Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ribh]

yes indeed, but they are very variable in their phytonutrient values, and all of them are a lot poorer than wild varieties of apples. Worse, although thousands of varieties exist, a mere handful dominate the supermarket shelves - how many appear where you usually shop?

Fwiw, the most nutritious among the 12 most common varieties are Discovery, Fuji, Granny Smith, Liberty, and the Bramley cooking apple (which has 3 times more than the Fuji, which has more than most other common varieties).

Robinson, Eating on the wild side, 2013 chapter 10.

Granny Smith's are common here & I really like them. My preferred species is the Australian developed Pink Lady, which doesn't fruit up here. I put in an Anna, which I had never heard of before. I also have a mature native Apple on the property, but sad experience tells me they are disgusting & pretty much inedible!

 

[no fly zone]

 

[kcan2]

In keeping with fairy's eggs and rooster farts -

Cockatrice - possibly an ichneumon/ Egyptian mongoose and here's why:

"Pliny (see Oxford Dictionary, under the word "Cockatrice") relates that the ichneumon darts down the open mouth of the crocodile, and destroys it by gnawing through its belly. In the course of time, as the story underwent changes, the animal was metamorphosed into a water snake, and was confused with the crocodile itself, and also with the basilisk. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, the cockatrice was believed as late as the 17th century to be produced from a cock's egg and hatched by a serpent, and "to possess the most deadly powers, plants withering at its touch, and men and animals being poisoned by its look. It stood in awe however of the cock, the sound of whose crowing killed it."

So, a weasel-esque creature known as "the enemy of the dragon" that preys on serpents and sometimes lives in vacated burrows or makes it's own den according to the site listed below, this version of the cockatrice would seem a bit less confounding than the Dark Ages supposed.

https://critter.science/the-infamous-egyptian-mongoose/

Quoted material link

 

[kcan2]

Tax payment rendered for cockatrice

Chickens locating an opportune dry dustbath in the garage:


He took her spot:

In attempting to overcome logistical challenges, he took her spot again :


Lots of enthusiastic action & mess!

 

[Molpet]

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Wilds?

 

[no fly zone]

Wilds?

Just some random ducks and geese at the park.

 

[Ribh]

It took me up to 6 weeks to break a habit like this.

The 1st bantam I ever owned was a tree hugger. I never broke her of the habit.

 

[Ribh]

I haven't paid tax in a while so here we go...
This is the baby Tawny Frogmouth I rescued today.​

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

In keeping with fairy's eggs and rooster farts -
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Cockatrice - possibly an ichneumon/ Egyptian mongoose and here's why:

"Pliny (see Oxford Dictionary, under the word "Cockatrice") relates that the ichneumon darts down the open mouth of the crocodile, and destroys it by gnawing through its belly. In the course of time, as the story underwent changes, the animal was metamorphosed into a water snake, and was confused with the crocodile itself, and also with the basilisk. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, the cockatrice was believed as late as the 17th century to be produced from a cock's egg and hatched by a serpent, and "to possess the most deadly powers, plants withering at its touch, and men and animals being poisoned by its look. It stood in awe however of the cock, the sound of whose crowing killed it."

So, a weasel-esque creature known as "the enemy of the dragon" that preys on serpents and sometimes lives in vacated burrows or makes it's own den according to the site listed below, this version of the cockatrice would seem a bit less confounding than the Dark Ages supposed.

https://critter.science/the-infamous-egyptian-mongoose/

Quoted material link

Got a bit confused as here Ichneumons are wasps, mainly parasitoid but often with fabulous stripy stockings & bodies . Once I read the link it made sense!
https://www.synthesys.info/content/...nature/british-ichneumonid-wasps-id-guide.pdf

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

Tax, love the photo of the girls deciding who is going to preen who