Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Is there anything natural to remove pine sap? P-nut butter? Olive oyl? Pine tar soap? Or...?

Does the sap drip year-round or just seasonally?

Rubbing alcohol works well, but I just snip off any bad clumps.

I have sap on my truck windshield from a year ago! I can’t get it off and it’s been through a winter and countless snowstorms, rainstorms, scorching sun….. thankfully it’s on the top of the windshield where I don’t notice it.

 

[Ponypoor]

I once did that to weigh a cat, and I weighed less holding him than I did before, guessing I was not standing properly because he was wriggly

The bag trick works good for cats also

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh Mr. P, You are such a lovely, lovely lad.

I will say it both hurts and brings me joy in looking at you. I know you are not fond of handling old sir. Please allow your momma just one brief bear hug for me please. In hugging you she is also hugging my dear George who I miss dearly.

Are my eye's deceiving me, or do I spot a few spots in his topknot as well? Those were the only spots dear George had on his entire body. I'm sure now with age more would certainly have come along.

Yes I was wondering if you would see them and there are a few more coming in as his new feathers grow in.

His tail also has black streaks coming through. He is getting spotty in his old age.

 

[Ponypoor]

If you are able to catch/slip them out from under mom at night, that is a very good time to weigh them!

I love @Ponypoor 's idea - that works great! And, the cloth bag that holds them kinda snugly but not restrictively will keep them mostly calm.

I was thinking a small container that you could slip a piece of mesh or cheesecloth over to keep them in...and set on your small digital scale should work fine.

If you have removed the dividers in the broody cage, you should be able to slip a hand under Tassels after dark and slide a little one out from under her...wear a lady's soft leather glove and a long sleeve shirt if she is still aggressively pecking.....

Digital bathroom scales won't be sensitive enough for such a small bird to do this with and have any accuracy.

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Obviously, any Roo at your place also needs a royal name given he is living in a Palace with royal women....so here is some thoughts (but, I am sure you can think of others, too!)

Royal male names
Knights of the Round Table. I am partial to Sir Lancelot!!!! Tee, hee, Hee

Sir Galahad

 

[rural mouse]

Caturday. These were the resident cat and kitten from where I was staying.
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You found a Castor clone!

 

[featherhead007]

Is pine sap always year-round? or is it worse in summer? or autumn?

I considered a pine tree for the front yard but finally decided on a pomegranate instead... messy but at least it gives fruit that the chickens love & it's easy to rake up dropped leaves.
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I’m surrounded by pine trees. The evergreen types don’t shed their needles, pacific pines shed. The kinds you buy for the holidays, shes badly (even planted in the yard) ask my rooster which ones are best, because he hides his ladies underneath them.
Ive been hanging out with Mr Wyandottey today.

 

[featherhead007]

Warm and hot weather is when the sap runs. Winter is when all trees here go dormant.

When a branch is damaged it leaks sap, esp in Spring when the tree awakens and floods it’s system with sap. It’s sticky and hard to get rid of.

All trees will leak sap but pine trees are just really bad!

“Sticky, and hard to get rid of”
(Sounds like my ex wife)

 

[featherhead007]

Sir Galahad

Sir loin of beef!

 

[rural mouse]

Sir loin of beef!

Just for you, BYC needs to add a "facepalm" reaction. That one was truly terrible, even by your standards, and I wish I'd thought of it!

Terrible pun tax

 

[featherhead007]

Rubbing alcohol works well, but I just snip off any bad clumps.

I have sap on my truck windshield from a year ago! I can’t get it off and it’s been through a winter and countless snowstorms, rainstorms, scorching sun….. thankfully it’s on the top of the windshield where I don’t notice it.

Use a razor blade, if it’s on the windshield glass