Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

They really go for peanut butter
But don't we all

I get my share of peanuts, but I like them covered in this:

 

[Sylvester017]

"Cat, I have farted", is what it translates to, correct? That's what Google says.

I never knew hens could fart. I had one I caught w/ a little fart & she looked behind her tush to see what touched her...

 

[featherhead007]

I never knew hens could fart. I had one I caught w/ a little fart & she looked behind her tush to see what touched her...

Dakota passes gas all the time. I don’t mind too much, she’s still a lady to me.

 

[Sylvester017]

I do count them. All 37. Otherwise how am I going to know if one is missing for whatever the reason

I lost count when they're coming out of their clown car popdoor!

 

[featherhead007]

Gas tax

 

[Sylvester017]

Wheeze wheeze wheeze….

Ok who is sick now

Patches. Haven’t had anyone showing signs since last week. Darn.

She received a dose of Tylosin and some Tylenol last night. She wheezed through the night, but came roaring out the hen house door this morning with the rest and proceeded to eat as usual, still wheezing this morning. I’ll assess her tonight when I get home, but I stopped the Tylosin in the water and feed for everyone. If anyone else is ill they will get individual doses of the Tylosin.

Hopefully she’s the last to be ill.

Poor baby... so glad you know what to do. Yrs ago in 2012 our Mini wheezed thru the night as DH & I sat up w/her thru the night fully expecting she was dying. We rushed her to the vet 1st thing in the morning ~ a shot of Baytril in those days & Metcam & she bounced around the house like nothing happened while DH & I were exhausted thinking she was dying. Yet no one else got sick. Mini was our problem child from the day we got her ~ the vet saved her from so many health issues till nearly 7 yrs later he regretfully euthanized her from bleeding ovarian tumor or she would have bled to death anyway.

Mini ~ she was always running everywhere.

 

[kattabelly]

I never knew hens could fart. I had one I caught w/ a little fart & she looked behind her tush to see what touched her...

Sometimes it's a constant soundtrack when you have chicks in the house without so much background noise. Pfft - pfft - pfft as they zip around the place.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Congratulations! Fresh eggs again will be lovely!

She’s a young lady now.

Are the older ladies still laying?

Yes, they are. The twins are still laying but unfortunately, Tony has stopped laying eggs.

 

[Sylvester017]

No droppings to be seen - so they must be moving through if so.

Rats & mice always leave droppings trails. Emptying your feed bowls & standing them along the wall may have alerted the rodents to change... they are suspicious of change & may have changed paths. Keep things undisturbed if you want to catch rodents.

Always fresh bait nightly. Fresh soft chedder cheese cubelet alongside purchased peanut butter-filled or creamy cheese-filled crackers gives our rodents a menu choice. Grapes or raisins hasn't worked for us. Maybe different rodent species like specific food choices? & there are so many different Rat dweller species... some are roof rats, some are sewer rats, some ground tunnelers, some garbage dwellers, some woodpile dwellers, etc etc. I never knew they had rats w/ diifferent species-related preferences.

We can go a couple weeks w/ no activity... then suddenly get 1 to 3 trapped in one week. Not sure if it's due to neighborhood cat activity dwindling the rat population or why.

Edit: Rodents have super-hearing... maybe your rats don't like the low energy hum of your zapper or battery. Try the humane cage trap, leave it always in the same place (close trap's door in the mornings from curious chickens, & open trap adding fresh food after roost). Drown the rat while still in cage before opening trap door. Drowning takes the same amount of time to kill as zappers do. There's no humane way to kill ~ both zappers & drowning are the same time. Clamp traps or sticky traps seem to make our rodents avoid them

So far this has worked for our rodent species.

 

[Sylvester017]

Hey guys! I meant to post a pic of my chickens but I've had a manic two weeks so only just getting round to it! @Marie2020 here are my girls

Lovely lovely. First time chicken owner?