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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I'm on the app right now! It's alright, kind of strange but I'm used to it
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The thing about android phones is that the operating system itself is owned by google. My idealistic scorched earth mind hates how everywhere it is, so I strive to purge it from my life even at great personal inconvenience. Switching operating systems is the most effective way of doing this...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't consider myself very tech savvy, but I am a youngish college student and that does necessitate a working knowledge of phones and computers. Having said that, I found flashing graphene OS to be very easy with the instructions: https://grapheneos.org/install/web It seems wordy and...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I love yuka. I don't always agree with it (it freaks out if you eat sodium or sugar or anything calorically dense) but it's very good as a risk assessment of ingredients. Good choice on the pixel! If you hate google as much as I do, it's not that difficult to de-google one, but it's best if...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    In a sufficiently dense forest you could live 100ft from a goshawk and never know it, unless they went after your chickens or bird feeders, of course. They're some of the most hardcore hawks I know of, falconers used to call them the cook's bird because an austringer could go hawking with a gos...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Around here, the red tailed "hawk" (Buteo jamaicensis) is daytime chicken predator number 1. They're also what most Americans picture when they think of a hawk, even though they technically aren't one
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh black vultures, never had them here. Must be why I cant imagine a vulture taking livestock
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Maybe a tiny bit off topic, but I've been wondering if the reports you sometimes see here of vultures attacking chickens are due to linguistic difference. What you in the UK call buzzards, we call soaring hawks (red tailed buzzard vs red tailed hawk). To most people in the US, buzzard means...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My pixel 8 also came with nice cameras. The cool thing about pixels is that they're very easy to "de-google" which is nice for people like me that don't like spyware and useless junk on their phone
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Camera and turkey tax:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have an fz80. It's a great camera, if a little bulky and spendy (used = much cheaper!), and takes awesome pictures without needing to futz around with lenses and settings. It has a really good zoom, which is great for photographing wildlife (or faraway chickens) I don't have any chicken pics...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    They eat eggs, part of the reason they're setting more eggs is because they want to get more. Obviously that many birds lay more than enough eggs to feed them, they just don't find the vast majority of them. They do eat roosters, and are planning to butcher a bunch of them, but never get around...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Sigh at the in-laws. They aren't in a great financial situation, but I was under the impression that we were all collectively aware that the chicken situation was out of hand. Just found out that they've set 18 eggs in their incubator, and bought another 5 or so chicks from Wilco. In talking to...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Even with the suboptimal chicken situation at the in-laws' place, interesting social dynamics can still be observed. This crele guy with the muffs is absolutely beautiful, and the fact that he has 5 hens in his clique is very impressive considering that the sex ratio is almost 50/50. This...
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    Pros and Cons of keeping a roo

    In my experience, the rooster is not only always on the alert, but when the group is hiding he's the first to flush. The way I understand it, his goal with running first is to draw the predator away from where the hens are hiding. It is, in most cases, much more effective than turning to fight a...
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