Théo and the chickens des Sauches

[MaryJanet]

Close up of Annette. I think she is neither pencilled or mottled, according to this page :
https://cluckin.net/chicken-feather...es-pictures-and-video.html#mcetoc_1fr7pobkqln

Is she spangled?

Regardless, she's a very pretty hen.

 

[Perris]

I think she is neither pencilled or mottled, according to this page :
https://cluckin.net/chicken-feather...es-pictures-and-video.html#mcetoc_1fr7pobkqln

Spangled? (further down the same page)
eta: should have read ahead; thinking same as MJ

 

[BDutch]

Looks spangled to me too. Found another beautiful spangled hen on :
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/silver-spangled-hamburg/

 

[MaryJanet]

A friend of mine had a Hamburg hen. She was a lovely little thing.

 

[ManueB]

So I will call them spangled from now, I’ve learnt something! Now I have to find out what it's called in french.

Today wasn't as idyllic as yesterday. Théo started chasing Pied Beau away, but I soon understood why : he’s turning quickly into an hormonal idiot, chasing the hens like crazy to mate and frightening them. He scared Léa badly and then tonight before roosting, he tried to mate Nougat, who is Gaston's favorite. Gaston went for him (I didn't see exactly what happened but I heard squealing and there was a bunch of feathers on the ground) and Pied Beau ran away screaming alarm at the top of his lungs . So it looks like rehoming will have to happen sooner than I hoped, unless he understands that he must not mess with the other rooster's hens. The pullets are beginning to eat crushed egg shells and to take a look at the nest box, so maybe it won't be too long before they start laying ? But none of the male try to mate with them which was the case when Piou-piou, Léa and Merle were about to start laying.
On a happier note, Laure seemed much better today ; maybe something happened yesterday that scared her.

We changed a bit the access to the roosts. We moved the ladder that was on the left side to the middle, at the junction of the main roost and the two smaller roosts, and we added two tree trunks where the ladder used to be. It seemed to help some chickens to go up, but it didn't help with the bullying and chasing. Gaston and the three ex Batts have four meters of roost to themselves, while the five young ones, Léa, Piou-piou, Lilly and Kara squeeze on the the left on about three meters of roost !

Kara, Lilly and Lulu.

A Pied beau and Laure serie.

Some serious dustbathing and new holes.

Théo is so proud now to have Piou-piou and Merle with him he pecked aggressively my partner for the first time in months . He’s getting his evil mojo back !

Cannelle

Blanche.

Alba. We can eat her eggs again since two days ago, but Nieva took the antibiotics a bit longer, so I have to check for a few days which leghorn is laying as their eggs are always in the same nest and totally similar.

Piou-piou

Mélisse

 

[BDutch]

I have to check for a few days which leghorn is laying as their eggs are always in the same nest and totally similar.

Just an idea:
Smear a little sheep paint/chalk round Nieva’s bottom. And its easy to see which egg she laid. The easter egg .

 

[lightm]

I'm so sad today after work I had to drink liquor...

I am afraid I have to vent here so I do apologize.

I'm in department of math and stat. My colleague wants to propose a new statistics course. It looks like sh*t to me. Think of proposing a class studying Shakespeare literature but requires no speaking English at all.

The logic: "No students want to take math ot Stat so let's water the programs waaay down. Have no standard. Don't require any prerequisite ever because it is all too hard for the students. "

That's right, don't ever teach them anything. Just be selfish and teach them easy and useless stuff.

Yes, mathematics and statistics are different subjects. I do not like any of my Stat colleagues. It sounds very offensive but truth is statistics people are often people who cannot handle math so they switch to the easy stat. Sigh. Of course there are great statisticians. I teach lots of Stat myself. It's more like 10% of mathematians are legit and only 1% of statisticians are legit.

Yes I'm one of those professors that students think tough and difficult.

Oh I ask for forgiveness with chickens pictures.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm so sad today after work I had to drink liquor...

I am afraid I have to vent here so I do apologize.

I'm in department of math and stat. My colleague wants to propose a new statistics course. It looks like sh*t to me. Think of proposing a class studying Shakespeare literature but requires no speaking English at all.

The logic: "No students want to take math ot Stat so let's water the programs waaay down. Have no standard. Don't require any prerequisite ever because it is all too hard for the students. "

That's right, don't ever teach them anything. Just be selfish and teach them easy and useless stuff.

Yes, mathematics and statistics are different subjects. I do not like any of my Stat colleagues. It sounds very offensive but truth is statistics people are often people who cannot handle math so they switch to the easy stat. Sigh. Of course there are great statisticians. I teach lots of Stat myself. It's more like 10% of mathematians are legit and only 1% of statisticians are legit.

Yes I'm one of those professors that students think tough and difficult.

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Mate. I hear you.

I am soooo tired of two things.

1 making learning easy.
2 blaming students for poor attainment when the course was too easy.

Also, when learning is "easy" students are not capable of working after they graduate.

Ergo, the public and students (correctly) blame the university for being shit.

I always make learning challenging through F2F assessments and through assessing higher order thinking.

Everything should be challenging but fun learning, and in my field which is packed with students who'd rather be gaming, driven by assessment.

 

[BDutch]

Math on a normal level is just too difficult for some students. They can be good in learning languages, history, geography, etc. But just don’t grasp math, statistics, physics and chemistry.
Imho, for this group, it is not bad to offer an alternative. I think it's better to let them learn things they can learn with some effort than to let them learn things they don't understand and never will.

Demanding to learn math at a normal level is for some student just as impossible as asking someone who is dyslexic, to read quickly and learn to write without errors. Think from a student's capabilities.

 

[Perris]

I think there's often a mismatch between the sort of maths that maths teachers/ curriculum setters think is important (and therefore offer) and the sort of maths that practically everyone needs to function in the time and place they live in (and therefore might actually be interested in to learn).