The Old Folks Home

[sourland]

Good morning, OF. Lazy day yesterday makes for a lot of catching up today.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning Old Folks. I'm about done with my coffee and need to make the most of today that I can. Winter in the South starts tomorrow. 85 today and 61 tomorrow.

 

[bruceha2000]

Tonight wasn't to bad. Didn't have to round anyone up. They got on their roosts without a lecture about dumplings.

Hera has gone back to roosting on the alpaca stand in front of the stall coop. She knows she is supposed to be in the coop and she KNOWS she doesn't want me to give her a ride. As I approach she starts squawking, I pass by, turn and shine the flashlight on the ground in front of the people door (auto chicken door long since closed). She jump flys down, still squawking, walks into the coop and gets herself up on the roost. Not sure why she started doing this again. She had been going into the coop with the others for many months.

 

[Nomadicus]

Hera has gone back to roosting on the alpaca stand in front of the stall coop. She knows she is supposed to be in the coop and she KNOWS she doesn't want me to give her a ride. As I approach she starts squawking, I pass by, turn and shine the flashlight on the ground in front of the people door (auto chicken door long since closed). She jump flys down, still squawking, walks into the coop and gets herself up on the roost. Not sure why she started doing this again. She had been going into the coop with the others for many months.

They all have small heads and small brains and maybe that is why they don't understand what is best for them a lot of the time. I've got some that insist on sleeping on top of the hoop coops. Mostly extra free ranging roosters. I've got to get them trapped in a coop soon for our freezer camp.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Old Folks it is 46 here not raining.
They said rain will come in Wednesday !
I was so tired yesterday I slept hard.

 

[getaclue]

I've been somewhat lazy the past few days too. It takes me at least 3 days to get over what the shots do to me. Today, I'm good. I want to run the floor scrubber later. Hopefully, my energy won't fizzle, and I'll be able to get it all done.

 

[ronott1]

I've been somewhat lazy the past few days too. It takes me at least 3 days to get over what the shots do to me. Today, I'm good. I want to run the floor scrubber later. Hopefully, my energy won't fizzle, and I'll be able to get it all done.

I hope you get your energy back soon!

 

[LaurenRitz]

Something built a big old nest in my greenhouse, about the size of two 5 gallon buckets. No way I'm digging into something like that without knowing what is in it, so I set a trap and shut the doors.

Around 11, an unholy ruckus coming from the direction of the greenhouse woke me up, something slamming itself against the doors. Trying to get in? Trying to get out?

In the morning the trap was empty but sprung and had been flung about 4 feet from where I put it. I think whatever it was got out through a high window that had been left open. I assumed it was gone.

Last night, about 9...

I was busy with something else so I couldn't go watch the window to see who my visitor is. In the morning the trap had again been moved and the plastic torn enough to allow something to leave through the one area that doesn't have greenhouse panels.

This time the thing was mad enough, or frantic enough, that it trampled its own nest.

Today I closed the window. I need to put the last panel up and set the trap again. Hopefully it didn't come back last night.

 

[ronott1]

Something built a big old nest in my greenhouse, about the size of two 5 gallon buckets. No way I'm digging into something like that without knowing what is in it, so I set a trap and shut the doors.

Around 11, an unholy ruckus coming from the direction of the greenhouse woke me up, something slamming itself against the doors. Trying to get in? Trying to get out?

In the morning the trap was empty but sprung and had been flung about 4 feet from where I put it. I think whatever it was got out through a high window that had been left open. I assumed it was gone.

Last night, about 9...

I was busy with something else so I couldn't go watch the window to see who my visitor is. In the morning the trap had again been moved and the plastic torn enough to allow something to leave through the one area that doesn't have greenhouse panels.

This time the thing was mad enough, or frantic enough, that it trampled its own nest.

Today I closed the window. I need to put the last panel up and set the trap again. Hopefully it didn't come back last night.

It sounds like you need a bigger trap!

 

[Debbie292d]

Something built a big old nest in my greenhouse, about the size of two 5 gallon buckets. No way I'm digging into something like that without knowing what is in it, so I set a trap and shut the doors.

Around 11, an unholy ruckus coming from the direction of the greenhouse woke me up, something slamming itself against the doors. Trying to get in? Trying to get out?

In the morning the trap was empty but sprung and had been flung about 4 feet from where I put it. I think whatever it was got out through a high window that had been left open. I assumed it was gone.

Last night, about 9...

I was busy with something else so I couldn't go watch the window to see who my visitor is. In the morning the trap had again been moved and the plastic torn enough to allow something to leave through the one area that doesn't have greenhouse panels.

This time the thing was mad enough, or frantic enough, that it trampled its own nest.

Today I closed the window. I need to put the last panel up and set the trap again. Hopefully it didn't come back last night.

So whatever it is, is big and strong and builds huge nests. Raccoons don't usually build nests. Foxes will build nests, but I doubt your greenhouse would be the place a fox would build, nor could it fling a trap 4 feet away. So what are you guessing it is? Everything I think of around here is improbable, like beavers, badgers, etc.