Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Not chicken related but the pictures did bring back some memories. Does anybody else remember when one could lean out of a train window, or open the carriage door while the train was moving?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpkp88wwno

 

[Perris]

Not chicken related but the pictures did bring back some memories. Does anybody else remember when one could lean out of a train window, or open the carriage door while the train was moving?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpkp88wwno

OMG yes. Used to love doing that as a kid - bit like dogs do with car windows I now realize - and nearly lost my head a couple of times, when a train coming the other way caught me by surprise, or a tunnel entrance

 

[RoyalChick]

Two and a half hours today. Dry, warmish with a less dramatic sundown temperature drop.
Henry came to the gate under his own volition again; not exactly perky but eager to get out of the run. He even ate a few grams of feed with the hens before heading towards the gate to the field. They charge up the extended run towards the geese pen and head back to the field gate and hang around there until I open it.

Sylph and Dad Henry.
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As you can see, when mentally and physically stimulated his tail rises, he's less hunched up and involved with his hens. He does still go to roost earlier then the hens which one doesn't want with free rangers, but at the field with me picking up the slack the hens are reasonably safe. A fox did cross the bottom of the field while the hens were out, we all saw it and once the fox had gone from sight, the hens headed back towards the coop as a group; that's Fret's doing and I have no idea how they all understand that when Henry goes to roost, Fret is their point of reference.
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I had another feel of the two lumps and they haven't grown any bigger. I took him, and the hens a tin of mackerel this afternoon. Henry ate around 50 grams of it once I broke the fish up into small pieces.
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That father-daughter picture is wonderful. Definitely wall-worthy.

 

[RoyalChick]

Not chicken related but the pictures did bring back some memories. Does anybody else remember when one could lean out of a train window, or open the carriage door while the train was moving?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpkp88wwno

Most definitely yes. Best spot on the train was by the door with the window down.
My memory’s that you had to lean out to open the door - I don’t remember there being a handle on the inside.
I also remember the fruit-and-nut machine on the platform!

 

[Perris]

My memory’s that you had to lean out to open the door - I don’t remember there being a handle on the inside.

I remember handles on the inside, and then them all being taken away after some suspicious deaths, so we had to do what you describe thereafter. (Always stuck me as a stupid solution to the problem.)

I also remember the fruit-and-nut machine on the platform!

I remember those vending machines as the only source of edibles at some times when travelling. Boy we really roughed it in those days didn't we? A little box of peanuts or sweets for tea...

 

[BDutch]

Not chicken related but the pictures did bring back some memories. Does anybody else remember when one could lean out of a train window, or open the carriage door while the train was moving?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpkp88wwno

Yes, when I was a child. Later on, only on the trains from/in Italy and a few other countries.

 

[fluffycrow]

Sylph and Dad Henry.
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Stunning photo; definitely POW, or frame worthy.

Glad to read Henry is feeling slightly better, hope he keeps improving

 

[MaryJanet]

Not chicken related but the pictures did bring back some memories. Does anybody else remember when one could lean out of a train window, or open the carriage door while the train was moving?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpkp88wwno

During hot Australian summers before trains had airconditioning the best seat was beside the open door with the hot stinky breeze in your face.

I was watching a recently made travel video of a young man riding the Glacier Express in the Excellence class and he leaned out of the window to get a shot of the front of the train as it rounded a curve. So there's at least one contemporary train with opening windows I'm sure there are many, but maybe not on the metro lines.

 

[Shadrach]

A very rushed half an hour today. I set off from the flat around 3pm. I got to the field a little after 6pm.
A rock climber fell from the rocks below Clifton Suspension Bridge and the emergency services closed the Portway while they got his body down and didd whatever other stuff they did that took over two hours.
The cars were able to turn around in the road, but not the buses or the large lorries so there we sat.

Everyone except Henry came out of the coop on my arrival. They had just gone to roost. I took Henry off the perch and carried him out to join the others, mainly so he could get some food (more mackerel) after which he went back to roost while the hens went on to the field until it got almost dark.

I came home by train last night having dropped by the eldest for a cup of tea. It's a very quiet line from Severn Beach to the city. a few minutes after starting the journey home there was a very loud bang and the train ground to a halt. The guard informed us over the tannoy that the train had hit a tree.
I wonder how that read on the insurance form. "I was driving the train on the track and a tree lept out in front of me."
We sat there for twenty minutes while they checked for any damage that was saftey critical.
Not a great 24 hours of travel experience.

 

[Molpet]

I wonder how that read on the insurance form. "I was driving the train on the track and a tree lept out in front of me."