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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. A tiny bit of drizzle late afternoon.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. Mainly dry with plenty of sunshine.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    You could have someone process them for you. 36 chickens a year is doable if you've got the room.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Have you considered how many chickens you would need to be self sufficient in chicken meat?
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    MJ's little flock

    I've read a couple of articles about whether a spiked protein should be considered as a live creature. Covid brought this debate to the media. I think soap does breakdown the protective membrane, at least this was the information provided by the British NHS and British Government in their wash...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    30/05. Dry and warm. Four hours. I managed to pull a straining post over straining the top wire. :rant The onions are appearing. All the fennel plants have survived. Two of the cuttngs I took from the fruit bush the chickens like seem to be doing okay; they're in a greenhouse with door and...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I'm having a communications technology rearrangement.:p I've got two computers downish currently. New phone as you may know. I trod on the wire from a pair of headphones and ripped the wire out of the unit.:he I went to iron a shirt yesterday to wear out and the iron sort of hissed and went...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    29/05. A bit windy but stayed dry in the afternoon. Three and a half hours.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Now there is an interesting chicken topic; the relationship between the egg and it's environment and the it's effect on hatch rates.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Cheepy collected 24 eggs before we found her. I had no way of knowing how old an egg was. I took 12 eggs and gave them back to Cheepy to sit on, which she did. She hatched 10, I don't know if Cheepy laid an egg every day because she didn't lay eggs in the coops. She made nests outside. I've had...
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    What is my rooster doing to my hand?

    Looking at the second picture it looks like he's wiggling hs rear end given his head is in focus but his rear end isn't(?) From what I can tell he's trying to mate. Some young cockerels will try and mate a rock. It's not aggression but sometimes it leads to aggression because the keeper rejects...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a halfhours today. Dry and sunny.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Drizzle and rain on and off all day. I spent a couple of hours with them, mostly out on the field.The recent rainfall has pushed the vegitation into overdrive, as it has for much of what's been planted. Bugs have come to the surface and the ground has softened.
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    How do you know when "its time"?

    I've done both. For me one of the major factors in deciding to kill or leave and let die is the cohesiveness of the group they live with. If they are a family/tribe then these days I leave them to die with their tribe, usually givng pain relief for the last few days. It's more complicated with...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two hours today. Drizzle with dry patches. The ground with the black mesh on is my plot. There are onions under the mesh. Six courgette plants under the chicken wire crop guard. I've got some spinach, a couple of pea plants and a pepper plant growing on the plot. I haven't done much with the...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Happy Birthday Stilton. Is the hen grooming Stilton his favourite, or the top hen?
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    There are a few feral chicken videos on the net. What srtruck me about this one is the mum with chicks that look the age they would still be in a brooder in many backyard keeping arrangements and this lot seem to be navigating a busy town.:confused:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/05/26/roaming-roosters-claim-the-streets-of-miami
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    You left out Tinkerbell.:p:lol:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thanks. There's still a lot to do.:)
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