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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Warm and sunny. Got up to 25C for a while. Three and a half hours mostly spent working. Cleaned out the feed bin, dug a tree out of someoens plot which should never have been planted there but was left to grow until forks and spades wouldn't shift it. Ten minutes with my fencers graft and we got...
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    I used to see young roosters nest hunting with a favourite hen. They get in the nest site and scratch about and talk to the hen, who from what I've seen doesn't look remotely impressed, Usually the hen walks away and the roosters get up and follow, I imagine saying "what was wrong with that one?":D
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    He's learning. I'm not sure why but it takes some cockerels quite a while before they stop trying to force a hen to mate to understanding that if he wants his genes to continue and the hen to hatch, bribary was likely to be more successful.:D The fast learners learn to do the chest bump after...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens (for now)

    Don't do it!:lol: I had ten years of sheep in Catalonia. I did try to like them but... We had a ram so we had lambs. Major problems in getting them to drink from their mum due mastitis, just not knowing how and mum not able to teach them. One wasn't allowed to kill your own sheep so there is an...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Four hours today. Warm and sunny.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is the first year I've put any effort into selling the eggs. I gave a lot away last year. I've got two people at the field who like the eggs, one person takes a dozen a week, the other half a dozen a week. That leaves on an average week around half a dozen for me. I don't eat a lot of eggs...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I do that with gooseberry bushes and some other berries but the diameter of the branch I want isn't flexible enough to pin underground and probably not long enough.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. Warm and sunny. This is the bush that I want to get a branch cutting from. Hawthorn. See what survives. I cleared a small patch and sowed and watered some clover seeds and covered that. Again it's see what comes up. The dead nettles are fading and the stinging nettles...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    So far I've got hawthorn, rocket (the chickens have eaten some when I've grown it), primrose that may survive a transplant, wild garlic, rosehip, choisya, fennel and hopefully a branch cutting from the bush they are fond of sheltering under whose name I forgot a second after I got told it. If...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    He has in the past. I think most keepers get a group of cockerels that just rampage around the place pissing everyone off at some point. It can all look okay until they're ready to mate, after which it isn't oaky by any stretch of the imagination for the chickens. It doesn't always go West but...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. Warm and sunny. One and a half hours in the extended run and the same out on the field. @Perris This is a very comprehensive work on the topic. A bit more than I need but I'll read it. I think I know where I'm going with the extended run project. I made a start today. I'm...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Sorry about the paywall chaps. Nothing I can do about it.:confused:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Around the same as my friend except he's processing this lot at three months. He usually waits until six months to nine months. It's just that this year he had a hen go missing and she showed up with eight chicks, marched the lot into the her tribes coop and set up base on the floor in a corner...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today, one hour in the extended run, the other two out on the field. Dry and mild.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Unfortunately when it comes to elections such issues don't feature in the manifestos. I'm not seeing a lot of words to action on this subject. There have been a few minor improvements in what's specified as adequate for laying hens (it's called cage enrichment:rolleyes:) but the regulations are...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's interesting because I can't find any proper studies n the contribution of forage for hens that also get fed commercial feed, or even homemade feed. Of course bieng there are so many different ground conditions to take into account it's hardly surprising. The tribes in Catalonia ate almost...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/frankenchicken-uk-supermarket-animal-welfare-b2737345.html
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. It stayed dry at a temperature of around 13C. The chickens spent one and ahalf hours in the extended run so I could get some work done without their assistance (digging was involved) and the next one and a half hours out on the field with me closely supervising. We did okay...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's difficult to know what to believe, or how much of something one reads is true and what's conjecture and opinion. Assuming this is accurate it is as some Americans might say, a very big deal. https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/what-is-really-going-to-change-the
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Dry so I got some work done. Two hours today.
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