Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

Spring is coming!

So is autumn!

 

[BDutch]

So is autumn!

Adelaide is quite nice in autumn. I suppose It has about the same Mediterranean climate as Greece.

 

[MaryJanet]

Adelaide is quite nice in autumn. I suppose It has about the same Mediterranean climate as Greece.

Yes, it'll be lovely but windy we had a very hot day yesterday. 42C. But a cool change blew through late afternoon.

 

[Perris]

the chickens would not invoke any celestial beings

maybe - wasn't there an early Greek philosopher who said that if donkeys could draw, they'd draw their gods as donkeys (or something to that effect)?

 

[Shadrach]

It stayed dry and at 7C was out of the cold fingers territory. Two hours today.
It was breezy with 35mph gusts. The chickens came out for a forage and headed back to the allotment run for the last half an hour.

It looks like Mow has laid her first egg. It could be an undersized egg from Fret but the shape is wrong. More blueish eggs.
Carbon hasn't laid yet. She older than Fret and has been quite a prolific layer in the past.

I'm expecting a difficult year. Fret has already gone broody again.

The probability is Mow will go broody. She gets maximum forage in her time out of the coop run. She eats things that Carbon won't, or her brother Dig.

 

[BDutch]

I'm expecting a difficult year. Fret has already gone broody again.

Yes it won’t be easy to break Frets broodiness. And also hard to have a broody and more chicks with Dig around.

Time to give Fret a few lessons in birth control !

 

[Sally PB]

The probability is Mow will go broody. She gets maximum forage in her time out of the coop run. She eats things that Carbon won't, or her brother Dig.

Are those signs of impending broodiness? Interesting....

 

[Shadrach]

Are those signs of impending broodiness? Interesting....

No. Food consumption is but what the willingness to foraging does show is the broody is likely to be able to feed her chicks. In a free range setting this is important.

 

[fluffycrow]

maybe - wasn't there an early Greek philosopher who said that if donkeys could draw, they'd draw their gods as donkeys (or something to that effect)?

I think you're talking about Xenophanes of Colophon (yes, I did have to search half of that name up). Yeah, he did say something like that. Basically if animals could draw, they'd draw Gods that look like them. How very philosophical. I, however, beg to differ. Here is Big Red in the process of making an abstract piece last year

. So chickens either think of themselves as shallow depressions on the ground, or they're atheist

 

[fluffycrow]

It stayed dry and at 7C was out of the cold fingers territory. Two hours today.
It was breezy with 35mph gusts. The chickens came out for a forage and headed back to the allotment run for the last half an hour.

It looks like Mow has laid her first egg. It could be an undersized egg from Fret but the shape is wrong. More blueish eggs.
Carbon hasn't laid yet. She older than Fret and has been quite a prolific layer in the past.
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I'm expecting a difficult year. Fret has already gone broody again.
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The probability is Mow will go broody. She gets maximum forage in her time out of the coop run. She eats things that Carbon won't, or her brother Dig.

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It stayed dry and at 7C was out of the cold fingers territory. Two hours today.
It was breezy with 35mph gusts. The chickens came out for a forage and headed back to the allotment run for the last half an hour.

It looks like Mow has laid her first egg. It could be an undersized egg from Fret but the shape is wrong. More blueish eggs.
Carbon hasn't laid yet. She older than Fret and has been quite a prolific layer in the past.
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I'm expecting a difficult year. Fret has already gone broody again.
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The probability is Mow will go broody. She gets maximum forage in her time out of the coop run. She eats things that Carbon won't, or her brother Dig.

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Interesting time of year to be broody! Will you try to break her this time, or not? I'm fairly certain I remember you saying that you prefer to let a broody break on her own, rather than forcefully breaking her. Are you saying that Mow will go broody based on her genetics, the fact she was broody raised, or both? If both, then would one of the two be more compelling than the other? Mainly asking this for some birds of my own