Ribh's D'Coopage

[Kris5902]

Yay for Chickie Hawk! Snotty teenagers on the till are the worst. Did you eventually get your product?

Our produce stores don't often have chickens & never very many @ a time. I like to look but as I invariably have the man with me he resists temptation on my behalf!

Yes, but now I avoid that store whenever possible, I did have to by an egg turner there for my incubator, because my preferred store was out of them.

 

[Ribh]

I do find it sorta weird she wouldn't sell you stuff on the grounds you weren't a farm. I'm thinking comparisons with our hardware stores who will sell anything to anyone but if you are a tradie with a tradie's ticket you can get a discount; trade prices rather than retail.

 

[Ribh]

Chickens are always surprising you. Here I was thinking my little flock was settling & the pecking order was pretty much worked out. How wrong could I be! After yesterday's shenanigans I went out early & moved the big girls out because I could see everyone else was agitating to get downstairs. The only one who made it was, surprisingly, Lavender. She squeezed between the Favorelles hogging the stairs & fled into the sand pit. Everyone else watched her goggle~eyed.

The new additions have turned my sweet Hepzibah [who has always been a stand back & think about it before acting girl] into a rather mean bully. She hounds the new girls mercilessly. Her flock mates are pretty much over it & only give the occasional peck now.

So everyone bar Lottie, who knows she now has free access to all the feed & water upstairs, comes downstairs & Luna, who has always been the more timid of the Favorelles, starts rushing @ everyone & chest bumping with her wings out. She met her match in Lavender who merely fluffed herself up & stood her ground.

Now Lavender usually roosts on the middle roost with Lottie, which should indicate these 2 are right @ the bottom of the pecking order, but this morning Lavender stood her ground to everybody, including Patricia [who is about to have a name change to Penny; I just can't see her as a Patricia], who by her very size [she is huge] has been @ the top of the new flock. The Campines are just insane. They skitter away from everyone, fly aggressively @ everyone & are generally lunatics.

Lottie has been running in Lavenders shadow, using the others fluffy bulk as protection & camouflage, & Lavender hasn't seemed to mind this. I think we are about to see the old order changeth. It might just be someone is about to come on the lay. I will have to check them over latter on & see how everyone is doing. The Campines hate me so that will be fun!

 

[MaryJanet]

I do find it sorta weird she wouldn't sell you stuff on the grounds you weren't a farm. I'm thinking comparisons with our hardware stores who will sell anything to anyone but if you are a tradie with a tradie's ticket you can get a discount; trade prices rather than retail.

I'm also a bit shocked you weren't able to buy what you needed. Seems very odd. As for the discrimination shown by the person on the till... Yuk. I can't stand that sort of entitled attitude. "Are you real farm?" how judgemental. If that question were asked in Australia the answer would be "no, we're an icecream factory. Of course we're a real farm" followed by a suppressed bit of rude name calling.

 

[rjohns39]

I added the rest of my RIW hens and one good cockerel to my breeding pen. There's one more hen I want to add but just can't catch her. I expected a lot of hub bub between the cockerel and roo. Nope, they met, the cockerel submitted all is good. The hens though... Driving me nuts. Apparently the rooster decided which hens the cockerel can service. And apparently they don't agree. So it's a work in progress and we'll see how it turns out.

 

[MaryJanet]

Chickens are always surprising you. Here I was thinking my little flock was settling & the pecking order was pretty much worked out. How wrong could I be! After yesterday's shenanigans I went out early & moved the big girls out because I could see everyone else was agitating to get downstairs. The only one who made it was, surprisingly, Lavender. She squeezed between the Favorelles hogging the stairs & fled into the sand pit. Everyone else watched her goggle~eyed.

The new additions have turned my sweet Hepzibah [who has always been a stand back & think about it before acting girl] into a rather mean bully. She hounds the new girls mercilessly. Her flock mates are pretty much over it & only give the occasional peck now.

So everyone bar Lottie, who knows she now has free access to all the feed & water upstairs, comes downstairs & Luna, who has always been the more timid of the Favorelles, starts rushing @ everyone & chest bumping with her wings out. She met her match in Lavender who merely fluffed herself up & stood her ground.

Now Lavender usually roosts on the middle roost with Lottie, which should indicate these 2 are right @ the bottom of the pecking order, but this morning Lavender stood her ground to everybody, including Patricia [who is about to have a name change to Penny; I just can't see her as a Patricia], who by her very size [she is huge] has been @ the top of the new flock. The Campines are just insane. They skitter away from everyone, fly aggressively @ everyone & are generally lunatics.

Lottie has been running in Lavenders shadow, using the others fluffy bulk as protection & camouflage, & Lavender hasn't seemed to mind this. I think we are about to see the old order changeth. It might just be someone is about to come on the lay. I will have to check them over latter on & see how everyone is doing. The Campines hate me so that will be fun!

II'm developing an addiction to your chicken updates.

In our coop, yesterday everything seemed fine, but for a few games of chasey. Now this morning Sandy has decided to respond by making a break for it. Up and out. So at this moment she's in the big coop, inspecting it's amenities. While Mary and Janet have the yard and the little coop in which to reflect upon their commitment to forming a hierarchical society

 

[rjohns39]

One of the few things snotty teenagers are good for “would your rather _____ or chop the firewood” is usually an effective motivational phrase! I do not really miss mowing... have you considered sheep or a small cow? They are effective and fertilize while they work... might not always work well with the neighbors though

Kris... I have nothing good to say about the clerk I'm a farm, have a tax certificate and a legally registered farm name. But when I do get the odd "Attitude" person I just move onto the manager.

I do find it sorta weird she wouldn't sell you stuff on the grounds you weren't a farm. I'm thinking comparisons with our hardware stores who will sell anything to anyone but if you are a tradie with a tradie's ticket you can get a discount; trade prices rather than retail.

Not sure about Canada, Kris can fill us in. But here in the us some "prescription meds" are unavailable without a vet prescription. And without an avian vet, it becomes really difficult. We just find other ways around it.

 

[MaryJanet]

Oh I see! Is that because people have been known to use medications to abuse animals? Or because people adapt animal medications for illegal human consumption? Maybe both?

 

[Ribh]

I'm also a bit shocked you weren't able to buy what you needed. Seems very odd. As for the discrimination shown by the person on the till... Yuk. I can't stand that sort of entitled attitude. "Are you real farm?" how judgemental. If that question were asked in Australia the answer would be "no, we're an icecream factory. Of course we're a real farm" followed by a suppressed bit of rude name calling.

How true is that! It's like the telemarketers. I loathe them soooo much. It got so bad YD & I were answering the phone in anything but English: she did German, I did French & we gave them the runaround for our amusement! lol Last time it was the NB scammers & I go: So do you even know if I have a computer. What do you want? Why do you want to know etc & when they got shirty I explained they had rung me!!! The best one is: Does Mrs [Husband's name] live here. No. They get super confused but I've kept my maiden name & there's no Mrs anybody here!

 

[Ribh]

I added the rest of my RIW hens and one good cockerel to my breeding pen. There's one more hen I want to add but just can't catch her. I expected a lot of hub bub between the cockerel and roo. Nope, they met, the cockerel submitted all is good. The hens though... Driving me nuts. Apparently the rooster decided which hens the cockerel can service. And apparently they don't agree. So it's a work in progress and we'll see how it turns out.

Wow. Having read so many cockerel/rooster disaster stories on here I am majorly impressed.