Ribh's D'Coopage

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I lost Sweetpea yesterday. Not really a surprise. She never regained her mobility despite everything I tried. I think she enjoyed her life, such as it was. She had a good appetite & was always excited for me to lift her out of her crate & settle her somewhere in the pen with food & water close to hand. Even though she couldn't keep up with the flock she would shuffle herself around so when I didn't immediately spot her in the spot I had left her I wasn't worried. Sometimes she managed quite a distance. She could still sunbathe & dust bath & she was undeterred by her disability.​
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I am down to 7 hens & Henry. Wrold is sitting. The chicks are due over the weekend. Hopefully they will be hens. :fl If anyone was going to sit, Wrold would have been my pick. She knows what she's doing. Tootsie & Alpia have both had a half hearted attempt but it is still early in the season & they discouraged easily.

Meanwhile I am still battling stick flea. I was getting really discouraged but I went to pick up more Pestene from our hardware to find they were out. Everyone is battling the horrid things. So when I went into Rocky for more feed I had a chat about the best way to deal with it & make sure I'm doing the right things. I am. I do love a rural produce store. Everyone has animals. Everyone has experience. Everyone is willing to share. I love watching people pick up their bits & pieces for horses or turkeys, chickens, guinea fowl, even pigs!

So under Wrold is one blue egg [hopefully an easter~egger chick & a blue green egg], one Wyandotte bantam egg & a Jap ~ goodness knows what that will look like! I don't know that I'm all that hopfull about Wrold's parenting but @ least she doesn't have the chick killer to contend with.​
 
I lost Sweetpea yesterday. Not really a surprise. She never regained her mobility despite everything I tried. I think she enjoyed her life, such as it was. She had a good appetite & was always excited for me to lift her out of her crate & settle her somewhere in the pen with food & water close to hand. Even though she couldn't keep up with the flock she would shuffle herself around so when I didn't immediately spot her in the spot I had left her I wasn't worried. Sometimes she managed quite a distance. She could still sunbathe & dust bath & she was undeterred by her disability.​
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I am down to 7 hens & Henry. Wrold is sitting. The chicks are due over the weekend. Hopefully they will be hens. :fl If anyone was going to sit, Wrold would have been my pick. She knows what she's doing. Tootsie & Alpia have both had a half hearted attempt but it is still early in the season & they discouraged easily.

Meanwhile I am still battling stick flea. I was getting really discouraged but I went to pick up more Pestene from our hardware to find they were out. Everyone is battling the horrid things. So when I went into Rocky for more feed I had a chat about the best way to deal with it & make sure I'm doing the right things. I am. I do love a rural produce store. Everyone has animals. Everyone has experience. Everyone is willing to share. I love watching people pick up their bits & pieces for horses or turkeys, chickens, guinea fowl, even pigs!

So under Wrold is one blue egg [hopefully an easter~egger chick & a blue green egg], one Wyandotte bantam egg & a Jap ~ goodness knows what that will look like! I don't know that I'm all that hopfull about Wrold's parenting but @ least she doesn't have the chick killer to contend with.​
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