Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

All my brain says is Cassowary... vulture works too but that's not Australian

She's definitely more Cassowary than Echidna.

 

[BDutch]

Hey @Shadrach , do you remember when you considered stopping this thread?,
It's really unbelievable how many people have now joined and post everything about ex batts, other chickens, gardening, way of life, health, the environment and much more.

I really got to love this random community you intoxicated with your love for chickens, roosters, set ups and free ranging ideas.
Downside is I can hardly keep up anymore. And there is barely time left to follow anything else.

 

[RoyalChick]

More likely it's the ingredients for lasagna - plum tomatoes, basil, onions, garlic, oregano, etc. My Italian family grows eggplant and finocchio (Italian fennel, pronounced "finn-YAW-kee") in their lasagna/antipasto gardens. My niece also has a "salsa garden" along the same lines. She calls her tomatillo & tomato bed her "Taco Trellis!" On a BYC note, I just sent her a link about turning chickens loose in her flower greenhouse. What a great idea!

Oh I totally misunderstood. There is a type of composting called lasagna gardening.
It works quite well. You basically create layers of stuff with a sprinkle of soul on top.

 

[ManueB]

Oh I totally misunderstood. There is a type of composting called lasagna gardening.
It works quite well. You basically create layers of stuff with a sprinkle of soul on top.

A sprinkle of soul?
Love this. Yes, soil is the garden's soul .

 

[RoyalChick]

A sprinkle of soul?
Love this. Yes, soil is the garden's soul .

Oops. I think I will leave that unedited. For once Autocorrect made an improvement to what I typed.

 

[Sally PB]

Gardeners leave some of their soul in their garden.

 

[LozzyR]

She's definitely more Cassowary than Echidna.

Bin chicken. Magpie?

 

[Nomadicus]

I need to go out and gather up some TAX photos as soon as it stops raining. It took a long time to start raining and now it doesn't know when we've had enough. Flood watch posted for us.

 

[fuzzi]

Tax:

That's Samuel, mid-crow. Rahab's body language was an unexpected bonus!

 

[MROO]

Oh I totally misunderstood. There is a type of composting called lasagna gardening.
It works quite well. You basically create layers of stuff with a sprinkle of soul on top.

Good lasagna has a liberal sprinkling of "soul" in it, too. It's not just on top, though; it runs all the way through it. I once had "Proper Italian Seasonings" legitimately explained to me with, "Just keep sprinkling your herbs until the souls of your ancestors say, "Stop."
If you've ever watched an old Italian lady ... or pretty much any other true cook work ("A little of this, a bit of that, maybe a pinch more of this other,") you understand!