Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

An hour and a half today. Tipping down with rain most of the day with drizzle in the evening. Trains cancelled on the line I use due to flooding. The line runs next to the river Avon from the city centre to the docks. One would have thought after all these years they would have done something effective to prevent the track flooding. It has been going on for years.

I've named the two female juveniles. The one on the left I've named sylph; she's the lighter coloured of the two. The one on the right I've named Tull after the inventor of the seed drill.
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This is Sylph.
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I must admit she doesn't look very sylph like in these pictures but she's a quick and gracefull bird who likes to fly. Tull mainly likes eating.

Henry was already in the coop when I arrived. He came out to eat, had a short wander around and went back to roost with Fret and Mow following shortly after.
The juveniles went out foraging in the drizzle.View attachment 3937157

Nobody stayed out late and I got home half an hour earlier than usual.
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You need a Jethro.

 

[Shadrach]

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes!
And
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(agriculturist)

 

[Molpet]

Interesting that the band was named after the inventor.

 

[Shadrach]

Interesting that the band was named after the inventor.

Ian Anderson is a Scott and has had an interest in agriculture for many years.

 

[Perris]

Nice to see a close up of Sylph; she's beautiful; I think that plumage is stunning.

I imagine Bristol will be one of the cities in the front line if sea level rises, quite apart from flooding caused by excess rainfall. How are the Somerset levels faring after this wet cool summer?

 

[Perris]

Marvelous!
Lots of good examples in this little volume - but none as sophisticated as that exercise.
https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-...7&psc=1&mcid=0ee2f570fd5b3b1d8b102fc9f42b6401

that's a great book! It came out when standards here were reaching new lows, and even massive supermarket chains were making crass errors in their signage. It more or less single-handedly restored standards by making it clear, in a light and humorous way, why these things exist and why they matter.

 

[Perris]

PS And it pops up in the news every now and then e.g.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321
Isn't it funny how technologies that are supposed to facilitate what we do quite quickly change to determining what we can do?

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s partly sunny with 75% chance of rain.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

Nice to see a close up of Sylph; she's beautiful; I think that plumage is stunning.

I imagine Bristol will be one of the cities in the front line if sea level rises, quite apart from flooding caused by excess rainfall. How are the Somerset levels faring after this wet cool summer?

However they were the last couple of days of some torrential rain will have caused further flooding no doubt.