Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

80 and sunny with 86 % humidity and a high of 94 with thunderstorms.

Have a great day!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Another warm day and due to get hot even by my standards at the weekend.
Three roosting in the new coop this evening; one in a nest box and two on a roost bar.
I'm on the lookout for a new water holder. The plastic one currently in use has a split both sides and isn't going to last much longer. Years ago one used to be able to get heavy duty rubber buckets about 20 cm deep. A couple of those would do. I can't find anything that deep. They are either around 10cm or around 100cm or more.
I'm still not happy with Henry's legs. I think there are still some mites alive under the scales. I'm going to have to dip them in surgical spirit I think but it's a two person job with the kit I have to hand.
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If you have a camping store, fishing store, hunting store, and etc you might be able to find one of the collaspible bags you use for water.

 

[no fly zone]

Have you had the experience of using the public toilets in Japan.

It is really different.

In my apt in okinawa, i only knew what button flushed the toilet. I wasn't about to try the other dozen or so.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

In my apt in okinawa, i only knew what button flushed the toilet. I wasn't about to try the other dozen or so.

The public toilets were just a trough in the floor.

Y had to squat in order to use it.

 

[Perris]

Have you had the experience of using the public toilets in Japan.

It is really different.

I have, in a Japanese cafe here in lil' ol' Swansea. Amazing! Edited to add it wasn't a public toilet in the sense I think you meant. This was one with a dozen or so buttons like the one no fly zone knew You can get a full wash and brush up there!

 

[no fly zone]

The public toilets were just a trough in the floor.

Y had to squat in order to use it.

Took a hard pass on those. My apt's toilet seat was heated.

 

[BDutch]

How brave are you? I couldn't cope & would refuse point blank to go to any of it~ though I quite see family could be a tad difficult. Having experienced French public toilets in remote places I do not recommend ~ not even in extreme emergencies!

The old French ‘hole-in-the-ground’ toilets are even better/ more hygenic than some of the Greek toilets where you use a bin for the toilet paper (because the drain is too narrow for toilet paper ).

 

[Shadrach]

I'm not sure what happened with this evenings pictures. I don't seem to have got a single one in focus. I must have jogged a button or something.
I'm not sure what's going on with the chickens either. C said Henry and at some others were in the new coop when she fed them this morning. When I leave in the evenings there are only two on the roost bars and sometimes one in the nest box.

Small step. C has finally thrown the DE away.Not much chance of C forking out for Permethrin spray but I've got enough to be going on with.
I've been told that I must teach C how to pick up chickens. A couple of people from the allotments saw C trying to pick up a hen recently. It was all very flappy and panic. One happened to mention that when I pick them up they sit quietly in my hand and that it seems did not go down well.
On top of this Henry got set up to have a go at C this evening. Luckily I saw it coming and intervened. C didn't even notice but the two people C was talking to did.
I got given a plant by one of the allotment holders who I don't think we will be seeing again. With the plant was a note which said how glad she was that I would be looking after the chickens. I hardly know this person and was rather touched.

Coop progress is slow. I've got a more or less free day tomorrow and hopefully I'll get the window finished and some of the vents.

 

[Iluveggers]

I'm not sure what happened with this evenings pictures. I don't seem to have got a single one in focus. I must have jogged a button or something.
I'm not sure what's going on with the chickens either. C said Henry and at some others were in the new coop when she fed them this morning. When I leave in the evenings there are only two on the roost bars and sometimes one in the nest box.

Small step. C has finally thrown the DE away.Not much chance of C forking out for Permethrin spray but I've got enough to be going on with.
I've been told that I must teach C how to pick up chickens. A couple of people from the allotments saw C trying to pick up a hen recently. It was all very flappy and panic. One happened to mention that when I pick them up they sit quietly in my hand and that it seems did not go down well.
On top of this Henry got set up to have a go at C this evening. Luckily I saw it coming and intervened. C didn't even notice but the two people C was talking to did.
I got given a plant by one of the allotment holders who I don't think we will be seeing again. With the plant was a note which said how glad she was that I would be looking after the chickens. I hardly know this person and was rather touched.

Coop progress is slow. I've got a more or less free day tomorrow and hopefully I'll get the window finished and some of the vents.

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What is the best way to pick up a chicken? Now I’m curious!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Around the wings leaning to encase to the breast of the bird .. Gently but assured.
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