Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

When I lived in Nice there was no local producers market. It's really sad that the valley right outside that was extremely fertile has been totally turned into a business and commercial zone. The town were my parents live nearby used to be famous in all of France for it's strawberries : now there is only one producer and he's more of an attraction than anything serious.
Heated greenhouse are a part of the problem I think. An item that been grown in a heated greenhouse can be sold as organic here. So you can grow strawberries (or tomatoes or whatever summer fruits you want) in winter in Italy or Spain in a heated greenhouse where the workers will be migrants much less paid and controlled than in France, and then sell them here as organic.

How did you find Lima?
Is she regrowing any feather or do you think she will stay like this ?
Henry lives dangerously !

I don't think Lima will ever look normal. There are places on her where feathers just don't grow.

 

[becstalls]

Well, I’ve been lurking and catching up for about a month, so I expected etc I owe a bit of tax. I’m currently chicken-less so I’ll just not say anything to bog the thread down until I can offer more tax-wise. But here is the roo from our old flock giving me the stink-eye when he was young, and then looking for treats full-grown.

 

[Shadrach]

Well, I’ve been lurking and catching up for about a month, so I expected etc I owe a bit of tax.

A bit of tax! At least a page of chicken pictures are due by my calculations.

 

[becstalls]

A bit of tax! At least a page of chicken pictures are due by my calculations.

Will you allow about another month of forbearance until I can get my new chicks? I don’t have a lot of pictures from my old flock. They were pre-smartphone. I can offer an unrelated but cool photo of a red-tailed hawk I was lucky enough to snap once though.

 

[Molpet]

When I lived in Nice there was no local producers market. It's really sad that the valley right outside that was extremely fertile has been totally turned into a business and commercial zone. The town were my parents live nearby used to be famous in all of France for it's strawberries : now there is only one producer and he's more of an attraction than anything serious.

That is how it is here too.
When I was a kid there Used to be all kinds of farming. Vegetables shipped to Chicago and available locally. Then an interstate highway was built. The little farm towns to the east of me have 25 thousand people instead of less than 1 thousand .
My cousin still has a grain farm across the road from me. But it's for sale.
A few berry farms and farm animal petting attractions.

 

[Shadrach]

Will you allow about another month of forbearance until I can get my new chicks? I don’t have a lot of pictures from my old flock. They were pre-smartphone. I can offer an unrelated but cool photo of a red-tailed hawk I was lucky enough to snap once though.

That chicken in the black and white picture looks a bit of a handfull. Is that one of those extremely dangerous cockerels I keep reading about on BYC?

I would like to ask you a question if I may without causing any offense, why this thread? I've been surprised at the number of views this thread gets. Chatting is discouraged, unless it's about chickens of course. The chickens that feature in the thread are only special in their mistreatment. It's not like they are rare heritage breeds.
I turn up daily and post what is essentially a diary.

We do have really great regular contributors with a wide range of keeping conditions, nationalities, and views and I keep the thread running in part to offset some of the more dogmatic views on feed and keeping conditions.

None of the above makes you any less welcome here but I can't help wondering why people come back month in month out to read about the not so nice side of chicken keeping.

 

[Sally PB]

I can't help wondering why people come back month in month out to read about the not so nice side of chicken keeping.

Because you give us hope for these birds.

 

[RoyalChick]

Because you give us hope for these birds.

That, and some of us have developed a soft spot for Henry, Fret, Lima and gang.

 

[Molpet]

None of the above makes you any less welcome here but I can't help wondering why people come back month in month out to read about the not so nice side of chicken keeping

Some of us used to follow you when you posted from Spain and enjoyed the articles you have written. I found this thread when I was trying to figure out why you left Spain

 

[sourland]

None of the above makes you any less welcome here but I can't help wondering why people come back month in month out to read about the not so nice side of chicken keeping.

I believe that it is your charming, magnetic personality.