Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Three hours today. A tiny bit of drizzle late afternoon.

 

[fuzzi]

Welp, I tried. I blame @fuzzi and @thistlewick and all the others who keep posting pics of their beautiful Speckles! A new young lady will be ready on 9 July.

I’ll be getting one of a different breed from either the group before or after this one so that they’ll be same-aged buddies.

(By the way, Lil the EE has now laid 5 smallish but perfect eggs in six days, the last 4 in a row, and she just went into the coop. )

(Edit to add: make that 6 eggs in 7 days, the last 5 in a row! )

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I love my Speckled Sussex, they're chatty, but not annoyingly so. I'm planning to hatch some more in June, if everyone cooperates. Naomi (a bantam Dominique) has been sitting on a plastic egg in the nest box for 3 days. I think the time is right...

 

[Perris]

Checked the nest while J was off for breakfast and we're down to 13; 1 vanished without trace, and a half a shell at the edge of the nest, clean and dry, so the contents were presumably consumed complete.

 

[BDutch]

Checked the nest while J was off for breakfast and we're down to 13; 1 vanished without trace, and a half a shell at the edge of the nest, clean and dry, so the contents were presumably consumed complete.

That’s not very promising for the days to come. Maybe a rat?
Are you considering to make any changes for Janeka and her nest ?

 

[Perris]

Are you considering to make any changes for Janeka and her nest ?

not for the moment. She may have eaten them, if she knew they were duds (though how she might know I don't know). What is striking is the complete absence of mess.

 

[Molpet]

not for the moment. She may have eaten them, if she knew they were duds (though how she might know I don't know). What is striking is the complete absence of mess.

Mine eat them when they go bad . I think they have better sense of smell than we do about bad eggs. Eggs that weren't fertilized and never started to develop seem to last longer.

 

[Shadrach]

Three hours today.
I spent most of the day getting a new operating system installed on a new mini computer. The old one lasted six years and cost around one hundred pounds. Cheap modern electronics are like modern chickens it seems, developed with a built in spent by date.

I've got most of what I want off the old computer hard drive. Just need to get it on the new computer.

Yup it's a hole in the ground. That's as deep as one can dig until one comes to compressed rock. The field grows rocks. It's a post hole for a gate post and ideally it needs to be half as deep again. It's not happening by my hand. Most of the plots have this rock layer underneath the soil. On some plots there is less than a foot depth of soil.

This lot were having a lot of fun in the sky.

The chickens having fun out of the coop and run.

 

[notabitail]

Three hours today.
I spent most of the day getting a new operating system installed on a new mini computer. The old one lasted six years and cost around one hundred pounds. Cheap modern electronics are like modern chickens it seems, developed with a built in spent by date.

I've got most of what I want off the old computer hard drive. Just need to get it on the new computer.

Yup it's a hole in the ground. That's as deep as one can dig until one comes to compressed rock. The field grows rocks. It's a post hole for a gate post and ideally it needs to be half as deep again. It's not happening by my hand. Most of the plots have this rock layer underneath the soil. On some plots there is less than a foot depth of soil.

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This lot were having a lot of fun in the sky.
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Which computer did you get?

 

[SimpleJenn]

We have a new layer, an egg yesterday and another this morning. I believe it is Blue Raptor, since the lighter egg was under her preferred place on the roost.


Also, Marble was making sure she and a few other girls saw the eggshells I put out. He's such a kind rooster. He even politely walked up to me and then went to his food bucket with a bokbok so I would fill it.

 

[Shadrach]

Which computer did you get?

This one without an operating system.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MeLE-Quiet...fos.d7e5a2de-8759-4da3-993c-d11b6e3d217f&th=1

It runs rather warm. I've got some external heat sinks I might fit on the case top (outside the case) above the processor. It may help.

Watching the processor load I haven't had it much above 25% and the OS still feels responsive. I've got the latest distribution of Ubuntu Mate running.
I've had Puppy Linux Bionic running in RAM and that all works well. I'm going to try out the newest Puppy Linux Woof based distro when I've got the patience.
https://f96.puppylinux.com/

I know Puppy Linux gets very mixed reviews but that's because some people treat it as a desktop OS. It isn't really. It's meant to live on a flash drive and assuming one can access the bios, one can run Puppy Linux from that flash drive on most computers. Recently for example when the old computer started to fail, Puppy Linux got my files off the dying chip.