Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[bruceha2000]

Thermal wheelbarrow means nothing in English ? I'm talking about this, what is it called?

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Curious! Thermal generally refers to heat in English. So what you have is a motorized (which DOES produce heat ) bucket (the barrow part) on tracks, not wheels! I can see where that could go most anywhere. Especially necessary with your terrain unless you have animals pulling carts.

I see that Amazon sells what looks to be the same thing as "XtremepowerUS 61035 Track Wheel Barrow Gas Powered" for $2,100 (€2.000).

I didn't realize that the USD is now early equivalent to the Euro!

I'm fairly sure she's part Australorp, part Silkie and part Araucana. Maybe also part Pekin. She lays blue eggs,

Odd that she lays blue with that mix. Usually a blue layer crossed with a brown layer yields some shade of green since the brown layer "tints" the shell with brown as the egg passes. Maybe her paint sprayer is broken

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning X Batts. Paying tax This is white bird she was going away at the time.

 

[GregnLety]

My wife is taking 7 chickens to Sister A's house. 5 young cockrells and 2 pullets. That brings us back to approximately 30 chickens. 6 roosters to 24 hens seems to be a good ratio as the fighting has been cut down since we gave away some juvenile roosters. Ongoing feud between Red and Cholo so they will never be allowed to free range together.

 

[BDutch]

I had this same experience with my Dorothy.
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Sorry for you’re loss.
I thought these ovary troubles where mainly a thing with laying hybrids . But it seems it can happen with heritage breeds too.

 

[Shadrach]

Wise house rules indeed!

That's you and him scrubbed off my holiday destination list then.

 

[Shadrach]

what do you mean by 'settle down' in this context?

Very difficult to explain.
Let me try a bit of anthroporhism.
Say from 0 to six months they are quite cuddly and good natured.
Six months onward they're teenagers. They want to run around, fight everybody and try out any hen they think they can get away with. The teenage bit can last a year. Then they either fall in love, or come to a working arrangement with the senior hen and a couple of others.
Very like humans, but they are very like us. Much more so then many want to acknowledge. True, we don't crap on the floor anymore. Not a lot in it after that in basic nature.

 

[Shadrach]

That works for me too, except for getting them to bed, since we have no run so I can't con them into the coops - and trying to herd them in like sheep is a dead loss

There are complications currently.
I can herd them back to the coop run. However, they need to eat before bed and the eating is spread over 15 to 20 minutes.
No food can be left out. The rat problem is bad enough as it is.
That means I need to be there to put the feeders away after everyone has eaten and gone to roost.

 

[Shadrach]

Thermal wheelbarrow means nothing in English ? I'm talking about this, what is it called?

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It's called a Track Barrow.

 

[Shadrach]

If I didn't have an ATV I would want one of these, whatever it is. This would have been quite handy when I was growing up in Kentucky. Our property was quite steep and a regular wheelbarrow was not the best way to move stuff uphill.

They tend not to perform as well as one might think on slopes.
What they are great for is moving wet concrete on very muddy ground. If you've every tried to wheelbarrow an ordinary wheelbarrow full of concrete in ankle deep mud you would appreciate one of these.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My birds have always gone to bed by themselves ..
Even the banty I put them in the tractor .. Does not take long they learn to sit at the door for me to take them back to the coop.
Tax paid new hatched a week ago maybe 2 weeks.
Another hatch of food this was 2 years old some of the seed was 2 to 4 years old