Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Maybe I should do that then! I'm so annoyed with my cheapo incubator and fighting to keep the temp and humidity up.

It’s too bad you don’t have some broody hens, let them do all the work!

 

[Ponypoor]

I am still about 60 pgs behind but thought you would like some kitten day pictures View attachment 3585678View attachment 3585679View attachment 3585680View attachment 3585681

OMG how adorable gosh I love kittens they are so cute and get into all sorts of trouble

 

[Ponypoor]

Sorry guys. You're both wrong. Worst drivers are in the middle east. Parking lots exist. Parking spaces do not....

But do they all of a sudden flick on their headlights at night when they pass another vehicle ( they otherwise do not use their headlights!), Or ignore traffic lights and traffic cops and just go through intersections? Or run into bicyclists and then get out and yell at them when they hit them?!

 

[Ponypoor]

Sorry guys. You're both wrong. Worst drivers are in the middle east. Parking lots exist. Parking spaces do not....

Sounds like Toronto

 

[Ponypoor]

Wow! That is quite a shot!

But it’s rather creepy don’t you think??

 

[rural mouse]

But do they all of a sudden flick on their headlights at night when they pass another vehicle ( they otherwise do not use their headlights!), Or ignore traffic lights and traffic cops and just go through intersections? Or run into bicyclists and then get out and yell at them when they hit them?!

Yes. All of the above....and more. Traffic laws exist, but they're "more like guidelines really" to quote the pirate code.... and signage is overloaded and contradictory

 

[ManueB]

Hello everyone. I'm sorry for my absence, but I needed to step away for a bit. I am fine and well but dealing with heartbreak. My queen of my flock and a personal favorite Butter is gone. I did not realize she had been taken until it was time to put the flock up Tuesday evening. It had to have happened while I was at the dr's for my tests. Me and mom are both gutted, Butter was beyond special. I did not find a body but a mass of yellow feathers on the hillside. I have never minded the chickens being on the hill until now. This has me and mom thinking. Over half of the flock spend a majority of time on the hill. I cannot protect them when they free range on it. We are going to build a larger coop that connects to Russ's stall and free range time is going to become limited. Coyotes are taking over. I am going to be looking at a major flock reduction if this happens. I know several of them will not take kindly to being cooped up. I have a soft list of who to keep and who to place if we in fact go this route. I want to keep them all but I am thinking of what is in their best interests. I cannot kill off 3 separate packs of coyote's.

I'm very sorry for Butter. She was a true queen.
I hope you find a solution for the coyotes. I totally understand that free range chickens will hate being permanently locked up . Maybe you need to think of a temporary setting first, that would allow you to wait a bit before making any definite decisions ?

Do you know if they are getting only at your chickens or if they are also killing from other people around you ? How come they have been increasing in number like this ?

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes. All of the above....and more. Traffic laws exist, but they're "more like guidelines really" to quote the pirate code.... and signage is overloaded and contradictory

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Oh yes definitely Toronto

I often wonder how many are killed in vehicle accidents over in these countries that have less than stellar traffic laws.

Tax
Youngest chickies will be 4 weeks tomorrow. That are funny little brats

Hopefully they soon stop jumping up on Sophia, they are getting bigger now.

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm very sorry for Butter. She was a true queen.
I hope you find a solution for the coyotes. I totally understand that free range chickens will hate being permanently locked up . Maybe you need to think of a temporary setting first, that would allow you to wait a bit before making any definite decisions ?

Do you know if they are getting only at your chickens or if they are also killing from other people around you ? How come they have been increasing in number like this ?

Here in the east of North America, coyotes were never truly indigenous, being open country creatures, but as forests were cut back the coyotes moved in and they also interbred with the local wolf species creating a coy-wolf hybrid.

This makes them bigger and more bold, more than capable of taking down sheep or even a small cow or young horse. And attacking a person (woman killed by coyote here on Nova Scotia). Coyotes in the west are smaller and their primary prey is rabbits, mice, gophers… definitely chickens also.

They are very intelligent and extremely good parents to their pups, but like other animals they fluctuate in relation to prey. They may supplement their diet with poultry if their prey is not plentiful, and then learn that the poultry are easy prey.

I know of farmers in Nova Scot who actually feed dead stock to the local coyotes to prevent them from killing their lambs. Extremely controversial and many think those farmers are just feeding them so they breed more.

After yesterday’s coyote in my paddock I have decided to try getting my electric fencing up and running.

Pretty Boy Floyd

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Yes. All of the above....and more. Traffic laws exist, but they're "more like guidelines really" to quote the pirate code.... and signage is overloaded and contradictory

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I love pirates! And now, that's just what Captain Barbosa said to Elizabeth, and then Elizabeth repeated it to Gibs, who then told Captain Jack Sparrow that. We're not sure if that truly is the code.... I think?
Okay, I owe tax....
My grandmothers adorable candy holder