Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Thanks everyone. I'm still standing and about to go to the allotments. One day at a time and all that.

Wise to take one day at a time if you ask me.

When I got Covid the week for Xmass, I didn’t know I could have been infected by someone.Thought I got a cold for 2 days. Then I felt good again and went back to work, but skipped the Xmass party (to be sure). A few days later I had Covid. The incubation time varies a lot. Stil not know where it came from and when it happened.

In the Netherlands they start with the vaccination boosters with the new variants next week. Recommended for 60+ and persons with underlying health problems. I read this is very different from the recommendations in the US.

Bach to chicken talk. Abby was sleeping with the adults for the first time last night.
Feeding time is still diff, but she likes it to her own feeding table.

Old photo with Janice as a chick.

 

[MaryJanet]

Hurling is an ancient game. It's mentioned several times in "The Boyhood Deeds of Cúchulainn" from the heroic Ulster Cycle which dates from the 9th century in earliest written form, but is probably much older in oral tradition. The Irish Celts continued the game but it likely has roots in Bronze Age Central Europe

‘So he (Cúchulainn) set off, with a toy shield made out of sticks and a toy javelin and his hurling-stick and ball. He kept tossing his javelin ahead and catching it again before its tail hit the ground.

‘Then he ran up to Conchobor’s boys without getting them to pledge his safety. He didn’t know that no one went out to them on their field of play without getting a promise of safety from them.

They flung three times fifty javelins at him, and he stopped them all on his shield of sticks. Then they drove all their hurling-balls at him, and he stopped every ball on his breast. They threw their hurling-sticks at him, three times fifty of them: he dodged so well that none of them touched him, except for a handful that he plucked down as they shot past.'

--from the Táin bo Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella translation

Taxes.

Dusty took her kids up to roost last night. Tina has her brood roosting in the senior coop for the past two nights. All 4 chicks are exactly one month old.
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The Hooligans giving their new roostmates some space. Tobias (left) looking thoughtful as usual.

Wonderful.

Thank you for sharing that.

 

[Shadrach]

Wise to take one day at a time if you ask me.

When I got Covid the week for Xmass, I didn’t know I could have been infected by someone.Thought I got a cold for 2 days. Then I felt good again and went back to work, but skipped the Xmass party (to be sure). A few days later I had Covid. The incubation time varies a lot. Stil not know where it came from and when it happened.

In the Netherlands they start with the vaccination boosters with the new variants next week. Recommended for 60+ and persons with underlying health problems. I read this is very different from the recommendations in the US.

Bach to chicken talk. Abby was sleeping with the adults for the first time last night.
Feeding time is still diff, but she likes it to her own feeding table.
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Old photo with Janice as a chick.
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My eldest and my friends have a rule. If they feel ill or have been in contact with some one who is ill then they test for three days.
I would have had my winter booster in a couple of weeks but if you've recently had Covid you don't get it.

 

[Shadrach]

Pissing down with rain this morning. Got them fed and cleaned. Felt like crap.
Went home had a nap and hit the vitamin C and D and a couple of parcetamol. Three hours this afternoon. All I can write is I feel a lot better out in the fresh air than I do sat in the flat.
Got the next amprolium dose down the little one. She's looking a lot better; tail up and active and of course hungry.
The cut on her foot looks okay, scabbed over nicely.
An interesting fact about travel on public transport in Catalonia mid Covid crisis; talking was forbidden. I think it's a great idea. I bet a lot of infections are from people talking to each other at close quarters.

Am, too wet to come out.

Some time out this evening.

 

[TropicalChickies]

talking was forbidden. I think it's a great idea

I think that's a great idea in general, always and forever.

 

[Perris]

Pissing down with rain this morning. Got them fed and cleaned. Felt like crap.
Went home had a nap and hit the vitamin C and D and a couple of parcetamol. Three hours this afternoon. All I can write is I feel a lot better out in the fresh air than I do sat in the flat.
Got the next amprolium dose down the little one. She's looking a lot better; tail up and active and of course hungry.
The cut on her foot looks okay, scabbed over nicely.
An interesting fact about travel on public transport in Catalonia mid Covid crisis; talking was forbidden. I think it's a great idea. I bet a lot of infections are from people talking to each other at close quarters.

Am, too wet to come out.
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Some time out this evening.
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hope the symptoms clear up quickly Shad; how long will you have to wait for the booster now, do you know?

 

[MaryJanet]

Pissing down with rain this morning. Got them fed and cleaned. Felt like crap.
Went home had a nap and hit the vitamin C and D and a couple of parcetamol. Three hours this afternoon. All I can write is I feel a lot better out in the fresh air than I do sat in the flat.
Got the next amprolium dose down the little one. She's looking a lot better; tail up and active and of course hungry.
The cut on her foot looks okay, scabbed over nicely.
An interesting fact about travel on public transport in Catalonia mid Covid crisis; talking was forbidden. I think it's a great idea. I bet a lot of infections are from people talking to each other at close quarters.

Am, too wet to come out.
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Some time out this evening.
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Great news about the chick!

 

[MrsNorthie]

I think that's a great idea in general, always and forever.

An interesting fact about travel on public transport in Catalonia mid Covid crisis; talking was forbidden.

When I lived in a city and used public transport, I always had a book and my earphones in, I could still hear but would appear that I couldn't, great way to avoid conversation.

 

[Sally PB]

An interesting fact about travel on public transport in Catalonia mid Covid crisis; talking was forbidden. I think it's a great idea. I bet a lot of infections are from people talking to each other at close quarters.

Learn Morse Code. (wear gloves) Tap your conversation to each other on the other's knee or forearm. If you don't know the person well enough to touch them on the knee or forearm, just be quiet.

Tax:

Sunny, reading my Kindle.

 

[no fly zone]

Learn Morse Code. (wear gloves) Tap your conversation to each other on the other's knee or forearm. If you don't know the person well enough to touch them on the knee or forearm, just be quiet.

Tax:

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Sunny, reading my Kindle.

I have a picture somewhere of Skeksis on my lap. I was sitting outside reading a magazine, and she jumped up to see what was going on. My wife snapped the pic because she said it looked like i was reading to her.