What kind of chicken is beeper?
Im going to get serious for a minute
Beeper is a low/hatchery quality buff bantam brahma. Specifically she is Buff Columbian (which is what those cute black markings on her neck and tail are)
Beeper is a poorly bred chicken, she is very productive and non broody despite being a breed that is supposed to be used for meat and brooding. She also has a pale face and white ear lobes when they are supposed to be solid red. I cannot stress enough that Beeper is a bad example of her breed. Of course she is perfect to me she is my precious little beebeebee but i will not praise her hatchery.
Here is some likely beeper relatives compared to a high quality version of Beeper
Beeper relatives from the hatchery she likely came from. Stressed birds not bred to standard bred instead towards egg production above health and type. Notice they share her pointiness and white earlobes
A show bird, notice the more stoutness and red earlobes and face. Brahmas should have a strong brow like the bird below and NOT very be pointy like Beeper and the birds above. They should be a bird with GIRTH. The bird below likely goes broody often and doesnt lay a ton, and with right management could live a very long life.
I cannot stress enough how i love Beeper but the sad truth is she is not well bred and will likely suffer from that in the future. If it wasnt for me stepping in she would have passed away due to poor care because hatcheries expect losses as a part of the buisness and do not encourage care to birds who struggle. Beeper was left upside down on her back at the farm store before i stepped in.
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Hatched a couple new shrine keepers to celebrate Brightshine, I'm hoping to have these available in my hatchery tomorrow!
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ENT Rewatch Starlog, 24 March, 2024: Episode 3.17 “Hatchery”
Still en route to Azati Prime, the NX-01 finds a crashed Xindi Insectoid ship on a planet. Searching, they find a small attack vessel and what would seem to be a hatchery full of eggs. One of the eggs sprays Archer in defense and gives him a nasty rash.
Reed and Major Hayes are still arguing a bit, but Hayes impresses Reed with his analysis of the attack vessel, using simulations to figure out exactly how Enterprise can destroy the vessels with relative ease. Their understanding is soon tested however. Archer, initially wanting just to see if they can protect the hatchery, arguing that it might be a goodwill gesture to prove to the Xindi that humans aren't just savage, begins to become obsessive with those thoughts.
When T’Pol stands in the way of him actually giving up a large quantity of anti-matter to keep the hatchery functioning, he relieves her of duty. When a Xindi ship DOES appear Reed uses the tactic Hayes found and destroys it. Archer relieves HIM of duty as well, placing Hayes in command when he goes to the surface to install the anti-matter.
Tucker breaks T’Pol and Reed out, and there is a small mutiny on board to seize control from Hayes while Trip goes to the surface to stop Archer.
The eggs are hatching and Archer is caring for them at the expense of all else. As Reed and T’Pol stop Hayes and the MACOs, Tucker stuns Archer. Phlox is able to discover that the shot to the face Archer took earlier altered his brain chemistry, making him imprint on the hatchlings as a caretaker.
They leave with Archer recovering, Hayes understanding that things in space are not always just black and white, and 19 little skittery Xindi babies on the ground which they believe will be all right until a ship can arrive.
Something interesting about this episode is Archer is actually correct I think at the beginning. He cites his great-grandfather following the law of land warfare during the Eugenics War, and indeed, these are children—mammals or not—and non-combatants. There is an interesting moral conundrum here between the NX-01’s mission to save Earth and saving these children; the show never quite comes out to say they SHOULD have just let them die, which I am glad of, but it also is a little ambiguous in what it is suggesting an Archer NOT under the influence of a brain-altering chemical should have done.
Along with that, to make this story happen, the show is guilty of something I see a LOT in science fiction, so I can’t even just blame Enterprise for this one: The crew, in environmental suits, get readings that they have found a breathable atmosphere, and immediately open up or take off their helmets. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT??? As one of their spacefaring successors will note: Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence. Archer, if you’d kept your helmet on THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED! (Props to Ridley Scott's original "Alien" which had the facehugger melt through the helmet.)
The Reed/Hayes stuff is good here as they continue to understand one another. I may need to write the follow-on fix-it fan fic where after the Federation is formed, Reed takes command of a starship with his husband, Starfleet transfer Commander Jay Hayes-Reed (who miraculously survives what we thought was his death), as first officer.
Finally, look! They DO have a regular uniform that fits Jolene Blalock!
Next Voyage: Enterprise arrives at “Azati Prime” and finds the weapon! Can they destroy it?
(Images taken from the main website for @trekcore; I am happy to remove the images if asked.)
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Haaji - XXY **Only Skydancer with Color/Gene Combo~**
Abyss Wasp / Azure Bee / Mint Firefly
Uncommon Eyes
Hatchery Thread
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New stone colossus hatchlings are available to Requiem’s pinglist subscribers (link in bio)! Sales will open to the public after 48 hours.
Imbued with ancient Light magic, these stone colossi serve as indestructible defenders of their clans. Ponderous and slow to rouse, many bear mantles of moss, ivy, and even trees. Sorrowful whispers can sometimes be heard while standing close to them, especially after dark, as though they are still mourning the loss of the ruined civilization that created them long ago.
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im on a fb poultry page and today i noticed a ton of ppl asking about reputable hatcheries and in every post at least one person recommended cackle hatchery. do you know of any groups that are any good? no hate to the group but it just turns my stomach to see so many people referring to big industrial hatcheries as reputable just bc they didn't ship dead birds :/
I would say that i dont trust any company "hatchery" unless they focus on breed genetic preservation and health over production. Some private breeders call themselves hatcheries but its up to you the buyer to decide if that means they a legitimate passionate breeder. I just dont look at hatcheries at all anymore and only communicate with private breeders.
What sucks about chicken groups on Facebook is that hatcheries have tried very very hard to replace private breeders in the minds of the public and people who dont look at the bigger picture and only see chickens as egg machines that they will just buy more of when they stop laying just dont care to educate themselves on how important sustainable poultry keeping is. Hatcheries provide a ton of breeds and all you have to do is order them from one place and its not that expensive either (because these birds are not high quality and are considered replaceable) so people just rather go with a hatchery then putting the work to find a good breeder of the chicken breeds they want who are actually preserving and bettering those breeds. In a way companies like Purina have done the same with chicken feed basically influencing people to stop trying to find local feed mills that usually have good quality and even local ingredients
And really it isnt any lay persons fault. Hatcheries really dont want people looking at their breeding pens or have people question them. All i can find that helps is when someones flock gets sick, has behavioral issues, or isnt up to breed standard is to ask where the birds were sourced and if its a hatchery educate them on how hatcheries produce birds. (And offer advice for the problem of course)
Personally im not active in the big chicken groups and really just my local ones and i know i have been able to change people minds with just educating and helping out while ignoring and blocking die hard hatchery fans. When someone asks for a hatchery reccomendation i tell them to try to find a local breeder or a breeder who will ship instead.
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