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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I could never go back to living in a city, town, or any place where they have too many restrictions, but I won't judge anyone's choices. You both take excellent care of your girls. When I first started my brain was saying, "Oooh fluffy pets that just happen to lay eggs!!" and I was interfering...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Realizing, everyone has different preferences and different reasons for keeping chickens, I have to say, having a great rooster makes dealing with the cockerels a breeze, but there probably is a limit to the number one can raise. I do adore them. Spud is a great teacher and mostly gentle with...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Luckily, we still have room for expansion and the extra eggs go to good use, we provide some to people near by, we scramble some to add to the dog's homemade dinners and we give some scramble back to the chickens and turkeys. Interestingly, (or maybe not..) quite a few of our girls go broody...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    LOL I am sure that we have all been there at some point or another..(like now with dear Reggi.)🤣
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    she didn't lay an egg on the clutch, just sort of sat there guarding it. LOL If anyone lays an egg anywhere near Reggi, she nicks it and adds it to her clutch, nobody has to sneak, she just wants to hatch all the eggs. ;-) We have her eggs marked and nick the new ones.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I was cleaning out the rest of the big "shed" yesterday, and stopped to feed the chickens. 2 of the CCLs have started laying! 2 Perfect little blue/green eggs! I have had one, very determined Buff broody, who growls and screams at any of the other girls who try to get anywhere near her, but...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Midsomer Murders. English crime light-drama. :-)
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I like Midsomer (mostly the Tom (Nettle) years) and Death in Paradise because they are light and mostly free of politics.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I love trees and forests too, I am like a little kid when I get to go walking in the woodlands. You never know what you might see.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I LOVE Death in Paradise too, I cried like a baby when Richard was killed. LOL
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    "Midsomer" is pretty bad too. All those beautiful villages and so many deaths, my husband says, "that is why I never lived in a quintessential village." but at least most of the murders are really creative. (my favourite is the 'wine trebuchet' from Hidden Depths.) LOL
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Our's did the same a few years ago, it killed grass 50 feet from where they sprayed and I am glad our garden and chickens are on the far side of the property. I will contact them to see if I can tell them to keep their poisonous garbage off my property.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    If we had a livestock guardian dog, it would be sleeping on my bed, like our other 2. 😝
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is why I have 5, the 4 get along very well, and Goldie is doing an amazing job with his little group of hens, and they are all great with the hens. I can't imagine life without the roosters to manage the ranging and sorting out the nesting. Chickens know chickening best and our only job...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have noticed our CCL's do the same with their tail feathers, they are usual bunched when they are up to some mischief.(more compact for a quick flit.)
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