Ribh's D'Coopage

[drstratton]

My house needs repainting and the barn badly needs a new roof. I am worrying won’t be able to get materials before winter.

I hope you can get what you need before winter hits. This is such a crazy time. It really shows how easily the world as we know it could collapse.

 

[drstratton]

You definitely need a peahen!

Yes, I think so too. I'm starting to think hubs isn't adverse to the idea either. He's really enjoying our new addition. He saw him spread his tail feathers a couple of days ago & came to get me. Sadly by the time I saw him the show was over. He's starting to come into our yard now, so he's feeling safer in his new home. Hubs bought me a new camera with a zoom lens for my birthday, so hopefully I'll be able to get some better pictures to share once I get it. Better still will be if he quits hiding when he sees us come near.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Well at least they should be safe from predators! Does she roost up there in the winter too?

She would, if I let her.

I go and remove each one and put them in the the coop each night.

 

[RoyalChick]

She got bored waiting for her Caturday picture.

 

[Ribh]

CHOOK of the WEEK.
Titania.

Titania is one of my newer girls. She arrived with Olivia, Portia, Ceres, Desdemona & our 1st lot of Vorwerks @ the end of last year. I think she is absolutely gorgeous.

According to her breeder Titania is a Frizzle/Aracuna bantam X. Bear in mind Frizzle is a breed out here, not just a feather type. I was really hopeful she'd carry the blue gene marker & I would have another blue layer but she doesn't. She lays wee cream coloured eggs like a frizzle & is showing signs of going broody. My summer could be a nightmare.

Also, our Aracaunas aren't rumpless though all the frizzling makes it hard to tell if the poor girl has a beard or muffs or anything else going on in there.

She is not quite as friendly as Olivia but she isn't unfriendly either & that makes her fairly easy to handle. She is one of my feistier bantams & holds her own really well against all the bigger girls.

Frizzles, surprisingly, are a really, really old chicken breed 1st being mentioned some time in the 1600s & Charles Darwin called them Caffie Fowl & said they were predominanately found in India but the frizzling gene seems to have arisen even further east ~ possibly in China.

All the frizzles I've had have had calm, easy going temperaments & got along well with other breeds ~ which I wasn't expecting as there are warnings all over the internet that these odd looking birds are often the target of bullying by more dominant breeds. I haven't found that ~ but then I started with Lavender who was easily twice the size of anyone else & could give even Soda a run for her money in the weight department!​

 

[Ribh]

It's Caturday!
It's still Saturday somewhere. There has been so very much going on I've lost track but here is my lad, Kirby, getting chin scratches ~ sort of. He will lay his head on the hand that is scratching him & gently hook in his claws so he is holding *hands*. Yep. He's super weird.

 

[Ribh]

She got bored waiting for her Caturday picture.

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Beautiful!
Thank you for jogging my memory. I have been so caught up in @BY Bob's thread I have lost track of just about everything else.​

 

[drstratton]

She got bored waiting for her Caturday picture.

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She's so pretty RC!

 

[drstratton]

CHOOK of the WEEK.
Titania.
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Titania is one of my newer girls. She arrived with Olivia, Portia, Ceres, Desdemona & our 1st lot of Vorwerks @ the end of last year. I think she is absolutely gorgeous.

According to her breeder Titania is a Frizzle/Aracuna bantam X. Bear in mind Frizzle is a breed out here, not just a feather type. I was really hopeful she'd carry the blue gene marker & I would have another blue layer but she doesn't. She lays wee cream coloured eggs like a frizzle & is showing signs of going broody. My summer could be a nightmare.

Also, our Aracaunas aren't rumpless though all the frizzling makes it hard to tell if the poor girl has a beard or muffs or anything else going on in there.

She is not quite as friendly as Olivia but she isn't unfriendly either & that makes her fairly eay to handle. She is one of my feistier bantams & holds her own really well against all the bigger girls.

Frizzles, surprisingly, are a really, really old chicken breed 1st being mentioned some time in the 1600s & Charles Darwin called them Caffie Fowl & said they were predominanately found in India but the frizzling gene seems to have arisen even further east ~ possibly in China.

All the frizzles I've had have had calm, easy going temperaments & got along well with other breeds ~ which I wasn't expecting as there are warnings all over the internet that these odd looking birds are often the target of bullying by more dominant breeds. I haven't found that ~ but then I started with Lavender who was easily twice the size of anyone else & could given even Soda a run for her money in the weight department!​

She's such a pretty girl! I'm looking forward to hearing more about her!

 

[drstratton]

It's Caturday!
It's still Saturday somewhere. There has been so very much going on I've lost track but here is my lad, Kirby, getting chin scratches ~ sort of. He will lay his head on the hand that is scratching him & gently hook in his claws so he is holding *hands*. Yep. He's super weird.
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Such a handsome boy!