Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

Afternoon X Batts. This is the most recent photo for tax.
All but the black was still there last night. She joined the sex link crowd in the main coop.
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I looked up my dry lentils (I never used canned lentils before) and the protein percentages are indeed in your range, 28 for the pink lentils and 24 for the green. The only explanation I can think of is the soaking that comes from cooking the lentils in water means there is a much higher % of water in the final cooked lentils, therefore lowering the protein percentage. If you take 100 grams of lentils and cook them they will weigh much heavier but you will still have the same protein weight. I'm terrible at all kind of number or logical thinking : does this make any sense ?

Random rant : I had actually asked my partner to get "sardines au naturel" when he came back with four cans of cooked lentils. He said the canned fish aisle at the supermarket was too complicated 😂.

I've always kind of liked him, we still listen to some of his CDs.
Out of subject ramble : I really liked the recent collab with Piers Faccini and Abdelkebir Merkane, all aboard. But I like cultural mishmash, I'm a bit ashamed to say this as so much of so called world music is terrible, and I like gnaoua.

Well, then I hope we shouldn't take the analogy as far as to say that you learned something about yourself 😂.
What would you say was the lesson? That even experienced chicken keepers can be surprised by a rooster's agressive behaviour? That caring for a very sick or wounded chicken will build trust ? Or that even an adult rooster can change his behaviour for the worse and for the better ?
I'll have a listen.

One interesting thing I learn't about myself is even past 60 years old I could do a rugby dive if I get pissed off enough.
I learn't the wisdom of appropriate clothing.:cool:
I also lean't that I was quiet capable of hurling clods of earth at Notch having chased him away from yet another fight while I jumped up and down and hurled abuse at him. He was a very frustrating character.

Most of my friends call me a patient man. My uncle, a farmer, is probably responsible for that. He would say one needed patience to work with nature and other creatures and that one year ahead was a too shortsighted view. I learn't this is true with chickens in general.
 
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Sorry I got lost in translation. It actually says "drained" which I suppose means they take away all the water in the can. Legume cans here are filled with water, not sure it's the same everywhere. So they would analyse the solid stuff only.
I looked online at another higher end brand of canned lentils and it was 7%.
Of course this is true for the semolina too, once soaked and cooked the percentage of protein would not say the same.
I've been off and on vegetarian since my teens and have always been told to mix legumes with unrefined cereals for proteins and algae with citrus for iron.
I'm surprised you don't get dried beans where you live.
 
Human food protein level is listed as % of recommend daily amount per serving. Confusing since we are looking for how much protein is in the food
Just out of interest, if you look at the recommended daily intake of protein and kilo calories for a human on the stuff you get in the US, how much is it?
 
10C with occasional sunshine. Three hours there today. Had the geese out as well once the chickens had eaten and were waiting by the gate.
One of the other allotment holders came by. They hadn't seen the chickens since November or ever seen them out on the allotments before. They commented that they looked really well and were even more amazed when they saw Henry run.

C came by to feed and water the geese. Even C commented on how well Carbon looked. C had thought Carbon wouldn't live for long a couple of months ago.

Three eggs again today.
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Henry is a lot more relaxed. I dig a bit, then he digs a bit. The most noticable difference is he eats what he finds unless it's something really special. This is good for Henry. He needs his greens and bugs to. We got through the berry bushes together without killing off the healthy stems I hope. He and Lima got stuck in from the other side once I had pulled the geo textile cloth out. I spoke to C and said I was going to go the full width of the plot; there's another metre and half on the other side of the bushes that hasn't had anything done to it for 3 or 4 years.

This is going to make a rather larger plot than I had initally wanted. The fact that the resized plot is large enough to put a decent chicken run on has absolutly no relevance.:)
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Hi everyone! My husband & i spent the last few days caring for the farm flocks. I have only been helping with projects recently (fencing, installation of nest boxes, barn cleaning), so I haven’t much had time to observe, and the feeding is usually done before I get there. When I went into the feed barn, I noticed one of the roosters who has moved in with the older ladies (they didn’t have a male there), calling them with a chuck chuck deep sound when I went into the barn. I dropped some feed & scratch for him, and watched about 5 of the older girls circle round with him to get their share. My son commented that one of the girls was following him everywhere last time, and I noticed she was right with him again today. The boys in the other barn made a similar noise when we filled the feeders in there, but it wasn’t as obvious as it was when I first got out there. I am actually incubating some eggs, so it will be interesting to see how many fertile eggs are in the bunch. Both flocks can intermingle, but aside from an ISA, a legbar, and the Ancona, the new flock tends to stay on their side of the field, and the old flock plus their new man hang on the other side. Very interesting dynamic to watch indeed. I had no time to take pictures as I was muddy after working, but thought I’d share a story instead. Hopefully the story counts as tax! 😊
 
Hi everyone! My husband & i spent the last few days caring for the farm flocks. I have only been helping with projects recently (fencing, installation of nest boxes, barn cleaning), so I haven’t much had time to observe, and the feeding is usually done before I get there. When I went into the feed barn, I noticed one of the roosters who has moved in with the older ladies (they didn’t have a male there), calling them with a chuck chuck deep sound when I went into the barn. I dropped some feed & scratch for him, and watched about 5 of the older girls circle round with him to get their share. My son commented that one of the girls was following him everywhere last time, and I noticed she was right with him again today. The boys in the other barn made a similar noise when we filled the feeders in there, but it wasn’t as obvious as it was when I first got out there. I am actually incubating some eggs, so it will be interesting to see how many fertile eggs are in the bunch. Both flocks can intermingle, but aside from an ISA, a legbar, and the Ancona, the new flock tends to stay on their side of the field, and the old flock plus their new man hang on the other side. Very interesting dynamic to watch indeed. I had no time to take pictures as I was muddy after working, but thought I’d share a story instead. Hopefully the story counts as tax! 😊
Sorting out their tribes then.:love
 
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. A meal with both cereals and legumes, beans are legumes. Or am I lost in translation again ?

Hummus on pita.
Often I get lost in translation too. Baby talk: Beans are not the same kind of veggies (vegetables) as veggie-roots and veggie-leaves. The roots and leaves don’t contain that much proteins.

I make my own hummus with chick peas, tahini (sesame paste) , garlic , olive oil, a little boiled water, pepper and a herb we call ketoembar or dried koriander. Tastes a lot better than the products they sell in the supermarket (contains way too much cheap oil).

I'm surprised you don't get dried beans where you live.
For me, cooking beans 🫘 takes way too much time to prepare.
 

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