Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

on the topic of calendar fame and molting, isn't Janice Miss June 2023 from the BYC calendar? Hope she's doing better with her hard molt.

Yes. She was one of my beauties from June 2023.
Her hard moult is coming to an end. Today she went from ugly to pretty in just one day. Like a little phoenix ‍ .
Sorry I didn’t make a photo.

 

[BDutch]

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Unfortunately I have to guess what the writer means. I don’t understand this text with metaphors properly, and because its a picture I can’t let google translate it for me.

 

[Molpet]

Unfortunately I have to guess what the writer means. I don’t understand this text with metaphors properly, and because its a picture I can’t let google translate it for me.

Sorry I didn't think about that.

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise."

Quotes by Aldo Leopold (Author of A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There) https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43828.Aldo_Leopold

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Unfortunately I have to guess what the writer means. I don’t understand this text with metaphors properly, and because its a picture I can’t let google translate it for me.

Very roughly, it means that for an ecologist, the knowledge that we acquire flays us (whips us, tearing our skins, producing wounds). Most people (laymen) don’t know how bad things are. The ecologist has only two options:

(1) they must either assume the role of pure scientist, writing up and reporting their findings, and deny any responsibility for acting upon the consequences of their findings (“just doing my job”, in other words), or

(2) they must assume the role of a physician: a scientist who sees what is coming in terms of environmental disaster, as if it were an approaching plague, AND is compelled to warn the community, despite the community absolutely not wanting to hear the bad news.

(This might make poor Google Translate even more confused, lol.)

Aldo Leopold was perhaps the most important 20th century US figure in the environmental field. His book, A Sand County Almanac, is a collection of his experiences and reflections on changes in the natural world resulting from human actions, centered on the US Upper Midwest in the 1930’s.

Apparently it has been translated into Dutch, but is more widely available in the Netherlands in English. <- this is per Google AI, so I wouldn’t give a nickel for its accuracy.

But it’s a lovely book, and you might want to hunt it down and read it. It’s a collection of very short essays, perfect for reading in the early evenings of winter.

 

[BDutch]

Tiny river crabs? Do you mean crayfish? Anyways just pulling old cows out of the canal to show my tax! Managed to feed a crayfish to my CX pullets. When I tried before they wouldn't touch them, but back then they also didn't know what to do with insects. My normal chickens still won't eat them though.
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Crayfish are something else. I found this : Minikreeftjes (shrimps) - Vogelvoer- Kippenvoer - 10kg - €79,90​

Im not sure what the ‘mini or tiny river lobsters’ are. They are certainly not the same as the bigger river lobsters or crayfish. English probably say shrimps to this small river creatures. But that isn’t correct either.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Crayfish are something else. I found this : Minikreeftjes (shrimps) - Vogelvoer- Kippenvoer - 10kg - €79,90​

Im not sure what the ‘mini or tiny river lobsters’ are. They are certainly not the same as the bigger river lobsters or crayfish. English probably say shrimps to this small river creatures. But that isn’t correct either.

Do you have any reliable source that gives them their Latin/Greek name? That’s probably the only way to get an accurate match.

 

[Shadrach]

And if they do eat animals, why criticise people who kill a rooster bc he doesn’t behave like they want him to behave.

In short, because a great many roosters are killed because their keepers can't be bothered to educate themselves, and often their family as well, and work with the rooster.
I see lots of dog owners getting tugged along by their owners, completely out of control, lunging at other dogs, ignoring the commands of their owners, do you think we should kill those?

 

[NightingaleJen]

As an occasional lurker who really appreciates the general rooster-friendliness here... May I ask a question about a suddenly human-aggressive cockerel?

Apparently there is a tax. Hope I have this correct!

 

[kcan2]

“Conscious harmony” is one of the ways I would describe successful daily interaction with my rooster. As in those who aren’t conscious of him, may get unharmonious results, depending on proximity and whether or not they have on floppy, hot pink pajama pants, which apparently do NOT foster harmony, understandably so:

 

[Molpet]

I see lots of dog owners getting tugged along by their owners, completely out of control, lunging at other dogs, ignoring the commands of their owners, do you think we should kill those?

The animal shelters are full of these dogs. I got 6yr old Max in 2011. The owner died and the widow couldn't handle a 110 lb St Bernard/Newfoundland.
Very unruly and untrained. I took him to obedience school and they recommend a prong collar, which is not something that is left on all day.

I had one already, but never liked them. I got a shock collar and that worked for off lead work.
He ended up being a very good dog and I didn't have any predator losses when he was still alive.