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Another Spanish idiom I learned today is "acostarse con las gallinas" i.e. go to bed with the chickens i.e. tuck in really early. I've heard it in English as 'go to bed with the chickens and wake up with the cows', meaning go to bed right at sundown and wake up at the crack of dawn. My girls really do tuck themselves in as soon as it gets dark without my having to do anything. I love hearing them cluck at each other as they jostle for the best perch at night.
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Imagined posted:Another Spanish idiom I learned today is "acostarse con las gallinas" i.e. go to bed with the chickens i.e. tuck in really early. I've heard it in English as 'go to bed with the chickens and wake up with the cows', meaning go to bed right at sundown and wake up at the crack of dawn. My girls really do tuck themselves in as soon as it gets dark without my having to do anything. I love hearing them cluck at each other as they jostle for the best perch at night.  chicken bedtime was always my favourite time of night. i also enjoy the intricate politics behind who perches where.
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Sep 20, 2021 12:34
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MrUnderbridge posted:Our three girls had their heads taken off and the bodies left there by a raccoon. gently caress 'em. Same here. I can at least respect if a predator eats a good portion of a chicken, but just killing them is for assholes.
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Sep 20, 2021 15:35
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Raccoons sound awful. If anyone is in the market for any fall chicks, Meyer Hatchery is going to quit selling Lakeshore Eggers. I was planning to order some next spring but I guess I’m getting fall chicks instead!  I raised a few Lakeshores this past spring and I really liked them. They were only left behind in the move because my mom wanted them.My whole order: 3 Lakeshore Egger pullets 2 Partridge Penedesenca pullets 1 Cream Legbar pullet 1 Cream Legbar cockerel 1 Meal Maker pullet (they have been a Cream Legbar or Olive Egger lately) I am excited for new chicks! Dorothy had her cough come back so we re-dosed her and we are keeping an eye on her. I hope her poor demeanor is mostly due to molting.
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Sep 21, 2021 23:01
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Joburg posted:Raccoons sound awful.
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Sep 22, 2021 01:52
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 The chickens went on a field trip to the front of house where they are remarkably more vulnerable. They stick together though. Brave chickens.
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Sep 22, 2021 05:15
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Beautiful 
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Sep 22, 2021 09:36
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That's an album cover, for sure!
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Sep 22, 2021 09:53
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Sep 23, 2021 00:53
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Turns out two of the three chicks we let hatch and lived are likely roosters  .
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Sep 23, 2021 02:51
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ChaseSP posted:Turns out two of the three chicks we let hatch and lived are likely roosters 
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Sep 23, 2021 03:09
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/pd08oe/so_part_of_the_automated_chicken_feeding_system/ Jackpot! 
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Sep 23, 2021 12:15
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Oh those poor birds (especially those too sick and slow to move out of the way of the avalanche).
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Sep 23, 2021 13:05
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I'm not certain but I thought it was the feeder just constantly dumping out food, not that it happened all at once. In which case the only avalanche should be all the birds rushing towards dinner E: I hope it wasn't that 
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Sep 23, 2021 13:40
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I'm reasonably certain that if it had dumped all at once, it would have spread out more instead of piling that high.
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Sep 23, 2021 13:52
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OP from reddit posted:----No chickens died in this spill, the filling system comes out of the pipe at a rate that they were able to move out of the way, like poking a hole in a sandbag---
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Sep 23, 2021 14:01
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no you see spookygonk has to be terrified for some meat birds that are gonna be dead in 3 weeks anyhow hell if I was a meat bird, a death bath of food sounds like a wild way to go.
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Sep 23, 2021 14:50
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:no you see spookygonk has to be terrified for some meat birds that are gonna be dead in 3 weeks anyhow Fluffy Bunnies posted:hell if I was a meat bird, a death bath of food sounds like a wild way to go.
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Sep 23, 2021 16:36
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All my girls have gone off-lay for some reason. Hoping it's just the time of year and the fact they're 18 months old now Haven't noticed any moulting and they all look fine, no lice or anything... The plastic house has been good for keeping that down. Just... No eggs. They're not eating them either, there's no egg song in the morning.
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Sep 23, 2021 17:32
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Nettle Soup posted:All my girls have gone off-lay for some reason. Hoping it's just the time of year and the fact they're 18 months old now I’d guess molting. Sometimes they do a stealth molt and it’s hard to tell. We had Dorothy in the house the other night for observation and she lost a bunch of under feathers. I can’t tell she’s molting unless I look pretty closely though.
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Sep 23, 2021 18:21
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The pure joyful surprise I had when I was vaguely curious and clicked on this: and was greeted with this: https://twitter.com/shouldhaveaduck/status/1441086938409160704
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Sep 23, 2021 19:05
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spookygonk posted:I have disliked factory farming every since getting ex-battery hens. I've disliked it for decades and I'm a vegetarian of nearly 20 years, but ing over that picture, my dude, even if they were dead it's faster than the truck to the slaughterhouse.Enfys posted:The pure joyful surprise I had when I was vaguely curious and clicked on this: good lord, a literal orb. Never have I desired to boop a bird but now I do.
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Sep 23, 2021 19:28
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It's funny how my girls are simultaneously so stupid it's a wonder they remember to breathe AND surprisingly quick to learn. For example, we've only been letting them out of their coup to wander the backyard for three days now, but they've already learned to get excited and expect it. Whenever anyone goes outside now, they all line up at the door of the coup and start chattering like mad. On the other hand, after they're out, occasionally I'll watch one of them go back into the coup to get a drink of water or something. She'll get the drink, then look up and see her sisters on the other side of the fence, and immediately get all upset and confused because she can see they're OUT THERE but she can't remember how to rejoin them -- even though the gate is wide open and she JUST walked out of it and back in. In addition, often while they're out my son will take their feeder to the barn to refill it, and they've already developed a habit of following along behind him. I can see them in my mind's eye right now, excitedly lined up behind him at the barn door waiting for the food. Last night I accidentally forgot to latch their coup and when we got up this morning they were already out and grazing in the grass, but fortunately all safe and well. We're pretty deep in the suburbs here, fortunately, not a lot of natural predators other than cats and the occasional small hawk.
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Sep 23, 2021 19:57
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:I've disliked it for decades and I'm a vegetarian of nearly 20 years, but I was also -ing over it, let me have my feelings!
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Sep 23, 2021 20:21
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Imagined posted:On the other hand, after they're out, occasionally I'll watch one of them go back into the coup to get a drink of water or something. She'll get the drink, then look up and see her sisters on the other side of the fence, and immediately get all upset and confused because she can see they're OUT THERE but she can't remember how to rejoin them -- even though the gate is wide open and she JUST walked out of it and back in. Wildflower did this today. i was up on the balcony, looking down at the coop, and everyone left but Wildflower. she paced back and forth in front of the fence, watching the flock walk away. she started calling, and the roosters came right back to her, but no one was smart enough to figure out where the gate was she eventually got out but i was afraid i was going to have to go free her from her stupidity if it took any longer
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Sep 23, 2021 20:29
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:I've disliked it for decades and I'm a vegetarian of nearly 20 years, but Speaking of that, I forgot if I posted this. I saw it while I had my van full of chickens on the way to Georgia.  Just disgraceful animal treatment there. Since I wasn’t able to bring my freezer full of meat across the country I just ordered half a cow from a local farm with an on-site butcher. I hope they are really decent to their animals but it’s so hard to know for sure.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:45
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I don’t eat chicken unless it’s specifically sourced from a small farm. Which means I don’t eat much chicken. Yes, I am sure I’m being hypocritical in a multitude of ways. But putting chicken in my mouth that lived a miserable life not only makes me feel bad, it tastes bad. Gristly, stringy, and plain gross meat comes from 99% of the grocery stores.
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Sep 24, 2021 01:21
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'Woody breast syndrome' sure has ruined most mass market chicken for me in the last few years.
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Sep 24, 2021 01:34
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Captain Log posted:I don’t eat chicken unless it’s specifically sourced from a small farm. Which means I don’t eat much chicken. Agreed. Good meat comes from the woods and farms that let them be animals (like mine). I roasted a whole venison ham in the crock pot all day today (it's a holiday) and it looks like food, not sad whatever the hell all the chicken breast at the store looks like. Ground beef usually looks like playdough until you get it from somewhere the cattle actually got to move around. Then it's this dark, rich stuff and people are confused by it. It's heartbreaking.
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Sep 24, 2021 01:51
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Thanks thread, I got off my (figurative) butt and contacted a local farm about a Thanksgiving free range heritage turkey. And I ordered another for Xmas, or whenever. 
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Sep 24, 2021 02:21
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it was reassuring to know the chickens in that photo aren't being periodically murdered by corn avalanches. sadly that set-up is one of the better ones that i've seen, regarding each individual bird's room to move and what looks like actual dirt on the floor rather than an acidic swamp of decomposing poo poo. factory farming is an act of evil. also, i've said it before, but i would kill a man to taste a fluffy bunnies (tm) free-range chicken Joburg posted:Speaking of that, I forgot if I posted this. I saw it while I had my van full of chickens on the way to Georgia. glorious, thank you for this palette cleanser
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Sep 24, 2021 02:22
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got some bedtime pics: Tiny Man where he puts himself to sleep:  where he actually gets to sleep (usually alone):  good birds:  
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Sep 24, 2021 05:22
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BHB posted:Tiny Man where he puts himself to sleep: speaking of tiny men, i am picking up a free quail rooster on sunday 
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Sep 24, 2021 06:47
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Tiny Man is the hero we need.
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Sep 24, 2021 08:30
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When I was in highschool we had a cooking lesson where we a made stir-fry. It was a special school with only 30-odd students, so it was all open-plan and the school provided the ingredients. They'd bought a big pack of the absolute cheapest frozen chicken breasts you could find and threw them in. The smell of it filled the whole place, and it still haunts me, it was like burnt plastic. I refused to try it or take it home, and it took me a good 10+ years to trust stir-fry. I never really ate chicken again.
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Sep 24, 2021 08:44
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perepelki posted:i would kill a man to taste a fluffy bunnies (tm) free-range chicken you can take a side of lamb at the same time, too. Nettle Soup posted:When I was in highschool we had a cooking lesson where we a made stir-fry. It was a special school with only 30-odd students, so it was all open-plan and the school provided the ingredients. I mean, that might be because of their lovely cookware, too.
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Sep 24, 2021 14:48
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Man, you'd have to try really hard to gently caress up stir-fry that bad. Stir-fry is usually the one thing people who "don't really cook" can still manage.
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Sep 24, 2021 14:58
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Did they just throw whole frozen chicken breasts in the wok? I can see that.
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Sep 24, 2021 15:07
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BHB posted:got some bedtime pics:
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Imagined posted:'Woody breast syndrome' sure has ruined most mass market chicken for me in the last few years. Ugh, so true. This past year it's become more common. My wife refuses to eat it, the texture grosses her out, and I'm not a huge fan either. It's also so random. Two breasts from the same package, one can be fine, the other woody. I even went to a high end, fancy store and got their antibiotic free breasts, and one turned out to be woody. The worst part is there's no real way to tell until it's cooked. So you take a bite that smells great and then - crunchy texture. Then the meal is pretty much wasted. I'll eat it, but won't enjoy it. My wife forages in the kitchen and looks sad.
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