Ribh's D'Coopage

[Lids]

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@rjohns39 & @RoyalChick ~ @Lids is new here & reading from the beginning. This is dragging old posts forward & may be confusing your reading. I don't think you have missed anything important on this thread, Bob. FluffyButt Acreas is a different matter.

SO sorry, people .

 

[Ribh]

That happens to me on Bob’s thread on a regular basis.

Yep. Me too. Michelle aka @micstrachan, when you have a moment, what did you feed your girls that they got fat? I have a chook I need to get some weight on & so far I'm not doing so well in this department.

 

[Ribh]

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SO sorry, people .

It's not your fault @Lids. It's a BYC thing. Quite a few of us have problems ~ especially if we get behind. Wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Ribh]

Good morning all!
Here is my pic of Dawn this morning. The haze is really the sea. We look out east on the Indian Ocean, halfway down the South Coast of South Africa, where we can see whales and dolphins romping in winter. IRL it looks much closer. I got the waning crescent moon and morning star as well
ETA the flipping pic!

That is absolutely glorious! Are you subtropical too? I think I can see palm trees...?

 

[Ribh]

The Girls organising themselves for bed last night:
Beatha.
She's usually last to roost.
She has the weirdest beard & muffs & a top knot that never really happened.
She's the only hen I've ever seen with pale blue eyes...

Ha'penny & Lavender

Wrold & Luna​

My beautiful, demented Aoifa​

 

[Shadrach]

I decided on the perch height having watched the chickens go to roost and leave in the mornings when their coop was a converted garden shed.
The top roost bar was over five feet from the coop floor. There were perches underneath but they didn't get used.
There were no ladders. Alost impossible to build a ladder system in what was a five by four and half foot floor area. The geometry dictates that any single ladder would need to be very steep.
I had a few injuries from chickens jumping off the roost bars. Thye tended to bang into the lower roost bars or land untidely on the floor.
Now most of the coops here are on stilts essentially. This gives extra height from the ground and when the perch from coop floor height is added the chickens are roosting about four and a half feet off the outside ground.
At a bit over one foot from the coop floor the chickens can still go under the roost bar and jump onto their perches without having to flap their wings to get the extra boost.
Even the Marans here have tended to jump from their perches. One of the reasons Fat Bird likes to be carried in the morning is even the jump from the coop floor to the ground can be a problem. Imagine if you were 80 years old and had to jump down from a platform about your head height.
If the coops I build were bigger then ladders would be an option. It's easier and cheaper and more secure I've found to have the coop itself as high off the ground as is practicable.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[RoyalChick]

SO sorry, people .

No apology needed. Usually the ‘memory lane’ when someone new joins in is lovely. I was just being stupid and got myself muddled. Hope you are enjoying our chats.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

Good morning all!
Here is my pic of Dawn this morning. The haze is really the sea. We look out east on the Indian Ocean, halfway down the South Coast of South Africa, where we can see whales and dolphins romping in winter. IRL it looks much closer. I got the waning crescent moon and morning star as well
ETA the flipping pic!

Wow, such a beautiful picture

The Girls organising themselves for bed last night:
Beatha.
She's usually last to roost.
She has the weirdest beard & muffs & a top knot that never really happened.
She's the only hen I've ever seen with pale blue eyes...





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Ha'penny & Lavender
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Wrold & Luna​

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My beautiful, demented Aoifa​

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Your birds are so pretty

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning all!
Here is my pic of Dawn this morning. The haze is really the sea. We look out east on the Indian Ocean, halfway down the South Coast of South Africa, where we can see whales and dolphins romping in winter. IRL it looks much closer. I got the waning crescent moon and morning star as well
ETA the flipping pic!

Wow! That is stunning.