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  1. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    I don’t have two coops but I have a very big coop with lots of different areas and roosts. Mine sometimes have a discussion that ends up with someone sleeping far away from the others. It is usually the same couple of hens that go off elsewhere.
  2. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    I have noticed this too. Mine use the concrete blocks that form the foundation of the Chicken Palace to file their beaks.
  3. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Yes this. I am confused.
  4. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    I am roughly Shad’s age and I guess the same age as some others on this thread. At my age I feel that most of the damage to me from plastic and chemicals has been done. I lived through the golden age of plastic and at this stage I suspect I am barely biodegradable! My motivation therefore is...
  5. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    I meant why the focus on eggs. Everything I have read is that pretty much everything is contaminated. Water, milk, meat, fish, vegetables etc. So I am questioning why they focus on backyard chicken eggs and not any other food product. And I am deeply skeptical that commercial eggs are better...
  6. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Yes. Exactly this. Why the microscope on eggs?
  7. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Like others on this thread I am a tad skeptical. My skepticism starts with the units of the assessment being different from EU guidance and goes on to the backyard vs commercial eggs. Where is the data that commercial eggs are lower in PFAS? And what is the underlying theory for why...
  8. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Wow. Strange. Mine are not people friendly. My sense is they can see in red light but not well. So I tend to aim the light up or to the side. I am sure they hear me and smell me but no mad panic as there would be if I had normal light.
  9. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    A headlamp with a red light setting is an invaluable tool in caring for chickens. It won’t disturb them and it lets you see what you are doing. One if the many things I learned from Shadrach is how to take them off the roost at night. If you push your arm or hand against the back of their legs...
  10. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Sorry to hear about Ini mini
  11. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Agree. I enjoyed following along @BDutch
  12. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Congratulations!
  13. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    There is plenty on line about the use of soy in insulation: This from the Massachusetts government: https://www.mass.gov/news/soy-based-wiring It looks like most auto manufacturers switched to soy-based insulation a long time ago (mid-2000s I think). There was a class action suit against...
  14. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Yes! And indeed that was the rationale given to me for why wire insulation is made of soy.
  15. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    We have the issue with electric cables from both mice and squirrels. I don't know if it is true, but I was told that some vehicles use wire that has insulation made from soy, and it is the soy that attracts the critters for a snack.
  16. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Sounds promising. Good luck.
  17. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    :hugs
  18. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Sorry. I’ve got no useful advice for you, but I love the photo with them on the bench. You should submit it to picture if the week.
  19. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Oh no! I am so sorry.
  20. RoyalChick

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Glad she got home and all is well. Double check coop security. As well as being vicious killers, that class of predator are also crafty and can get through very small gaps.
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