Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

fish farming can do more damage
https://sentientmedia.org/fish-farming/

Yes indeed and I do not eat farmed fish. However, sardines are not farmed commercially.

 

[Molpet]

fish farming can do more damage
https://sentientmedia.org/fish-farming/

My parents retired to Texas near the Mexican border in 1990s. They were on a river a mile from the Gulf of Mexico. The fish came in with the tide. Even dolphins, pufferfish and little rays. Until a shrimp farm started inland across the road. At night they would dump the used water into a canal that emptied into the river, upstream from parents house.
The fish disappeared and the river stank. The salt leached into the farmland surrounding the fish ponds.
The ponds were supposed to be sealed and the used water clean before dumped. Neither happened.

 

[Molpet]

Don't buy salmon from Chile for the chickens....or yourself
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...arms-fish-industry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

 

[Shadrach]

How are the moults progressing? Are they getting their feathers back?

Slowly. I think Sylph is replacing more then she's losing now judging by the feather sheath bits on the coop floor. Mow is running about a week behind Sylph and doesn't want anyone close to her. She's sleeping in the nest box.
They are both eating the food I provide and from what I can tell from their crops, eating enough.
It seems rather late in the year to be moulting.

 

[notabitail]

Slowly. I think Sylph is replacing more then she's losing now judging by the feather sheath bits on the coop floor. Mow is running about a week behind Sylph and doesn't want anyone close to her. She's sleeping in the nest box.
They are both eating the food I provide and from what I can tell from their crops, eating enough.
It seems rather late in the year to be moulting.

Dominica just started moutlting two days ago. 0C in the mornings.

She's the one who eats the most food. I wonder if it has anything to do with that.

 

[Shadrach]

It pissed down from shortly after I arrived at the field right up to the point they went to roost, They got fifteen minutes of forage time and that was it for the day.

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

It pissed down from shortly after I arrived at the field right up to the point they went to roost, They got fifteen minutes of forage time and that was it for the day.
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Poor Mow's lost her tail!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

It pissed down from shortly after I arrived at the field right up to the point they went to roost, They got fifteen minutes of forage time and that was it for the day.
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Are they quarreling, as children do when stuck inside during bad weather, or are they just sort of plugging along?

 

[Perris]

beautiful double rainbow here this morning:

hopefully bodes better weather ahead.

 

[kattabelly]

It pissed down from shortly after I arrived at the field right up to the point they went to roost, They got fifteen minutes of forage time and that was it for the day.

Glais looks like he's holding you personally responsible for the weather there!

It's miserable when it just rains relentlessly. Hope you're due some better weather soon. Finally had a few dry, sunny days here but tomorrow looks like it'll be the last for a while.