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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Gotcha. Domesticated dogs worry me more than other predators with the netting because they're the most likely to just run through it. Dogs are more playful and familiar with manmade barriers than the wildlife. But generally it's been effective for slowing predators. I've watched a bobcat be...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Poultry netting has worked great for this kind of thing. I use it without electricity to create a suggestion for a foraging area, but it's easy to electrify with a solar charger on a portable stand. You can enclose a big or small area, and tie strings or prayer flags across it to help with...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    That's fascinating, and "aristo boast" is a fun phrase. I've never come across why or when these pieces ended up at Biltmore. The Cecils came to own Biltmore after heiress Cornelia Vanderbilt married a Cecil and divorced him the following decade. She then took off, leaving the estate she had...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I've been on the edge of opting out the past few years. The chaos of shopping and ickyness of materialism were eclipsing the holiday. Finally, this year, everyone in both our families got on board with not shopping for the adults. It was amazing. The few gifts adults did exchange were...
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    Thank you so much.

    Thank you so much.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    And post wallow. What's happening with his chest?
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Glais' wattles aren't even slappy flaps; they're face curtains.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Why did the verb lecturing result in such angry men? This seems more like screaming at, chewing out, berating, castigating, scolding, vituperating...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    A good old-fashioned wattle-off. If there's a wattle-waggling contest, Andre would join that. He loves to swing his face flaps, any time something makes him happy. Oldie but goodie:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Glais' comb and wattles seem to be bigger every day! Reaching @fluffycrow's Kolovos level.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Tax for tomfoolery: calendar-contest entry this year of Miss Lorraine.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Huge comb/wattles already. As Perris says, he'll be well blessed in the head ornament department.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    You talking about me or Lorraine :cool:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I do have tax photos from last week, from after Stilton risked his life to distract a little hawk. It's the 2nd time this year I've witnessed him do this brave thing while being stalked by a hawk: Stilton will chase the hens to cover, but instead of diving to safety with them, he sprints to a...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    After her 2nd molt, Peck has more speckles than ever. Lil Nugs has the same amount of speckles each year. I don't have a photo from this week since I'm visiting family (and missing my chickenbirds very much). Relevant to this thread: I went searching for something to sip while cooking dinner...
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