Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good evening one and all!

71 mostly cloudy 90% humidity feels like 72 rain 12%.

We have tropical depression LISA moving north-northwest in the Atlantic, looks to be headed for Mexico.

Have a great day!

 

[lightm]

some drum and bass for you @Shadrach, and everyone

 

[ManueB]

Update on the comic book:

He enjoys what he read so far. The power of the rooster is that every time he crows he blew up bad guys' heads. The villain is a dude with lots of chicks, but he loves all his baby chicks and they love him.

It is a very adorable story.

Humm...I think the french notion of adorable is not the same. (And also not the same taste in music )

Agree.

I try to buy from local sources (my feed is from a Menanite farm 19 minutes down the road rather than TSC, and we buy meat and veggies as needed from local farms. But there are occasions when amazon is convenient (sending gifts to family out of state or ordering bulk supplies for school.)

If more people were diverse in their shopping, Amazon would have more competition.

At the time buying online exploded with COVID and all the quarantines going on we made the experiment of trying to restrain buying online to a minimum and stop buying from Amazon for about six months, because the delivery workers were overwhelmed and harassed.
It was doable but it really made our life much more complicated. We have a 1h45 drive to go to the closest place we can buy both food and furnitures and not mentioning the price of fuel.
We've gone back to ordering on line when it's much more convenient but we try to be careful to buy in physical shops when it's possible.
There is no way I would go to a big city to spend a day shopping. The only time I have returned to Nice was when I was taken by the paramedics to ER.

Interesting that they attempt to hide them. Some of the Catalonian bantams did much the same. Old instincts, or an adapatation I wonder.

My ex-batts do the straw thing almost every time and they do it even when they try to lay but don't succeed.
However I mentioned this before but none of them ever made a nest before Chipie arrived. She made nests everywhere and in the straw they are beautiful round little nests. Then some of the ex-batts began also making nests, though not as pretty as Chipie's.

I was reflecting, while sick with COVID and feeling all wobbly and sentimental and sorry for myself, about how impactful BYC is. Even though it's important to mix online advice with a healthy dose of common sense, I can't overstate how helpful this community has been in the past few years. For more than just learning about chickens.

Shadrach's contributions feature high on my personal list of BYC "aha" moments. Shad, I know you aren't one to have your biscuits buttered, so I'll send gratitude to Fat Bird and the tribes for engaging with you in a way that inspired world-view changing insights.

A few that run through my head daily:

- "Not all pecks are created equal" - pecking as conversation - helped me focus on body language, not only chicken->chicken but chicken->human.

- The concept that roosters calm down around 18 months is a simple but important reminder that chicken personalities are complex, and they go through mappable developmental phases.

- The description of Lima's zest for life by going everywhere at a run has helped wake me up to how many ways there are to assess chicken moods, which is a helpful skill to build.

We humans have a talent for not seeing what's right in front of us. These kinds of observations have helped me start figuring out where to look for understanding I'm desperate to have.

Tax. I'm calling this series "molting in the aster." Stilton trying to herd his molting ladies under shelter from the hawks and paparazzi.

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Hope you're feeling better and I agree with the butter . Stilton doesn't do too bad of a job.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

68 clear 90% humidity feels like 68 rain 36%.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

some drum and bass for you @Shadrach, and everyone

This is going to lose me some cred points but I'm not a big drum and base fan.

 

[lightm]

This is going to lose me some cred points but I'm not a big drum and base fan.

Yep you've lost all credibility.

 

[ManueB]

I don't always agree with L214 (and anti-specists in general) but I thought this funny enough to share.

Activists from @association_l214 invade a @burgerkingfr disguised as chickens to denounce the extreme promiscuity of the intensive farms where the brand supplies itself.Up to 22 chickens per m2 is the norm in France, this represents less than one A4 sheet per chicken.

Source : https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckk0hhIIdpK/

 

[Perris]

I think protests generally work better if they are delivered with humour, like that

 

[no fly zone]

Laserbeak!

 

[Shadrach]

Intermittant light rain accompanied by fireworks and mud.
Everybody came out for the duration.

I really don't want Lima sleeping in the old coop but this was so endearing I left her there.