Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

I hope they will test birds first ?

The US gov't is clumsy, stupid, and heavy handed. And that's on their best day.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I agree totally.

 

[Shadrach]

I went an hour and a half early today so I could be reasonably certain of being able to get home and being able to give the chickens a couple of hours foraging, bathing etc.
A bus did turn up for the trip home eventually. The bus route is through the city centre of Bristol. Bristol looked busy.

I've got a rather sick looking Ex Battery hen. She's clean. She's eating but not much. Her heads down a lot. She ate a bit of haddock and she had pellets in her crop.

How about a todays eggs picture. This doesn't include the five laid in the new coop nest box. A few are from late afternoon yesterday. I don't know who laid the small egg.

 

[Sequel]

What totes? I think I've missed something.

This guy Papy Nounn has a million videos up on everything chicken. I think he lives in France. I don’t know how accurate he is, but when he builds he shows things in great detail.

 

[MaryJanet]

This guy Papy Nounn has a million videos up on everything chicken. I think he lives in France. I don’t know how accurate he is, but when he builds he shows things in great detail.

Thank you so much for sharing that video. I've been trying to work out how to do a roof and this guy's approach seems very achievable for me

 

[no fly zone]

Mr. Bumble all pancaked, ready for bed, then Laserbeak tried to snuggle underneath him. Then Skeksis made her way up.

 

[Ribh]

I agree, but I could say I like tigers but that wouldn't justify me having them.

I was concerned that I didn't have enough land to provide a trio of chickens with an adequately interesting environment. They are not like my dogs which get to go with me on all sorts of wonderful expeditions and keep their minds enriched with all sorts of fun training. My tiny backyard is all the chickens would have and to even call it "free ranging" when they are out is ridiculous because there are people on BYC whose enclosed run is bigger than my whole property.

But Ribh and Shad's sister's method is doable for me, and I bow to Shad's much vaster experience that this is acceptable to give them the quality of life they deserve.

Now, I am very much anticipating the poultry show in July when I can connect with some breeders. I will probably end up with a bunch of eye candy nutters like Ribh's gang.

Eye candy is good. Most of my birds don't untilise all of the available area. Of the area that remains they use the side yard most of the morning, which faces Nor'west & round the shed or patio in the afternoons, which faces west but has lots of available shade.. The foragers do use more more often but the D'Uccles & Japs aren't big foragers. They do like my son's stacks of crab pots though.

 

[Ribh]

@Shadrach : you said on my thread you found some milk thistle but you didn't say if you tried it on your lot or if they liked it. I am curious to know if it's just my barmy lot who go nuts for the stuff.

 

[no fly zone]

 

[Perris]

I'm shortly starting a book called re-engineering humanity which explores the ways in which technical interventions in all walks of life change human thinking and behaviour.

I'm already looking forward to reading it. Are you going to revisit writing? The clock? The shipping container? Secret ballots?

I'm hoping it's not all negative.

It won't be, though it does depend a lot on what you include under the label 'technology'. It used to mean mechanical things and tools, but these days when people use it they seem to mean computer technologies full stop.

We refer to the invisible hand when speaking of economics and behaviour, perhaps technology is the visible hand.

Historically many significantly impactful technologies went unnoticed, and still do. Think infrastructure, for example. People appreciate the impact of a lot of technologies on their lives only when they're gone - in a power cut, or during a train strike or water shortage for example. How they affect their thinking and long-term behaviour is a trickier matter of course - hence your book!