Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

My brain starts to malfunction reading these ‘word combo’s’ or ‘sayings’. Google doesn’t want to burn his fingers on the matter.
So you really need to explain these sayings, one by one.

Animal Group Names | List, Collective Nouns, & Facts | Britannica https://share.google/RuqAlYmYTvj84Taf3

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Animal Group Names | List, Collective Nouns, & Facts | Britannica https://share.google/RuqAlYmYTvj84Taf3

For what it’s worth, not that many people use all these much any more, except for enthusiastic high school English teachers, and maybe mystery authors with “a murder of crows.”

“Gaggle of geese” is still pretty common.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

We closed off a small bit of yard that we opened up for them on Dec 27, and they are Outraged.

Before:

And after, 17 days later (and they were stuck in the run most of the time while we were in Pacific Grove, or there’d be no grass left at all):

 

[HiEverybirdy]

That grouse is stunning; I downloaded a copy for my own delight; are you OK with that?
It reminds me of a hoatzin, which I would love to see irl one day
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Kind of you to confirm, but yes, I'm fine with that, and flattered.

I've met grouse in the woods on our property, but that photo was taken in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, along a secluded road called the Old Cataloochee Turnpike, a rocky track that looks more like a hiking trail than a turnpike.

We were driving home after a hike when this little booger trotted across the "turnpike." I levitated out of the car with my camera, and the grouse was kind enough to calmly regard me while I focused the lens.

It's an enchanting bird, to me, at least. Not as stunning as your pheasants, of course. But I get sooo excited to see a grouse.

Some older neighbors were also thrilled to hear about the grouse sightings. They've not seen many on our mountain since the 1980s, when a hunter could fetch $20 a bird because of a popular hat selling in souvenir stores that featured grouse tail feathers.

I had to look up the hoatzin, the stinkbird Fascinating.

 

[Shadrach]

Attach files will do pdfs on BYC.

Thanks. I'll try that.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

But now they have the new area, which, well, ok; they guess it’ll do:

South end of a northbound Speckled Sussex:

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Animal Group Names | List, Collective Nouns, & Facts | Britannica https://share.google/RuqAlYmYTvj84Taf3

I consider my chickens a mob