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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    09/03. These morning trips are wearing me out.:D Grey, misty, with morning drizzle. Late getting to the field due to roadwork delays. One and a half hours. Tinned mackerel for supper. I give it to Glais and Glais gives it to whoever grabs it out of his beak first! I had to break tiny bits to get...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    08/03. Two trips today because the auto door is fecked; two and a quarter hours this morning, including travel (I didn't let them out of the run) and four more hours this evening, including travel this afternoon/evening.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    One and a half hours. On and off drizzle, grey and chilly. Glais will let me stroke him while he's on the roost bar now. :love He's grown up a lot since Mow and Sylph started laying again. He seems confident in his position now, a lot less clumsy with the hens who both crouch for him, but now...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    A simple test should narrow down the possibilities. Next time it happens lift the rooster out of the nest he's in and in front of the nest of the hen he's talking to. If the calls stop then it could be the wrong roosters are with the wrong hen. What happens if you take both roosters out and away...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I gather you've had similar leg problems to those I've struggled with.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I must admit, I would rather have the heavy Light Sussex you can get here in the West Country. Lovely though they are I find the Brahmas too big and too stately.:love
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    At least Brahmas do the job properly on the leg feather front. Had Marans in Spain. They just had feathers coming out at all angles and they would tread on them, partially pull out those that grew between their toes. It all seemed more off a liability than an asset. Mow's got a few feathers on...
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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    Interesting phone. Just needs to be wind up and I'm in.:lol: I could rant all year about mobile phones.:rolleyes:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    06/03. A couple of grey, chilly hours with a bit of drizzle.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    If I may... The method above I found works for outside nests (feral nesting). It may work for some using nests boxes in a familiar coop, but what tends to happen is visitors as well as the sitting hen eat the egg, they make a very good job of cleaning up sometimes, and the sitting hen carries on...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two hours today. It stayed warmish and dry until I left the field.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half hours today. Blue skies and warm enough to not need a coat. We all got onto the field. I was watching Mow forage this afternoon. I did her other leg a couple of days ago and Mow is obviously much more comfortable, she'll run now, a bit ungainly but running none the less. I need to...
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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    As I mention in my article, attentiveness, generosity, promptness in answering calls, and other attributes have played a much larger role in impressing the hens than what some studies have suggested and that's a big comb! Yes, well, one doesn't want to start making comparisons here.:p If...
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    Companihens chickens

    I used to see a lot of this with the tribes; frantic nodding at the ground, little shuffle steps, odd calls. But, what you're not getting it seems are the sudden rushes at the other rooster which stop short by a good few feet. It's pre fight posturing; sort of testing each other out. It rarely...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half hours of grey but dry at 11C. They were waiting at the gate when I arrived and were mot put out when I went to talk to the field's horticulturalist who I hadn't seen since last autumn. I reminded them they hadn't paid their membership fees.:p Their are only eight of us and the...
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