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  1. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's got nothing to do with machismo. One of the problems I have with BYC is the presentation of chickens as cute, cuddly, friendly pets. They're not and if people accepted this at the outset of their chicken keeping then we would get fewer posts like, "my rooster (they're usually cockerels)...
  2. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think one needs to draw a distinction between other know creatures and strangers which initially are usually seen as a threat. We had dogs in Catalonia and the chickens were quite capable of bullying them to the point of trying to flog them on a few occasions. No need to sit in the shadows...
  3. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three and a half hours today spent watching chickens. I just did the chores today, nothing else. Chilly, damp and grey. The door worked this morning so the tribe was out in the coop run when I arrived. They came out to eat. Glais tore around the place for a bit. Sylph whining brought him back to...
  4. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Sounds like Sylph.:D
  5. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The one that cracks me up is the end of crow warble. One gets the full on crow and at the end a rather pathetic sounding warble that trails off. One very funny one but alarming at the time was from a cockerel called Able who had digestion problems I think. He used to burp and hiccough...
  6. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Is it the right time of year for willow pruning? I've got whips growing and I want o cut them from the tree and plant them.
  7. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Definitions if it helps. "displaying or engaging in violence, combat, or aggression." "the action of fighting; violence or conflict."
  8. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Not quite. I think jungle fowl live as you describe. I know some domestic groups manage multiple males in a discrete group. There are always exceptions, but in jungle fowl from all I've read large groups (over ten members say, are the exception. My experience is face saving scraps (very low...
  9. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I stopped having much faith in these academic studies on chicken behaviour many years ago. Many of those who keep chickens here on BYC know more about chickens than the people responsible for the academic papers mainly because they spend more time and have a greater level of interest than the...
  10. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    one and a half hours today. Mainly dry in the afternoon. Rain moved in as I went home. The pop door was shut again when I got there, I really don't know what happened this time. The batteries in the controller unit were at replacement level according to the unit yet they were new a few weeks...
  11. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Did you know that chickens pick up sub bass frequencies from receptors in their legs. Maybe if you went out with a high fidelity music player (20 Hz to 20 kHz) they may start dancing to the bass frequencies.:p Oops. I forgot. i have insisted that roosters don't dance.:oops::lol:
  12. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    When I first read the article Perris linked to I assumed there were other pages which would bear out Perris's view that the 80% sightings of single birds in some way suggests that flocks merge. The article is pretty sketchy at best. One only needs to read the how the data was collected to...
  13. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thanks. I'll try that.:)
  14. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I had my Parkinson's Disease review last week. No major change. I am find some tasks slightly more difficult but thankfully, nothing that is likely to prevent me going to the field.:celebrate
  15. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thanks. I'll have a read later.
  16. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The recent discussion on tribe or flock has led to me making some attempt to organize the 320 links to studies and related papers so that I can find stuff. Many of these papers are in PDF format and to my shame, I have no idea how to post a PDF on BYC.:oops: Anyway, I found this and it has...
  17. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Could you provide a link to the complete study please. Just to be clear, merge to combine two or more into a single whole.
  18. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    A bit over one and a half hours today. Bus problems took half an hour off the two hours I had planned on. A bit of drizzle with a light breeze and a temperature of 11C at one point. The chicken were not impressed with their day. Mrs Psycho Chew a Coop came round over night and manage to wedge a...
  19. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I agree, that's a much better description. There are a few reasons. It's not an adequate term for the behaviour I and the studies, even the poor ones, have observed. Flock to me and I've asked others, suggests a few hundred sheep grassing on a hill side, the seagulls returning to their roosts...
  20. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think they must to survive. It's interesting that in daytime ranging groups, despite have easy food if they want it, they will still forage; demonstrates how deeply embedded that natural behaviour is. Consider food and other resources as currency in the chicken world for a moment. Here's a...
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