Ribh's D'Coopage

[Shadrach]

I am, I just wish Penguin was 100% better. I got Lottie and Snowy cuddles last night, much to their disgust. They’re light and bony; is that normal? They seem to eat heaps. Lottie actually climbs right into the treadle feeder, I’ll have to try and get a photo of her doing that!

Do you worm them?

 

[Shadrach]

And just because I’m in a silly mood, here is a photo essay of said procedure:

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And more tax:
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Well I guess that's another couple of thread contributors taken off to hospital for heart attacks.

 

[RoyalChick]

There is a kitchen appliance (?) that has for years left me in tears of frustration at the inability of designers to make this item fit for purpose. The item I'm going on about is the humble kitchen drainer; or dishrack if yer oldschool.
I've struggled with this item while it threw pots at me, let the cutlery slide back into the sink, grip a couple of desgner plates so hard they broke when I tried wrestling the plate from the rack. I mean why do the dish rack part for regular plates take up so much room on these things. I can't be the only person in the world that wants to stack a few cooking pots on the rack to dry.
Needless to say, I've been banging on about my complete dissatisfaction with the kitchen ware designers to the daughters, at length.
A few weeks ago I got asked the youngest what I wanted for my birthday. I told her to save her money, but make sure I got to see her on my birthday, or very close to it.
We had a bit of a birthday party family style so just a few of us. The youngest gave me this as a present.

https://www.towerhousewares.co.uk/t847009gry-parent-scandi-dish-rack-with-wooden-handles-grey.html

It may seem an odd thing to rave about but this here dishracky thing was designed with me in mind I think. I don't use the water catcher and have the rack draining into the sink from the draining board.
Unlike most of the plastic or wooden drainers I've come accross, this has depth. It's like a shallow box in effect apart from the box is plastic coated metal. This means you can put things like pots and odd shaped items in it, rather than try to balance things on it.
Anyway, I just thought I would mention it. I'm very pleased with it and the crows can roost in the tree outside my kitchen window in the morning and not have their ears assauted by my bad language while I try to rearrange the pile made the night before into a position where the rest of it will dry.

Very nice! I too have a long standing frustration with drying racks. I found this one and am very happy with it as it has a very minimal structure so you can put stuff in it, or on it, or just lean things up against it to get some air circulating.
I would show mine but it is covered in stuff right now.

 

[RoyalChick]

That is a prize worthy picture imo. You would need the caption. That is the perfect look from Diana.

Thank you. I was pleased with it. I think it perfectly captures her character. She is very inquisitive - one might almost say nosy - so she couldn't possibly stay away from the bit of tidying up I was doing.
Maybe I will post it on POW.

 

[Ribh]

There is a kitchen appliance (?) that has for years left me in tears of frustration at the inability of designers to make this item fit for purpose. The item I'm going on about is the humble kitchen drainer; or dishrack if yer oldschool.
I've struggled with this item while it threw pots at me, let the cutlery slide back into the sink, grip a couple of desgner plates so hard they broke when I tried wrestling the plate from the rack. I mean why do the dish rack part for regular plates take up so much room on these things. I can't be the only person in the world that wants to stack a few cooking pots on the rack to dry.
Needless to say, I've been banging on about my complete dissatisfaction with the kitchen ware designers to the daughters, at length.
A few weeks ago I got asked the youngest what I wanted for my birthday. I told her to save her money, but make sure I got to see her on my birthday, or very close to it.
We had a bit of a birthday party family style so just a few of us. The youngest gave me this as a present.

https://www.towerhousewares.co.uk/t847009gry-parent-scandi-dish-rack-with-wooden-handles-grey.html

It may seem an odd thing to rave about but this here dishracky thing was designed with me in mind I think. I don't use the water catcher and have the rack draining into the sink from the draining board.
Unlike most of the plastic or wooden drainers I've come accross, this has depth. It's like a shallow box in effect apart from the box is plastic coated metal. This means you can put things like pots and odd shaped items in it, rather than try to balance things on it.
Anyway, I just thought I would mention it. I'm very pleased with it and the crows can roost in the tree outside my kitchen window in the morning and not have their ears assauted by my bad language while I try to rearrange the pile made the night before into a position where the rest of it will dry.

Yep. Same issues & there are only 2 of us! I can see me investing in one of these!

 

[Shadrach]

The girls are enjoying the dry while we have it.
That's Sif in front. She's back running with the tribe so despite the occasional wobble I'm declaring her cured.​

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And we still have ongoing broodies. Shuri & Tsura are back @ it.
Normally they snuggle together but as no~one actually has eggs to be envious of yet they each have their own space. That will change when someone drops an egg later this morning.

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That's interesting that Sif has been able to take up her previous tribe status after quite a long period of absence. I've seen lots of posts where people have said a hen away from the group/tribe/flock for even a few days will lose her place to another hen.
Thing is, that's not what I've seen and in many ways it doesn't make tribal sense. Sat the/a top hen goes broody and sits, hatches and rears her chicks away from the tribe. None that I observed who did this had any problems reestablisheing their position. No violence involved.
If the hen has returned with her chicks to the tribe coop she may be wary of the other hens for the first few nights while the chicks learn who one does and who one doesn't argue with. As soon as she leaves the chicks to fend for themselves, she, the hen resumes at her previous position.

 

[Ribh]

That's interesting that Sif has been able to take up her previous tribe status after quite a long period of absence. I've seen lots of posts where people have said a hen away from the group/tribe/flock for even a few days will lose her place to another hen.
Thing is, that's not what I've seen and in many ways it doesn't make tribal sense. Sat the/a top hen goes broody and sits, hatches and rears her chicks away from the tribe. None that I observed who did this had any problems reestablisheing their position. No violence involved.
If the hen has returned with her chicks to the tribe coop she may be wary of the other hens for the first few nights while the chicks learn who one does and who one doesn't argue with. As soon as she leaves the chicks to fend for themselves, she, the hen resumes at her previous position.

I've never had real re~integretation problems either ~ but I rarely totally separate a hen either. She might be caged for one reason or another but can see & hear the tribe & they can visit her. Sif's issues were when she was very *flappy*. No~one liked it & would attack her but once we got over that hurdle she was accepted back without question. Broodies...? Whole 'nother issue! Some have no problems, others are attacked by all & sundry. Olivia ~ no issues. Shuri ~ targeted by everyone. Mind you, Shuri's an idiot. She rarely covers her eggs properly & they are often cold when I retrieve them!

 

[Shadrach]

Yep. Same issues & there are only 2 of us! I can see me investing in one of these!

I'll mention then that if you have a big family you would need two of them.
They are ideal for up to three people say; after that they would get a bit crowded. I cooked for four the other night, two pots and a large cast iron frying pan, plus all the other normal clutter and plates. There was just enough room.

 

[Shadrach]

What I did find out at the dinner mentioned above that eating on your lap isn't quite what people expect. I've been looking for a small gate legged table, legs with barley twist ends recatngular leg ends. I have room for a such a table and I had one some years ago. If Gate Leg isn't how you describe such a table then perhaps the description Drop Leave Table makes it clear the type of table I'm on about.
I've been looking a while and they are about on the various boards but those I've seen that I'm interested in were either in the North of England ( a few hundred miles to drive) or way too much money.

I found one today and I've bought it. Hopefully we will be picking it up tomorrow. It's in South Wales, about three quarters of an hours drive away. I'm quite excited. I can work on one these tables. At the moment I just have the desk the computer on that could be used to work on.
I'll post a picture once I've got it.

 

[Ribh]

What I did find out at the dinner mentioned above that eating on your lap isn't quite what people expect. I've been looking for a small gate legged table, legs with barley twist ends recatngular leg ends. I have room for a such a table and I had one some years ago. If Gate Leg isn't how you describe such a table then perhaps the description Drop Leave Table makes it clear the type of table I'm on about.
I've been looking a while and they are about on the various boards but those I've seen that I'm interested in were either in the North of England ( a few hundred miles to drive) or way too much money.

I found one today and I've bought it. Hopefully we will be picking it up tomorrow. It's in South Wales, about three quarters of an hours drive away. I'm quite excited. I can work on one these tables. At the moment I just have the desk the computer on that could be used to work on.
I'll post a picture once I've got it.

Gate Leg & Drop leaf are, technically, different styles so I will be interested to see which one you have. I like both ~ especially for small spaces! Here they are often expensive as they are usually antiques. I don't think I've ever seen a modern one.