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  1. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Speaking of broodies…
  2. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Interesting. I just looked up Swedish flower, and the females look much like speckled Sussex.
  3. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Yes, they will even sample the “deer safe” plants. Ask me how I know. 🙄😏
  4. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    He’s gorgeous. Do the spangled feathers on his chest come from Speckled Sussex?
  5. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think if’s all fabulous, Shad. You are doing such wonders with them. Flash, the Legbar here, is the most consistent layer. Egg yolk peritonitis took Margo, the Brown Leghorn, and I suspect it eventually got Dorothy, the California White (3/4 White Leghorn, 1/4 Barred Rock). I hope it doesn’t...
  6. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Wow. I have nine hens and they lay on average three or four a day. Sometimes less, very occasionally more. That’s only around between 20 and 30-ish per week. I have three molting right now, and they aren’t laying. Bridge doesn’t ever lay, hasn’t in years, and I don’t think Buttercup does...
  7. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Wonderful! Calendar and/or POW worthy, if you’d in my opinion, consider entering.
  8. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Sometimes when mine poop on the “lawn,” which is really just a mini pasture of grass and clover for them, mowed occasionally to keep DH happy, I can hose it into the soil with no issue. If I just leave it there, there’s no issue, either.
  9. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I may ask at my feed store. I think they’d have fun with that in the run. Thanks!
  10. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Congratulations, Shad. It’s well deserved.
  11. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Haha! I wondered if they were bras at first but zoomed in and figured they had to be horse masks.
  12. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two wonderful photos. And yes, I’d say the table is hers. 🤣
  13. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I’ve never heard of pea straw. Is that something one can buy or do you grow your own?
  14. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    What a beautiful sight. ❤️❤️❤️
  15. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Sorry about the storm, but what an amazingly beautiful place you live in! Théo is gorgeous!
  16. micstrachan

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My white clover LOVES my yard. And the chickens and bees love the clover. ❤️
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