BYC Café

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is made. Tea bags and kettle on the counter. If the hardware stores are open next week I'll look for a new tea pot. Nobody seems quite sure who the easing of restrictions applies to.
Grey and raining here this morning.

 

[N F C]

Thanks for the coffee Shad! Hope you are able to find a new tea pot soon.

 

[Shadrach]

Thanks for the coffee Shad! Hope you are able to find a new tea pot soon.

You're up and about early Debby.

 

[N F C]

You're up and about early Debby.

Yep, guess I'll be headed off for bed about the time everyone else gets up.

How are you doing?

 

[Shadrach]

I'm okay. Hoping to go out with one of the guys down the track later in the week to try and distribute our surplus eggs now that the movement restrictions are being eased. The poor and homeless have just disappeared with the lockdown.

 

[Perris]

It is the season but the lot here have a scrap most days just to keep their hand in it seems.
It's rarely serious and mostly I let them get on with it.
There are occasions when I split them up, usually when I'm trying to do something and they are getting in the way. This lot are not very considerate about where and when they kick off.
The hens fight as well, but it's usually over with comparatively quickly.
It's chicken keeping. It's what they do.

I released the roo I had confined for a couple of months, and they seem to have reached a new accommodation. They scrap sometimes but also can be in proximity without one threatening or chasing the other. I think it is helping that at least one pullet has developed a liking for erstwhile No.2, so he has some female company most of the time, and just occasionally the majority of the flock are with him rather than Sven... I don't understand that at all... unless it is because S is moulting, and maybe his fertility is down because of it, while the hens are thinking about this season's brood...?

 

[N F C]

I'm okay. Hoping to go out with one of the guys down the track later in the week to try and distribute our surplus eggs now that the movement restrictions are being eased. The poor and homeless have just disappeared with the lockdown.

Nice of you to help others out. Some folks have been hit harder by this mess than others.

 

[Perris]

PS thanks for the coffee Shad!

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning, Cafe. Thanks for the coffee, Shad. I'm dragging today and I need a good strong cup of coffee.
I managed to move one years worth of chicken crap from 27 birds. Just so everyone can get their head around that, it's A LOT and certainly felt like it weighed over a ton. I layered it in with the old bedding from the coop. After sweeping out all the pine shavings, I replaced it with hemp bedding. They were trying to dust bath in it. But one of the reasons I bought it is because it's supposed to be much less dusty than pine shavings. And it is!
Kerrie went off her nest and back to the nest box some time yesterday morning. I went to spy on her and saw the clutch abandoned. I dashed out and put her back in the maternity ward and she climbed right back on the eggs but the eggs were cold. She could have been off anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours. Looks like I'll be trying my hand at candling for the first time in my life this Saturday.

 

[CapricornFarm]

That looks lovely Cap.

Thanks, I love it here!