Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

Well, one reason to look beyond local flora and fauna is because they might not do so well in the next 10 or 20 years.

So if the answer to dry spells in Sussex is switching sheep breeds from long-established local ones to others from hot and dry but otherwise completely alien Antipodean environments (rather than, say, France, just south of Sussex), I think the analysis must have been swift and shallow.

This exactly. It reads as a poorly planned decision. The move should be gradual, and there should at least be some local breed in there. Adding a bit of Pita Pinta, Fayoumi, Penedesenca (for some reason my mind always reads this breed as Pedesena or Penedescena) to a Light Sussex flock might not be a bad idea for the coming decade, but the UK won’t turn into Egypt any time soon.

The wildlife is free to move wherever it likes, and I’m sure we’re all start to see more of both wanted and unwanted new species in our land, skies and water, like the lionfish here. Still the new migratory patterns and locations are not drastically different. For animals that still receive human care, like sheep and chickens, we need to take new breed introduction slow, or else it will fail. I’m sure my birds would drop dead in your winters

 

[Labsandchickens8]

I think it's cruel.

My first thought was those poor chickens had to be terrified at all the noise and confusion. Why would any chicken enjoy that?

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

a lovely Speckled Sussex named Louisa after Doc Martin's wife

They got married!? i love this show but I am so behind on it.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

They got married!? i love this show but I am so behind on it.

It may be my favorite all time me show. Now I need to go see the village and countryside where it was filmed

 

[RoyalChick]

It may be my favorite all time me show. Now I need to go see the village and countryside where it was filmed

Port Isaac in Cornwall. Very pretty. Lots of tourists.

 

[thistlewick]

Me, from the peanut gallery with my anecdotal observation:


(I just wrote a whole essay and deleted it, no one needs all that info omg)

I've lived in the south 30 years, every day - every single day without fail, I see a new insect I've never seen before. I *absolutely love this so much* about living out here.


I grew up in the bay area California. In comparison there was like 6 bugs out there you'd see regularly lol

 

[Shadrach]

Warm with a little rain late evening. Two and a half hours spent out in the field. I even managed to do a little work.

 

[Molpet]

(I just wrote a whole essay and deleted it, no one needs all that info omg)

Use the

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Me, from the peanut gallery with my anecdotal observation:


(I just wrote a whole essay and deleted it, no one needs all that info omg)

I've lived in the south 30 years, every day - every single day without fail, I see a new insect I've never seen before. I *absolutely love this so much* about living out here.


I grew up in the bay area California. In comparison there was like 6 bugs out there you'd see regularly lol

Where we were, the winds off the Bay were so strong that flying insects (mosquitoes, houseflies) simply couldn’t fly. The only birds we’d see smaller than mourning doves were hummingbirds, which we’d sometimes see tracking backwards.