Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

The day was grey & overcast & not particularly warm.

Sunny spots were the order of the day ~ after the morning shenanigans. PatriciaPenny is getting hormonal & raced round the outside run chest bumping everyone & shrieking. She must be close to laying. Luna stood in the middle of the run & had *hiccups* for an hour. Loud hiccy hiccups. Weirdest sound ever. Ha'penny is just confused. She wanted to lay & spent the whole day racing up & down the stairs, in & out of nesting boxes, thumping around making everything just so, shrieking @ everyone [yes, it was a noisy day! ] & quite unable to produce the desired egg. *sigh.* And Lottie stands on that log whenever she can get it with her eyes half closed in a haze of Basil dreams.

 

[rjohns39]

Evening folks

 

[WhoDatChick]

The day was grey & overcast & not particularly warm.

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Sunny spots were the order of the day ~ after the morning shenanigans. PatriciaPenny is getting hormonal & raced round the outside run chest bumping everyone & shrieking. She must be close to laying. Luna stood in the middle of the run & had *hiccups* for an hour. Loud hiccy hiccups. Weirdest sound ever. Ha'penny is just confused. She wanted to lay & spent the whole day racing up & down the stairs, in & out of nesting boxes, thumping around making everything just so, shrieking @ everyone [yes, it was a noisy day! ] & quite unable to produce the desired egg. *sigh.* And Lottie stands on that log whenever she can get it with her eyes half closed in a haze of Basil dreams.
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Why don’t you just call her.. PP...

 

[Ribh]

Evening folks

Hi, Bob. How's your day been?

 

[Ribh]

Yesterday I penned the big girls early then raked up my yard & threw all the leaf litter in their run. This morning the girls think I've handed heaven to them on a platter. I love how little it take to make chooks so very happy. It's wet & not particularly warm but there they are, scratching away, happy as Larry.

Meanwhile I am scratching my head about this beehive that is arriving sometime next week. It's winter. My sun angles are all different & no direct sunlight after 10am. I was thinking, no problemo ~ I can just move the hive but apparently I can't ~ not more than a metre. The bees will get lost. Okaaaay...I don't think my original choice of spot is going to work...Hmmmm Our P.O is likely to have a coronary when those bees land @ their depot. lol We order everything we can through the mail

They should be grateful. John has ordered his sandstone. It is not coming by mail.It is coming 1, 045 miles by carrier from Melbourne ~ but only as far as the mainland depot when an island carrier takes over. There are 8 pallets of the stuff... If we sit it on the footpath it can kill off the grass verge while it's waiting...

We have all the inside of a house to organise too ~ but whenever we decide to do something we always choose outside first. Umm, yeah...

 

[MaryJanet]

I didn't realise hives have to be in the sun. Makes sense though.

 

[Ribh]

I didn't realise hives have to be in the sun. Makes sense though.

No, other way, MaryJanet. They have to be in the shade or the wax can melt. *sigh* The things I don't know.

 

[MaryJanet]

Ohhhh thanks for clearing that up

 

[MaryJanet]

A couple of years ago, I was daydreaming about putting a hive in the roof space because there's a vent they could fly through. But with a corro roof, it'll get too hot and melt the wax I reckon.

 

[Ribh]

A couple of years ago, I was daydreaming about putting a hive in the roof space because there's a vent they could fly through. But with a corro roof, it'll get too hot and melt the wax I reckon.

I really don't know. They do some weird stuff when left to their own devices. Our living room walls are wood: sliptongue & saddleback & our native bees have combs happening in some of our crevices.