Ribh's D'Coopage

[Shadrach]

After a hot, nasty day...

They are very good about eating together. I would have a bit of a scrap on here.

 

[Ribh]

Well, none of the barred rocks really like watermelon so it was 4 pieces between 6 girls & Lottie & the Campines just move to whatever isn't being appropriated by one of the bigger girls. It's how the feed stations work in the afternoons too. It's sort of musical chairs except everyone knows I've got the really good stuff! I put down 2 big tubs & have 1~2 smaller ones for my timid girls. By the time I leave, the feeding frenzy's calmed down enough Lottie & the Campines can feed @ the tubs.

 

[Ribh]

That is one of the problems with having other people look after you're animals. If something goes wrong, the guilt and the sorrow is more than I care to inflict on someone else.
I find it odd that so many people now are prepared to, or in some cases have to, get unqualified and inexperienced teenagers to look after their children while they go to work.

One of the barred rocks went broody on him. There was nothing he could have done. I did eventually find her but her nest was really, really well hidden & almost inaccessible for me. There is no way the man could have managed to get in & move her.

As for children ~ the whole concept of child care does my head in with strangers looking after kiddies but then I raised our lot here where everybody knew everybody else & if you missed a boat you rang a neighbour & they brought yours home with theirs until you got there & claimed them. Couldn't do it now.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

Loved all the pics and the vid Sorry for being awol so much, but work has been really busy.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

Loved the chickens with the watermelon everyone's chickens look so happy.

 

[BY Bob]

After a hot, nasty day...

They look so happy chowing down on some melon. What a nice treat for them.

 

[Ribh]

She's @ it again!
All fluffed up & no chicks to raise.
She's still laying so for the time being she is being let go.​

Last night both Hepzibah & Soda were in nesting boxes. *sigh*
To get them on a roost I have to lift them off the nest & walk round the outside of the coop before I can deposit them on a roost where they belong. Hepzibah, who is lighter & far more docile, went complaining but without a hitch. Soda put me on my back in the pen. Ouch. Glad neither of us was really hurt but, oh, how I dislike a feisty broody!​

 

[Shadrach]

She's @ it again!
All fluffed up & no chicks to raise.
She's still laying so for the time being she is being let go.​

Last night both Hepzibah & Soda were in nesting boxes. *sigh*
To get them on a roost I have to lift them off the nest & walk round the outside of the coop before I can deposit them on a roost where they belong. Hepzibah, who is lighter & far more docile, went complaining but without a hitch. Soda put me on my back in the pen. Ouch. Glad neither of us was really hurt but, oh, how I dislike a feisty broody!​

Oh dear. I hope you are both okay. Did she flap?

 

[Shadrach]

Nolia (dark) and Lock.

 

[Ribh]

We have a completely different climate to just about everywhere else in Australia. It's not even much like Brisbane's ~ thank goodness!

It's 23C already but our humidity is @ 77%. Apparently we are expecting a little rain tomorrow. That would be nice. Hoping the southern states also get something.​