Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

Wait until you SEE him crow. Classic rooster crowing posture.... sounds like a damaged dog squeaky toy: "Errr." And no volume. The part after the air has been squeezed out, and the toy is trying to suck air back in...

I will undoubtedly panic and think he is sick or injured.
Just warning you all!
And for tax here is Cookie strutting her stuff.

 

[rural mouse]

I will undoubtedly panic and think he is sick or injured.
Just warning you all!
And for tax here is Cookie strutting her stuff.
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She is stunning. And will get more so...

 

[BDutch]

I think I heard him imitating her tidbitting sound. Not sure he had anything to share and he may have just been lonesome.

What a variety of beauties!
Can you keep Tassels favourite if he’s a boy?

 

[RoyalChick]

What a variety of beauties!
Can you keep Tassels favourite if he’s a boy?

That is what is exercising my worry center right now. I have no experience with roosters.
For now he is called Mr. Chips and I am taking the advice of living each day as it comes and not jumping to any conclusions about what I do.

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours, dry, cool with a light wind. Amazing how green everything looks now. It's only a couple of weeks ago that the place was baked yellow and dry.

I don't think the last of the courgettes are going to grow much more so that just leaves a few lettuce plants producing on the plot.

I had a nice surprise today when one of the people at the flats I gave a load of cooking apples to turned up with a large piece of apple crumble for me,
Me and a friend who lives at the flats I got a plot at the field for have given away a lot of food from the field this year to people at the flats. Much better than last year with the fruit in particular which most which went back to the ground.

 

[Shadrach]

Any rooster update?

Nope. I'm just not well enough to deal with any extra stuff.

 

[Shadrach]

I feel like it's quite convenient though - you don't have to pay to go to a gym and walk on a treadmill, or fight traffic riding a bike, whatever. You can just go home and sit on the couch justifiably.
Tax: my Welsummer Cornelia is looking ragged in her first molt. I know everyone else has been through this, but it's my first time. She screams and runs if I try to touch her, poor thing. DH said she looks like a turkey

Some get so sensitive about being touched they roost away from the others.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

I will undoubtedly panic and think he is sick or injured.
Just warning you all!
And for tax here is Cookie strutting her stuff.
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She's so cute!

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Two hours, dry, cool with a light wind. Amazing how green everything looks now. It's only a couple of weeks ago that the place was baked yellow and dry.
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I don't think the last of the courgettes are going to grow much more so that just leaves a few lettuce plants producing on the plot.
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I had a nice surprise today when one of the people at the flats I gave a load of cooking apples to turned up with a large piece of apple crumble for me,
Me and a friend who lives at the flats I got a plot at the field for have given away a lot of food from the field this year to people at the flats. Much better than last year with the fruit in particular which most which went back to the ground.
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It's about to become that way here too. I love autumn for that reason, where a lot of people complain about summer ending. I think that parts of the PNW are quite similar to parts of the UK in terms of climate. We get mild, wet winters and dry summers where I am too (though I think our summers are probably a bit hotter)

 

[SimpleJenn]

Here's a little squeaker to give y'all a smile.