Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

The pecking order has probably reset itself, minus the angry broody. Hopefully things remain stable for some time now.

Yep. My Brs are back in charge. Suyin has fallen from grace & is ranking 3rd from the bottom. Ha'penny now outranks her. Lavender has gone broody & has a one track mind. None of my other girls are real troublemakers so I'm hopeful of a peaceful interlude.

 

[Ribh]

Of course when chickens invade the house he is no where to be found!

That is probably a good thing! Only 1 of my present 2 will hunt. He's lethal & songbirds @ the bird baths need to be watchful but he also does rats & mice ~ if he thought he could get away with it he'd do chickens. Luckily he tried it once on a BR & she schooled him proper so though he occasionally looks @ them longingly he doesn't hunt them.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Jeannie

Hate to say good morning and run, but I'm off to town shortly.

 

[Ribh]

I'm a terrible sucker for an underdog so Lottie, Tuppence & Ha'penny have become my favourites almost by default. It helps that they are also very pretty & have sweet dispositions but they are also, very definitely, @ the bottom of the pecking order.

So I have made a point of ensuring they get their fair share. Despite multiple feed stations, everyone wants to shove their greedy face into the same tub. It won't accommodate 9 chickens so the bottom lot were prone to *sneak & steal* tactics & a lot of commotion ensured. Lottie promptly flies onto my knee as soon as I sit down. I grab a handful of feed in each hand for Tuppence & Ha'penny & everyone is happy until one of the more dominant girls decides to assert her authority & hone in on my Campines.

Because they are good little chickens & know their place in the order of things they back down. Tuppence wanders of & hangs her head while eyeing me reproachfully. Ha'penny lingers @ the perimeter making unhappy noises.

However it is so well understood by Ha'penny that @ least one of those handfuls of food is for her that when Soda [top chook] honed in yesterday, Ha'penny went into fighting stance. All her hackles rose. She fluffed out. She grew as tall as she could. Soda was terribly suprised that this lowly minion dared challenge her that it took her a moment or 2 to react! And Ha'penny didn't back down right away either.

I was less than happy, given I was in the middle of this showdown with a lap full of chicken, a small feed tub & 2 fistfulls of fodder. Ha'penny did back down ~ reluctantly. Soda is my 2nd biggest chook & heavier even than Lavender. Not a lady to be messed with when youre Campine sized.

Ha'penny.​

 

[Ribh]

Good morning Jeannie

Hate to say good morning and run, but I'm off to town shortly.

Have a great day, Bob!

 

[MaryJanet]

For non~Aussies. This is what our fire crisis looks like.
The red ones are our newest fires. Wind & heat in many states is not helping the situation.
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I didn't realise there were so many burning in the Kimberley.

 

[Ribh]

I didn't realise there were so many burning in the Kimberley.

No, nor did I. Queensland is very self absorbed. Perhaps still suffering from being labled the *banana state*. We don't get a lot of interstate news. You have to look for it.

I hadn't actually realised how many fires all over were happening.

 

[MaryJanet]

It sounds quite like our system. We are now charged a small fee on taxable income to cover ambulance travel [should you ever need it] & I'm ok with that as ambulance costs could be catastrophic. We needed one for snake bite [also a good que jumping tactic ] & it really was exorbitant.

What do you think about raising the tax free threshold ribh? I think, on the whole, it's a good idea.

 

[Ribh]

What do you think about raising the tax free threshold ribh? I think, on the whole, it's a good idea.

I'm not very good @ politics. What I know is there are a lot of people on, or below, poverty level. Anything that will help them is a good thing.

 

[MaryJanet]

That's what I reckon. And I'm ok to chip in a little more to make it happen, but a lot of people disagree with me on that.