Ribh's D'Coopage

[LozzyR]

Notch.
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What beautiful colouring!

 

[Shadrach]

Yes, yes it is.

I am being thoroughly educated by my youngest non-binary off-spring.

I'm all for it. Especially thinking of all the people who never had a chance to live life true to themselves and either led miserable lives or very short ones

I don't care either way tbh. I never have. I really dislike the anti brigade though.

 

[LozzyR]

Lilly and Sansa squat and shake for me. Hattie let's me touch her with no reaction in any way. Aurora won't let me touch her. Sydney and I are not touchy. I can touch her, no shake. Phyllis let's me pick her up anytime I want. No shake.

So part rooster part hen?

I’ve never noticed any shaking after squats and cuddles. I will have to pay more attention.

 

[BY Bob]

I wish. It's her nest.
It's always a bit of a trade off. I need to know where they are nesting. If I destroy a nest they go and make another which I may not find. Currently we have night time foxes and Genet cats out, not to mention weasels, stray dogs, pole cats and owls so once they decide to sit it helps keep them alive if I can go to the nest on the first night of sitting and chickennap them.

That is not a great nest location. Yikes!

 

[RoyalChick]

Join the club. I hear it's quite okay to be nothing or both these days.

I believe the in-phrase is 'gender fluid'

 

[WhoDatChick]

None of mine do the feather shake if I'm just handling them: putting them over the fence, lifting them on a roost etc but if they have squatted & I then stroke them, particularly if I do the full body stroke, that's when I get the feather shake.

I'm not quite sure how my girls view me any more. Especially my older girls. It's quite mad. They will come towards me if they have got out calling greetings & then squat & wait to be lifted back over the fence. No feather shake. Despite hand feeding Lottie I don't usually handle her; she hops up on my knee of her own accord. I don't stoke her or anything. She has never squatted for me & never shakes her feathers.

I have been handling Mhari a fair bit just getting her out of a nesting box & after the initial fussing she now just settles in my hands for the ride to the roost burbling inanities @ me. No feather shaking there either. It's like the girls have put me in a little category of my own ~ not rooster, not quite hen either but non life threatening!

That is almost exactly the same here....

 

[WhoDatChick]

Notch.
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[WhoDatChick]

Bob is getting wing feathers!!! @BY Bob

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All of the babies are enjoying their time outside. I think tomorrow they'll go out in the free range pen.

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Ooohhhhhhh babies!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Notch is gorgeous !!!

 

[Shadrach]

That is not a great nest location. Yikes!

I did mention this to Tap. It's rather strange. Her more junior sister will wait and then if necessary barge her way into a nest box to lay and egg. Tap, despite being much more assertive in most other circumstances