Ribh's D'Coopage

[featherhead007]

We do not bathe our cats. This was a bad situation.

She has long hair on her legs and hiney. She had a bout of diarrhea as we moved her to a more healthy food. Diarrhea and long hair do not mix well. It was a bad situation that we needed to correct.

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That poor cat,

 

[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.
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They look so sad.

 

[BY Bob]

Baby #2 is on its way!

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There is another egg with a pip too! I can't wait to see the babies when I get home from work today!

So exciting!

 

[BY Bob]

That poor cat,

She survived and is her usual trouble making self today. Hopefully she is not scarred for life.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[goldenfingers]

Oh wow. oh, wow. Oh, WOW!

 

[goldenfingers]

You live in a very picturesque place.

It's still early Spring here so we are just coming out of winter hibernation. Everything is nice and green... for the moment. Later on it will be everyone's battle to keep their yards from drying out. But the green Spring is very nice indeed.

 

[WhoDatChick]

@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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Oh man!! What a stinker!

 

[Ribh]

You poor thing. You did not need that. I'm so glad that you found her safe and did not step on her.

Thanks, Bob. Everyone was in Lockdown yesterday because I do not trust Ceres to disappear on me again. She's still giving none of the usual signs of being broody so I'm @ a bit of a lose.

 

[Ribh]

@CCCL: Any more babies yet? Sorry if I'm being impatient but I have no idea how long these things take or what the time is @ your end.