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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is one of the problems with low diversity and not enough room. If chickens ate nettles and the other weeds that flourish at the field in the extended run I wouldn't be trying to introduce plants that haven't naturally adapted. One partial solution is to plant one vegetable crop for for the...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Not yet. :)
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I found it can be done with fewer chickens provided the hens go broody. One problem is boom and bust. One year lots of offspring survive, the next not enough survive. Take my recent experience at the field. One day I've got a family with potential, the next it's a dead end and I'll have to...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. Silly hot in the early afternoon but while I was there the clouds rolled in and the temperature dropped from 30C to about 24C, Wings went back down, panting stopped and we were all a lot more comfortable. If the Met Office is right the top temperature should be around 23C with...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Loved the videos. Great hackle flash in the last one.:D
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Someone explain to me what is wrong with these people. It's yet one more writer/academic who it seems has read maybe a lot of studies on this topic but wouldn't know a chicken if they fell over one. They seem to have got their ruminants and their fowl all confused. The section about chickens...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    12/07. Uncomfortably hot at 33C. Mow and Sylph headed straight for my plot as usual and only went foraging after the sun dipped below the tree line. Last day of high temperatures according to the Met Office.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Someone posted about a chicken nest and broody up a tree. They were concerned that a chick would die should if fall out of the nest or jump on the instructions of mum. The are are very light and have enormous drag due to the chick fluff, that fluff also gives great cushioning. Watching days old...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half hours today. 32C. I let Mow and Sylph onto the field as soon as they had finished eating. They headed straight for my plot, possibly the coolest place on the field late afternoon with at least some sort of cover. They had a long bath together and hung around the plot and shade...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    11/12. 31C and sticky. Not critical heat yet but not comfortable for the chickens of me.
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    My ISA wants to be broody

    It's what I've found to be true in general. Some are less inclined than others but everywhere I've worked with chickens where the owners have said the hens don't go broody got proven wrong after I had been there a while.:confused:
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    My ISA wants to be broody

    I've been hearing this or that breed don't go broody for years.:p There does seem to be some truth in this; I've had red sex links go part broody on a few occasions but never got past a day or two. The drive is still in there somewhere thankfully.
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Same here. All cats and most dogs.:( It used to be pollen. It seems to have got better and animal hair worse.:confused:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    10/07.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I've felt much the same towards a few of my partner's families.:p
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