Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

She’s so fluffy and adorable!!!

Fluffy yes, Adorable...? Not so sure. She's a mean, mean broody & everyone is living in terror of her just now.

She gets agitated when it's time to roost so I've had no trouble nabbing her; she's one of mine that hates being handled. I get her up & those still out file in docilely & we've had no more trouble @ roosting. Everyone gets a spot & settles quickly. I've been impressed ~ especially as it doesn't seem to matter too much who's next to who. Everyone is getting along again.

 

[Ribh]

snakes !!

Sorry, Nancy. We have lots. The one in the house [He lives in the roof] is a regular old carpet python. Perfectly harmless. He eats any rodents that get in the wall cavities.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[BY Bob]

Fluffy yes, Adorable...? Not so sure. She's a mean, mean broody & everyone is living in terror of her just now.

She gets agitated when it's time to roost so I've had no trouble nabbing her; she's one of mine that hates being handled. I get her up & those still out file in docilely & we've had no more trouble @ roosting. Everyone gets a spot & settles quickly. I've been impressed ~ especially as it doesn't seem to matter too much who's next to who. Everyone is getting along again.

The pecking order has probably reset itself, minus the angry broody. Hopefully things remain stable for some time now.

 

[BY Bob]

Sorry, Nancy. We have lots. The one in the house [He lives in the roof] is a regular old carpet python. Perfectly harmless. He eats any rodents that get in the wall cavities.

You have a snake that knowingly cohabitates with you. That is so cool! Australia really is a different world than here. That would never fly at this house but it sounds like you are using him as we use cats. Wow!

 

[Kris5902]

Sorry, Nancy. We have lots. The one in the house [He lives in the roof] is a regular old carpet python. Perfectly harmless. He eats any rodents that get in the wall cavities.

I do wish I could have that situation here... my cats aren’t stellar mousers and with the food being down for them the rodents are now moving into the trailer again.

You have a snake that knowing cohabitate with you. That is so cool! Australia really is a different world than here. That would never fly at this house but it sounds like you are using him as we use cats. Wow!

Your cats control the rodents??? I would love if they could show my two what they should be doing with them! I wonder if there’s a feline version of Beakbook?

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

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I do wish I could have that situation here... my cats aren’t stellar mousers and with the food being down for them the rodents are now moving into the trailer again.



Your cats control the rodents??? I would love if they could show my two what they should be doing with them! I wonder if there’s a feline version of Beakbook?

My boy Taz is the best rodent catcher! If it moves he will catch it. He even drops them near the chicken pen so they get a protein snack. He even taught Marigold, my female cat, how to hunt. I don't have any rodents in my coops or the house.

Taz on lookout duty!!

 

[BY Bob]

I do wish I could have that situation here... my cats aren’t stellar mousers and with the food being down for them the rodents are now moving into the trailer again.



Your cats control the rodents??? I would love if they could show my two what they should be doing with them! I wonder if there’s a feline version of Beakbook?

Mine are great mousers. We had an influx of mice several years ago when we had a really bad winter. I was finding a dead mouse every morning. They eventually got most of them. I did finally deploy some poison in the attic to be certain, once the cats had stopped presenting them to us for several weeks. I did not want to poison while the cats were killing them. Perhaps we do need a feline version of beakbook.

Now that I remember, the kids saw the cat chasing one in the hallway and dropped a pot over it to save it. I had to transport it away and not kill it as they had saved the mouse from the mean cat. I loved that cat.

 

[BY Bob]

I ask, does this guy not look like a killer?

Mine are great mousers. We had an influx of mice several years ago when we had a really bad winter. I was finding a dead mouse every morning. They eventually got most of them. I did finally deploy some poison in the attic to be certain, once the cats had stopped presenting them to us for several weeks. I did not want to poison while the cats were killing them. Perhaps we do need a feline version of beakbook.

Now that I remember, the kids saw the cat chasing one in the hallway and dropped a pot over it to save it. I had to transport it away and not kill it as they had saved the mouse from the mean cat. I loved that cat.

Does my little man not look like a killer?

Of course when chickens invade the house he is no where to be found!

 

[Ribh]

You have a snake that knowingly cohabitates with you. That is so cool! Australia really is a different world than here. That would never fly at this house but it sounds like you are using him as we use cats. Wow!

As far as I know, Bob, we have several. We came home after a holiday one year to find 6 shed skins. But do remember, until fairly recently we lived surrounded on all sides by bush & were semi~rural so we have more wild life than is normal.

I know about the roof guy because our tv antenna lives on the rafters & when we got a whole heap of *snow* instead of our regular picture we sent one of the lads up to investigate. He came down a lot faster than he went up. There was a monster carpet sunning himself in the warmest part of the roof. He'd obviously bumped the antenna @ some point.

At the risk of giving Nancy palpitations, the middle lad once had a snake crawl over him after he'd gone to bed. I'm ok with most of what we see round here. It's of the non venomous sort but we do have venomous snakes ~ hence the ambulance when someone got bitten & couldn't identify what it was.