Ribh's D'Coopage

[featherhead007]

Rocks-Anne is on that egg she laid today, (Like a cheap suit) She want's to be a mamma so bad. But she's just not a dedicated broody, and never was.

Make no mistake, (I would love another Rocks-Anne or two)

 

[LozzyR]

She makes little squeaky noises like my Nyssa.

 

[LozzyR]

Cranky madam!

 

[BY Bob]

Those others are golf balls

Really!? I thought she laid dimpled eggs!

 

[BY Bob]

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Very nice. Impressive.

 

[BY Bob]

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But did you know, that you could walk the perimeter of old city Jerusalem in 3/4 of a day, without pushing yourself?

I did not. That is a fascinating fact.

 

[BY Bob]

We're going out for lunch today too, but not anywhere near as beautiful sounding as the Gold Coast! Enjoy your lunch date!

Mrs BY Bob and I also went out for lunch. What is going on!

 

[featherhead007]

Really!? I thought she laid dimpled eggs!

 

[micstrachan]

Yesterday's corn scavenger hunt.
It has been wet, cold & stormy the past few days.
I've been letting them out early & shutting them in earlier than normal to beat the storm fronts coming through.
This morning they are yelling blue murder because I haven't let them out yet...

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You have such a cute flock. Are both the gold and silver ones Campines?

 

[micstrachan]

I went out after the storm had passed to check all my girls were roosting. Wrold wasn't.

I went & grabbed her & put her up on a roost & suddenly noticed she has denuded herself of all her underneath feathers. As I peered closer I noticed a white blob under her wattle...
Another tick! I couldn't leave her like that overnight so in she came & didn't she make a kerfuffle! She really doesn't like the cats! Squwark! Squwark! She was loud. She was noisy. She was voluble. Her head kept swinging round to keep Kirby in sight while she screamed @ him, @ me, @ the complete indignity of the whole affair ~ all while I was trying to slather her with black ointment & hold onto her long enough for it to work.

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And the worst of it ~ not 1 but 2 ticks embedded under her wattle: a paralysis tick & a bush tick. I always check to make sure I've got the head so when I could still see something I wielded my tweezers yet again ~ & again.
She is slathered in black ointment just in case I missed any bits & back on a roost! So offended she scrambled onto the top roost! Gosh how I hate ticks!​

Spoiler: ticks...!!!

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Yikes! Good thing you checked!