#chooks — Public Fediverse posts
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Proud mama hen hatched two baby chicks early today, and we're hoping for more over the next few days. She's staying on the nest, so she seems fairly certain more are coming!
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Proud mama hen hatched two baby chicks early today, and we're hoping for more over the next few days. She's staying on the nest, so she seems fairly certain more are coming!
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Proud mama hen hatched two baby chicks early today, and we're hoping for more over the next few days. She's staying on the nest, so she seems fairly certain more are coming!
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Proud mama hen hatched two baby chicks early today, and we're hoping for more over the next few days. She's staying on the nest, so she seems fairly certain more are coming!
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Proud mama hen hatched two baby chicks early today, and we're hoping for more over the next few days. She's staying on the nest, so she seems fairly certain more are coming!
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Chooks are up with the sun.. Basking in its early glory, whilst they have their morning clean.. Felt I had to share such cuteness.. Have a great Sunday Bluesky Family 🥰 #bluesky #Fiji #tropicalisland #chooks #henlife #goodmorning
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Blogged: A new year has begun, and 5 years at SixPivot. Plus new chooks and a cat!
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Sorting through the grubs in the greywater basins, and loving the squash vines
#Chickens #Chooks #Chickenstodon #Poultry #ChickensOfMastodon #Farm #Homestead #RegenerativeAg #Permaculture
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Our hens won't drink under a roof. Eat, sleep, poop, and lay eggs, but not drink.
Bowl of water on the back step? Fill 'er up, we've nearly emptied it already.
Bowl of water in the coop (near the feeder)? ABOMINATION.
Waterer on the back step? Sure, why not.
Waterer in the doorway of a doorless and derelict shed in the chicken run? Not going near it; would rather die.
Waterer randomly out in the run? At last, we were DYING!
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The destructive might of the chicken horde has been held back by the chicken-wire-with-assorted-additions fence for a couple of days now, so I have been bold and sowed shade-loving flowers in the bed under the kitchen window.
It was built as a raised bed, but whoever built it didn't consider that burying the foundation's air vents under a foot or so of soil was not a great idea.
Hopefully the seeds don't mind a heavy clay soil under a thin layer of rich loam.
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My chicken tried to EAT a button right off my shirt! While I was wearing it!
Luckily it was well sewn on, but now she keeps stalking me in the garden with her beady little eye fixed on the button in question.
The button is made of coconut shell, and it's the sort you button a long tab to if you have your sleeves rolled up (I didn't).
Now I'm worried about what else on or about my person she might take it into her tiny little brain to consider comestible.
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Our junior hen stopped laying in the coop! Provoked, it appears, by me mucking it out. No longer able to contemplate a pile of poo while laying, she's been forced to squeeze into a patch of mud under a pile of prunings in order to lay her eggs in sufficiently sordid surroundings.
The senior hen looks like she'll be coming into lay soon, so hopefully her good example will jostle the wayward witless one back into more hygienic habits.
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I've realized I've posted very few chicken pictures since the baby chick rave cave days. So, meet two of our roosters: Caesar in front, our benevolent one, and Nero in the back who lives up to his name and always kind of is eyeing me like he'd like to kill me but hasn't decided how yet.
Maybe this will be a chicken thread? May as well introduce you all to some of the residents!
#Chickens #Chickenstodon #ChickensOfMastodon #Chooks #Rooster
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The oviposition saga continues!
The junior hen has continued to lay eggs at two day intervals in Nest Box No.3 (previously used to hold food, prior to the Hedgehog Incidents).I have been leaving each egg (dated in pencil) until it is joined by its successor, so as to reinforce the idea that this is indeed the right place to lay eggs. (A Kinder Surprise capsule makes an unconvincing decoy, I have learned.)
Yesterday's egg was therefore still sitting in Box No.3 today when the junior hen elected to a) kick it on to the floor of the coop and then b) lay an egg in Box No.1.
Box No.2 houses water and shell, so will probably remain free of eggy deposits.
Probably.
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If you are interested in raising your own chickens, or you know someone who is, it just so happens that I narrated an audiobook about that!
Raising Chickens for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens - Quality Eggs, Safe, Healthy and Smell-Free Coop by Otis Banks comes with a free ebook edition when you buy the audiobook.
https://geni.us/RaisingChickens
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@solarpunk @audiobooks @bookstodon
#Solarpunk #Chickens #BackyardChickens #UrbanFarming #Chooks
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Wonders will never cease! Our junior hen, after spending a day and a half visiting every muddy nook and cranny in the garden, finally laid an egg...in the coop! And not just in the coop, actually in a nest box!!
Previous favoured locations have included: clump of overgrown grass, pile of prunings, mudpatch under leaning fence, and under the perch, hazardously close to the nightsoil.
Long may this outbreak of unexpected good sense last.
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Seen at two separate houses in my walk "down the street" today. Looks like chooks are popular here 😊
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In memory of Frenchie, the robot vacuum cleaner riding chicken, we all rode the vacuum cleaner today.
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Our younger hen has craftily created a concealed nesting space in the (wildly overgrown and weed-infested) vegetable garden where she can hoard her slightly muddy eggs in secret.
Or what would be secret if she didn't announce every new arrival with an extended broadcast to the neighbourhood.
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Not everyone knows this, but chickens can and do sing.
Popular pieces in the chooky repertoire include:
Behold The Immensity of Mine Egg (a triumphal march)
We All Call Out And Know Not Why (a choral piece, for as many voices as available)
and the big new hit of the season, I Came Into the Garden and I Know Not How to Leave.
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Hot day but the chooks still lay. It's dusk and I just went out to top up their water and some of them had gone to bed, but on hearing me, they got up again. I might have had something exciting! Failing that, they scratched ground where I tipped out the dirty water and drank that instead of the fresh stuff. Go figure.
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Good morning to everyone except our hens, who decided to join the dawn chorus at 5:42am (with encore at 6:05).
#hens #chooks #chickens #birds #MyHenHathMurderedSleep -
It has come to this: I am negotiating with a chicken.
The negotiations went something like this.
Me: lay your eggs in this fluffy pile of shavings in a clean dry private nest box!
Hen: lays egg in muddy patch of weeds, out in the open under the rainy sky etc.Being good negotiators, we have come to a compromise: she lays the eggs on the floor of the coop, as far from the nest box as possible. (Usually after a reinspection of the now flattened muddy weed site and a rant about people who don't know a nice eggy spot when they see one.) Then I clamber in to the coop, bent double, and move the egg to the nest box, where she ignores it.
This compromise will probably last until the Top Hen comes in to lay. She's not much of a one for compromise, but she is a *very* effective negotiator.
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Something I did not expect to see this morning: Kryptops (Top Hen) chasing Troodon (Subordinate Hen) around the garden, trying to snaffle her mouse, while Troodon tried to a) evade Kryptops, and b) eat the mouse.
Whether this is an honestly come by mouse, or the ill-gotten gains of intimidating the cat, I am not in a position to say.
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Bresse chickens have the most awesome blue legs and white nails #chooks
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Neighbour’s #chooks looking for snacks in the #gardenbed “here to help” after tomatoe season around #compostbin
But also
What did the cheese say to its self in the mirror?
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Beachcombers after 10 hours of work. #digitalart #procreate #wip #surreal #chixkenart #chooks
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Anyone with #chooks noticed this? Our last remaining ISA Molly has reached retirement and hasn't laid for over a year. But she's started doing these quiet hoarse 'crows' occasionally. We call them sheryl crows - well because she's a she. Do chooks go through menopause?
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I thought I'd do an updated #introduction since my first one was a bit sparse on details. Also, #HappyNewYear 😊
I'm an #editor working full-time from home for a small publication. The organisation has gone through a lot of changes over the past six months, which have been stressful, but hopefully things will be more stable this year.
#2024 will also be the year I finish my #PhD. I know I said that last year but I've run out of time so I really have to do it now. It's a #creative PhD -- I'm writing a #steampunk novel set in #WesternAustralia and my #thesis discusses Australian steampunk. Weirdly, despite having spent years on this, I still like the topic and I hope to write some more papers on specific elements when I'm finished. (But first I need to finish).
I have a partner and four #children and live with them plus two #dogs, three #cats and a bunch of #chooks (aka #chickens) in a little regional city on the south coast of Western Australia. I love #cooking, #reading, #writing, #gardening and #hiking and am interested in all things #green ... I've been banging on about the #environment for decades and despite the dire predicament we humans collectively find ourselves in now, I'm heartened by the fact that #climate issues are mainstream news now. I believe in #hope because I think it's a radical act of defiance against the #doom.
I'm fascinated by #science and #space and the #history of how humans have learnt and passed down #knowledge through millennia. I love to learn new things from people whose backgrounds are different from my own. I spent a little time in Germany and did languages in my undergrad degree, so ich spreche #deutsch et parle un peu #français. I'm also learning #Japanese on Duolingo so now I can say 'this cake is tasty', which, I think we can all agree, is a very handy phrase to know.
Ooh! Nearly forgot. Love #tea. Big fan.
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I love the sound of happy hens. @Knightky and I just gave these fluffy-butted girls some veggies and grass. #chickens #hens #RhodeIslandRed #PasturedChickens #FreeRangeChickens #chooks
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I love the sound of happy hens. @Knightky and I just gave these fluffy-butted girls some veggies and grass. #chickens #hens #RhodeIslandRed #PasturedChickens #FreeRangeChickens #chooks
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I love the sound of happy hens. @Knightky and I just gave these fluffy-butted girls some veggies and grass. #chickens #hens #RhodeIslandRed #PasturedChickens #FreeRangeChickens #chooks
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I love the sound of happy hens. @Knightky and I just gave these fluffy-butted girls some veggies and grass. #chickens #hens #RhodeIslandRed #PasturedChickens #FreeRangeChickens #chooks
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I love the sound of happy hens. @Knightky and I just gave these fluffy-butted girls some veggies and grass. #chickens #hens #RhodeIslandRed #PasturedChickens #FreeRangeChickens #chooks
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Befriending this #RhodeIslandRed #hen ❤It's going super well! She's only bird still hanging out with me 🥰😍❤ I love when #chooks understand I'm a chooks lover & it doesn't take me too long to gain interspecies trust ❤❤
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Befriending this #RhodeIslandRed #hen ❤It's going super well! She's only bird still hanging out with me 🥰😍❤ I love when #chooks understand I'm a chooks lover & it doesn't take me too long to gain interspecies trust ❤❤
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Befriending this #RhodeIslandRed #hen ❤It's going super well! She's only bird still hanging out with me 🥰😍❤ I love when #chooks understand I'm a chooks lover & it doesn't take me too long to gain interspecies trust ❤❤
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Befriending this #RhodeIslandRed #hen ❤It's going super well! She's only bird still hanging out with me 🥰😍❤ I love when #chooks understand I'm a chooks lover & it doesn't take me too long to gain interspecies trust ❤❤
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Another day in the countryside, chilling with #chickens 🥰
#Chooks #CowichanValley #RuralLife #FarmFriends #SimpleJoys #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #homestead
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Another day in the countryside, chilling with #chickens 🥰
#Chooks #CowichanValley #RuralLife #FarmFriends #SimpleJoys #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #homestead
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Another day in the countryside, chilling with #chickens 🥰
#Chooks #CowichanValley #RuralLife #FarmFriends #SimpleJoys #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #homestead
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Another day in the countryside, chilling with #chickens 🥰
#Chooks #CowichanValley #RuralLife #FarmFriends #SimpleJoys #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #homestead
