Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours today. No rain, some sunshine and a light wind. It's going to be a chilly night.

Not quite what I had in mind.

The jackdaw who thinks I bring it food and Glais. You'll need to click on the picture to enlarge it.

On the walk to the bus stop.

 

[Shadrach]

Yeah, I still need Whatscrapp to stay connected with my family and many of my friends.
Unfortunately not everyone want to transfer to Signal.
And for my work I need LinkedIn, instagram and facebook. I successfully persuaded my colleagues to quit twitter.

Social tax:
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My 2 coops and the netted run in between. With a shite bucket under the laying nests.

My chickens, the pigeons, jays and the magpies all live together is reasonable harmony.
And yesterday I was very pleased with a neighbour cat who probably hunted down and killed a rat.

PS only 1 chicken (Janice) sleeps in the tiny coop with the laying nests. 4 chickens sleep on the other side in the black coop (hard to see on the photo). And 3 chickens sleep in the childrens playhouse.

So basically you're a social media addict.

 

[Shadrach]

Caught him mid wattle wobble

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(Yeah so I never got round to eating him in the end Took about six months but he's much less of an arse now.)

A lot of cockerels that don't seem very promising straighten out after a year to eighteen months.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

…The jackdaw who thinks I bring it food and Glais. You'll need to click on the picture to enlarge it.
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So Glais has allowed the jackdaw within two meters, and both have lived to tell the tale!

 

[kattabelly]

A lot of cockerels that don't seem very promising straighten out after a year to eighteen months.

He was an arse from a few weeks old, way before the terrible teens stage!

He's still kind of on borrowed time because I have him, his brother and the two younger RIR cockerels at the moment - plus likely at least one more from the chicks. If one singles himself out for a dinner invitation that's one thing, but if it just seems like the numbers aren't working out and the pullets don't show much of a preference then he's probably still first on the list.

I keep wondering how those two Barred Rock cockerels I swapped back to the breeder are doing. I miss them much more than I expected to. One of the younger pullets I swapped them for is absolutely besotted with both the Light Sussex boys though - she's been mooning around after them like a lovesick puppy and grooms them any chance she gets. That's been nice to see, since she found the move difficult and hadn't settled in quite as well as her sister. She's growing into a real beauty too.

 

[BDutch]

So basically you're a social media addict.

The work part is bc I am communications officer. Making newsletters, organising webinars, building websites, spread the news. ;P
Today I posted only 1 personal message: sending a digital B’day card to a friend. And BYC is not social media, its chicken media.

 

[Shadrach]

For those of you that get some serious snow.

 

[fuzzi]

For those of you that get some serious snow.
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Your photo reminded me of Calvin and Hobbes:

More here:
http://wagnerstudios.org/Calvin_and_Hobbes_Snowmen.htm

 

[SimpleJenn]

Dutch the chocolate orpington has learned how nice crop rubs feel. He's a sweetheart

 

[kattabelly]

Took about six months but he's much less of an arse now.

Set myself up there didn't I only taken a couple of days out in gen pop for him to get back to his old ways. I'm bloody furious with him but also pretty hacked off with myself because I knew he was like that, I was just second guessing myself partly as kind of a response to some of the nonsense people spout here (not this thread specifically) and elsewhere.