Ribh's D'Coopage

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LaFemmeKatia said:
I feel your pain. We’ve had rain rain rain, and the yard is flooded, my run is muddy. Ugh. I hate when this happens and it happens a lot.
Happily, the coop is always nice and dry inside.
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Happily none of the runs have reached the slimy stage. 🤢 The Big run is inches deep in leaf litter that the girls keep turning over for me, the coop run is doing pretty well & the little coop is partially wrapped in plastic to make sure @ least some of it stays dry for the littlies.
 
LaFemmeKatia said:
I had a young one I was raising from a chick, and four of my chicks were killed, and I lost her.
I hope to one day have another.
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I have always preferred the silver laced but my man wanted some goldens to add colour to the flock. I am heavy on the B&Ws. Gloriana is so sweet I would get another in a heartbeat.
 
LaFemmeKatia said:
Your birds are all so beautiful, and all so unique looking. Awesome flock! :love
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Thank you. I am a terrible sucker for pretty birds. I will opt for pretty over egg capacity any day. No, I'm not the super practical sort. 😁
 
Ribh said:
Happily none of the runs have reached the slimy stage. 🤢 The Big run is inches deep in leaf litter that the girls keep turning over for me, the coop run is doing pretty well & the little coop is partially wrapped in plastic to make sure @ least some of it stays dry for the littlies.
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My girls keep busy by digging huge craters in the run. I never realized that chickens dig holes. As if I didn’t have enough hole-digging with three boxers!
 
LaFemmeKatia said:
My girls keep busy by digging huge craters in the run. I never realized that chickens dig holes. As if I didn’t have enough hole-digging with three boxers!
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Yes, my bantams will dig holes deeper than they are high. When I start counting heads I have to check the deeper holes for submerged bodies. :lau
 
This afternoon the rain abated, the humidity went down to manageable levels & I proceeded to throw worming tablets down my big girls' throats. I had a couple of bluffers. A couple of lets spit this back @ her but mostly they allowed themselves to be caught without dramas & obediently swallowed their allotted bit of tablet without too many dramas. Alpia was one of my least co~operative but Wrold was a dream chicken. 😆

Medh may need another visit to the vet. I suspect ascites ~ though it wasn't diagnosed last time. She was checked for a stuck egg ~ nothing. But she has a real wide waddle up & what I think is a very swollen belly. I'm pretty sure she's stopped laying ~ which I am happy about if she's @ all off. She's always been rather a quiet hen ~ unlike the rambunctious Aoeifa ~ & doesn't scavenge as much as the other hens. She also had runny caecal stuck to her rump so she was brought inside for a quick clean up & a pesterene dust though I couldn't see anything on her but as I don't think she's really dustbathing or preening it's more precautionary than anything else. She doesn't seem unhappy or any different to usual, which I guess is good but I've been monitoring her since last time & feel she needs another check up just to be on the safe side. Everyone else seems pretty good.
 
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