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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Not to spoil the illusion but I found it fascinating how it works. Now if I’ve copied it right….
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Probably because they seem like a good idea until you try to get them out of the oven with a hot baked something in them. Wobbly as all get out apparently!
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thank you, I think she’s very pretty too. Well as the main reason for the freezer block was to cool her down I would say that worked. However a couple of days at the beginning of her sit didn’t put her off and she’s still broody so it didn’t work as a broody breaker. Afraid I wimped out after 2...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Millie the Pekin has been panting through the UK ‘heatwave’ then decided that 30+ c would be a good time to go broody! Put a well wrapped freezer block in her nest and a cordless fan and she just tried brooding the freezer block! Guess it cooled her down a bit. Bless her she is a serial broody...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Much as I would love Fret to pull through I completely trust your judgement. Fret obviously is an unhappy hen and, as she was bought by C then it is for them to decide. Fret was named, loved, got to be a proper chicken as much as has been possible under your care including raising chicks and...
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    Review by 'L-plate chicken mum' in article 'Hedges for forage and cover'

    Excellent article with great pictures, Perris. Love a good hedge - I would say they can’t be beaten, however many of the older ones that form parish boundaries still are - if interested in this British eccentricity see https://heritagehunter.co.uk/beating-the-bounds/. I think the oldest UK hedge...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I can which surprises me as I usually can’t
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