Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Interested in breeding and genetics? I found an online book for agri students (all animals)

Textbook Animal Breeding and Genetics​

https://wiki.groenkennisnet.nl/space/TAB

And I found one chapter about

Selection limits with chickens​

A research and theory on chicken sizes. How quick the chickens develop in two directions.
1. Selecting heavierst chickens over 25 generations.
2. Selecting the smallest
The study is in Dutch, use Translate if you are interested. The graphics are easy to interpret even if you can’t read Dutch.
https://wiki.groenkennisnet.nl/space/LFH/2490502#

 

[MrsNorthie]

That might explain the difference between hubby and me. I can handle the heat MUCH better than he does.
Tax: Sunny complaining about the heat.
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We are the opposite..lol Hubby is from England and whinges if it drops below 70F/21C or if there is a cloud in the sky, and I can't stand it much warmer than that and prefer grey, cloudy, rainy days. (I lived in Arizona for 20+ years and you can have too much sun.)

 

[MrsNorthie]

@TropicalChickies an update on my hormonal cockerel situation, since I started giving Blue treats, by hand first, he has totally mellowed out. The other night, he even roosted on my hand while I lowered him to the ground to lead the ladies into the coop! (They have taken to roosting on an in appropriate spot, for night time and I am trying to get them back in the habit of going back to the coop at night because winter will eventually come. LOL) the other boys do not seem to be behaving any differently towards me, since Blue has stopped being a jealous butt. How is Lucio doing?

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I have two recipes and both are good and freeze well.

The first one is:

ZUCCHINI BREAD

3 Eggs
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1 cup oil
2 cups grated zucchini
3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped nuts (your favorite)

Beat eggs till foamy. Add oil, sugar, zucchini, and vanilla. Mix well with electric mixer. Sift dry ingredients, add to egg mixture. Add nuts. Divide batter in 2 loaf pans (greases and floured).

Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes at 325F.

Yields: 2 loaves

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The second one is:

ZUCCHINI NUT BREAD

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
1 cup vegetable oil
1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 tsps. vanilla extract

Combine flour, salt, soda, sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamom; stir in pecans. Combine remaining ingredients; add to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.

Bake at 350F. for 1 hour and ten minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans and let cool on wire racks.

Yields: 2 loaves

Both recipes are great as a giveaway for Christmas and I bake them in the small aluminum pans.

Hope you enjoy!!!!

Thank you!

 

[MrsNorthie]

I have two recipes and both are good and freeze well.

The first one is:

ZUCCHINI BREAD

3 Eggs
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1 cup oil
2 cups grated zucchini
3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped nuts (your favorite)

Beat eggs till foamy. Add oil, sugar, zucchini, and vanilla. Mix well with electric mixer. Sift dry ingredients, add to egg mixture. Add nuts. Divide batter in 2 loaf pans (greases and floured).

Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes at 325F.

Yields: 2 loaves

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The second one is:

ZUCCHINI NUT BREAD

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
1 cup vegetable oil
1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 tsps. vanilla extract

Combine flour, salt, soda, sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamom; stir in pecans. Combine remaining ingredients; add to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.

Bake at 350F. for 1 hour and ten minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans and let cool on wire racks.

Yields: 2 loaves

Both recipes are great as a giveaway for Christmas and I bake them in the small aluminum pans.

Hope you enjoy!!!!

These recipes sound very yummy! I used to love zucchini bread, unfortunately, have cut carbs out of my life, but my husband still loves his sweet treats, so I will make these for him, because he is spoiled. ;-)

 

[BDutch]

They have taken to roosting on an in appropriate spot, for night time and I am trying to get them back in the habit of going back to the coop at night because winter will eventually come. LOL)

I have other reasons why I don’t want them to sleep outside and lock them up in the coop. A live outside 24/7 is too dangerous and inconvenient with neighbours living nearby. I never had any chickens who wanted too sleep outside in winter (after the leaves had fallen).

If its getting cold and can’t find enough shelter outside , the chickens probably go into the coop by themselves.

 

[ManueB]

Orly! Love to see this study if you have a link.


Suppose it's been snowing. Do more white chickens still get predated.
Suppose they live on green grass. Does a partridge chicken show up any less than a white chicken.

When Léa’s chicks were between a week and three weeks she always took them on the.field above our house where the grass was really higher than elsewhere, I understood this was to protect them from easy sight from aerial predators.
There was one yellow chick that then turned white and five black. It was incredible to my human eyes how much the yellow chick stood out. In fact when I heard eagles or hawks and wanted to check where was the family, he was the only one I could spot.
Not sure if eagles eyes see colours like us though.

These recipes sound very yummy! I used to love zucchini bread, unfortunately, have cut carbs out of my life, but my husband still loves his sweet treats, so I will make these for him, because he is spoiled. ;-)

I’m pretty sure you could try a version with almond and chickpea flour , it wouldn't rise but it could still be good.
@Ladies-Eight you made me want to bake one yesterday . My recipe is quite similar to your first except I use semi whole wheat flour and I double the batch. My unconventional twist is that I add two tablespoons of muesli, I like to have the bread for breakfast.

 

[ManueB]

Zucchini bread tax : the yellow chick today- Petit Blanc.

 

[Perris]

I could just hear Fret thinking why don't they treat this roost bar the same as the tree and the extension roost bar. The chicks eventually settled in their adopted corner and Fret got down and joined them.
Surely it cant be long before the roost on the bar in the coop......

that was a great series of observations and photos!

Mine too have started tree hugging but not embraced the roost bars either, though last night when I went to close up I found Idris occupying a nest box on his/her own, with Janeka and (presumably) the other two in the box next door. Fast featherer Idris seems to be ahead in other departments, not just plumage.

 

[Perris]

I haven't paid tax in a while so here's one of Dyffryn, who doesn't make the news very often, but who is one of the best in the flock qua drama-free flock member and layer. She started laying on 3 December 2022, a perfectly formed 50g egg, and she's been laying about 4 eggs a week consistently since the last week of that month (and still going; molt not started yet). Her eggs are now up to 76g or thereabouts (that's extra large, on UK sizings). She doesn't have issues with anyone older or younger, and has apparently had no health or parasite issues at all since hatching last May. She's a star!