Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

Mow is laying an egg.
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Glais is being very attentive!

 

[fuzzi]

Glais is being very attentive!

"Push! Breathe, push!"

 

[Mother of Chaos]

"Push! Breathe, push!"

And she looks about as receptive to advice as I was at similar times!

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

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I swear they're bigger than yesterday

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I swear they're bigger than yesterday

@Shadrach @Perris

My husband asked (after first looking at the wattles and wondering if Glais was maybe a pelican) what breed he is, and I answered that I think he’s a deliberate mutt/mixed-breed, as part of Perris's ongoing trials.

If so, do we have any opinions as to the various breeds that have gone into this cockerel? (Or is he a rooster now?)

 

[Canadian Wind]

I swear they're bigger than yesterday

What Shad isn't telling us is that every evening before he leaves, he places tiny little weights on those wattles, elongating them gently every day.

No explanation for that monster comb, though.

 

[Perris]

@Shadrach @Perris

My husband asked (after first looking at the wattles and wondering if Glais was maybe a pelican) what breed he is, and I answered that I think he’s a deliberate mutt/mixed-breed, as part of Perris's ongoing trials.

If so, do we have any opinions as to the various breeds that have gone into this cockerel? (Or is he a rooster now?)

His dad was (I think) Fforest, who is (I think) SFH x silver duckwing Welsumer, while his mum was (I'm sure) Dyffryn, who is (I think) partridge Penedesenca x SFH. Both parents were 3 at the time, and came from the first two cohorts here that were raised entirely on home made feed. All Fforest's sons are well blessed in the head ornament department, though Glais grew fastest and is a tad bigger in all dimensions than his brothers (though Talgarth's and Merioneth's combs may be bigger). He will be 1 on 3rd May.

His mum, taken on her 3rd birthday

His probable dad, taken shortly after his 3rd birthday.

 

[kattabelly]

No explanation for that monster comb, though.

Helium balloons!

That or the weights and he's somehow taught Glais to spend half the night roosting upside down, like a bat

He will be 1 on 3rd May.

That makes him pretty much exactly (±1 day) a week older than my Light Sussex cockerel then. I hadn't realised they were quite so close in age.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

His dad was (I think) Fforest, who is (I think) SFH x silver duckwing Welsumer, while his mum was (I'm sure) Dyffryn, who is (I think) partridge Penedesenca x SFH. Both parents were 3 at the time, and came from the first two cohorts here that were raised entirely on home made feed. All Fforest's sons are well blessed in the head ornament department, though Glais grew fastest and is a tad bigger in all dimensions than his brothers (though Talgarth's and Merioneth's combs may be bigger). He will be 1 on 3rd May.

His mum, taken on her 3rd birthday
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His probable dad, taken shortly after his 3rd birthday.
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So maybe half Swedish Flower Hen, a quarter Penedesenca, and a quarter Welsumer?

A citizen of the world!

 

[Perris]

So maybe half Swedish Flower Hen, a quarter Penedesenca, and a quarter Welsumer?

A citizen of the world!

that's the idea. And cold-tolerant, heat-tolerant, and wet-tolerant