The Chicken House 🐔🏡

A place on the mountain for people who love nature, peace & quiet, MTB & walking to refuel & relax. No vehicles allowed. Camp via Pitchup 🏕️

#RyansRule

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

The phenomenal Humming Bird Moth.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel Farage has 5 houses.

Zack Polanski lives in a house share with 5 other people.

The media is trying to tell you Zack is the problem.

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

Happy Wales day 😤✊❤️⚡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

Dogs all over Wales are barking their commitment to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😁❤️⚡

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

@ChristopherHale Hahaha 😆

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Feel like the Bible is quite explicit on this one

[Rob Harries @robharries83]

The next Welsh Government should follow suit and release all the files about the Black Nun of Llangrannog.

[Andy Quin @JimmyHillside]

Just a final quick reminder about my concert tomorrow.

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

@davidmorgan359 Love this tweet 🫡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

One word

W A L E S

🥹❤️🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊

[Sian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Sian_Parry]

Just got a text!!!
Chi’n dod?/ Coming? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

HUGE happy birthday 🥹🙏✊❤️

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

@davidmorgan359 😂❤️✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Dave Morgan @davidmorgan359]

No fucking Union Jacks or pictures of that twat from Buckingham Palace in our schools and our wonderful heritage, culture and language lives on.

Yma O Hyd ✊️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Whow!!
You win your first mayoralty (Hackney) in the early afternoon, and by late afternoon, a second one comes along.
Huge congratulations!!

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Forgive, But Don't Forget - His Holiness the Dalai Lama answers one of life's hardest questions. Forgiveness does not mean forget. It does not mean you accept the wrong action. It means you choose not to carry anger and hatred. Forgive the person. Oppose the action. Two different things. Video originally recorded on March 20, 2015.

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

@JJsMTBDiaries 🫡❤️

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

Welsh NHS

Thank you

Love, Matt 🫡❤️

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Humans tried to tame horses 5,500 years ago. It didn't work. Those horses eventually went feral, and we had to start over 1,300 years later with a different bloodline.

A group in Kazakhstan called the Botai kept horses for milk and meat around 3500 BCE. A 2021 Nature study read the DNA of 273 ancient horses and proved every horse alive today comes from a different population entirely. The successful domestication happened 4,200 years ago near the Volga and Don rivers. Those horses spread across Asia and Europe in 500 years, wiping out every other horse bloodline.

Two tiny changes in horse DNA made it work. One mutation appeared about 5,000 years ago and made horses less jumpy. The other came 4,200 years ago and gave horses backs strong enough to carry a grown person; before that, they were the size of ponies. This is why chariots came first as the main use of horses, and regular horseback riding only became common centuries later.

Before rideable horses reached the Middle East, the Sumerians made their own by crossbreeding domesticated donkeys with wild onagers, a wild Asian cousin of the donkey. Onagers can hit 43 mph and hold 31 mph for hours, with more endurance than any modern racehorse. But they bite, kick, and can't be trained. So Sumerians made a hybrid called a kunga, which kept the speed and dropped the temper. A kunga cost 40 times a donkey. It couldn't breed, so every generation had to be made fresh. These pulled the war wagons shown on the Standard of Ur, a Sumerian mosaic from 2500 BCE. It's the first known case of humans creating a new animal.

Zebras are the longest-running failure. Romans raced them in chariots during the emperor Caracalla's reign, around 200 AD. The Dutch tried in the 1700s. Walter Rothschild even drove a zebra carriage up to Buckingham Palace in the 1890s to prove the point. Germans gave it a shot in colonial East Africa. None of it worked. Zebras dodge lassos with a quick ducking reflex, have no hierarchy you can slot into, and have spent millions of years evolving alongside lions. A single kick can break a lion's jaw.

Jared Diamond ran the math on this. Out of roughly 148 large mammal species humans could have tamed, only 14 ever worked. The animal has to pass six separate tests: eat flexibly, grow fast, breed in a pen, stay calm, not spook easily, and follow a pack order. Miss one and the whole thing collapses.

The earliest confirmed horse riders were the Yamnaya, a nomadic steppe people from north of the Black Sea. They left behind skeletons showing the specific hip damage and healed fall injuries you see in modern riders. Out of 156 adult skeletons studied, only 24 had the pattern. Even inside a horse-riding culture, most people still walked.

[The Chicken House 🐔🏡 @TyCywIar]

https://t.co/faR9sjLvXU

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Humans tried to tame horses 5,500 years ago. It didn't work. Those horses eventually went feral, and we had to start over 1,300 years later with a different bloodline.

A group in Kazakhstan called the Botai kept horses for milk and meat around 3500 BCE. A 2021 Nature study read the DNA of 273 ancient horses and proved every horse alive today comes from a different population entirely. The successful domestication happened 4,200 years ago near the Volga and Don rivers. Those horses spread across Asia and Europe in 500 years, wiping out every other horse bloodline.

Two tiny changes in horse DNA made it work. One mutation appeared about 5,000 years ago and made horses less jumpy. The other came 4,200 years ago and gave horses backs strong enough to carry a grown person; before that, they were the size of ponies. This is why chariots came first as the main use of horses, and regular horseback riding only became common centuries later.

Before rideable horses reached the Middle East, the Sumerians made their own by crossbreeding domesticated donkeys with wild onagers, a wild Asian cousin of the donkey. Onagers can hit 43 mph and hold 31 mph for hours, with more endurance than any modern racehorse. But they bite, kick, and can't be trained. So Sumerians made a hybrid called a kunga, which kept the speed and dropped the temper. A kunga cost 40 times a donkey. It couldn't breed, so every generation had to be made fresh. These pulled the war wagons shown on the Standard of Ur, a Sumerian mosaic from 2500 BCE. It's the first known case of humans creating a new animal.

Zebras are the longest-running failure. Romans raced them in chariots during the emperor Caracalla's reign, around 200 AD. The Dutch tried in the 1700s. Walter Rothschild even drove a zebra carriage up to Buckingham Palace in the 1890s to prove the point. Germans gave it a shot in colonial East Africa. None of it worked. Zebras dodge lassos with a quick ducking reflex, have no hierarchy you can slot into, and have spent millions of years evolving alongside lions. A single kick can break a lion's jaw.

Jared Diamond ran the math on this. Out of roughly 148 large mammal species humans could have tamed, only 14 ever worked. The animal has to pass six separate tests: eat flexibly, grow fast, breed in a pen, stay calm, not spook easily, and follow a pack order. Miss one and the whole thing collapses.

The earliest confirmed horse riders were the Yamnaya, a nomadic steppe people from north of the Black Sea. They left behind skeletons showing the specific hip damage and healed fall injuries you see in modern riders. Out of 156 adult skeletons studied, only 24 had the pattern. Even inside a horse-riding culture, most people still walked.

[Absolutemtb @Absolutemtb1]

12 years ago apparently. Can anyone name the trail centre?