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  1. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Happy Birthday, Shad!! 🎂🤩
  2. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have great difficulty getting pics of my hens that are flattering to them. For one thing, they never stop moving. And I can’t get a good angle without getting down on the ground which around here is usually muddy and wet.
  3. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I appreciate your educational (and they are) posts on chicken keeping. I don’t take it personal because I happen to keep my chickens in what has become the usual model for modern small flocks. Even though I am limited in what I can do, it is always useful to know what the ideal would be. It is...
  4. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I am sure I owe some tax by now:
  5. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I look at it this way, any creature that has been domesticated, has essentially been tamed. Battery hens have been enslaved. They are still a chicken. Ever read those stories of children raised in a closet? They are twisted and will never be “right”, but it is still best to release them from...
  6. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Production breeds will always be kept as long as people eat eggs. In almost every grocery cart in every line is at least a dozen eggs. I am really pleased with myself, lol, because I have not bought an egg in a year and a half. I am spoiled now. Some of my girls are “production hens”...
  7. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I am with you. And yet I do appreciate Shad in his quest to learn the true soul of The Chicken.
  8. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is my philosophy as well. While I get that my domesticated chickens have been “robbed” of their natural wild life, I also think that they only even exist at all because of farming and breeding, and I love my little tribe for what and who they are. I try to provide them with an environment...
  9. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I agree that a second book would be ideal. It’s a drastic change in the subject material. The knowledge you have gained really should be shared!
  10. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I see a book in your future. Or at least a research paper. You are correct in that your point of view is different from the usual, and therein lies the value in it.
  11. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    You are correct that one can’t study natural behavior in unnatural conditions. It is also true that you studied natural behavior for years. It might be an amazing study to observe their behavior in unnatural conditions as a contrast. Just a thought. Like humans, chickens adapt in crisis...
  12. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I definitely crashed this party too! And it has occurred to me that it was a bit rude of me to just show up uninvited and not even pay any tax!!!!!!! So, in order to rectify my uncouthness….
  13. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Things like this make my blood boil! :mad:
  14. LaFemmeKatia

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I am having the same problem. I will never be caught up. :p
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