Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

I am still earning more than I spend,

Oh! So am I. It's just that I spend it on the chickens.

I don't resent what I spend on them. At my age, they are a cheap enough hobby, if that's the right expression for what I feel is more of a passion. I live with pensioners who piss £20 a day up the wall day in day out. They're not learning anything, not doing anything, just sitting around getting pissed banging on about the good old days.

 

[Shadrach]

There is such a thing as too much protein. You'll know you're there when they leave some

There is and it's rather less than is currently popular.

 

[Shadrach]

I can’t access that article or the study it’s referring to. What methods did they use? People have been coming up with interesting (for the chimps) ways to feed captive chimps for ages. There must be piles of anecdotal data out there.

The article is largely irrelevant to the irony, the arrogance and humour.
In all my time watching other creatures, I can write that I have never noticed a creature apart from humans act on faith.

I've yet to read a study that concluded "don't bother with this one, it's as dumb as a box of rocks." Why the surprise when someone finds yet further evidence that the other creatures on this planet are intelligent.
What happens when we find out they are in fact equally intelligent but with a different skill set?

 

[Shadrach]

Two and a half dry, cold but sunny hours today. I've been a bit concerned about the water freezing. If it has, it's been a thin skin gone by mid morning I would have thought. Last year the bowl of water in the coop froze but I think that was around -6C overnight and it didn't get above freezing for a couple of days. It's supposed to warm up a bit after tonight.