Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

My english version original, Afternoon X Batts

Phew, that's more like it. I listen to them on the stereo from time to time.

 

[lightm]

I have lurking tax to pay

A group photo, all 7 of them, demolishing my already non-existent garden. I still had some hope for my cucumber...

A sequence photo of Honey eating a dragonfly

 

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours today. 18C with some sunshine.
Out with the youngest for a late lunch.
Three more courgettes French beans, an onion for tomorrow, some rocket and mixed salad, we ate the ripe raspberries and I brought home half a kilo of blackcurrants. I guess this means I'm going to have to make a crumble or something. That means more cooking.

Fret seems fine; grumpy and wanting some dry ground for a bath. Not much chance of that for the forseeable future.

This is the underside of the nest box. Yes I know I'm over thinking it. Yes I accept that it's not necessary. Yup, I know I'm acting irrationally.

 

[lightm]

Hahaha, he is named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie. They were Rico, Skipper and Kowalski. I just have Skipper (hen) and Kowalski now. Rico the brother went to his own flock and from all reports is a very spoilt rooster with a doting flock owner.

Skipper and Kowalski:

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Wow, that is a beautiful pair of chickies!

 

[notabitail]

Two and a half hours today. 18C with some sunshine.
Out with the youngest for a late lunch.
Three more courgettes French beans, an onion for tomorrow, some rocket and mixed salad, we ate the ripe raspberries and I brought home half a kilo of blackcurrants. I guess this means I'm going to have to make a crumble or something. That means more cooking.

Fret seems fine; grumpy and wanting some dry ground for a bath. Not much chance of that for the forseeable future.

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Your hen has a really big comb and some nice tail feathers. I wonder why she is bigger than the others?

 

[notabitail]

That if I am not mistaken is a hen.

And my computer is a Mac. Yeah .

(That is a Mac keyboard plugged into a Linux machine, FYI).

Spoiler

I almost cannot believe the Roosterist got this wrong.
THIS is a HEN:

And THIS is a ROOSTER:

Look at his pose. Look at how elegantly he sits upon my desk and the air of superiority over humanity. The hen has nothing like that. It also has smaller wattles. The rooster shot was yesterday. The hen shot was yesterday. Prove to me that rooster's a hen and we'll see.

 

[fluffycrow]

How old is the bird in question? Pretty sure it's neither...

 

[notabitail]

How old is the bird in question? Pretty sure it's neither...

Which bird?

 

[fluffycrow]

Which bird?

The one that crows

 

[notabitail]

The one that crows

17 weeks. Certified Cockerel. Very heavy and reacts visibly to a fake crow. He's attempted to mount a hen once (and failed). Crows loud and clear every morning.