Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

ENC

this kind of abbreviations really need an explanation or whatever planation.

Pretty sure that it stands for Eastern North Carolina, which she had just referred to. That includes the Sandhills, Tidewater and coastal capes, and the Outer Banks islands.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I'm interested in the idea of letting broodies sit in the autumn, since that's when the dampwood termites here have their nuptial flights. Apparently in the wild, red junglefowl will time their reproduction to line up with termite flights, so it might be a cool thing to try. I've never had a hen brood in the fall, so I'm curious if anyone here has experiences with this they'd like to share.

I had a hen hatch a brood two weeks ago. Everything went smoothly. I was worried about the temperatures dropping but the hen did a wonderful job with them.

 

[Appalachickens]

No.. There are grades and different woods and adhesives used. The most obvious thing to the eye is it should have no voids in the compressed sheets of wood.

Got it - wasn't sure if this was one of those British/American differences!

 

[Appalachickens]

I’m happily mystified by the use of “innit” at the end of sentences. I’ve seen it in UK books as well as Irish. And speaking of Irish, being startled at words like “but” at the end of sentences: “She hates you, but!”

My dad's wife (from Pennsylvania) finished a lot of sentences with "anat." I think it's a slurred "and that." One day in a discussion of accents, I pointed it out and she swore she never did that!

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Where do you get this information from about Europeans?

This thread, mostly. I learn about breeds I've never heard of that don't exist in the US relatively frequently, and many that we do have in the US look/act completely different.

Not all European's are witches .

Definitely not, but where I live you basically have to be if you want to find a rare breed that's been responsibly bred

 

[Appalachickens]

I would come across a single sentence in German, taking up 2 1/2 lines of print, with only one verb, plus somewhere else the auf- or zu- or some other accursed separable prefix ten words away.

I couldn’t figure how to attack the sentence other than by locating the verb and prefix and working backward from there. In my head, I named this “verbenfinden.”

I loved German literature, but holy cow, that was brutal.

The Icelanders one up Germans by just smashing lots of words together.

 

[kattabelly]

I don't have games, though all mine live relatively wild. The current Sept broody is a Penedesenca (also in 2023). The previous one was a Norfolk Grey (2019, 2020).

I know we just had this conversation about the Norfolk Greys but could I ask where you got your Penedesenca eggs from? The breeder I've just been visiting in Shetland has some but is down to just hens and no cock (if I'm remembering correctly - could be vice versa) and he and the Rare Poultry Society are only aware of one woman in Devon breeding them who (again, iirc) isn't an option to get eggs from, for reasons I've definitely forgotten.

Turns out he actually used to have a few Norfolk Greys too but he's down to just a couple of old hens now. They're also tough as old boots and one turned up just recently with three chicks she'd hatched in secret from stolen eggs.

but you have American breeds like New Hampshires, Dominiques and Buckeyes that we don't see often or at all here.

I really like the sound of Buckeyes, especially their reputation for actively hunting mice. I could do with some here if they'd also go for baby rats! I've been told Derbyshire Redcaps are good hunters too but tend to be flighty and need high fences to keep them in.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I know we just had this conversation about the Norfolk Greys but could I ask where you got your Penedesenca eggs from? The breeder I've just been visiting in Shetland has some but is down to just hens and no cock (if I'm remembering correctly - could be vice versa) and he and the Rare Poultry Society are only aware of one woman in Devon breeding them who (again, iirc) isn't an option to get eggs from, for reasons I've definitely forgotten.

Turns out he actually used to have a few Norfolk Greys too but he's down to just a couple of old hens now. They're also tough as old boots and one turned up just recently with three chicks she'd hatched in secret from stolen eggs.

I really like the sound of Buckeyes, especially their reputation for actively hunting mice. I could do with some here if they'd also go for baby rats! I've been told Derbyshire Redcaps are good hunters too but tend to be flighty and need high fences to keep them in.

I’d love to have a Buckeye one day, if for no other reason than the coloration, but I’m pretty sure that my local chicken lady has never had them.

Thank goodness. I’m very happy with a flock size of five.

- Dear iPhone: please stop changing “flock” to “Glock.” I have chickens, not firearms. kthxbye

 

[notabitail]

I’d love to have a Buckeye one day, if for no other reason than the coloration, but I’m pretty sure that my local chicken lady has never had them.

Thank goodness. I’m very happy with a flock size of five.

- Dear iPhone: please stop changing “flock” to “Glock.” I have chickens, not firearms. kthxbye

Your glock of chickens shoots poop, not guns.

 

[RoyalChick]

I’d love to have a Buckeye one day, if for no other reason than the coloration, but I’m pretty sure that my local chicken lady has never had them.

Thank goodness. I’m very happy with a flock size of five.

- Dear iPhone: please stop changing “flock” to “Glock.” I have chickens, not firearms. kthxbye

One of my new Littles being brought up by Tassels is a Buckeye. I love the Mahogany coloring.
She is only 11 weeks old, seems very calm, and definitely prefers to forage rather than be fed. That may be Tassels’ influence rather than breed as Tassels seemed to disapprove of chick starter from the very first day she got them.
I don’t think she has killed any mice yet - though I did find a dead mouse in the run a couple of days ago.