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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Odd that in the picture his wattles and comb look untouched and the blood appears to be coming at the neck. Have you found the wound?
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think the nasty pre teen humans (they're young kids) may be a solved problem. The kids were in and out of the field when I arrived waving bits of cane around. They ran back into their back garden as I walked up the field and shouted at me from behind their garden fence. It all went quiet after...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't do it.:idunno I'm not exactly sure why. Partly because for it to be effective one has to clip quite a lot off the primaries. Partly because there are times when every centimeter of lift counts. I don't remove spurs either, even the ones that have been sunk into my leg. I know a keeper...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Not really. I've seen him move the hens away from strangers and be very wary of dogs and that's about it.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I'm not expecting him to survive much longer. He keeps flying over the run fence.:(
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This lot should bring me up to date. Two and a half hours each day on average. Downright chilly the last couple of days but staying dry. I've found some adjustments on the Moto g75. The last six pictures are with the new general settings. I think they're an improvement.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh yes. I wouldn't place too much faith in the behaviour conclusions in the studies on the thread you linked to. There is no such thing as all chickens do this that or the other, and in the case of the second study I wouldn't take much of it as an accurate reflection of a hens matting strategy...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Hybrid bluebells, probably as kattabelly mentions, Spanish and something.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    8/04, I think. Warm and sunny but still windy. Two and a half hours.
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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    When all is said and done it is the hens that have to live with him.:idunno
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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    Must be love.:love
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    If I didn't like the Light Sussex chickens so much I think Dorkings would be my next choice in the conditions I have; steady birds and here in the UK, good broodies still. They do forage and those I've known are relatively easy to handle.
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    Fugly Farm

    While I was living in Catalonia and right back to when I was a child we usually had bone broth in the house. I used it for a meat and veg stock and in Catalonia, sometimes drank it as it came. Once back in the UK all that fell away. What one could and couldn't buy in the butchers, if one could...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This article struck a chord in me. https://siliconcanals.com/gen-research-suggests-the-1960s-and-70s-produced-adults-who-could-self-soothe-entertain-themselves-and-tolerate-boredom-not-because-their-parents-were-wise-but-because-their-parents-were-simply-elsewh/
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    A glorious sunny day. 21C, light winds and blue sky. Glais was in the field again when I arrived. I can't really do anything about it apart from cross my fingers and wait for him to get a bit older. Henry used to get out from time to time when he was younger; other roosters before Henry did as...
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