Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

[kattabelly]

I clicked, and it said that it had been moved. I notice that it was put up on 9/10, so maybe they only leave them up for a while.

So I saw the button for Radio Scotland and clicked that, and I got an American being interviewed.

Weird, I don't get anything saying it's been moved. Does this work?

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Weird, I don't get anything saying it's been moved. Does this work?

Same result:

I'm working up the courage to try the Gaelic language link!

 

[kattabelly]

Same result:
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I'm working up the courage to try the Gaelic language link!

Maybe because it can tell you're not in the UK? That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Maybe because it can tell you're not in the UK? That's the only thing I can think of.

Probably so.

I did click on the Gaelic link (Smuain Na Maidne) and was greeted with an American-accented ad for a North Carolina hospital chain, which was... different. So there must be something going on about detecting from where one is trying to log in.

After the ad came eerie music and a remarkable collection of consonants and -ch sounds, so I think I did hit the program!

 

[kattabelly]

Probably so.

I did click on the Gaelic link (Smuain Na Maidne) and was greeted with an American-accented ad for a North Carolina hospital chain, which was... different. So there must be something going on about detecting from where one is trying to log in.

After the ad came eerie music and a remarkable collection of consonants and -ch sounds, so I think I did hit the program!

I'll fire up the VPN later tonight and see what happens if I try to listen with it set to America.

 

[cavemanrich]

Yesterday on network TV watched this program. It is also available on YouTube.
It has your island Orkney in there. Very interesting. It is from 2018

 

[kattabelly]

Yesterday on network TV watched this program. It is also available on YouTube.
It has your island Orkney in there. Very interesting. It is from 2018

Always interesting to see somewhere familiar from a different perspective. Thanks for posting that

No mention of the bloody brochs, yet again, though

 

[kattabelly]

Only a green egg and an almost shell-less one today. Not sure if it was laid from the roost again or in front of the nests, but the thinnest trace of a shell is a slight improvement. I shoved some calcium into the prime suspect for the second day running - she was so outraged, she wouldn't even eat the freshly cooked wild-caught salmon I offered until I put her down - but I'll not start worrying about it yet.

 

[kattabelly]

I was already starting to rethink my suspicions and the breeder confirmed Grumpy Chick is a pullet today, so that's 6 out 6 females when everyone else he knows has been hatching improbably male-heavy ratios. Clearly I got all the girls Between that and getting 2/3 boys from the Barred Rocks when he and a few others were mostly getting pullets, I must have some kind of magic touch.

He has a small breeding group of three Silverudd's Blue hens and a cock and they're really beautiful birds. I'm hoping in a year or two he'll have his numbers up and I'll have something else he wants enough to do a swap.

No idea what's going on back home - there was another egg with only slightly more of a trace of shell yesterday. Hopefully this is just teething problems and won't be an ongoing thing.

 

[kattabelly]

27½ hours, 310 miles, three buses, a lift in a van, two ferries (technically the same ferry, twice) and I've lost count of how many conversations that went "Yes, that is a chicken. No, it's two different chickens today. I didn't just take them for a day trip to Shetland and back."

The pullets are clearly a bit freaked out by the whole ordeal and it'll be midnight by the time I'm home, so I'll take them up to the plot but just let them sleep in the pet carrier tonight. They can come out and meet the others from a distance in the morning.