Ribh's D'Coopage

[MaryJanet]

She was very snappy.

 

[Ribh]

I must say mine aren't biters. They're used to me lifting the lid of the nesting box & sliding eggs out from under them & getting a stroke while I'm @ it.

I don't leave eggs if it's avoidable because of snakes. I check multiple times most days & get the eggs out fast!

They will fluff up, beak snap & hiss but it's all for show. They don't physically go me.

 

[Ribh]

I grew up with waterfront.
I grew up with other people's boats moored on my doorstep.
I know well the frantic phone call to inform an owner their mooring chain is too short & if they want their boat above water they might want to do something about that. Like now.
Storms, King tides, big winds ~ all of them can signal trouble.

So I've never wanted to own a boat.
My sons collect them. Ok, they moor their boat on my waterfront & the motor goes under it's on them. I'm too old to be bailing out tinnies, dragging waterlogged dinghies through the mangroves or rowing frantically against wind & tide to rescue a drifting boat. No. Just no. The lads get it. It just doesn't stop them.

Which is why we now have someone else's tinnie moored down the bottom. No idea. The lad arrived with it in tow last week & announced he's just pulled it out of the channel before the ferry scuttled it. My mother, cheerful soul that she is, hoped it's owner hadn't fallen overboard. I suspect a larger vessel lost it's tender & never noticed till they wanted it.

So there it sits, like a bird in the wilderness, waiting on the water police tracking its owner down. With the big winds we've been getting it makes me nervous. It has a pretty good motor still attached. Wondering if the lad can claim salvage rights...?​

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Thanks, Bob. In all the time I first kept chickens I never, ever had one go broody on me so I was shocked when I lost one in a broody trance & had another constantly going on me. My success rate with breaking is not high. I need to give the crate a go.

Could you hire a crate from the vet or borrow one from a friend with dogs? I'd lend you one of mine but it might be a bit far to come...

 

[BY Bob]

Could you hire a crate from the vet or borrow one from a friend with dogs? I'd lend you one of mine but it might be a bit far to come...

What about Amazon Prime?

 

[Ribh]

Could you hire a crate from the vet or borrow one from a friend with dogs? I'd lend you one of mine but it might be a bit far to come...

We don't have a vet & none of the dog owners I know have crates. I can get carriers but they're too small.

 

[Ribh]

What about Amazon Prime?

That's an idea, Bob. I'll have a look on Amazon. If the postage doesn't kill me it might work.

 

[BY Bob]

That's an idea, Bob. I'll have a look on Amazon. If the postage doesn't kill me it might work.

I lined the floor of mine with hardware cloth to make it easier for Mal to stand on it.

 

[MaryJanet]

Ribh, what's scurfing? I've got the part about it being in the wake of a boat but that's all I got.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks