Ribh's D'Coopage

[Kris5902]

Excess egg packaging, afternoon chicken feeding, and four 5 gallon buckets of gravel to fix some pathways for my mom down by the house are still left on todays “must do list”. I will be offloading many of my extra pullet eggs to some neighbors who need them this Friday. Just finished up dinner prep and filling our water. I’m really hoping I have enough cartons.

 

[Shadrach]

One try and that was it? It's painful that people don't take the time to educate themselves or even try with an animal they do not understand. Maddening.

He was a handful. He would knock you down if he could. I've seen him in the donkey field with two donkeys pinned in a corner. The dogs wouldn't go anywhere near him. I was rather fond of him despite the few up endings he gave me.
A very strange thing though. The sheep shed has a couple of hay racks and one used to be in his section. I filled it one morning and when I checked at midday I found him gingerly pulling bits of hay from around the edges. By the evening he had eaten next to nothing. I checked the hay rack out and in the middle was an egg. There was no way he was going to break that egg. He was the same if a hen laid one on the floor. He never broke one.

 

[Ribh]

Excess egg packaging, afternoon chicken feeding, and four 5 gallon buckets of gravel to fix some pathways for my mom down by the house are still left on todays “must do list”. I will be offloading many of my extra pullet eggs to some neighbors who need them this Friday. Just finished up dinner prep and filling our water. I’m really hoping I have enough cartons.

I have excess cartons if you are in need. All my neighbours now poke them in our letterbox for me!

 

[Shadrach]

Excess egg packaging, afternoon chicken feeding, and four 5 gallon buckets of gravel to fix some pathways for my mom down by the house are still left on todays “must do list”. I will be offloading many of my extra pullet eggs to some neighbors who need them this Friday. Just finished up dinner prep and filling our water. I’m really hoping I have enough cartons.

How far away is a habitable house Kris? I'm impressed that you've coped so far.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

He was a handful. He would knock you down if he could. I've seen him in the donkey field with two donkeys pinned in a corner. The dogs wouldn't go anywhere near him. I was rather fond of him despite the few up endings he gave me.
A very strange thing though. The sheep shed has a couple of hay racks and one used to be in his section. I filled it one morning and when I checked at midday I found him gingerly pulling bits of hay from around the edges. By the evening he had eaten next to nothing. I checked the hay rack out and in the middle was an egg. There was no way he was going to break that egg. He was the same if a hen laid one on the floor. He never broke one.

That is wild! He was a big fan of the chickens, huh? Or was is just eggs? It's funny the things that you find out when you're paying attention. Every creature has their own personality. A ram that didn't want to break an egg...I think I'll keep that mental picture forever

I have a goat that sounds a bit like him. If you don't pay him in "pets" he will put his head down and give you a whack. He's never knocked me down luckily. but he's given me some bruises. I swear he outweighs me...should put him on the scale one of these days.

 

[Kris5902]

I have excess cartons if you are in need. All my neighbours now poke them in our letterbox for me!

Our “recycling center” (a barn like building where pretty much everyone takes everything they can to avoid having to bin or burn it) collects the cartons, sorts out the marked local farms (most of the time) and usually has a decent stack of commercial ones as well, last week there were only 6 left. Our (small egg producers) current issue is that the “molting rooster eating guy” is putting his eggs in the general store and writing “this farm, free range” on all the commercial cartons in bold permanent marker, so now they are mostly all defaced. And I don’t want to be just giving away the bank ones I’m buying (and going to be stickering with my own labels) without a decent chance at getting them back.

Ok, now I’m just lurking online to avoid chores and shoveling gravel... aren’t I?

 

[Ribh]

Our “recycling center” (a barn like building where pretty much everyone takes everything they can to avoid having to bin or burn it) collects the cartons, sorts out the marked local farms (most of the time) and usually has a decent stack of commercial ones as well, last week there were only 6 left. Our (small egg producers) current issue is that the “molting rooster eating guy” is putting his eggs in the general store and writing “this farm, free range” on all the commercial cartons in bold permanent marker, so now they are mostly all defaced. And I don’t want to be just giving away the bank ones I’m buying (and going to be stickering with my own labels) without a decent chance at getting them back.

Ok, now I’m just lurking online to avoid chores and shoveling gravel... aren’t I?

Yeah ~ that's the drawback of living with a bunch of eccentrics. We have more normals* now, who want & expect different things. I don't know who is worse but the eccentrics are more fun!

 

[MaryJanet]

What time are you heading off to get the new chooks ribh?

 

[Ribh]

Yeah ~ that's the drawback of living with a bunch of eccentrics. We have more normals* now, who want & expect different things. I don't know who is worse but the eccentrics are more fun!

I must say it's nice to have you back on~line more frequently @Kris5902

 

[Ribh]

What time are you heading off to get the new chooks ribh?

We're booked on the 8am barge Friday. Hour trip then nearly another hour to the hatchery. They open @ 10am. I've got quite a bit to organise before then. Hour back to the barge @ 1pm & another hour before we're back on the island. It will be a big day & my girls will be super pissed as they loathe this weather & have been choosing to spend most of their time in the coop staring out @ the bucketing rain. If tomorrow is fine & they find themselves confined....