch to a nipple waterer just to make it less convenient for them. We also got rid of many many hiding places.

I would very much like to leave poison as a last resort. It places my cats, my chickens, and other wildlife in jeopardy of also being poisoned.

The dry ice method you mentioned will be first on the list of killing them. Then electrocuting traps.

If they are still present I will have little choice left but to put out poison in tamper proof boxes out of reach of the chickens of course.

I have seen and heard them during the day and from what I read that almost certainly means we are essentially overrun with them. It will likely require all of the above.

I used cameras to find where they were getting in and blocked their entrances.
I was lucky - I didn’t have tunnels - they lived in a heap of construction junk next to the Chicken Palace and came in through gaps in my predator skirt to feed.
I used rat zapper and blocked the gaps and we cleared the junk. We found a nest in the junk and I fed the babies to the chickens.
Yes, I am that nasty!

 

[featherhead007]

Oh yes, its madding and I still don’t know what I should do about the chicks they are three weeks old tomorrow and I really wanted to be integrating them this week before Brownie will not defend them much anymore but I cant put them out there yet as they are to small to roost and therefore seriously at risk of being killed by the rats.
I will hope that the dry ice method takes a bunch of em out at once! I will be trying that tomorrow. It would be awesome to take a bunch out all in one go.

Be careful with dry ice. The lack of oxygen, low lying air on the ground can suffocate the chicks too. (If they are close enough)