Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

This cat is quite large.

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Am I seeing similar facial structures coming on this imp?

 

[notabitail]

Mugs Monday.

 

[rural mouse]

2fer

last lingering hollyhocks....oddly, last year the flowers were pink, not pale peach...

they mostly paired off....keeping an eye on Bijou

 

[Sylvester017]

Gaahhhhh Mr Rat is back

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Yikes! & where there's one, there's 20 or more around the neighborhood somewhere. We leave our trap out 24/7 w/ fresh bait (usually cheese or cheesy crackers) & catch 1 to 2 rats weekly. They are able to carry hundreds of viruses/diseases & breed worse than roaches... A radio announcer said there are 300 species of rats around the world... its not that rodents aren't cute little buggers but they are so destructive & parasite-ridden.

Good ol' rat trapper plus our neighborhood cats!

 

[RoyalChick]

2fer Tuesday

Tassels and Mr. Chips. Never more than a few inches away from each other.

Leaving Cookie and Bucky to explore. I have no idea where Geronimo has gone - somewhere up in the branches.

 

[Pebbles25]

Also welcome!

I haven’t seen you here in Bob’s thread before. We absolutely love seeing photos of everyone’s chooks (esp babies!), so please share yours here.

So glad you jumped in the conversation. The OP of this thread BY Bob is busy at the moment but I am sure will also enjoy seeing your flock.

Thank you! Here are some photos of my flock and also my two cats when they are not hunting. They are so ferocious on the hunt but when they’re home they are two big babies that literally can’t live without cuddles! I sadly don’t currently have baby chicks! So here’s my cream legbar hen and cockerel and my legish I call her (she’s a white leghorn x silver laced polish bantam) when they were chicks. (She’s the one on the swing.)

 

[BY Bob]

Have had my cats kill rabbits, large squirrels, snakes, and the usual mice, moles and birds. I think my kitty Missy is not likely to see a rat, she only hangs around the house, doesn’t go to the barn.

What cat doesn't go to the barn?

 

[BY Bob]

Also welcome!

I haven’t seen you here in Bob’s thread before. We absolutely love seeing photos of everyone’s chooks (esp babies!), so please share yours here.

So glad you jumped in the conversation. The OP of this thread BY Bob is busy at the moment but I am sure will also enjoy seeing your flock.

I sure will.

 

[featherhead007]

I remove all food and water at night. But there is still feed that has been spilt. I don’t see the rats at night, as the chooks hunt them during the day.

When I just had the horses I would use poison to control them; of course now with the chooks I can’t do that.

I have had luck with the electric zap traps and those black plastic snap traps (hard on the fingers though!).

Tonight I will see about putting out my snap trap.

Edit:

Meant to type ‘I don’t see
Them during the day, only at night’.

Maybe if you didn’t stay up at night, the rat visitation wouldn’t bother you so much?

I’m kidding

 

[Ponypoor]

What cat doesn't go to the barn?

One that’s been attacked by chickens in the past

Roxanne attacked her one day when she was up nosing around - poor Missy!