Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[TropicalChickies]

Off chicken topic tax.

Lucio wonders how to get the bananas down from the trees.

 

[BDutch]

Tax: Ini mini conquered the hedgehog

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Temperature is in the 70s.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

1. There's at least three layers of vegetation creating the chickens preferred shade spot. Young shoots of plant about half a meter from the ground, mature stalks and leaves about 1.5 meters off the ground, and taller stalks of another plant with big wide leaves that provide the canopy about 3 meters high.

34C degrees in direct sunlight isn't what I would call hot. 35C in the shade was quite usual in Catalonia and sometimes 38C to 40C in August.

Yup, that sounds like good shade and much like the chickens in Catalonia found.
Tree cover on top. Dense bushes under the trees. Wide leaf foliage on the sides that don't get the breeze.
Water/damp/humidity was a bit more of a problem in high summer. A couple of the tribes headed into the woods and found moss banks with good shade cover.
High moisture content air can help, but it rises faster than air at the same temperature which is dry. This is okay if the damp rising air can pull in cool air underneath as it rises but this usually means extended vegitation around the cool spot and that means larger areas.
I'll dig some pictures of the tribes cool spots later.

 

[TropicalChickies]

34C degrees in direct sunlight isn't what I would call hot. 35C in the shade was quite usual in Catalonia and sometimes 38C to 40C in August.

Yup, that sounds like good shade and much like the chickens in Catalonia found.
Tree cover on top. Dense bushes under the trees. Wide leaf foliage on the sides that don't get the breeze.
Water/damp/humidity was a bit more of a problem in high summer. A couple of the tribes headed into the woods and found moss banks with good shade cover.
High moisture content air can help, but it rises faster than air at the same temperature which is dry. This is okay if the damp rising air can pull in cool air underneath as it rises but this usually means extended vegitation around the cool spot and that means larger areas.
I'll dig some pictures of the tribes cool spots later.

Ah, yes, I forget how brutally hot summers can be in the Global North. On the equator, the temps are more stable year round (for now). 34° is irregularly hot for a subtropical cloud forest.

"High moisture content air can help, but it rises faster than air at the same temperature which is dry. This is okay if the damp rising air can pull in cool air underneath as it rises but this usually means extended vegitation around the cool spot and that means larger areas." -- very true, I am relying on more vegetation over the area to help with this process.

 

[Perris]

Today a scene from the Grand Budapest Hotel has been playing out for real in front of me: a tourist guide activated his network of contacts to ensure that some luggage, unfortunately missed by an apologetic porter and left unloaded at a hotel left behind some hours earlier, will make its way as if by magic to tomorrow's destination

 

[Shadrach]

Dry and sunny and 17C today until just after 9pm when it started to spit rain.
It was also very busy at the allotments and we only got about half an hour on the allotments before the children running around became to much of a distraction for Henry and me so we retreated to the allotment run.
On the plus side for the chickens, they had roast beef for supper. Lima really really likes roast beef. They only got a large slice between them but I think it's a menue item for the chickens now.

 

[Shadrach]

I've been asked if I would consider taking in two Ex Battery hens, Red Sex Links.
The person who has them now is going into hospital and they are likely to be there for a while and assuming they do come out, they don't think they will be able to manage looking after the hens. There were three, but one has been taken by someone at the allotments on the other side of the road.
This wouldn't be until the end of June so I have some time to think about it.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Temperature is in the 60s.

Have a great day!

 

[bruceha2000]

On the plus side for the chickens, they had roast beef for supper. Lima really really likes roast beef. They only got a large slice between them but I think it's a menue item for the chickens now.

I'm starting to think the allotment chickens eat better than you!

This wouldn't be until the end of June so I have some time to think about it.

The question becomes "Would C be willing to 'allow' 2 more chickens?"