Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

What a beautiful egg! Congratulations to Dyffryn! (Autocorrect does NOT like her name)

Einstein is full Spitzhauben, and hopefully a pullet. Curie, the other Spitz my sister got, looks to be male, and the two Schjindelaar chicks she got were both male. Odds didn’t work in her favor, but she then found the two Wyandotte chicks, which were ordered by the chicken hoarder sexed by the hatchery. They both seem to be pullets so far, so we shall see.

Wow, you have Schijndelaar chickens! They are a new breed from the Netherlands. I thought it was not allowed to take eggs from Europe to the US.

 

[Solanacae]

Wow, you have Schijndelaar chickens! They are a new breed from the Netherlands. I thought it was not allowed to take eggs from Europe to the US.

Greenfire Farms is a farm/small hatchery here that has made a reputation for itself importing high quality rare/unusual breeds, mostly from Europe. I’m not sure if there are others that have gone through the complicated import process, so the gene pool here is pretty limited. Both the Schijndelaar and Spitzhauben’s my sister got were from a local breeder we found advertising on the classified ads. I was sad that both Schijndelaar’s were boys, I’ve heard good things about them.

 

[micstrachan]

Our lone roo now has some galsView attachment 3335596View attachment 3335597View attachment 3335598

You did it!

 

[Solanacae]

Gorgeous birds, great camouflage! Chamois is highly desirable to my eye.
Welsh y is 'uh' rather than I sound, at least in Dyffryn's case, and Ystrad's. But it's 'ih' in Ynys Mon (welsh name for Anglesey). I'm not sure of the reason for the variance.

I don’t love buff on the whole bird, but patterned I like it too, and it does make for good camouflage here, especially with the mix of snow and dead grasses.

I’m sure there’s some sort of linguistic rule somewhere that explains when it’s an ‘uh’ and when it’s an ‘ih’!

 

[BDutch]

Greenfire Farms is a farm/small hatchery here that has made a reputation for itself importing high quality rare/unusual breeds, mostly from Europe. I’m not sure if there are others that have gone through the complicated import process, so the gene pool here is pretty limited. Both the Schijndelaar and Spitzhauben’s my sister got were from a local breeder we found advertising on the classified ads. I was sad that both Schijndelaar’s were boys, I’ve heard good things about them.

The Schijndelaars look great. The white chickens have long tails and lay green eggs. The original breeder is from a village called Schijndel in NL. This I know by remembering.

I did a search and found a good article on a thrust worth site. Google can easily translate from Dutch with maybe a few wrong words.
https://www.levendehave.nl/dierenwikis/algemeen/schijndelaar
I can look for more Dutch articles if you are interested. (Pb).

Maybe nice to post the info from Levende Have in a breed review on BYC.

 

[lightm]

Some info on contaminations in the last month /2 months.
1 found contaminated wild birds:
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2 BYC chickens and other poultry up to 50.
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3 contaminated factory poultry farms with numbers.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/vogelgriep/besmettingen-vogelgriep-bij-bedrijvenView attachment 3338595

This inevitably reminded me of all the never-ending covid lockdowns in China. NEVER-ENDING. Dogs were killed because people cannot be outside to walk them or people be taken away to quarantine.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

65 sunny 95% humidity feels like 63 rain 28%.

Have a great day!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning X Batts. China has a Dictator has always used death as deterrent.
Thankful to live in the USA !

 

[BDutch]

Good morning X Batts. China has a Dictator has always used death as deterrent.
Thankful to live in the USA !
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You forgot one line!
Thankful to live in the USA ! Where chickens have their own tv.

 

[pennyJo1960]