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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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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    1. and 2. Sitting hens often allow donations to the point where they almost sit on top of each other if it's a nest box. In open/wild nests even if a donated egg is laid close by, the sitting hen will drag that egg under her. I'm going for number 3. I've watched sitting hens remove eggs from...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Sunny and warmer. Two and a half hours. The coop pop door opened this morning.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Interesting product.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Did you fix the fault? I've got one of these. I had the basic model before but it seems to have been discontinued. The first one I had worked really well. I think it only broke down once in the three (?) years I had it. The other problems weren't really the makers fault. It's not reasonable to...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Yup, all fixed until the next time. About nine months. I'm very pissed off. I don't even really want a smart phone. It's become awkward to live without one these days.
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