Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[ChaosMom]

yes; home bred birds get Welsh place names (Cadle, Wig), purchased hatching eggs get place names from the country the breed originates (in this case, Egypt). Place names because gender is not known when I name them. I also try to use all letters of the alphabet, so that in my records I can abbreviate to one, or worst case two, letters, instead of having to write the whole name out.

I didn’t know that there were any Welsh place names with fewer than 20 letters…

 

[Perris]

I didn’t know that there were any Welsh place names with fewer than 20 letters…

there are some risqué ones too
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/20-tremendous-welsh-place-names-10891251

 

[Perris]

Please keep us updated on where she decides to take her bunch to sleep

she's taken them into one of the coops - what a star! And apparently got them all up the ramp on her own with it (I didn't want to lift her to check they're all there, but I couldn't hear cheeping coming from anywhere else).

 

[ChaosMom]

there are some risqué ones too
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/20-tremendous-welsh-place-names-10891251

That’s wild! W is the long u sound, right? (Literally double u.)

I have a tiny but real fear that one day our choruses will have us singing in Welsh. Or Gaelic.

Ukrainian and Hebrew were bad enough!

 

[Molpet]

she's taken them into one of the coops - what a star! And apparently got them all up the ramp on her own with it (I didn't want to lift her to check they're all there, but I couldn't hear cheeping coming from anywhere else).

I would check, I have found unconscious lost chicks

 

[Perris]

I would check, I have found unconscious lost chicks

I did go right round looking for them before I thought to look in the coops, so I think if I missed one in daylight there's no chance of spotting one now in the dark.

I've been popping out to check on them all afternoon, and every time I thought 'oh dear she's lost one' I looked longer and harder and then counted them all. Their camouflage is very good - except the yellow one, who sticks out like a sore thumb.

 

[BDutch]

there are some risqué ones too
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/20-tremendous-welsh-place-names-10891251

Nice names
Good to know when reading them:
w has the sound of OO as in boot and shoot, or of U as in pull. Note, however, that W can also be used as a consonant with the English W sound. y has two different sounds. In one-syllable words (llyn), and in the last syllable of polysyllabic words (estyn), it is a shortened EE sound as at the end of happy.

We write oe instead of w in the Netherlands. W is always used as a consonant. Y is not different but often use a J or a I instead.

 

[fluffycrow]

she's taken them into one of the coops - what a star! And apparently got them all up the ramp on her own with it (I didn't want to lift her to check they're all there, but I couldn't hear cheeping coming from anywhere else).

An incredibly smart girl indeed! Sounds like a very successful first day

 

[RoyalChick]

This reminds me of one of those simple wooden toys...

It was dried out cat food.

Brilliant! I still have that toy from my childhood, but my chickens seem not to be so polite and more chaotic. Lovely video!

 

[Shadrach]

she's taken them into one of the coops - what a star! And apparently got them all up the ramp on her own with it (I didn't want to lift her to check they're all there, but I couldn't hear cheeping coming from anywhere else).

That is a major result.