Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Marie2020]

Quick! Grab it before it goes to landfill! Maybe grab two!

It's rotten and no use. I have a good branch here and my amazing friend turned up, between us we managed too clean our the run (it was soaking wet) after all that he's fixed the dreadful pull out guard . He really is a champion helper

Then he fixed the wicket so as they have cover.

Thank god the rain stopped this afternoon so my girls had some time outside

 

[bruceha2000]

Edited: I'm realizing I'm making it sound like our neighbours here are horrid. It's not the case at all, it's just different ways of understanding. On the whole most people were happy to see us coming to live there permanently and tend to the house and land that were falling to abandon.

Where, approximately, do you live? You can put it in your profile.
Somehow you'll meet a neighbor that you'll get along with and can share help when needed.

Of course he attacked you, you're feeding his hens and to him that means you're trying to steal them away from him.

So the answer is to give the apple to the rooster so he can call the girls over and brag about his foraging proficiency.

 

[Solanacae]

Sounds like Shad's allotment committee! Laughs apart, I understand entirely what you're saying about local culture; 'tis a powerful thing.

This is very true, there are plenty of people who live around here that have the same mentality as what @ManueB is describing. They’ve been in this valley since they were born and so were their parents and grandparents and great grandparents . . . however, there has been such exponential growth around here that mentality is quickly getting diluted.

 

[Molpet]

This is very true, there are plenty of people who live around here that have the same mentality as what @ManueB is describing. They’ve been in this valley since they were born and so were their parents and grandparents and great grandparents . . . however, there has been such exponential growth around here that mentality is quickly getting diluted.

Here those of us who have been here for 4 or five generations probably do resent all the city folk moving in with city ways. Usually if they have country ways they aren't resented...... But when the nearest town goes from 600 to 24k in my lifetime we're out numbered.

 

[Perris]

I saw wild boars enjoying human waste while I was abroad a very long time ago

I don't want too put you off

Coincidentally, for those who can receive it (and indeed, wish to ) there is a programme on BBC4 tonight on this very topic: "Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in human waste.Teaming up with world-class scientists, they search for biological entities in sewage with potentially lifesaving medical properties, find out how pee can generate electricity, how gas from poo can fuel a car and how nutrients in waste can help solve the soil crisis. They follow each stage of the sewage treatment process, revealing what the stuff we flush can tell us about how we live today, and the mindboggling biotechnology being harnessed to clean it, making the wastewater safe enough to return to the environment" Yum!

 

[Marie2020]

Coincidentally, for those who can receive it (and indeed, wish to ) there is a programme on BBC4 tonight on this very topic: "Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in human waste.Teaming up with world-class scientists, they search for biological entities in sewage with potentially lifesaving medical properties, find out how pee can generate electricity, how gas from poo can fuel a car and how nutrients in waste can help solve the soil crisis. They follow each stage of the sewage treatment process, revealing what the stuff we flush can tell us about how we live today, and the mindboggling biotechnology being harnessed to clean it, making the wastewater safe enough to return to the environment" Yum!

That's incredible. This could certainly clean our act up and a sustainable way for energy if it actually works.

I saw a clip years ago where human waste was used for energy

 

[RoyalChick]

Coincidentally, for those who can receive it (and indeed, wish to ) there is a programme on BBC4 tonight on this very topic: "Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in human waste.Teaming up with world-class scientists, they search for biological entities in sewage with potentially lifesaving medical properties, find out how pee can generate electricity, how gas from poo can fuel a car and how nutrients in waste can help solve the soil crisis. They follow each stage of the sewage treatment process, revealing what the stuff we flush can tell us about how we live today, and the mindboggling biotechnology being harnessed to clean it, making the wastewater safe enough to return to the environment" Yum!

And I thought it was just the fertilizer known as 'night soil'.

 

[MaryJanet]

Hubby and I are heading off for 10 days holiday tomorrow.
Our kids (mid 20s) will be looking after the chooks, cats and dogs while we are gone. They have gone over everything with us and put a checklist up on the fridge.

I think they will be fine.

Have a wonderful vacay ACM! Can't wait to hear about it when you get back

 

[Marie2020]

Hubby and I are heading off for 10 days holiday tomorrow.
Our kids (mid 20s) will be looking after the chooks, cats and dogs while we are gone. They have gone over everything with us and put a checklist up on the fridge.

I think they will be fine.

Have a really good break
See you when you get back

 

[RoyalChick]

Have a really good break
See you when you get back

Wait. Don’t we go with them?