Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

The temperature is 85 and mostly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[micstrachan]

Are you ready for this?


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Hahahaaaa!!! Helpers!!!

 

[micstrachan]

Do you have a problem with the D on your keyboard Marie?

I wondered the same thing!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning X Batts.. Most the letters on my blasted keyboard are faint of gone.

 

[Solanacae]

I love borage, but it hates my place. I've only ever managed to grow one or two, that flower in late September so it doesn't last and they don't reseed. It annoys me as it's supposed to be so easy to grow , it's the same with the nasturtiums.

This year I'm starting a bunch of both inside, hopefully I'll be more successful.

Wow, I live in a semi-arid area and I’ve never had problems with getting borage to grow. And it blooms all summer for me too. I guess a very different growing climate or soil?? Granted, it does get supplemental water, like anything around here has to have unless I wanted to not have a garden at all. I guess I could grow sagebrush . . .

Skeksis is 3 yrs old today.

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Happy birthday to the oddest-looking, most intelligent of chickens! May you have many more.

 

[micstrachan]

There is something inside me that grows wings and sings when I see chickens free ranging. Even on the allotments with me watching there are risks. My main concern is they may eat something that is bad for them or sustain an injury on some bit of junk that's lying around and there is plenty of it partly buried on the paths and in the beds.
Henry gets a bit nervous and has headed back to the allotment run a few times and watched the hens from inside the run. But when the hens wander he notices before I do and calls them.
I can then go and steer them back towards the center of the allotments where both he and I can keep better track of them.
Lima is particulary hard to keep track of. It's quite apparent she loves the freedom and will run from one promising looking spot to another.
This evening they all headed back towards the gate bar one who hasn't quite worked this out yet.
All 19 safely in their coop at deep dusk. This time at least.

I just love that Lima. I am so pleased she is enjoying life so much.

 

[micstrachan]

That looks like a well fed bobcat. Or maybe pregnant?

 

[no fly zone]

That looks like a well fed bobcat. Or maybe pregnant?

That's the small one. Also, my neighbor said his flock of ducks got wiped out by the bobcats.

 

[micstrachan]

Not sure I understand correctly, if your question is the location of the coop, it's a vaulted basement just underneath our kitchen/living room. Used to be a small barn and turned into a coop in the 50s. It's the open door on the photo.View attachment 3021108

What a neat looking house! We don’t have anything like that here. How would it hold up in an earthquake? I’m in earthquake country, which might be why we don’t have that sort of construction. I love it!

 

[micstrachan]

That's the small one. Also, my neighbor said his flock of ducks got wiped out by the bobcats.

Could they be a pair and this is the female? I still wonder if she’s pregnant.