BYC Member Interview - Ribh

[Ribh]

I'll probably always say it rib in my head.

That's ok. I can't hear you in there.

 

[Ribh]

Nice to meet you @Ribh!
I had 2 Golden Campines. Had, as in they wouldn't stay inside the 5' fence and both presumably taken by fox. I agree they are pretty and fun little birds.

They are quite delightful but very naughty. I had one on the coop roof the other day & I have no idea how she got there or what she thought she was doing! My silvers are @ POL still very wild. I find they settle a bit once they start laying.

 

[Ribh]

Am slowly working my way to that.

I'm sure there's a few of us with odder user names who get called some strange things.

 

[Ribh]

Thanks for doing the interview, Ribh! It's nice getting to know some of our members a little better. I would have loved to have seen some more of your beautiful pictures in it though.

I didn't want to completely bomb the interview but if you seriously want pictures my thread is thick with them. I don't recommend trying to read through it but if you start @ the end just scroll, there's plenty of pics of our present girls, our bee enterprise & this year's winter sunrises ~ which are always spectacular.

 

[Ribh]

Wonderful Interview! Nice to learn more about you.

Thanks Wyorp Rock. I'm still getting to know regulars on here. It is a big forum.

 

[Ribh]

Ribh (I said Reev this time)
I have a request:

Will you please kiss that bundle of preciousness you are holding for me?

Thanks, Kiki. That's my youngest grand~daughter whom I haven't seen since lockdown began here. She is adorable & I will be very happy to give her a kiss as soon as I am able.

 

[bruceha2000]

They are quite delightful but very naughty.

Very naughty. One of them didn't live long enough to lay, didn't show back up at the coop one evening. I had been letting the girls out in the front yard. The other laid well enough except she didn't think the nest boxes were adequate. I found she had a nest on top of a hay roll in another part of the barn. To get there she had to fly through the bars of a stall door. There are 3 "used to be horse stalls" in the barn and I have hay for the 2 alpacas in the one next to their area in the alley.

She gave up on that one after I found it but I didn't know where she went to lay next for quite some time. In the winter when she wasn't laying I saw chicken tracks in the snow out front of the big barn, went around the little barn then back through the fence behind the barns. She was a wander. To get out front of the barn she had to fly over a 5' fence. In the spring I'd often find her in front of the barn in the morning, all the other girls still in the barn. A few weeks after she disappeared I found a nest in some old straw bales in the front part of the barn. Must have been 2 dozen eggs in it.

 

[Ribh]

Very naughty. One of them didn't live long enough to lay, didn't show back up at the coop one evening. I had been letting the girls out in the front yard. The other laid well enough except she didn't think the nest boxes were adequate. I found she had a nest on top of a hay roll in another part of the barn. To get there she had to fly through the bars of a stall door. There are 3 "used to be horse stalls" in the barn and I have hay for the 2 alpacas in the one next to their area in the alley.

She gave up on that one after I found it but I didn't know where she went to lay next for quite some time. In the winter when she wasn't laying I saw chicken tracks in the snow out front of the big barn, went around the little barn then back through the fence behind the barns. She was a wander. To get out front of the barn she had to fly over a 5' fence. In the spring I'd often find her in front of the barn in the morning, all the other girls still in the barn. A few weeks after she disappeared I found a nest in some old straw bales in the front part of the barn. Must have been 2 dozen eggs in it.

My goldie lays on top of a mulch bale. When I can't find her egg in the nesting boxes I look there. One of the attractions of Campines for me is, I was told they don't grow broody. Then I found my goldie on 10 eggs she'd been secreting away! They are pretty much guaranteed to do the unexpected.

 

[JaeG]

You're making me want some Campines! They sure are pretty birds.

I'm glad I know how to say your name now, and it's a beautiful name.

 

[Ribh]

You're making me want some Campines! They sure are pretty birds.

I'm glad I know how to say your name now, and it's a beautiful name.

I love my Campines! They are such a fun bird to have in a flock; & Thank you. I think Ribh is beautiful too ~ but I also liked the meaning...