Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Well, my girls will be out of sorts. It was a mainland day yesterday, so no run time, & it is wet & dreary this morning. They won't be best pleased.

 

[Grammy60]

Waving across the ocean.

Hello, how are you?
This garden work is no fun, moving the mulch from truck to the garden is no fun. We will just be recovered and have to do it all again next weekend. Oh well-it's looking pretty and we will win over the weeds!!

 

[Ribh]

Hello, how are you?
This garden work is no fun, moving the mulch from truck to the garden is no fun. We will just be recovered and have to do it all again next weekend. Oh well-it's looking pretty and we will win over the weeds!!

What a pity I'm so far away. I enjoy mulching. Keeping the weeds down is always a win!

 

[Shadrach]

That's very interesting. To me it suggests a willingness to hatch and raise other hen's eggs. It takes a village...

I try to make sure they only hatch the eggs they laid. The double and triple sits aren't quite to the rule. Mini Minx used to roll out any foreign eggs and so did Mora now I think on it. In general because they live in tribes only family eggs get hatched.

 

[Shadrach]

I think Blackthorn is the same thing as Sloe (as in Sloe gin). In which case the berries are not edible off the bush. But dump them in a bottle, add sugar, fill the bottle up with gin and then forget about it for a year and you will have the most delicious Sloe gin.

It is. If I drank gin, or drank in general I might have had a go at it.

 

[Shadrach]

I'd love to know why Lucy likes to go and sit on a nest, with or without an egg in it. It's my understanding that ISA Browns don't go broody; it's been bred out of them. She'll communally nest with Charlie sometimes and now and again decides to sit in Nyssa's nest (often when it's obvious that Nyssa's ready to lay!). And if she does happen across an egg and sits on it, it's not for very long; maybe half an hour or so.

I've never been convinced by this broodiness being bred out of a hen. If it true then it's a tragedy in my opinion. I've read quite a few tales of supposedly non broody breeds going broody under the right circumstances so I'll hope.

 

[Ribh]

I've never been convinced by this broodiness being bred out of a hen. If it true then it's a tragedy in my opinion. I've read quite a few tales of supposedly non broody breeds going broody under the right circumstances so I'll hope.

Yep. Campines are supposed to be non~broody types but Ha'penny secreted 10 eggs before she began to sit. All I can say in her favour is that she was easily dissuaded by the removal of her eggs. Not best pleased but dissuaded.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Jeannie Another long day at work... As for mulch, we have to move it to the gator, then get it as close as we can to the garden and then move it with 5 gallon buckets to its final resting place. Here's progress so far, oh and tossing in a sunset before a major storm just for fun.

 

[Shadrach]

Treacle and Tap.

 

[LozzyR]

I've never been convinced by this broodiness being bred out of a hen. If it true then it's a tragedy in my opinion. I've read quite a few tales of supposedly non broody breeds going broody under the right circumstances so I'll hope.

None of my Isas have ever gone broody, my first experience was with Charlie the Australorp.