Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

You might like this show. It deals with a multi generational chicken farm. The dad raises battery cage style and the son wants to raise cage free. It gives a good perspective from both sides into why they do what they do and how small changes are made.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/5003239/

Interesting video. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Shadrach]

Day off today.

 

[fuzzi]

Yes! Thanks for the explanation and the huge compliment. My avatar name says it all.
Started to learn English when I was 12. Was not very good in it and certainly couldn’t write it properly for many years.
These last years being active on BYC helped me enormously. Autocorrect and Translate do the rest. Still not perfect but I hope good enough not to get annoyed.

PS My avatar name has a double meaning. I have Dutch and I am Dutch. Sort of double Dutch .

Bantam Dutch and RIR tax:
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Double Dutch??

 

[fuzzi]

Tax:

Samuel checking out those fluffy butts!

 

[Iluveggers]

Double Dutch??

Brings back memories from Elementary school…the girls nowadays don’t double Dutch jump rope any more…

 

[no fly zone]

I am sure there are plenty of chickens that could use this as a theme song

 

[Shadrach]

Three hours today. Grey and chilly.
Everybody was hungry when I arrived so I assume C didn't leave them enough food to allow for breakfast. They rattled through 300 grams of feed and went off to forage.
That's Dig heading off to deal with a fox that slid under the gate a moment earlier.

They all stayed close to me until going to roost after that.

 

[no fly zone]

Hopefully Dig's bravado does not result in him becoming fox dinner.

 

[Shadrach]

Hopefully Dig's bravado does not result in him becoming fox dinner.

I did write that my priority was Henry and the hens. That hasn't changed. If Dig becomes a problem then he'll be my dinner. If he doesn't have the sense to avoid a confrontation with a fox that was minding it's own business and not posing any threat to the hens then the fox can have him. There is bravery and then there's stupidity.
The chances of Henry and Dig being able to live together without major conflict are small. I let Fret sit and hatch, not because I wanted chicks but because she wanted chicks and I have always tried to support any hen (within reason) that wants to hatch. It's one of those essential behaviours that I believe all hens have a right to.

If these were rangers then like every other creature, they take their chances. The smart ones survive and that's how one builds a sustainable group with good behavioural genes. I don't much care what they look like.
Dig has the possible advantage in young life to learn with relative safety. Most rangers don't get that. There isn't a lot of margin for error when chickens range.
What happens in the best case is they pay attention to the seniors and survive.

Dig currently isn't paying enough attention. He didn't even look at what Henry did which was to move to safety (close to me) and track the fox out of danger range.

 

[BDutch]

Double Dutch??

Did that when I was young.