BYC Café

[ronott1]

The wet nest, as @aart puts it, seems to be a big hit with Veronica.
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She's nice and flat and she's deepened the well to fit her body nicely. She just looks more comfortable.
I'm picking up some hatching eggs for her Saturday morning. I want to bring some new genetics into the flock. And rightly or wrongly I'm going to stick some bantam eggs under her!

I hope the eggs hatch well for you!

 

[ronott1]

Shawn wished me happy birthday the other day.

I hope you had a nice Birhtday!

 

[ronott1]

Bella found a nice swimming hole this morning.
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I may need to bring a machete with me the next time to clear the lower trail. As it is, I have to walk through this section of the trail with my arm up else I get a face full of spider webs.
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Are there any nice fish to catch there?

 

[ronott1]

wouldn't want a handful of spider webs either. I think they freak out everyone.

The webs do not bother me but the spiders do!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have gotten lot's better about spiders use to Scream bloody murder could not touch.
Now lts more brave don't scream still like glove but have killed on bare handed

 

[drumstick diva]

It's the spiders walking across my bedroom ceiling that I hate. All of a sudden they decide to come down on their thread and I don't want them to land on me.

If they are not present they are safe. If I can see them, good old Spic N' Span spray from the Dollar Store is spritzed on them.When they start walking like drunks you know it's working.
Otherwise they get the fly swatter or on the ground, the bottom of my shoe.

I also hate silverfish and they come up from the basement. If you swat them you get a dark ashy ick on your wall or floor. If I spray with SpicN'Span they die almost instantly, and I can vacuum them up later.

 

[bruceha2000]

Are there any nice fish to catch there?

Sure, dogfish

 

[Shadrach]

I don't want to touch them until after she's done with them but by then, the damage is done!
Mistic, my one and only little grey chick and daughter of Captain, realized early on that I meant them no harm and she readily comes to me without fear.
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Poor little Malcolm, who I think broke his neck flying into the run HC wall, was also a brave little guy.
Of all the chicks, MaeDay is the most terrified of me and I friggin' saved her life!! But we made progress last night to the point she was jumping up at me trying to get raisins.

Firstly, that's a lovely picture.
What I've found with the chicks here is for the first few days the chicks have no fear of me and strangely the mums are quite happy to let the chicks run over my hands and eat from them. Once mum has got the chicks out and about this changes quite quickly and the relationship I have with the chicks is largely dependent on one, the chicks personality, and two, the relationship I have with the mum.
It's not until the mum finishes mothering that each chick makes it's own assessment of me. In general again, if the tribe is Bucket Boy tolerant, then the chicks learn from them and adjust their behaviour accordingly.
None of the hens, except Fat Bird now, like being handled. But, most will with varying degrees of performance, let me pick them up.
What has been surprising is in the event of a problem the chicks, pullets and cockerels will come and find me; if one gets separated from the tribe for example and can't find a safe route to rejoin them.
Bearing in mind how much time we spend together; for most hours of the day I have one or more chickens within reach, one might have expected tamer behaviour but that isn't what has happened here. I think, if you do handle them a lot then they do get used to it. I tend not to handle them unless necessary.

 

[Shadrach]

Shawn wished me happy birthday the other day.

Oh! Belated Happy Birthday.

 

[Shadrach]

The wet nest, as @aart puts it, seems to be a big hit with Veronica.
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She's nice and flat and she's deepened the well to fit her body nicely. She just looks more comfortable.
I'm picking up some hatching eggs for her Saturday morning. I want to bring some new genetics into the flock. And rightly or wrongly I'm going to stick some bantam eggs under her!

She looks good. No legs sticking out the side and nice and deep in the soil.
I'll be very interested if you do provide her with some eggs to see how the eggs are arranged when she gets off the nest.
I'm mainly interested to see if they are all in contact with another egg. All the best outside nests I see here have the eggs very tightly bunched and I don't see eggs pushed out to the side.