Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

The boxes from the house clearance arrived this evening. I'm going to need another bookshelf.
This lot was in one of the boxes and the stranded cufflinks are rather unusual. One doesn't see men wearing cufflinks much these days, or maybe I'm just mixing in the wrong circles.
The silver tie pin is rather nice as well.

 

[fuzzi]

I was blessed to have my dad living in his RV next to my property for the last three years of his life. I got to know him better as an adult.

I hope everything works out for you, @Shadrach.

 

[fuzzi]

The boxes from the house clearance arrived this evening. I'm going to need another bookshelf.
This lot was in one of the boxes and the stranded cufflinks are rather unusual. One doesn't see men wearing cufflinks much these days, or maybe I'm just mixing in the wrong circles.
The silver tie pin is rather nice as well.
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Silver dove?

 

[HiEverybirdy]

One would need to do a double blind tasting, one supermarket turkey and what we bought to know if there is a real difference.
I'm not a great lover of turkey but this year what the eldest got on our plates was not as dry as I remember other turkey and tasted good enough for me to eat cold over the past couple of days.
Yup, it was eye wateringly expensive as is everything from this butcher.
https://www.rubyandwhite.com/

I can somehow tell a big difference in local poultry that's been pastured, treated well, etc. The fat's richer, the flavor more complex.

We do Thanksgiving every year with my brother-from-another-mother and his family. He raises a small number of free-range turkeys and slaughters one for Thanksgiving dinner. With that and a smorgasbrod of salads and fermented veggies from all of our gardens, It's an exquisite meal.

Side story: this year, after 3 years of free-ranging with few issues, something, possibly weasel, wiped out over a dozen of his birds in a couple nights. Their lone surviving turkey is lovely and sociable and has been named. Obviously, we didn't eat her.

In fact, she watched us through the glass doors for most of Thanksgiving dinner, scratching up the herb garden while she waited for table treats.

 

[Perris]

Update on Quincy and Aberglasny's teenage adventures. QnA have been toggling between roosting in coop - sometimes of their own volition and sometimes with a little encouragement from me - and roosting out in the holm oak, but their latest spot is completely beyond my reach; evidently they'd rather not be encouraged down .

I suspect that this habit is going to be very hard to break, as several of you suggested when it started.

 

[BDutch]

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.

* a belated condolence with the loss of your father and sorry for all the family stuff / involvements that comes with it now.

*PS got behind. Changed my well meant wishes a bit.

 

[BDutch]

I use a poultry treat net bag. They come with S hooks. I use an old dog lead over the framing and hang the bag from that. Hours of entertainment.
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My bantams are probably too spoiled. They are not interested in cabbage. Or many other raw veggies. But they love grasses and many herbs. Especially the fresh leaves.

 

[BDutch]

I suspect that this habit is going to be very hard to break, as several of you suggested when it started.

The only thing that ever really helped with my little dragonballs was to lure them into the run a hour or more before nightfall/dark.

But since you don’t have runs around or in front of the coops I really don’t know what you could do about this. Maybe accept they are free rangers to the max?
My Whiskey went to a lady who keeps her chickens like that. She claims the trees are safer than her coop.

 

[Canadian Wind]

My Whiskey went to a lady who keeps her chickens like that. She claims the trees are safer than her coop.

Not if you have raccoons.

 

[Molpet]

Not if you have raccoons.

Or owls, or bobcats or...

But an insecure coop can trap them so they can't escape.