Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

happy thanksgiving.

and i tried one of my little peppers this morning. damn they have some kick! not to the point where it's sadistic though. can't wait til next year when i can grow enough to make my own fermented hot sauce.

To misquote the movie, I can’t take the heat! Super-hot food outshouts the flavor for me.

This wouldn’t be your thing, I think, but one year I planted habanada peppers from seed, no-heat (“nada” meaning “none”) habaneros. They had a delicious fruity flavor that I had never tasted in habaneros.

 

[Shadrach]

happy thanksgiving.

and i tried one of my little peppers this morning. damn they have some kick! not to the point where it's sadistic though. can't wait til next year when i can grow enough to make my own fermented hot sauce.

That's something I need to look into for the field. I miss not having fresh chilli peppers.

 

[Shadrach]

 

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours of mist and drizzle but warmish at 10C.
Glais and I are bored. Mow and Sylph aren't much fun at the moment. Nobody really wants to go out. Normally both Mow and Sylph will put up with light rain. Glais and I make forays outside together while Mow and Sylph stay under the coop.
Mrs chew a coop hasn't shown her face and there are no new teeth marks.
Way too optimistic to hope something got her. Perhaps she's waiting for her teeth to regrow a bit.

Sardines.

 

[Perris]

Glais and I are bored. Mow and Sylph aren't much fun at the moment. Nobody really wants to go out.

It's the fag end of the year, and the weather and the sentiment are similar here. Hang on in there; it's only a few weeks now till the turning point (winter solstice)!

 

[Perris]

Coincidentally for the recent feline discussion, an item on the BBC website this am says cats were domesticated in historic (not prehistoric) times; they are a recent phenomenon.

It started with the ancient Egyptians' reverence for them, then spread from the first century CE after the Roman conquest of Egypt, as some Romans then took them across the empire as pest control. They spread out to the rest of the world from there and sporadically after that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o
The proper publication (rather than the news digest) is here https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642 (only abstracts, conclusion, a graphic and refs open access)

edited to add, the Chinese aspect is open access here
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00355-6

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

I know I promised to get some chicken pictures today, but unfortunately the in-laws have all come down with something so we didn't go visit.

I've got a chicken thawing right now, bought it from a family friend. It's a Cornish cross, I was hoping for a heritage bird but it's leagues better than an animal that spent its life in a warehouse. Anyways all this to say it's my first time roasting a whole chicken (don't judge too harshly, I haven't been an adult for all that many years). It's pretty exciting

 

[Perris]

I haven't been an adult for all that many years

did you see the recent research that says our brains aren't in adult mode till 32 on average!!!
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five-ages-human-brain

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

did you see the recent research that says our brains aren't in adult mode till 32 on average!!!
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five-ages-human-brain

Interesting! I've always heard 25, but I've also heard from many people that one never really feels "grown up."