Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

We were out for an appointment today.

Temperature is in the 80s.

Have a great day!

 

[Nomadicus]

You could cut a notch in the wood on each end of the support and place the roost in the notches.

Yes I could but one slight problem. I covered up my power saw that I use for such outside were we were building and a little tidbit of a Carolina Wren snuck under the tarp and built a nest in the saw and already has 3 eggs in it. No way will I mess her up. So I'll find another way. It's got to be simple to strip down to get them outside to pressure wash. One other Idea I was thinking over might be to coat the wood with epoxy table top finish. That would make them easier to clean and a lot less desirable for mites/lice I would think. The coating is used in a lot of restaurants for their tables and they take a beating.

 

[TropicalChickies]

I see a lot of intercultural relations in the town where I live, within the (high tech international) company where I work and with friends who have travelled and worked abroad.
It just doesn’t work with suspicious minds.

I think what you're forgetting here is that factors of class, education, income, and social status are as critical -- if not more so -- as race, color, and ethnicity in determining how people relate to each other in groups and society. The "keeping conditions" of the humans, if you will.

Perhaps there are different cultures and even ethnicities in your high tech international company, and perhaps you all get along famously, but that's because you all speak basically the same "language." -- I don't mean Dutch. I mean the same social cues and codes uttered in the correctly modulated tones and the laughter the right volume. Moreover, your social/work group likely all shares basic upper or comfortably middle class values that lend a commonality to ideas. So there may be room for slight debate here and there, there's a general sameness of basic mores that diffuses any real conflict.

Moreover, you aren't directly competing for basic necessities with your co-workers.

To put it in real, concrete terms: a nattily dressed educated person with an advanced degree who speaks "tech" -- no matter what race or ethnicity he or she is, is not going to look or sound out of place at your company holiday party. Now, say a bunch of "perfect" Northern/Western European specimens --tall, white, blond, blue eyed-- of sewer pipe fitters, dock workers, house cleaners, and prostitutes join the party. Do you see your group intermingling with theirs?

I grew up in a very blue-collar town among working class hero types. I won a scholarship to a fairly elite liberal arts college where I quickly perceived some of the nuances in class I'm speaking of. I lived most of my adult life in big cities with extremely diverse populations, in neighborhoods where white people were a minority. I can speak Spanish like a Salvadorean, a Mexican, or a Dominican, depending on where I am. Now I live in rural Ecuador. I'm an assimilator. In every city where I lived, to Shad's point, there were old Irish and Italian neighborhoods, Nigerian neighborhoods, Ethiopian neighborhoods, Latino neighborhoods (subdivided by country or region), black neighborhoods, little Vietnams, little Indias, and so on.

Even when a group steps up the social ladder, they often do it together. For example, in Chicago, you'll hear certain areas referred to as "a solid middle class Mexican neighborhood."

Human tribalism is real.

Common language and culture keep so-called "ethnic" neighborhoods cohesive unto themselves. They understand each other. They know what to expect from each other. That's a sticky glue.

But there's one thing that most immigrant and/or oppressed groups have in common: the vast majority of their members are not fortunate enough to have the opportunity, education level, or corporate sponsorship to work at a high tech firm in the Netherlands (or anywhere). They are often struggling for basic necessities. There's a much keener sense of competition -- especially with any newer-comers who might do the jobs they are doing for less.

I don't have any answers here. But I just wanted to highlight a few of the complexities that make integration challenging, if not impossible in a stratified world.

 

[TropicalChickies]

Tax. Good foraging today in the jungle.

 

[GregnLety]

I have a Cornish Cross roo in a broody pen at the moment to protect him from other roos that want to fight him. He has feed and water that he needs. It's an odd situation that a small Bresse pullet hangs by his side day and night. She is very attracted to him.. A 20lb roo and a 4 lb pullet make a really odd couple.

Sounds similar to me and my wife. I'm 6'3 and 300 pounds, my wife is 4'11 and far less than half my weight. Photo for tax. He's wondering what the pups are doing in his drinking water.

 

[Sally PB]

You could cut a notch in the wood on each end of the support and place the roost in the notches.

I made notches by screwing small pieces of wood onto the 2x4 studs. The poop board is attached to the roost, so the entire thing lifts out.

 

[tranquiliti]

and the laughter the right volume.

^ My lifelong challenge.

Tax!
Lone keet hatched 17th June, photographed 4 days ago leery of the roost in the coop.

 

[Molpet]

I don't have any answers here. But I just wanted to highlight a few of the complexities that make integration challenging, if not impossible in a stratified world.

Seems like humans like to have someone to hate, keeps us bonded. Us against them.
If some outer space aliens showed up we could get together and hate them.

 

[Nomadicus]

I made notches by screwing small pieces of wood onto the 2x4 studs. The poop board is attached to the roost, so the entire thing lifts out.

That's what I had in mind but I have some engineering to do first. I want a design so I can replicate it over and over again as more coops are added. I want to make sure that it breaks down into small light weight components so my back doesn't cuss me at bed time.

I'm not sure who cussed who tonight. I the Dark Cornish rooster or the Dark Cornish rooster to me. He chose to slip in and sleep with a bunch of month younger RIR pullets and when I grab him in the dark feathers and blood were shed. I'm about ready to get some second hand layer cages to use as timeout pens when these bad boys act up.

 

[Perris]

Why can't these people make proper arrangements ffs

A: because

they are all volunteers

I have huge sympathy for you - Salisbury is a long way from Bristol by car, never mind by public transport with a box of chickens! But I also know that working with volunteers is a pita; so many are unreliable, willing in spirit but lacking substance, or themselves themselves subject to being pulled in lots of directions at once and/or at short notice. Trying to organize a bunch of them is worse than herding cats.