Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[kattabelly]

Well, as long as the real rooster doesn't get pissy about it I suppose it's harmless but I really don't like it when hens crouch for me if I touch them.
I've got the problem now with Sylph. Mow doesn't do it. I don't cuddle either of them although both will jump on to my lap from time to time. I'm not sure why they do in most cases. It's not about food. It's not because they feel under threat and want safety.
Of course I enjoy it but I don't know what it means.
In some respects it's great to have that level of trust because it makes catching the hens so much easier and the easier it's done, the less stress all round. The downside is I'm not to be trusted as they would their rooster.

Yeah I don't like it or want to encourage it, especially when they do have other options! I don't really encourage cuddles but I try to get them used to being touched. Most of mine will stand and enjoy a quick wattle rub or spot of grooming, which like you say makes it easier to pick them up when I do need to do anything. One of the two very tappit Shetlands that needs a haircut to see will let me do a very quick snip or pluck without even holding her. The Barred Rock pullet is still a cuddly shoulder chicken but she's insisted on that from the start and she's so sweet, I can't bring myself to discourage it.

I always wonder how their chicken brains categorise the strange featherless apes that live separately but sometimes choose to join the flock for a bit, and bring food and water but don't share them or know how to forage well, and speak another language but sometimes manage to understand or communicate in a very basic way.

He's beautiful! Is he a light Brahma or light Sussex or . . .?

He's a she! She does look very red in that picture - from all the noise she's been making in the last few days I think she'll start laying in about the next week. She's a Light Sussex.

 

[BDutch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollmops

The taste of rollmops is impossible to compare with fresh hering with a little fine cut onions. Rollmops is gross . Its hering in vinagar and very sauer.

 

[BDutch]

That sounds super fun!

To make this more lovely my Pixel 6 had its power button get "stuck" (it didn't feel stuck but it was) and I had to smack the thing. Oh, and Mom's Pixel 6a has that battery throttling thing, so lovely.

LineageOS is pretty good on mine since I shoved most of Google in the rubbish, but it can't fix bad hardware.

Marie2020 here asked about a new phone, I'm now tempted to recommend iPhone but I haven't used a newer one than the 5s. (I actually am seriously considering iPhone since it's not all Google-bloated).

I got my first I phone from a previous job (~ 10 years ago) . Its a bit different in the beginning. But I started to love it soon after.
I have bought my own iPhones since. They last much longer than Samsungs/ One’s/ LG’s/ etc. I bought a new iphone16 a year ago. It has a very good camera too.

My notebooks last much longer than my husband’s too. Now he uses my old (2017 model) MacBook for videoconferencing bc the connection to the camera, of his laptop, broke.

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

I made this for the chicken subreddit and thought people here might get a kick out of it

 

[fuzzi]

The taste of rollmops is impossible to compare with fresh hering with a little fine cut onions. Rollmops is gross . Its hering in vinagar and very sauer.

I've never had fresh herring, never seen it available for sale.

My family would warm up some pumpernickel bread ("party/cocktail loaf"). We'd put a dollop of cream cheese on a warm bread slice, top it with a chunk of pickled herring. Delicious. I preferred the type of herring that was in wine.

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

Here we have 87.5 cm on average.
In spring not so much.

Ansterdam is overcrowded with tourists nowadays. I don't like going there anymore, unless I want to visit an exhibition or do something special.
Other , smaller cities are much nices to go to , to enjoy the scenery, smaller museums, restaurants, terraces and such. I do not recommend driving and parking in cities. In general we have a good infrastructure for public transport in cities. To see more of the country its best to rent a car.

The best time to buy fresh herring/haring is June/July and they sell the best in Rotterdam. A list with the best places to buy the new herring: https://toptienlijst.nl/beste-haring-van-nederland/

Canal in Utrecht. One of the best cities to visit and enjoy imho.

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PS I do like herring. But many people dont. And after eating it your breath really stinks.

I really like the word transferium - the one we visited many years ago had very many spaces for bikes!
Also the green bridges and the bike + tractor lanes are great ideas

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I made this for the chicken subreddit and thought people here might get a kick out of it
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My, my, my, such large chickens for that coop dropped out in the middle of a prairie or something!

I’ve posted this before (sorry!) but it’s such a triumph of bad Photoshopping that I’m dragging it out again:

 

[fuzzi]

Tax, overdue.

Boys are going to a new home today.

 

[thistlewick]

It's a pile of crap.
The camera is wonderful; the operating system, or should I write the google layer, is just awful.
It needs a much more powerful processor.
It's always pushing pop ups, or drop downs, asking if you would like to do this or that and all I want is them off the screen so I can see what I'm doing!
There are lots of features that are just short of being bugs that just don't make sense, display changes for no apparent reason, can't scroll to logins (probably the applications problem) but the pixel doesn't deal with them well.
Frankly, my old Blackview is/was a better phone for what I want a smart phone for at least. It just weighs a ton and the camera is crap.
I keep meaning to give GrapheneOS a try but....

I'm just catching up with the thread after not checking for a few days but all of this is easily changed in Settings on the phone.

The drop downs are notifications - you can stop all of that from happening in Settings.

There are no pop ups on the phone, so if you're seeing them, that's on any website you're visiting, which websites do that a lot and has nothing at all to do with your phone. Chrome browser has many extensions to stop popups and block ads.

I've been using smartphones since 2007 when the first iPhone came out and am one of those people who get the latest and learn the latest things, use all OS's, am very tech savvy and have been on the internet since 1992.

It's really not a Pixel issue. It is the only Android phone that isn't bloated with useless and unnecessary software and the easiest to use other than iPhone.

Unless you get one of those phones like a Jitterbug or just a basic flipphone that only does texts and calls.

 

[Molpet]

We like to save the drippings to make bubble and squeak the day after.

Is this how you make it?