Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

Yes! Also ‘free’ indoor ranging in a crowd (9 on a m2) with no access to a outdoor run is cruel. Imo governments should ban such cruelty. There are eggs with other labels from hens that have more space. But people often look for the cheapest eggs in the supermarket, not realising what goes on behind the stable doors.


I suspect it is impossible to keep enough backyard flocks to feed everyone who cant have chickens.

I didn't really, but we had similar programs on our TV stations. I think a few famous cooks in Belgium and the Netherlands got inspired by this duo in combining traveling and cooking with local products.

Tate tax (a tiny impression)
Roosters
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Is that a Tracy Emin installation?

 

[Molpet]

Miss Rizzle (Skeksis's first grandchild) is broody.

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Beautiful

 

[MrsNorthie]

I suspect it is impossible to keep enough backyard flocks to feed everyone who cant have chickens.

That is likely true, but it just seems like, with all the unoccupied land, the keeping conditions could be greatly improved. :-(

 

[Perris]

I've heard it too many times, at this point. Can't wrap my head around how it could be true.

If the source is generally sensible, I would hazard a guess that what lies beneath is the observation that what is usually written off as infertility (as common among wild birds as domesticated) is sometimes early embryo failure. They can be distinguished under the microscope, but people don't often bother and just write the losses off - which are commonly around 10% but can be as high as 80-90% - as infertility.

Actually there has been very, very little work done on female infertility in birds.

 

[Perris]

I saw this in the papers and despite ... not having a TV ...

I've just twigged why you don't want to sign in to the BBC:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...candal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised
I'll try to link to other sites henceforth.

 

[Perris]

No, not serious but thank you very much for the offer.

how about this one then? I think it suits you very well

Marc Chagall, courtesy of wikiart.org

 

[MaryJanet]

I've just twigged why you don't want to sign in to the BBC:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...candal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised
I'll try to link to other sites henceforth.

"conveyor belt justice" is such an apt term.

 

[BDutch]

If one's definition of pre-brooding is a hen that spends all day in the nest box, actively brooding, leaving at night to roost with the group, then the outcome would be different

If you see such behaviour, I suppose you are dealing with a hen that is not a good broody. I’ve never seen it with any of mine.

 

[BDutch]

Is that a Tracy Emin installation?

No, sorry I don't remember the name of the artist (I have seen too much yesterday). I am sure though she was not from north Cyprus but related to another moslim country in the middle east.

 

[BDutch]

I've just twigged why you don't want to sign in to the BBC:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...candal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised
I'll try to link to other sites henceforth.

Why don’t they pay a bill to start with?

I wouldn’t know I had to pay the BBC either until I read this.
In NL we don’t need to pay for our national broadcast or any of the commercial ones. We only pay the provider to get connected and many pay for extras or special services. Like Netflix, Disney, on demand TV.