Ribh's D'Coopage

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I'm doing well, how about you and goldie?

So far so good! I returned to work full time this week. We were able to get a bunch of stuff done while I was off, so that was good.

I'm trying to catch up!

 

[rjohns39]

Glad to hear it.

 

[Shadrach]

So, I thought I would share some pictures of our dangerous wildlife... at least if you ask my somewhat hysterical chickens that have been alarming since 4am. View attachment 2149950
They grow up so quickly! Daddy goose (front left) almost attacked our truck yesterday hissing and snaking his neck like crazy while mama goose herded the littles down the bank and into the pond.
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And here they were stalking a helpless doe too immersed in eating my grass to notice them, until I opened the trailer window for the picture.
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They no longer flee frantically when they spot me spying on them, but retreated gracefully, setting off the 5th round of Chicken alarms in three hours! Of course, to not alarm all this wildlife with my intrusions, I have left the chickens in their tractors while having coffee and seething about the incessant alarming at obnoxious hours. Well, I left the blue bucket of happiness next to the meat tractor with the littles in it for convenience and early (haha!) feeding this morning... and these ones are “flyers”; or at least they think they are! They are launching themselves at the bucket and flying to the height the 2’ high meat tractor will allow them and smack into the hardware cloth If they stay this food motivated they won’t keep “flying” much longer!

For some reason a lot of pictures are not showing unless I try to reply.

 

[rjohns39]

For some reason a lot of pictures are not showing unless I try to reply.

That sometimes happens with bandwidth issues. Try the refresh page to see if they come up.

 

[LozzyR]

Oooh! Sounds fun... I bet you were more creative than I was, I have to wonder, if it was anonymous would @rjohns39 be able to tell who’s who from our responses? It could be a fun new game! Guess who is trying to sell baby vultures and eaglets on BYC

There might be Dodo chicks in there...

 

[Jenthehen127]

So tell us about your flock ~ & we all love pictures here! Please feel free to post as many as you like!

Well, my flock started with 4 Australorps 10 weeks ago! I adore them as does my husband! At about the 1 month mark, chicken math struck...I added 2 Cuckoo Marians, and 2 Easter eggers! So...now we have 8! Lol! The "big" girls are out in the coop while the "little" girls are in for maybe 2 more weeks. Oh, did I mention one of the little girls is a Roo?! Oh dear!

 

[MaryJanet]

Well, my flock started with 4 Australorps 10 weeks ago! I adore them as does my husband! At about the 1 month mark, chicken math struck...I added 2 Cuckoo Marians, and 2 Easter eggers! So...now we have 8! Lol! The "big" girls are out in the coop while the "little" girls are in for maybe 2 more weeks. Oh, did I mention one of the little girls is a Roo?! Oh dear!

Do they have names?

 

[Jenthehen127]

Do they have names?

Oh yes! The big girls are: Henny Penny, Gertrude, Dotty, and Beatrice! The little girls are Poppy, Violet (the EE's) and Rosie and Gladys the Marians. Gladys has turned out to be the Roo!

 

[LozzyR]

Oh yes! The big girls are: Henny Penny, Gertrude, Dotty, and Beatrice! The little girls are Poppy, Violet (the EE's) and Rosie and Gladys the Marians. Gladys has turned out to be the Roo!

If you jump onto YouTube, you can find videos of a big manly rooster called Grace who loves kisses and cuddles from his Aussie chook-mama!

 

[Ribh]

Oh yes! The big girls are: Henny Penny, Gertrude, Dotty, and Beatrice! The little girls are Poppy, Violet (the EE's) and Rosie and Gladys the Marians. Gladys has turned out to be the Roo!

I love the names! One of my very 1st chooks was a black girl called Henny Penny. She was a lovely girl. Are you allowed to keep a roo? Everywhere is so different in regards to roos.