Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Ummmm I hope you don’t have poisonous spiders or scorpions…?

I would imagine though that the chooks will kill and eat them…? Mine eat spiders here all the time. No scorpion species here so cant
Speak to those.

Visitor to the office on Wednesday.

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No idea what type of spider but about 1.5” leg span.

Edit - thinking Cellar Spider

I think we have had a lot of these in my area. They're so many different species of spiders.
Where I live used too be farmland so loads of different kinds of insects

 

[Marie2020]

We have them around here. As a kid my family nicknamed them Daddy Long Legs spiders cuz they are all legs w/ a tiny body. Don't know what they're really called but they're fairly harmless.

We never see them outside (probably easy for the hens to catch) but once in a while we find one in the house. The webs are so fine they are barely visible.

Our daddy longlegs (cranefly) have long legs and wings. Or they are known as Jackie longlegs. I think they have different names depending on the area you live.

Yours are cellar spiders. I'm confused why we get them. There's no cellars around here

 

[Sylvester017]

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So C-U-T-E!!!

 

[Marie2020]

Flexi and Amber

Nosey parkers. Princess and Tina

 

[Marie2020]

Sadly, I must report when I went to close the coop, Nacho was out in the yard in a panic. Her little one was nowhere to be found. No trace of chick feathers, or blood trails. Just a very sad mama, crying for her child.

Missing again??
Are these chick's being bullied so maybe they are hiding.