Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

Found me a video to watch

 

[Molpet]

Found me a video to watch

Chicken tv

 

[SimpleJenn]

Found me a video to watch

My daughter loves that one! Great way to get some chicken tv if you don't have access to them.

 

[ChaosMom]

Finished my last final exam (Global Change Ecology) for the semester! Woo-hoo!

Tax - watermelon time:

 

[Shadrach]

Sunny mostly but rather cool when dusk arrived.
Four hours today; two hours in the extended run while I did stuff and two hours on the field once I could keep an eye on them.

Despite having witnessed it over and over again it still hasn't fully regitered just how quickly chickens can disappear. I look up and locate the group look down to do something for a few seconds and when I look up again the chickens have gone! All of them.
I can see most of the field and it still takes me a while to locate them and usually they are nowhere near where I think they might be.

 

[fuzzi]

Sunny mostly but rather cool when dusk arrived.
Four hours today; two hours in the extended run while I did stuff and two hours on the field once I could keep an eye on them.

Despite having witnessed it over and over again it still hasn't fully regitered just how quickly chickens can disappear. I look up and locate the group look down to do something for a few seconds and when I look up again the chickens have gone! All of them.
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They need balloons attached to their bodies so you can locate them more easily!

 

[ChaosMom]

They need balloons attached to their bodies so you can locate them more easily!

Color-coded, a different color for each!

 

[ChaosMom]

Random non-chicken post for which I will owe plenty of tax: among a bunch of unrelated interests, I’m a choral singer and have been for 50+ years. One of my current choirs (I’m in three) is the Asheville Symphony Chorus, and our spring concert is tomorrow night. Its theme is - weirdly - “Majesty”, five pieces related to coronations and other royal celebrations which are not in the radar of most of us ‘Muricans. Our dress rehearsal was tonight; performance is tomorrow night.

One of the pieces was composed for the late Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and I love it, because the alto part (I’m a mezzo soprano singing 2nd alto) is just gorgeous, including that we actually carry the melody for much of the piece, and it gets right on up into my tessitura. Reverential pause for us altos, who are usually the pragmatic workhorses of choral music and rarely get any fun parts at all, dammit.

I was quite chuffed (the Britishness is rubbing off!) that we’re performing this piece, because it’s so lovely to sing and has a few complexities, and we sound pretty dang good. So I went to YouTube to listen to the actual performance so that I could be even more smug that we were singing it, and found that it was sung for the Queen by an auditioned, selected group of… 11- to 14-year-olds.

* sigh * Anyway, sorry; just an adrenaline rush after performing.

- The Call of Wisdom (William Todd), as sung by adults, not us:

 

[MrsNorthie]

I can see most of the field and it still takes me a while to locate them and usually they are nowhere near where I think they might be.

The CL's are really well camouflaged in a natural environment.

 

[MrsNorthie]

They need balloons attached to their bodies so you can locate them more easily!