Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

I didn't realize it has been ten years since a NY politician dropped the groundhog, causing its death.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/flashback-bill-de-blasio-drop-kill-groundhog/

 

[Molpet]

I didn't realize it has been ten years since a NY politician dropped the groundhog, causing its death.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/flashback-bill-de-blasio-drop-kill-groundhog/

Somehow I missed that

 

[TexasBlues]

What a shmuck. Look how happy he is when the groundhog jumps out.

 

[BDutch]

Oh ground hogs are usually breaking hibernation around now because it's breeding season.
We all know how moody hormonal animals are. Miracle more people aren't bit.

I think most countries have some thing about winter ending on this day.

I know parts with Celtic influence have a mythical woman that decides. If she wants to have a longer winter she has it sunny so she can gather more firewood to last the winter.

We don't have a groundhog ritual or weather forecast rhymes on 2 February in the Netherlands.

This is what I found about the origin of groundhog day:
“German badgers

Although they had their doubts about the pagan rituals and the superstition surrounding the holiday, much of the peasant wisdom about weather predictions remained common among Protestants. For example, in the 16th century, German Protestants watched how badgers crawled out of their den after hibernation. German migrants who travelled to North America in the 17th and 18th centuries, because of the devastating Thirty Years' War, and settled as Pennsylvania Dutch ( confusion ) in 1683 in Pennsylvania and Ohio, took this tradition with them. In the absence of badgers in their new homeland, the American groundhog became the oracle animal. From the hamlet of Punxsutawney (Pennsylvania), the tradition grew into a true folk festival. The largest celebration is still taking place in Punxsutawney; more than 40,000 people come to it every year.”

And of course there’s a much older tradition in Ireland.
“In Ireland, even Neolithic monuments have been found referring to a holiday, one of the first days of February, on which the beginning of spring was celebrated. The pre-Christian Celtic Imbolc, a traditional fertility festival that was accompanied by many fires, candles and a spring cleaning and that is still celebrated here and there, emerged from this. With the arrival of Christianity, the tradition was incorporated by the church, and became known as the Candlemas on February 2.”

 

[fluffycrow]

I didn't realize it has been ten years since a NY politician dropped the groundhog, causing its death.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/flashback-bill-de-blasio-drop-kill-groundhog/

Poor girl

 

[BDutch]

So do I.

I need a sticker like this
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@DuckLady @Kiki,
What about this new item for the webshop!
https://www.coopedup.net/buy/index.php?route=product/category&path=39

 

[Kiki]

@DuckLady @Kiki,
What about this new item for the webshop!
https://www.coopedup.net/buy/index.php?route=product/category&path=39

It's cute but I think the BYC store only sells BYC stuff.

 

[Shadrach]

It sounds like your heart is really with those ex-batts!
Just curious - What would an ideal, "dream" set up look like to you as far as land size, terrain, etc? Curious to know more about how a non-coop model functions in consideration of climate, roosting, predators, etc.

That is a very big question.
A small tropical island might do, say 10 acres.
It depends on what sort of chicken I intended to keep.

 

[Shadrach]

I was under the impression that before Fret sat, you had tried searching for ex-battery hens, but that every place you found compromised biosecurity.

There are ways to work around this, but they take some planning.
Because many of the rescue concerns operate like commando units going on raid one often doesn't get much time to prepare.

 

[MrsNorthie]

That is a very big question.
A small tropical island might do, say 10 acres.
It depends on what sort of chicken I intended to keep.

That would limit the predator pool.