Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

I bought a small head of cabbage, staked it to the ground.

See the results?

I hang mine from the ceiling. It provides great entertainment. Some chickens are particularly adept at tracking the swings so they get the best mouthful.

 

[fuzzi]

I hang mine from the ceiling. It provides great entertainment. Some chickens are particularly adept at tracking the swings so they get the best mouthful.

I thought of doing that, but wasn't sure how to feed the string through the hole I had drilled!

 

[Shadrach]

Mow's got a big bum!

Takes after her dad.

 

[RoyalChick]

I thought of doing that, but wasn't sure how to feed the string through the hole I had drilled!

I use a meat hook through the stem of the cabbage and tie the string to the hook.

 

[fuzzi]

I use a meat hook through the stem of the cabbage and tie the string to the hook.

I don't know what a meat hook is...?

 

[Molpet]

I thought of doing that, but wasn't sure how to feed the string through the hole I had drilled!

I used a screw that had an eye on the end. I tied the string to the eye.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Beakwipe... I love it.

Thanks! I must've chuckled for 10 minutes when it popped into my head a few years ago, as Bebe was enthusiastically wiping schmutz from her beak onto my pants.

And then I sighed, because nobody in my immediate circle would appreciate it. Even DH. He has great rapport with the chickens but isn't one to sit still long enough for a good beakwiping.

So it was basically just me giggling at myself, which happens more often than I'd like to admit All that to say, I gratefully accept your approval

 

[Shadrach]

Tomorrow evening I'm going to get a delivery of a few boxes of mainly items my father had which I remember from my childhood. I'm not entirely sure what's coming. Communication with those involved in the clearance of our family home has been difficult to say the least. Memories best left buried have surfaced for some.

I've found it strange what I've remembered from the house; enough to pinpoint the location of things I would rather not get thrown away. Stranger still is the siblings who are making the sale of the house and doing the clearance don't seem to remember the things I do despite having visited the house a number of times over the years.
A major bone of contention is in their rush to be done with the whole business they sold at £300,000 below the market value for a quick cash sale.
I've asked for personal itmes of my fathers. Nobody else wants them. My father was not a popular man with his children or either of his wives from what I can gather. I came to know him better by accident really in my early fifties and got to talk to him at depth over a three month period. We would get an hour or so of decent, mainly honest, conversation and the whiskey would kick in, about a third of a bottle, and he would get maudlin and then belligerant and eventually incoherent. Those single good hours of communication day by day helped me to understand the man better and judge him less harshly.

Sorry about the ramble. It's been a difficult time and it's been on my thankfully usually vacant except chickens mind.

 

[Perris]

you didn't tell us that the recent family drama was the result of a death in the family; condolences on the loss of your father Shad.

 

[RoyalChick]

I don't know what a meat hook is...?

It is an S-hook with a very sharp point in one end.
A screw with an eye works too.
So does a bolt but they tend to be blunt so harder to push though the cabbage.
Some coat hanger wire works fine too.
All wort it when you watch the chickens play tether-ball.
I love watching them calculate the swing with their heads going back and forth in synch with the cabbage. Then just as they have got it, one of their buddies launches in and messes up the rhythm.
Amazingly nobody ever got hit on the head by the cabbage!