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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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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    Have you looked at the Solway coops?
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half hours today. The string on the auto door broke. I don't know why. No new chewing. :idunno It seems possible that Chew A Coop has worked out that if she's there at a particular time the door will be open and she can sneak into the coop after the chickens have left and get the...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The plant early spring strategy hasn't worked well here for the last three years. Stuff either bolts or drowns. I'll probably plant late May. Most of what I plant are three months from plant to harvest. I won't be planting much on my plot but I do hope to get some patches inside the extended run...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Up late again. Busy day. Two and a half hours. It stayed dry until after I had got home. 45mph wind gusts. Everybody got out onto the field.
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