Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

I think this is wishful thinking. Before history gets rewritten, recall what is your impression of the Mongols.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1180246/

I don't doubt one could do the same with most violent expansions in human history. And it's usually Y chromosome DNA that's getting spread far and wide, and that was not because the warrior leaders were empathetic and altruistic towards the conquered females.

And the definition of success in ecological terms has to be reproduction and survival, before anything else.

“We’ve never observed the Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA in any human sample ever tested,” Bustamante says in a press release. “That doesn't prove it’s totally extinct, but it likely is.”

Humans and Neanderthals May Have Had Trouble Making Male Babies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...source=related-content&itm_medium=parsely-api

 

[Perris]

“We’ve never observed the Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA in any human sample ever tested,” Bustamante says in a press release. “That doesn't prove it’s totally extinct, but it likely is.”

Humans and Neanderthals May Have Had Trouble Making Male Babies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...source=related-content&itm_medium=parsely-api

So human warriors and conquered Neanderthal females then?

 

[Molpet]

So human warriors and conquered Neanderthal females then?

Most likely but could be the male hybrids didn't survive due to incompatible genetics or some other reason

 

[no fly zone]

RIP Uppsala. She was absolutely fine this morning - as it happens I got a photo of her dustbathing while I was stalking the cockerels to get photos of them for the current compo - and she just now had a seizure at tea, and died within a minute in my arms. 3 years 4 months old.
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Edited to add some more photos of her: she was 2nd in the large fowl non-APA competition just 2 months ago
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/non-apa-aba-large-fowl-hen-show—2025-byc-summer-fair.1670297/post-28797991

Oh no! That is awful.

 

[Shadrach]

altruism is necessary for the survival and reproduction of a species.

I don't think I would use the word altruism. I think we are cooperative, usually based around self interest. If the group does well then I benefit as part of the group.

We seem to think that we are more "evil" than other animals

It's that word again.
Evil just means harmful to me and I do think we are more harmful than any other species on this planet.

 

[lightm]

Inky is going through her hardest molting...
October 27th
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October 29th
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This is normal inky
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Inky's molting update

Today Inky can walk straight again Her neurological issues are gone as she grows a bit more feathers.

November 1st: sunbathing

November 2nd

November 3rd (looks sooo painful)

Today (11/6)
Do you want an apple?

YES

digging at her favorite spot (with a bonus fluffy butt)

Another picture of Inky today

Foxy is going through a slow molting

Light is looking good today. She posed for me.

Back on November 1st I made her post with the fall decoration

 

[Shadrach]

He is a looker!
@Shadrach - why are you taking the rocks? My Princesses (plus now a little Prince) are always digging rocks up to the surface and I have just let them sit there. Are you worried about their feet maybe? Just wondering if I should be deploying a rake too.

Not so much their feet, although I pretty sure they would prefer to walk on less rocky ground.
I've done it a couple of times a year. It's really that I can't see how lying on them can be comfortable and they have a dust bath hollow in there and it had large rocks in it. Hopefully they won't have to spend much time under there over the winter,

 

[BDutch]

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?

Maybe, or the owners if they keep the mean dog. (Not serious )

I agree people should take care properly of the animals they own (owning should be a wrong word but its what most people say/use). I often read things on BYC I don’t agree with. Killing mean roosters without a second thought is just one of them. And it doesn’t bother me very much bc I find the circumstances of poultry in factory farming even worse.

 

[Shadrach]

Wait--was there an event where fireworks should be set off, or is this unusual?

No event at the field. November the fifth is Guy Fawks night and that is celebrated with fire works and bonfires.
I don't think anyone was aiming to set out to frighten the chickens, just some kids probably. It doesn't look like they ventured far into the field given the box was close to the road gate.

 

[lightm]

RIP Uppsala. She was absolutely fine this morning - as it happens I got a photo of her dustbathing while I was stalking the cockerels to get photos of them for the current compo - and she just now had a seizure at tea, and died within a minute in my arms. 3 years 4 months old.
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Edited to add some more photos of her: she was 2nd in the large fowl non-APA competition just 2 months ago
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/non-apa-aba-large-fowl-hen-show—2025-byc-summer-fair.1670297/post-28797991

I am so sorry Perris.

Uppsala was stunning.