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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    So human warriors and conquered Neanderthal females then?
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    that's true. And she had a lovely life. I don't think she has any progeny though, which is a shame.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    RIP Uppsala. She was absolutely fine this morning - as it happens I got a photo of her dustbathing while I was stalking the cockerels to get photos of them for the current compo - and she just now had a seizure at tea, and died within a minute in my arms. 3 years 4 months old. :hit Edited to...
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    Open Contest Mister BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Entry 3: This is Merioneth. He hatched with Talgarth (entry 1), so is about 6 months old. He is a backyard mutt, mostly red, with sunshine yellow earlobes and green shanks
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    Open Contest Mister BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    This is Lulea. He hatched 27 April, so he's about 6 1/2 months old now. He's a black based Swedish Flower.
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    Open Contest Mister BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    This is Talgarth. He hatched on 3 May this year, so he's just turned 6 months old. He is a black-based Swedish Flower. Photos from front, back and side taken this morning.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The evidence before me says otherwise. The least empathetic person I can think of has persuaded very large number of people to let him lead them in an explicitly us and them campaign.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    But there is a numerical limit to the group size before it splits into two groups, and then it is an 'us' and 'them' situation, which is completely different.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think we enslave them, and that most people do it with no real thought, like most slave owners before abolition. And I think it is demonstrated along the whole spectrum from being a living productive tool at one end (to provide eggs or meat at least cost possible) to being a living doll...
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    Medication/antibiotics

    a concise overview is here https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance As it happens, the WHO World AMR Awareness Week 2025 starts in less than a fortnight: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-amr-awareness-week/2025
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think this is wishful thinking. Before history gets rewritten, recall what is your impression of the Mongols. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1180246/ I don't doubt one could do the same with most violent expansions in human history. And it's usually Y chromosome DNA that's getting...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    modern farming methods can reduce a 'breed' effectively to one, two or just a few individuals in the male line. See e.g. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/17/770696476/most-u-s-dairy-cows-are-descended-from-just-2-bulls-thats-not-good
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    Medication/antibiotics

    https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-more-39-million-deaths-antibiotic-resistant-infections
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    Another mystery condition: tail sheaths won't go away

    yes, and responded to someone else with the issue here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/long-sheaths-on-feathers.1612421/post-27514105 which you might find useful.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    To clarify before chipping in on this: this 👇 is the topic rather than roosters, aggressive or otherwise?
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    Ended 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

    Congratulations all - they are really beautiful photos of beautiful birds! The calendar looks fabulous. :clap:woot:celebrate
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I hear you. I'll try to respond without causing offence to anyone. I used to assume this too. But since Chirk spent almost an entire year in a pen with just that small patch of lawn to forage, and so relied on the homemade feed, with only the animal protein I supplied, I now think it's a false...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    hello @angc11 ; I have written two articles on it (originally prompted by Shadrach I should add), the initial one here https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/wholesome-home-made-chicken-feed-without-sweat-tears-a-calculator-or-deep-pockets.78655/ and an update a year later, and which is what...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I meant, they don't seem to think about whether they're getting a 'complete' 'balanced' diet or not, or, if they get the sniffles, wonder if they are deficient in one vitamin or other, so should belt down some electrolytes, or selenium or whatever other micronutrient is currently fashionable...
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    Classical / Baroque music fans!

    and this
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