Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Labsandchickens8]

And I suspect I owe tax for participating in abbreviation chat.
Here is Mr. Chips - my unexpected and accidental cockerel who threatens to take me into a whole new era of chicken tending.
At just about 10 weeks old he is very much a mother’s boy. She treats him like a fragile little chick!
I am nervous about learning to get on with a roo - but I have to admit he is a looker!
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He is gorgeous! No wonder Mama loves him.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

As a non native speaker, some of the vocabulary used here takes me a second to understand. I particularly struggle with abbreviations. Excellent example being “fwiw”. For the longest time, I thought it was some scientific paper thing. The revelation usually comes late at night, when my mind is tired enough to try and guess what they could mean. To the outside world, a very loud “OH” can be heard .

It’s a little comforting to know that sometimes you native speakers don’t get it immediately, albeit much faster

I never knew that you were actually Greek! Your English is so fluid and colloquial that I figured you were a British ex-pat! (They can’t all live in Provence or Tuscany…)

 

[Mother of Chaos]

We seem to have the opposite trend here. In 2021, we had what we called Snowmageddon. We had like a foot of snow, lost power constantly, and were frozen in place for a week. No one knows how to deal with that here. We used to go 10 or 12 years without even flakes.
Then last year, my first year with chickens, we had 2 snow events. I put straw in the run, wrapped the north side in plastic, and thought we were ready.
Snow still blew into the run. Is it mean to laugh at your chickens sliding coming down the ramp in the morning?
I had to take fresh water out every couple of hours. Craziness for southish Texas.

Long ago, when my kids were babies and we lived in Knoxville TN, we had a little starter home. It had a poured concrete patio that was very smooth - the builder hadn’t textured the finish coat.

We would get a fair amount of “black ice” - ice that’s so clear that you can’t see it until too late, so on roads, it just looks damp and black.

During winter when we weren’t sure if there was ice, I’d open the kitchen door and (gently) pitch the cat out with a bit of forward momentum. If she just skidded across the patio and disappeared over the edge, that confirmed it: black ice!

 

[BDutch]

And I suspect I owe tax for participating in abbreviation chat.
Here is Mr. Chips - my unexpected and accidental cockerel who threatens to take me into a whole new era of chicken tending.
At just about 10 weeks old he is very much a mother’s boy. She treats him like a fragile little chick!
I am nervous about learning to get on with a roo - but I have to admit he is a looker!
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He’s lovely
Can you, and do you want to keep him?

My eyes are too bad to do anything on the phone beyond call and text. Too many years staring at screens.

Do you need eyedrops all the time?

My husband didn’t see well either for another reason. He went to the optometrist. And another (better specialist). The last one told him to contact the doctor/ clinic to see if it was a cataract that could be operated . He was the youngest person to get a new les that day (60 a day). Now he has one new lens, and one who is going to be replaced next week.
After 3 days he was already seeing a lot sharper. Even the colors look better.

It’s largely paid by the insurance and it saves him lots of money for contacts in the future.

 

[notabitail]

I’m not a native speaker too and struggle with the use of lots of abbreviations too. Google translate is no help with those either.
The very common abbreviations that are used a lot on whatsapp and socials like fwiw, fyi, lol, and wtf are not a problem.
The chicken related abbreviations often are. And some abbreviations for relatives too. If people who use them would start accompanied with the explanation, the first time they use it in their post, it would be perfect.
lol (laugh out loud) ,
BO (buff Orpington)
SML (scaly leg mites)
SIL (son in law) etc.

I never understood why people use capitals to type abbreviations either.

GTG BRB TTYL.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

We seem to have the opposite trend here. In 2021, we had what we called Snowmageddon. We had like a foot of snow, lost power constantly, and were frozen in place for a week. No one knows how to deal with that here. We used to go 10 or 12 years without even flakes.
Then last year, my first year with chickens, we had 2 snow events. I put straw in the run, wrapped the north side in plastic, and thought we were ready.
Snow still blew into the run. Is it mean to laugh at your chickens sliding coming down the ramp in the morning?
I had to take fresh water out every couple of hours. Craziness for southish Texas.

The fun thing about snow in the South is that people lose their minds, many convinced that they Must Get Out And Drive Somewhere.

There are the four necessities for life in snow (and ice) storms: milk, bread, disposable diapers (whether you have babies or not), and beer. So those who got through all their supplies the first night - mostly beer - are compelled to make a store run the next morning.

Drivers are mainly divided into three groups:

• People with 4 wheel drive or all wheel drive, especially with SUVs and big ole trucks, who are convinced that they can drive on snow-covered ice. They can’t. Oh, this group includes Yankees who moved South and of course, can drive in snow. Haha.
• People with 1967 Chevy Malibus and other beat-down vehicles featuring bald tires who know they can’t drive in snow, but don’t care (nothing to lose), but need that milk/ bread/ diaper/ beer thing. Yee-haw!
• Everybody else, who doesn’t want some idiot sliding sideways at them going 30 mph on a blind hill. So we just stay home in our unlit, unheated homes, because the power has gone out, of course, and wish that we’d laid in more milk, bread, diapers, and beer.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

He’s lovely
Can you, and do you want to keep him?


Do you need eyedrops all the time?

My husband didn’t see well either for another reason. He went to the optometrist. And another (better specialist). The last one told him to contact the doctor/ clinic to see if it was a cataract that could be operated . He was the youngest person to get a new les that day (60 a day). Now he has one new lens, and one who is going to be replaced next week.
After 3 days he was already seeing a lot sharper. Even the colors look better.

It’s largely paid by the insurance and it saves him lots of money for contacts in the future.

Can’t wait until my cataracts get bad enough! Those implantable lenses are tha bomb.

 

[RoyalChick]

He’s lovely
Can you, and do you want to keep him?

I believe I can keep him from a town laws point of view (I need to double check that).
I had never wanted a rooster because my flock seems very calm and content and I didn't want to disrupt the dynamic.
So when I got day-old checks to put under my perpetually broody hen, Tassels, I purposely got 'all females'. However, there is a big difference between choosing not to get a male chick, and getting rid of one you happen to have.
So he stays for now and I will do my level best to follow all the great advice that @Shadrach and others here have given so he grows into a great rooster.
Wish me luck with that!
For now there is nothing I can do to get to know him because Mama Tassels doesn't really let him wander far from her side and she does not approve of human contact. He will grab blueberries from my hand (as he does from the older hens' beaks) and does see me as some kind of semi-automated treat dispenser.
Tax - Tassels and Mr. Chips together (as always).

 

[Perris]

That would explain why I don't think I encountered it. Someone uses that, and I'm likely to respond with one of these

I can tell

That explains much

Clearly

And if I'm really wanting to drive the point home:

I'm not so sure you're able to read. Maybe you need to go back to kindergarten.

I'm also likely to ignore/correction note (I'm not on twitX or the others) everything they say for the next week

The alternative interpretation is: Too lazy didn't read. I suspect you may align with that interpretation better; it's how I read it

btw / BTW / by the way

I am the annoying person that spells everything out when texting...LOL

love the irony

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

FUBAR

This has to be my favorite as well.