Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

 

[Molpet]

Got it. One other thought, though I know when conditions get really bad it doesn't work as any sort of feasible solution, Is it possible to chuck a few bales of hay or straw over the worst areas in the run? It will soak up some of the moisture & temporarily give the chooks a less muddy environment.

I would like pictures of the bus with a bale

 

[Ribh]

I would like pictures of the bus with a bale

Here they will drop it off @ your designated address. No bus needed.

 

[Shadrach]

Are you ready for this?

 

[Shadrach]

This is the plot I am considering taking on.

This plot belongs to the couple that are sympathetic to the plight of the chickens and would like to see the allotments and "livestock" managed better.

People have been down here digging and stuff. Fair weather gardeners mostly.

 

[Molpet]

This is the plot I am considering taking on.View attachment 3018668View attachment 3018669

This plot belongs to the couple that are sympathetic to the plight of the chickens and would like to see the allotments and "livestock" managed better.
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People have been down here digging and stuff. Fair weather gardeners mostly.View attachment 3018672

Are you going to be able to keep the chickens out of the planted plots? When they Free range

 

[Marie2020]

Not quite true Marie. Halfwit Shadrach volunteered. It would be cool if when people do such things others didn't take the piss but it's not a perfect world.
Some people would just walk taking the attitude that they won't have the piss taken out of them; sort of pride and anger driven in a way, away but what happens to the chickens then?

Exactly. Now you are in a spot because if you are anything like me you now cannot abandon them.
I've been used in much a similar way in the past but not with chickens. My life has taken a completely different turn to what I intended it too be because of being dumped on, as content as I am .

Another reason this situation you are in bugs me so. As you know we have had storms lasting for some weeks. During that time a local man here decided too just cage up his chickens their chicks and ducks leaving them too starve dehydrate and probably freeze because he made up with his girlfriend. He didn't ask anyone to help so C is a little bit better than him I guess

Not even one thought crossed his selfish mind to offer these creatures to people that would have taken them, two of us here could have helped him out by rehoming them

So at this time I have zero sympathy for people that neglect and same said for those that continuously take the urine out of people that put in so much effort and do so much.

 

[Shadrach]

Are you going to be able to keep the chickens out of the planted plots? When they Free range

Nope.
I have asked those who I've seen if they would object to the chickens being on their plot. I have tried to point out to the best of my ability the advantages of having chickens cleaning out the bugs which are just begining to surface and tilling the soil etc etc. Nobody said no. I don't know if that's because they didn't take me seriously, or they didn't understand what it would mean, or they didn't think I was the sort of person one said no to.
When the person who set this place up was still alive the chickens did range over the allotments. I am told that this person told the allotment holders that if they were going to grow sensitive, or yummy chickens stuff, they should fence this stuff off. This is what the small holders I've known in the past ahve done. You fence the delicate stuff off rather than fence the chickens, goats, cows, sheep etc in. It's not difficult and left to it the chickens will tidy the place up, eat a lot of the pests and turn over the soil in the parts they have access to. This is what most small holders keep chickens for. The eggs are a bonus.
I shall see how it goes.

 

[Sally PB]

take the piss

Please explain what this phrase means....?

 

[Marie2020]

Nope.
I have asked those who I've seen if they would object to the chickens being on their plot. I have tried to point out to the best of my ability the advantages of having chickens cleaning out the bugs which are just begining to surface and tilling the soil etc etc. Nobody said no. I don't know if that's because they didn't take me seriously, or they didn't understand what it would mean, or they didn't think I was the sort of person one said no to.
When the person who set this place up was still alive the chickens did range over the allotments. I am told that this person told the allotment holders that if they were going to grow sensitive, or yummy chickens stuff, they should fence this stuff off. This is what the small holders I've known in the past ahve done. You fence the delicate stuff off rather than fence the chickens, goats, cows, sheep etc in. It's not difficult and left to it the chickens will tidy the place up, eat a lot of the pests and turn over the soil in the parts they have access to. This is what most small holders keep chickens for. The eggs are a bonus.
I shall see how it goes.

I'm wondering how to manage this myself in the easiest and cheapest way possible in my garden.