Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[pennyJo1960]

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Keep warm penny . This cold has knocked me about so it must be worse for you

Same to you It is warm in the house the wood stove is always going

 

[bruceha2000]

She lost her daughter and grandson during lockdown.

That must have been horribly hard on her. I'm sure she never thought she would outlive either of them.

 

[bruceha2000]

A interstate was put in with an exit at the town. So it's great for people that work 40 miles away in Chicago and it's suburbs

And then, like in So Cal, more people will move to the area with new interstate access driving up housing prices and in a few years that section of the interstate will also be a near parking lot during commuting hours.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

The temperature is 82 and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[Marie2020]

Same to you It is warm in the house the wood stove is always going

Mmmm cozy

 

[Marie2020]

That must have been horribly hard on her. I'm sure she never thought she would outlive either of them.

It broke my heart. Her grandson was epileptic, she said he would hide from her so not too stress her out when he felt a fit coming on. He also hid from anyone else he was near as fir when he was the canal and he must have gone under the bridge too be hidden from then he must fell into the water and drowned.
All this heartbreak for this dear lady in a matter of months.

I'll be looking out for her next week and giving her my phone number.

 

[Molpet]

And then, like in So Cal, more people will move to the area with new interstate access driving up housing prices and in a few years that section of the interstate will also be a near parking lot during commuting hours.

Yeppers
Around 1990 it took 15 min to get to work. 2012 when I retired it was 40 min. Same route down I 80. 13 miles one way.

 

[Shadrach]

My roosters envy Henry. Here there's a 3 to 1 ratio of hens to roosters. After a period of having no bantam rooster for our smaller girls because Pancho was killed my wife got crazy for roosters.

1 rooster to 3 hens is the ideal ratio if you have the room and can house the individual roosters and their hens seperately I've found.

 

[Shadrach]

My understanding is that geese primarily eat grasses.

Yeah, non domestice geese do and will. This lot have no idea about foraging.
Apart from that, a point that seems to elude C, despite having been informed of this a number of times, geese and chickens and any other creature one keeps need to eat every day. In the goose run, much like the chicken run, one has to feed them.

 

[Shadrach]

I understand your objections to this, but at least it's wholemeal, and apparently not mouldy, and if they are used to it, I imagine that the flock love it.

Bread gets left by a couple of people who used to have plots on the allotment, or were at some point otherwise involved. They leave it out of pity for the geese and chickens. It's not just me that thinks C's animal husbandry skills leave a lot to be desired. To the best of my knowledge three people have reported C to the RSPCA.