Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

I'm thinking about starting up a pizza delivery sevice for chickens.
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Four and a half hours out today.
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Time for a last forage.
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They must be feeling very relaxed and safe.

 

[Iluveggers]

I'm thinking about starting up a pizza delivery sevice for chickens.
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Four and a half hours out today.
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Time for a last forage.
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Looks like a beautiful afternoon!

 

[Windrider]

Yep. We were on tank water for years. It teaches you quickly to be careful of what you use. I've noticed all the kids like to take really, really long hot showers these days!​

Try living on a sailboat! When all you have is 400 gallons of fresh water to get a six person crew across the Pacific from Panama to Tahiti, fresh water is only for drinking and cooking!

Granted, we did take long hot showers... it was just salt water, with a quick fresh water rinse at the end.

 

[RoyalChick]

So do I. It just makes me grin. Henry all stood up properly. head on, trying to look regal, the two hens on the left casually ignoring the whole performance and young whatitsface does a lovely photo bomb.

Submit for POW - it will bring a smile to everyone's face.

 

[no fly zone]

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I adore this little chicken.

 

[RoyalChick]

I adore this little chicken.

Don't we all!

 

[no fly zone]

Don't we all!

This second attempt at a Skeksis/Mr. Bumble brood could produce one.

 

[bruceha2000]

How do you get them to dig rectangular holes Shad?

Isn't it obvious? They are ex battery hens, they think rectangular is the proper way to live.

Try living on a sailboat! When all you have is 400 gallons of fresh water to get a six person crew across the Pacific from Panama to Tahiti, fresh water is only for drinking and cooking!

Clearly we need a few pictures of that! What a cool adventure.

 

[RoyalChick]

Isn't it obvious? They are ex battery hens, they think rectangular is the proper way to live.

 

[Windrider]

Clearly we need a few pictures of that! What a cool adventure.

This is not related to chickens at all, and I still don't have my new chickens yet to pay tax! I am working on it, though. Got the shade house area and the old coop cleared out ready to build the new one. Will be looking for three bantam pullets this summer.

I am a licensed captain (and female, I might add), but since boats are very expensive and I am poor, I mostly act as first mate on wealthier friends' boats. I have done the Transpac race multiple times (So Cal to Hawaii), spent 2 1/2 years cruising the South Pacific, and regularly had rich people hire me as part of a crew to bring their yachts back from Mexico (due to prevailing currents, everyone wants to sail to Mexico, but no one wants to do the "Baja Bash" bringing them back). Currently I run a university sailing program and try turn a bunch of landlubber students into sailors in eight weeks.

This pic is fun. I am regularly first mate on this boat for fun stuff. She is a heavy cruising sailboat, but we entered her in the Newport to Ensenada race one year on a lark. It is a handicapped race, so boats of all types compete, usually around 400 boats. We had no expectations, but that year was so stormy it was a shoo-in for all the heavy cruisers and we won and got a big ol' trophy! We even beat Dennis Connor the Amercia's Cup champion! This is us coming up on the finish line.