Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

Or this one.
http://kippenjungle.nl/chickencalculator.html
Another kind of chicken math. (The site is quite old but safe) all about genetics.

ditto! I wish I could get my head round this stuff but sadly not; it may be just a mental block or perception problem
Edited to add that because neither Swedish Flower nor Penedesenca are among the breeds listed, I'd need to know the genes already to use the calculator. Bummer

 

[Shadrach]

Another miserable wet and windy day. More of the same tomorrow. The front that is causing this weather just isn't moving on. Looking at the forcasts the promise of dry days is just pushed back each day.

Matilda went to roost in the new coop tonight. Last night Lima roosted in the new coop extension.

There was noticably less bickering at roost time. Matilda went to roost before most of the others.
Lima and Henry.

 

[MaryJanet]

Thinking further on this, Phoenix must be Hafod's dad too then, because of the slate legs, and if Hafod is a pullet (not certain yet but I think so) then she'll be an olive egger Meanwhile Whitford is definitely not Phoenix's, as her shanks are white, so she must be Barbezieux x SFH.

I'm still struggling with the genetics of willow legs (with red, not black plumage) for two others of this year's chicks, so if anyone knows their way round this stuff, I'm all ears!

Coincidentally, I was reading about willow legs just last night, but as I gave up biology at 14, I couldn't make sense of what I was reading. It was about alleles and gene expression.

Here's the post I was reading https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chick-chicken-leg-color.242730/post-2869634

 

[Perris]

Coincidentally, I was reading about willow legs just last night, but as I gave up biology at 14, I couldn't make sense of what I was reading. It was about alleles and gene expression.

Here's the post I was reading https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chick-chicken-leg-color.242730/post-2869634

Many thanks, that was useful. I'll read it again tomorrow as it's late here for me and I need the brain working fully to digest that text, but it looks more comprehensible than anything else I have read to date!

 

[Perris]

Matilda went to roost in the new coop tonight.

almost there!

 

[ManueB]

Another miserable wet and windy day. More of the same tomorrow. The front that is causing this weather just isn't moving on. Looking at the forcasts the promise of dry days is just pushed back each day.
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Matilda went to roost in the new coop tonight. Last night Lima roosted in the new coop extension.View attachment 3315924
There was noticably less bickering at roost time. Matilda went to roost before most of the others.
Lima and Henry.
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It really feels like Lima and Mathilda don't want to leave Henry alone.

He may have more trouble changing sleep location because he's older? I think it works that way with humans .

 

[BDutch]

It really feels like Lima and Mathilda don't want to leave Henry alone.

He may have more trouble changing sleep location because he's older? I think it works that way with humans .

I had a rooster once who roosted on another spot than the girls too. Probably because he /his tail was bigger and the prefab was not even spacious for my tiny Dutch. Possibly he just didn’t want his beautiful tail crushed against the wooden panel. He choose the piece of wood in front of the entrance of a nestbox as roost.

 

[BDutch]

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Look what arrived on my doormat today!
The staff shipped a present (2 calendars) for my foto contribution in the 2023 calendar. .

 

[Shadrach]

It really feels like Lima and Mathilda don't want to leave Henry alone.

He may have more trouble changing sleep location because he's older? I think it works that way with humans .

Yep. Start shifting my bed around and I'll get pissy very quickly.

 

[Shadrach]

Not quite as wet today. It did still rain hard this morning but tapered off this afternoon.
The big news.

Both Matilda and Lima are in the coop.

Matilda using my leg as a wind shiel and body warmer.

The chickens are about as impressed with the weather as I am.

Yup, it's LIma and Henry out in the wind keeping an eye on her.