Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I can’t access a burrow to put the smoke in. I can’t try with the burrow I can see in the run but what I learned last night is that is not where he goes to escape. He goes somewhere I cannot reach.


Yes they do! I read about people taking away the food at night but I have been watching this rat for a while now and he never bothers to stretch up to reach into the feeders because there is so much food available on the ground. I think the Princesses prefer to eat it off the ground too so they shovel it out.


I know how to set a rat trap and I will not drown one as it is not a humane way to kill.
When I come to kill him I will use a snap trap or an electric trap.
The point however, is that once he is dead he will not be able to give me any clues as to how he is getting in. I really prefer to exclude before I kill.
Right now I am certain he is on his own - he is under constant surveillance inside the Chicken Palace - but if he has a tunnel in from the outside then something else might come in.

Rat tax: Tassels down!
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Poor Tassels is way down.

 

[Ponypoor]

Is anyone older than me? I was born in 1944.
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Love those older style bassinet- always so fancy

 

[Ponypoor]

I can’t access a burrow to put the smoke in. I can’t try with the burrow I can see in the run but what I learned last night is that is not where he goes to escape. He goes somewhere I cannot reach.


Yes they do! I read about people taking away the food at night but I have been watching this rat for a while now and he never bothers to stretch up to reach into the feeders because there is so much food available on the ground. I think the Princesses prefer to eat it off the ground too so they shovel it out.


I know how to set a rat trap and I will not drown one as it is not a humane way to kill.
When I come to kill him I will use a snap trap or an electric trap.
The point however, is that once he is dead he will not be able to give me any clues as to how he is getting in. I really prefer to exclude before I kill.
Right now I am certain he is on his own - he is under constant surveillance inside the Chicken Palace - but if he has a tunnel in from the outside then something else might come in.

Rat tax: Tassels down!
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Quick send in the clowns! We have a Tassels down


Mrs LC was sunbathing last night she’s so tiny next to the others - my camera wasn’t handy of course

 

[featherhead007]

How could this happen? I woke up with chills and now I have a fever of 100.4F

 

[rural mouse]

@BY Bob as per request: broody leghorn (mix, but above 50% leghorn)

Volume alert. Her Tuk-tuks are pretty quiet. The crowing is pretty loud.

The eggs

 

[featherhead007]

How could this happen? I woke up with chills and now I have a fever of 100.4F

Update, now it’s reading 101.3f
And I feel a little dizzy. I had plans for today, but not with a fever hanging on.

 

[rural mouse]

Update, now it’s reading 101.3f
And I feel a little dizzy. I had plans for today, but not with a fever hanging on.

Rest, stay hydrated, stay warm

 

[featherhead007]

Rest, stay hydrated, stay warm

A day of rest sounds great

 

[featherhead007]

Rest, stay hydrated, stay warm

Weather says it will top 100f today so I will surely be warm.

 

[rural mouse]

Weather says it will top 100f today so I will surely be warm.

Outside temp vs running a fever: skews everything.