Ribh's D'Coopage

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

 

[BY Bob]

Sunrise over Fluffy Butt Acres

Good morning all.......

 

[rjohns39]

Sunrise over Fluffy Butt Acres

Good morning all.......
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Beautiful

 

[BY Bob]

Beautiful

Thank you. I don't start beating the sun up until fall arrives. Unless I have that 6 am flight!

 

[Ribh]

That is lovely, Bob. Your girls wake up to beautiful surroundings too.

 

[Ribh]

Thanks MJ

She had an enormous, long poo dag hanging off her butt , gluing her feathers together which I didn't see properly until I examined her. Her skin looked irritated and red and I had to snip off some of the feathers where it wasn't washing away. It smelled evil but the skin wasn't broken.

I checked up her vent but there was no egg this time. I gave her a squirt of lubricant just in case and she had some meal worms for being such a good girl

I washed Tsuki's butt too for good measure but there was only a little poo. The others looked pretty clean but they wouldn't let me catch them for a closer examination!

Can you tell I'm feeling paranoid?

I'll have a word with my chicken dude at the saddlery when I go to pick up feed next week.

Thanks everyone for your concern, support and suggestions.
Thanks Ribh for the use of your thread .

You're welcome. We're all here to help each other.

 

[Ribh]

She's so beautiful. They are angelic when they are asleep aren't they?



What a lovely surprise. So useful and appropriate too.

Someone is a clever chook friend

I have lovely chookie friends. The GD is @ a lovely stage; sleeps a lot & never talks back.

 

[Ribh]

If I let my girls out in the big run early mostly they are good & spend their day happily foraging & sunbathing ~ until about 3pm. Suddenly a maverick imp sizes 1/2 of them & they stage a break out. Inevitably one of the Campines starts the rush for freedom, soon joined by Suyin & occasionally by Lottie. Three is roughly when I head out to feed them & I swear my chooks are a roo short in their top paddock. Suyin waddles to greet me, clucking happily even though she knows I will grab her & hoy her back over the fence. Ha'penny promptly hops back over the fence as if butter wouldn't melt. Lottie is easy to catch & never a fusser but Tuppence...!!! Mad. Seriously. She sees me coming & heads off on a circuit around the fence. If she sees I have diverted to deal with her sisters she waits before doing this funny little 1/2 run to stay just ahead of me. Inevitably we end up @ the back of the run where Tuppence can be easily backed into a corner from the right angle. She could, if she wanted, make a further dash for freedom by hopping into the garden bed & heading round the coop but she never does. She lets me corner her, then squats. This, the shyest, most timid, flightiest of all the birds I own then does this as I tuck her firmly under my arm. She completely relaxes & as I stroke her neck her lids close & she is never in any hurry to open them again. She just snoozes in under my arm, perfectly content while I clamber awkwardly back up the hill to deposit her in the run ~ though I admit to occasionally sitting in a chair for a few minutes & cuddling my girl. She considered hopping in my lap last night for her dinner but in the end it was too scary & Lottie always gets miffed if anyone else tries to join in on her special status.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Jeannie

 

[MaryJanet]

Aww that's wonderful @Ribh. What a darling little chicken