Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

3.6mm of rain overnight!! Woohoo!! The tank is full again and from the tracks on the floor, Blossom has had her paws in puddles

Oh, wonderful!!!! A little rain is a very good thing just now.

 

[MaryJanet]

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 no! Naughty girl.

 

[MaryJanet]

It's amazing. Such a relief!

 

[Ribh]

Oh no! Naughty girl.

I swear it's the heat sets her off! And sitting in a nesting box for hours, even with the front open & a sea breeze blowing, is just raising her body temp more! Nutter, that's what she is.

 

[MaryJanet]

Poor girl. Hormones driving her to it.

 

[Ribh]

Poor girl. Hormones driving her to it.

I'm going to hose her underparts a bit later on & cool her off. This is not healthy.

 

[MaryJanet]

I wonder if an esky ice block might help. Mary loves sitting on them in the worst of the heat.

 

[Ribh]

I wonder if an esky ice block might help. Mary loves sitting on them in the worst of the heat.

All mine have disappeared with the crabbers. That's why I am resorting to the hose.

 

[MaryJanet]

Of course! I didn't think of all the crabbing at your place.

 

[rjohns39]

She's house sitting for the friend she was a bridesmaid for just after Christmas & about to catch up with her sister @ my mothers. Hopefully she is feeling more settled.

Whereabouts in Chile? I can't imagine anyone keeping chickens in Santiago. It's huge & mostly high rise apartments.

IDK, would you like me to call him out?