Ribh's D'Coopage

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Progress!!

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What a great photo!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Baby!! We have a baby!!

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[Aussie-Chookmum]

@CCCL Momma & chick are too beautiful for words & I am so grateful you have posted their lovely pics here but unfortunately I have been traumatised & need to vent for just a moment.

You see yesterday was weird. The weather was all over the place & the girls broke up into 3 groups to shelter from the worst of it. I was feeling rather off colour & not up to checking on them as regularly as I usually do so it was lock up time before I realised I had someone missing! It is so unusual I thought I had miscounted. Easy enough to do & hard to know which girl it was when with their backs turned it could have been any one of 1/2 a dozen but eventually I narrowed it down to Ceres. Ceres is one of my little Jap bantams & a new layer. I nursed her through fowl pox inside for over a month & the thought of something having happened to her was devastating!

I scoured the yard again & again. There was no pile of feathers so I she hadn't been predated. Plus none of my girls seemed traumatised. I searched for over an hour till it was pitch black then concluded that as unlikely as it might seem she had gone broody on me, secreted a pile of eggs somewhere & decided to sit.

This morning I called her before I had to leave for the doctors [he's cutting more bits out of me ] & made sure there was food & water somewhere she would find it if she left the nest. As soon as we got home I rushed to check. It looked like the food had been disturbed which was sooo reassuring & I recommenced looking! Experience told me she was probably hidden quite close to the coop & how I hadn't stepped on her last night I'll never know. I passed her several times & never saw her. She was on the downside of the hill under a tangle of long grass in a beautiful little nest, all snug & comfy.
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She was not best pleased to be disturbed!
And she was covering 6 eggs, naughty girl!
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How scary. You must have had a very restless night worrying about her.

So glad she is safe and sound. (even if she needs a good scolding for making you worry. )

 

[Ribh]

Ceres, back where she belongs tonight & looking like butter wouldn't melt...

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

Baby!! We have a baby!!

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Look at those colors just gorgeous

@CCCL Momma & chick are too beautiful for words & I am so grateful you have posted their lovely pics here but unfortunately I have been traumatised & need to vent for just a moment.

You see yesterday was weird. The weather was all over the place & the girls broke up into 3 groups to shelter from the worst of it. I was feeling rather off colour & not up to checking on them as regularly as I usually do so it was lock up time before I realised I had someone missing! It is so unusual I thought I had miscounted. Easy enough to do & hard to know which girl it was when with their backs turned it could have been any one of 1/2 a dozen but eventually I narrowed it down to Ceres. Ceres is one of my little Jap bantams & a new layer. I nursed her through fowl pox inside for over a month & the thought of something having happened to her was devastating!

I scoured the yard again & again. There was no pile of feathers so I she hadn't been predated. Plus none of my girls seemed traumatised. I searched for over an hour till it was pitch black then concluded that as unlikely as it might seem she had gone broody on me, secreted a pile of eggs somewhere & decided to sit.

This morning I called her before I had to leave for the doctors [he's cutting more bits out of me ] & made sure there was food & water somewhere she would find it if she left the nest. As soon as we got home I rushed to check. It looked like the food had been disturbed which was sooo reassuring & I recommenced looking! Experience told me she was probably hidden quite close to the coop & how I hadn't stepped on her last night I'll never know. I passed her several times & never saw her. She was on the downside of the hill under a tangle of long grass in a beautiful little nest, all snug & comfy.
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She was not best pleased to be disturbed!
And she was covering 6 eggs, naughty girl!
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What a stinker for making you worry

 

[BY Bob]

OMG I have literally never tried to give a cat a bath. And a cat that big and hairy?! Mrs BY Bob is a brave lady.

I held her while Mrs BY Bob scrubbed her butt. It was just like doing a chicken. Poor kitty. She was pathetic.

 

[BY Bob]

@CCCL Momma & chick are too beautiful for words & I am so grateful you have posted their lovely pics here but unfortunately I have been traumatised & need to vent for just a moment.

You see yesterday was weird. The weather was all over the place & the girls broke up into 3 groups to shelter from the worst of it. I was feeling rather off colour & not up to checking on them as regularly as I usually do so it was lock up time before I realised I had someone missing! It is so unusual I thought I had miscounted. Easy enough to do & hard to know which girl it was when with their backs turned it could have been any one of 1/2 a dozen but eventually I narrowed it down to Ceres. Ceres is one of my little Jap bantams & a new layer. I nursed her through fowl pox inside for over a month & the thought of something having happened to her was devastating!

I scoured the yard again & again. There was no pile of feathers so I she hadn't been predated. Plus none of my girls seemed traumatised. I searched for over an hour till it was pitch black then concluded that as unlikely as it might seem she had gone broody on me, secreted a pile of eggs somewhere & decided to sit.

This morning I called her before I had to leave for the doctors [he's cutting more bits out of me ] & made sure there was food & water somewhere she would find it if she left the nest. As soon as we got home I rushed to check. It looked like the food had been disturbed which was sooo reassuring & I recommenced looking! Experience told me she was probably hidden quite close to the coop & how I hadn't stepped on her last night I'll never know. I passed her several times & never saw her. She was on the downside of the hill under a tangle of long grass in a beautiful little nest, all snug & comfy.
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She was not best pleased to be disturbed!
And she was covering 6 eggs, naughty girl!
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You poor thing. You did not need that. I'm so glad that you found her safe and did not step on her.

 

[BY Bob]

Well, thanks Bob. I wanted to say “hi” to everyone. But before you get too excited, I am at least a hundred pages behind in reading the posts!
I’ve been all caught up with my visitors from PA, I want to show them a nice time on their vacation.

As you should be. We are here and will be when your visitors head home we will stop be here.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Baby #2 is on its way!

There is another egg with a pip too! I can't wait to see the babies when I get home from work today!

 

[BY Bob]

You bathe your cat! Why? Sorry, I don't mean to be rude but cats are pretty good @ cleaning themselves & the only time I've ever bathed a cat was a rescue so riddled with fleas a bath was the only solution. Is it for allergies?

We do not bathe our cats. This was a bad situation.

She has long hair on her legs and hiney. She had a bout of diarrhea as we moved her to a more healthy food. Diarrhea and long hair do not mix well. It was a bad situation that we needed to correct.