Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Hugs to Penny and Iluveggers.
Three hours today and we've had some rain at last.
The eldest and her husband came down to visit me at the allotments this afternoon. I see them two or three times a week but I was pleased to show them my progress at this growing stuff small scale business. Field sized crops I've done. Woodland management done that too. Trying to squeeze a handfull of fruit and vegetables out of a tiny amount of land I wouldn't consider big enough to range a single chicken on and pretending I'm saving the world by feeding myself is a new experience. It's a bit of fun though and it gives me further appreciation of just what a struggle it can be for those whose livelyhoods depend on farming.

I seem to have managed a plastic ban at the allotments. The only new plastic allowed is water butts. The plastic compost bins are being phased out and the plan is for two general use compost site; one at each side of the field. Just getting a ban on new plastic gardening crap is a result.

I think everyone is pleased to have Fret back in action. She went to roost with a full crop again but she still prefers bugs, plants and my supper offerings to the layers pellets. I estimate we are at around a 30/70 mix of forage and those terrible foodstuffs called treats to commercial feed. Scrambled eggs (4) oats, dried peas, nuts, and fish this evening. I split this over two suppers this evening with forage time wedged inbetween.

It's Sunday and the trains stop early and the buses are less frequent. It took an hour and a half to get home this evening.

 

[Iluveggers]

Hugs to Penny and Iluveggers.
Three hours today and we've had some rain at last.
The eldest and her husband came down to visit me at the allotments this afternoon. I see them two or three times a week but I was pleased to show them my progress at this growing stuff small scale business. Field sized crops I've done. Woodland management done that too. Trying to squeeze a handfull of fruit and vegetables out of a tiny amount of land I wouldn't consider big enough to range a single chicken on and pretending I'm saving the world by feeding myself is a new experience. It's a bit of fun though and it gives me further appreciation of just what a struggle it can be for those whose livelyhoods depend on farming.

I seem to have managed a plastic ban at the allotments. The only new plastic allowed is water butts. The plastic compost bins are being phased out and the plan is for two general use compost site; one at each side of the field. Just getting a ban on new plastic gardening crap is a result.

I think everyone is pleased to have Fret back in action. She went to roost with a full crop again but she still prefers bugs, plants and my supper offerings to the layers pellets. I estimate we are at around a 30/70 mix of forage and those terrible foodstuffs called treats to commercial feed. Scrambled eggs (4) oats, dried peas, nuts, and fish this evening. I split this over two suppers this evening with forage time wedged inbetween.

It's Sunday and the trains stop early and the buses are less frequent. It took an hour and a half to get home this evening.
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Wow Shad, everyone looks great!

 

[Iluveggers]

After feeling so down about yesterday, I got my flock out of the fenced area for about half the day today. Here are a few pics:
In the tall grass-

Under the tree-

My white Easter Egger needs a cleaning on her fluffy butt -

 

[no fly zone]

Sky Dancer

 

[Iluveggers]

3 of my incubators are cleaned and put away. 7 eggs left in the last hatch, 5 are pipped. I think I can fit 22 quail eggs in the Kebonnix if I do 2 per cell. So I will keep that one out for the end of June quail hatch….I can’t believe this has been going on nonstop since the Easter HAL!

 

[MrsNorthie]

Green initiatives are mostly scams that are making a few people wealthier and most people poorer.

A wise old preacher I knew once said "If it don't make sense there's a buck in it" = the latest cause isn't about a cause, but making someone rich, somewhere.

That is a fact.

 

[notabitail]

That is amazing work. I would love to see more of the world allowed to go back to it's natural form and for people to learn to live with the natural world. We have to change our thinking, too many people in so-called civilized, modern countries lose sight of how their green initiatives are destroying the world. Such as the mining required to make the toxic batteries for cellphones and electric cars none of which can be recycled, so ends up in landfills poisoning the environment or the amount of natural habitat destroyed to grow things to then be manufactured into the vegan food-like products. Consumer demand for the easy button was cultivated, at least in the US, by big corporations using manipulation to create the demand, promises of a healthier, happier, easier life.

We are working toward self-sufficiency and doing things in a more natural way to avoid being part of the problem. We have allowed big patches of our small property to revert to nature, they remain un-mowed, have grown new trees (that are actually faster growing than all the ones we have planted...), blackberries are growing in abundance, so we have also seen an uptick in wildlife activity.

Any wood products that we use, end up recycled in one way or another, cutting bad bits off and using the good bits to build or repair something else and the rotted wood adds to our garden compost along with the chicken manure. I feel that doing things as naturally as possible is better for my chickens wellbeing. The more that we can grow what we consume, within the confines of our own property, the fewer trips we have to take into town, the less manufactured products we use and we hope to be almost completely off-grid by the time I retire.

Do I need to mention that lithium ion batteries, the ones in phones like the one I am holding or the ones in electric cars, are very dangerous and have a even worse impact when exploding?
The Note7 is a good example of this. Look at all the waste a defective battery makes.
Not to mention pesticides. Those things are bad for us, and even worse for the chooks. I would much rather have a lithium battery in my pocket than a plate full of pesticides and a ruined field.

 

[notabitail]

Green initiatives are mostly scams that are making a few people wealthier and most people poorer.

A wise old preacher I knew once said "If it don't make sense there's a buck in it" = the latest cause isn't about a cause, but making someone rich, somewhere.

El Paso has all these "green initiatives". Yet, glass, something that can be recycled, is just tossed in the trash. And they put all these rocks and trees in the middle of the road. The litter just builds up and never goes away.

Not only that, but there is a aquarium in CA. They had added on a new part to it. I was looking forward to it. And, of course, it was just a nice, big old brain fart. They were saying that we are going to live in towers and eat fish for the rest of our lives. Almost like they want to control us and not let us do what we want, while building huge towers with a nasty impact on the environment. And I doubt they would allow chickens.

 

[notabitail]

That is a fact.

And then you will notice that facts are subject to change .
I have seen that.

 

[Perris]

You quoted me I did not loose any birds.

thanks for the clarification - so glad for you and your flock!