Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

That's shocking, if true (that a dead mouse can poison the water; I'm not doubting that it might be thought to be the case, only whether or not it is actually possible). Free ranging chickens would have been able to source alternative water supplies normally, so if true it's another case where confining chickens did not keep them safe.

These chickens had no choice.
The mouse she finally found was not fresh (rotting).

 

[kattabelly]

We have six linked IBCs - so 6000L total - set up to collect rain off a pent shed roof at the community garden, plus another 4 or 6(?) in another spot that's too far away for me to bother with. They get emptied pretty quickly because everyone uses them to water their polytunnel plots, but also they aren't actually that great at collecting water because the gutter is on the low side of the roof and the wind often makes it rain uphill.

I'm bringing tap water up from my house most days at the moment, but they prefer to drink gross slimy stagnant rainwater when given the choice

 

[no fly zone]

Pinecone is a perfect name for the first one!

What’s Skeksis’ grandson’s name?

I don't know if she's given him a name yet.

I named Pinecone when he was a baby back in summer 2022.