New digital color pencil piece I’m working on. I’m calling it Inspiration. That little section of color took me an hour. #wip#procreate#chickens#art#mastoart
Coopnet is back online at the request of my spouse, after being down for awhile. I also have it being served up via my AREDN nodes I’ve been messing with.
breaking news, #chickens are Asian. (I don't know anything about chickens and never thought about where they came from, nor had the thought of wild ancestral chickens occurred)
"The earliest chicken remains came from Ban Non Wat, in Central Thailand, a dry rice farming site known to be inhabited since the Neolithic Age. The earliest chicken remains came from between 1650 B.C.E. and 1250 B.C.E., during the Bronze Age. Instead of being flooded like paddies, the fields were soaked by seasonal rains and attracted hungry wildfowl. The researchers note that this led to chicken #domestication around 3,500 years ago, Science News reports. Experts also found a correlation between the spread of dry rice farming, millet and other grains with the spread of chicken bone trails across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Science reports."
Hens have been successfully moved to their new corner of the garden. Hopefully they won’t wreck the grass here too quickly. 🤣
They were all rather eager to access the nestbox and formed an impatient queue on the ladder. One couldn’t wait and laid an egg in the cardboard box I put in their temporary run while we moved things. 😄
Top end of garden all mowed and some small plum trees cut back. Aching all over, but very pleased with today’s progress.
Clipped Fricassee's wings today. He was very displeased with me. Three primary flight feathers, shortened to about an inch longer than the coverts, outside-in, symmetrical. This is pretty minimalist, but should hopefully help keep him put. If it doesn't then I'll add more feathers.
Coq au Vin kept attacking my shoe while I held Fricassee and was trying to "help." I think trying to help Fricassee rather than me, however, but with about the same degree of effectiveness.
Nothing new happened with our flock, but I keep seeing cases of people who are losing #chickens to it in the area, and I wonder how many of them can be traced back to one seller in our area who was (allegedly) selling birds that they knew to be sick and/or refused to take responsibility for their lack of biosecurity.
They still won't take responsibility, several years later, though they have improved a few of their practices.
The new rooster is getting all grown up, and after a brief protest was receptive to some attention. He was sitting in the coup run because he lost track of his siblings who were on the other side of the house.
Only intact chicken's egg found from Roman Britain (around 1,700 years old, found in what is now Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire) is now thought to be the only of its type in the world - after scientists find it still has liquid inside 🤯