Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Mom and baby

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Absolutely adorable! I wish I could get some eggs of you. I know someone who'd be delighted to raise them! ​

 

[Ribh]

KOFFEE KLATCH WEDNESDAY WHEREVER

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Éowyn has to have a bath. But she still loves Mrs BY Bob.

You bathe your cat! Why? Sorry, I don't mean to be rude but cats are pretty good @ cleaning themselves & the only time I've ever bathed a cat was a rescue so riddled with fleas a bath was the only solution. Is it for allergies?

 

[Ribh]

Good morning from where I am!

I got there a little earlier today.

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Oh wow. oh, wow. Oh, WOW!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

KOFFEE KLATCH WEDNESDAY WHEREVER

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Éowyn has to have a bath. But she still loves Mrs BY Bob.

I have to bathe my long haired baby now and then also. Fortunately, he is pretty tolerant of the whole procedure. Including having his nails trimmed.

 

[MaryJanet]

Baby!! We have a baby!!

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Any siblings on the way CCCL?

 

[MaryJanet]

Mom and baby

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I hadn't fully appreciated mum's wonderful feathers until now.

 

[MaryJanet]

@CCCL Momma & chick are too beautiful for words & I am so grateful you have posted their lovely pics here but unfortunately I have been traumatised & need to vent for just a moment.

You see yesterday was weird. The weather was all over the place & the girls broke up into 3 groups to shelter from the worst of it. I was feeling rather off colour & not up to checking on them as regularly as I usually do so it was lock up time before I realised I had someone missing! It is so unusual I thought I had miscounted. Easy enough to do & hard to know which girl it was when with their backs turned it could have been any one of 1/2 a dozen but eventually I narrowed it down to Ceres. Ceres is one of my little Jap bantams & a new layer. I nursed her through fowl pox inside for over a month & the thought of something having happened to her was devastating!

I scoured the yard again & again. There was no pile of feathers so I she hadn't been predated. Plus none of my girls seemed traumatised. I searched for over an hour till it was pitch black then concluded that as unlikely as it might seem she had gone broody on me, secreted a pile of eggs somewhere & decided to sit.

This morning I called her before I had to leave for the doctors [he's cutting more bits out of me ] & made sure there was food & water somewhere she would find it if she left the nest. As soon as we got home I rushed to check. It looked like the food had been disturbed which was sooo reassuring & I recommenced looking! Experience told me she was probably hidden quite close to the coop & how I hadn't stepped on her last night I'll never know. I passed her several times & never saw her. She was on the downside of the hill under a tangle of long grass in a beautiful little nest, all snug & comfy.
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She was not best pleased to be disturbed!
And she was covering 6 eggs, naughty girl!
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Ceres!! You little monkey!

 

[Ribh]

I hadn't fully appreciated mum's wonderful feathers until now.

I think she is stunning. A real looker. Some of these are on my *want* list but they are a bit difficult to find up here.

 

[MaryJanet]

I think she is stunning. A real looker. Some of these are on my *want* list but they are a bit difficult to find up here.

Here too. I've never seen them, not even at the royal show.

 

[Ribh]

Here too. I've never seen them, not even at the royal show.

I know someone has them. They are on the rare & endangered list. I probably need to get fertile eggs shipped in. I'm not ready to take that plunge.