Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

My phone doesn’t download.
It’s not possible to copy the text from the pdf on my phone.

My phone is not working right on other sites. Not sure if it's because a new phone or the cell reception.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Snowed here this morning
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The picture is great.

The snow is beautiful.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 50s with strong gusts expected.

Have a great day!

 

[tranquiliti]

My phone is not working right on other sites. Not sure if it's because a new phone or the cell reception.

 

[Molpet]

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Thanks
This is interesting

 

[Shadrach]

Snowed here this morning
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Lovely picture. Do I want some? No thanks.

 

[Shadrach]

Have the chicks been keeping Fret so busy that Henry's Hideaway has lost some of its former appeal?

Odd you should mention this. Fret tried to wiggle under Henry today.
She's a strange hen is that Fret, but the longer one watches chickens the stranger and more complicated they get.

 

[Shadrach]

Question for a quiet Sunday: is this the ancestor of the brown leghorn?
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It is said to be from the 1st century BC. Very high quality Roman mosaic (the whole thing is about 12"/30 cm square, so tiny tesserae). Now in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

Quiet Sunday! Make I larf. Only just got home and very pleased I am to close the door on the world, put on some tunes and pretend that parts of the day were bits of a dream that didn't realise you were awake.

 

[Shadrach]

here's another (more academic) source on chickens in Roman Britain, it's more interested in numbers than breeds though

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.09.013

I would be very interested in reading how the Chinese viewed chickens at that period and before. I read somewhere that the Chinese had chickens before the Romans.

 

[Perris]

I would be very interested in reading how the Chinese viewed chickens at that period and before. I read somewhere that the Chinese had chickens before the Romans.

I'd be interested in that too, if you remember where you read it, or anyone else knows...