Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Unfair, you get all the cool looking birds!

They all know Phyllis from her modeling career and want to hang out with her.

 

[BY Bob]

@Pastel The Rooster, @LhickenChicken

I had hoped to spare Bob the pain of reliving it all by referring you to his primer but I probably failed, so here are the links.

Elphie and Dusty are mentioned in the FBA Primer in Bob's signature so if you read that thoroughly, you should have seen them. This is the link to his primer: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/fluffy-butt-acres-a-primer.77796/

- Elphie: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-22424389

- Dusty: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-22818962

Betty is more recent and is not in the Primer in his signature: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26798774

I do need to update the primer with poor Betty's end.

 

[Ponypoor]

Monday mugs...guess who....

Of course the littles! (They put themselves in these places; I removed them sometimes)
View attachment 3547848Tuff (hopped up in the coop, stayed put while I walked outside: this keeps up, may need to consider rename of Jack or Sparrow or Mr(s) Cotton)

View attachment 3547849Enigma

View attachment 3547850Zulu, Shan, and Enigma's profile

View attachment 3547852Zulu and Tuff

View attachment 3547853ChiaView attachment 3547855Bit of a curious one isn't she (assuming at the moment)

View attachment 3547856"Mama" is warm...Chia, Enigma, and Shan

Havoc is my sun worshipper, so less inclined to pose.

Oh my gosh they are soooo adorable can’t believe they are just looking more like little chickens than chicks so amazing how they grow so fast!

 

[Ponypoor]

They all know Phyllis from her modeling career and want to hang out with her.

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Phyllis you are supposed to be investigating nest spots not walking the ‘cat’ walk

 

[BY Bob]

Yes, they must go. I understand they are just living and doing normal natural things but this is really out of control. We have flooded tunnels, moved food, I bought a automatic door to help ensure it sealed tight at night. We dug up the coop floor removed the picnic table top we had buried under there to stop bigger critters from digging up into the coop and there we found and destroyed a nest, killing all the newborn rats. Put out baking soda poison that supposed to safer but it had no effect whatsoever. We reinforced every corner and entry and exit hole we could find and still they come. Apparently, they are being starved out with no easy access to the chicken feed and now are desperate enough to go for the chicks. Tomorrow the Bell labs poison will go out in locked bell lab bait boxes. I tried not to do it but this just can’t continue.

It must be done. It is a horrible situation but you can't let it go on.

 

[Ponypoor]

How do you keep those steps so clean?

I know, right? I think he trains his ladies, or keeps a broom by the doorway…

 

[BY Bob]

We do not.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh those dratted rats I am so sorry to hear this, I really hate rats and mice now, chewing on everything, peeing and pooping everywhere. So infuriating. I sure hope Brownie’s eye is ok, I am reading to catch up it’s morning here





I am also waging war wth them, I noted they borrowed under my pavers in the stalls and the brick caves in.

I am worried to use poison with the chooks around - maybe I will lock them all away in the new summer house for a couple weeks

The problem is the poison never goes away. A couple of weeks is one thing to kill the rats but the bodies will remain deadly as the original poison.

 

[BY Bob]

I will do this next time I trim him. He screams like he is being murdered

Then i really want to see it!

 

[rural mouse]

Oh my gosh they are soooo adorable can’t believe they are just looking more like little chickens than chicks so amazing how they grow so fast!

3 weeks today. And watching them scoot around under the feet and beaks of the adults after the breakfast scratch is pretty funny. They are very much part of the tribe which is what I was after with the tote in the coop. Definitely using this for any subsequent "orphaned" chicks (any chicks not raised by a broody)