Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Solanacae]

This is Treacle trying to convince Moon that the nest box in my house was a good place to lay her eggs.
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Wow, Treacle has quite the comb - what breed(s) is he? I’ve never seen anything like it in my (albeit limited) experience.

 

[Perris]

The lot in Catalonia initially looked like they split by breed then later it was definitely by who they had common blood with.

Did only 1 tribe use your indoor nesting box then? Or by 'blood' do you mean not actually biological ties, but hatching and imprinting together?

 

[Perris]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2066265

Interesting read. I think we need something more fine-grained though for the tribes argument. So far the only causal factor I can see is imprinting. My broods hang together but what they share is being raised together, not blood; I decide which eggs get brooded, so sometimes we have home bred chicks and purchased hatching eggs incubated and growing up together with the same broody, who may or may not be a blood relative of any of them.

It might be interesting to experiment in the year coming, to see if a brood composed of two distinctly different blood lines split along blood lines once they become independent.

 

[Shadrach]

Ok..I'm never gonna get caught up here
I am WAY late to the party.
I will continue to read back though. But I wanted to jump in and let you know @Shadrach I am really enjoying this chicken drama diary. And I am thrilled you have found a place to excercise your chickening skills.
And,
I love Henry.

But I can't pay tax it's against my religion.

Hello Shawsy.
You know me well enough not to pull that religious exemption nonsense on me.
This is a secular thread and tax is levied on all.
You can fill in a low chicken earnings claim form, or use tax overpayments on foreign threads, or ask for a payment contribution from someone else.

 

[Shadrach]

Wow, Treacle has quite the comb - what breed(s) is he? I’ve never seen anything like it in my (albeit limited) experience.

He's a bitsa. There were Marans and they were brought from Marans in France.
The bantams had all sorts in them but English Game seemed likely.
There were a few Catalana del Pratts whiich were rescues.
I didn't try to keep any breed. They bred with whoever they took a fancy to.

 

[Nksg75]

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[Shadrach]

Did only 1 tribe use your indoor nesting box then? Or by 'blood' do you mean not actually biological ties, but hatching and imprinting together?

My house was built in Tribe 1's territory and consequently became their house as well. The other tribes did visit if Tribe 1 was elsewhere.

 

[Shadrach]

Interesting read. I think we need something more fine-grained though for the tribes argument. So far the only causal factor I can see is imprinting. My broods hang together but what they share is being raised together, not blood; I decide which eggs get brooded, so sometimes we have home bred chicks and purchased hatching eggs incubated and growing up together with the same broody, who may or may not be a blood relative of any of them.

It might be interesting to experiment in the year coming, to see if a brood composed of two distinctly different blood lines split along blood lines once they become independent.

Oh, that wasn't to support the tribes arguement. There isn't any arguement. It's how chickens are.
That was the start of humans trying to decide if chiickens were selfconscious.

 

[Shadrach]

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Hello Nksg75. I haven't seen you around for a while. I know you can pay tax.

 

[Perris]

My house was built in Tribe 1's territory

I love the order there