Ribh's D'Coopage

[WhoDatChick]

All bedded down for the night. Was really happy to find Lottie snuggled up with Lavender but not sure what to do with PP. She doesn't seem to have a mate within the flock. She's a Barred Rock but she doesn't look like them & they know it. Getting an itch to fill those vacant roosting spaces...
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Aaww, they all look comfy cozy!! I love PP ... I’ll be her friend

 

[WhoDatChick]

Ribh's photo

Reminded me that I have been having trouble getting my babies to roost. So I just went out to check them
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It's the little things that are most heartening

Oh so precious!!

 

[Ribh]

Oh so precious!!

I love going out @ night & *tucking them in* The day's squabbles are forgotten as they cosy up for the night. I think I get so much pleasure because those first weeks they were together were rough on everybody.

 

[Ribh]

Aaww, they all look comfy cozy!! I love PP ... I’ll be her friend

I like her too. She's like a big, awkward, ungainly teenager.

 

[Ribh]

Ribh's photo

Reminded me that I have been having trouble getting my babies to roost. So I just went out to check them
....and look!View attachment 1781324
It's the little things that are most heartening

The little things give me so much pleasure. Those are 2 gorgeous looking chickies!

 

[Ribh]

I had a little roosting set back last night, one of Chickie Hawk’s girls decided to sleep in a nest box, but by the time I was putting them up it was so dark I decided to leave her... I will make sure I get out sooner today and that she’s up on the Roost where she belongs.

Your set up always reminds me to know my limits! Left to my own devices we would be drowning in chooks & cats & children & I'm not made for that sort of stress. My hat is off to you.

 

[Kris5902]

I wasn't smart enough to know what to buy, when I got the farm and now I'm paying for it. Manually weed wacking then mowing a half acre is for the birds.

It’s not that you weren’t smart enough... You never truly know what you “need” at first in anything I believe. I’ve found this to be true over the years and in several different fields. There’s that which you “know” you need at first that you actually don’t, and all the little things you don’t know you really need, until you need it and don’t have it!

Ugh half an acre of it... nasty! I just did this patch of waist high thistles, grass, and lovely stinging nettles with the string trimmer. Three passes to get it low enough to find the septic tank, now I need to bring in shovels to find and repair the pump it’s from the slaughterhouse so not too much poop, but lots of other nastiness.

 

[Ribh]

Lottie doing her thing.​

It’s not that you weren’t smart enough... You never truly know what you “need” at first in anything I believe. I’ve found this to be true over the years and in several different fields. There’s that which you “know” you need at first that you actually don’t, and all the little things you don’t know you really need, until you need it and don’t have it!

Ugh half an acre of it... nasty! I just did this patch of waist high thistles, grass, and lovely stinging nettles with the string trimmer. Three passes to get it low enough to find the septic tank, now I need to bring in shovels to find and repair the pump it’s from the slaughterhouse so not too much poop, but lots of other nastiness.

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True to the first & UGH! to the 2nd.

 

[Ribh]

I did something weird in that last post. No idea. More coffee needed, I think...

 

[MaryJanet]

Yesterday my brother and I extended the chicken run. It was 13m2 and now it's more like 40m2. The chooks are loving the extra space and working hard on the weeding for me. We've still got a little more work to do shortening the fence posts, but otherwise it's great. We deliberately made it temporary and easily moved.