Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

This little guy tried to crow for the first time yesterday. Sky and Mr. Bumble's son.

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Gorgeous feathering. I like the whiskers. A chicken of some gravitas.

 

[BDutch]

This little guy tried to crow for the first time yesterday. Sky and Mr. Bumble's son.

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Looks likes he wearing his winter coat already

 

[Shadrach]

Wet and miserable this evening. Some came out for an hour or so, some came out and thought better of it when the drizzle turned to rain.
Coop progress zero. Veg plot too wet to do much with. Trouser bottoms soaked.
My friend came down to the allotments though and very knidly brought a bag of layers pellets with him. I stood out in the wet chatting to him while the chickens glared balefully at the low grey clouds and shook the worst of the wet off their feathers.
Matilda didn't mess about, ate and went straight into the new coop followed by two or three others. She seems to have decided that the new coop is her space.
Henry treid to mate with one of the particualry wet Ex Battery hens, slid off and dumped his arse in the mud. The band aid on my cut finger got assaulted by a couple of hens during feeding. I dread to think what they think it is wrapped around my finger but whatever they thought they seemed determined to kill it.

 

[MaryJanet]

Yes, I don't think he'll change his mind. If he comes to see them in a month, he will think we have swapped them.
He is one of those who believe man has never been on the moon.

I am fascinated by the human mind. So flexible in some people and so rigid in others.

 

[MaryJanet]

Humans are not covered in furs but in clothes and about 80 percent of the population is deficient. It's not only from not being outside. I'm deficient and I spend my life outside and I'm tanned like brown leather.

I became deficient from too much time indoors and even had to supplement a few years back, but bringing hens into the backyard fixed it for me and a test from a couple of weeks ago showed no deficit.

 

[Shadrach]

I am fascinated by the human mind. So flexible in some people and so rigid in others.

Are you sure that's not present in some, absent in others.

 

[MaryJanet]

Tax for getting distracted about the human mind. But I'm giving myself a freebie on the vit D deficiency because I brought it around to chickens in the end.

This weird photo is Ivy from below about 10 minutes before roosting with a full crop.

 

[no fly zone]

Looks likes he wearing his winter coat already

Not much in the way of winter ever hits around here.

 

[no fly zone]

 

[ManueB]

I'm using instead of a plane mostly for shaping a chamfer and removing high spots. It's razor sharp (as I can attest to having recently cut myself on it getting it out of my rucksack )
I used it a lot on the lamps I make. It has the advantage of not pushing dust back into the wood grain.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/shadrachs-lamps.1272460/

Then it must be way sharper than ours because I could never use them in such a way, though I did manage to hurt myself with it.
I didn't make it to the end of the thread last night but I'm in awe of the lamps. They look to feel as soft as woodturning to touch, but whereas to my eyes the symmetrical results of woodturning makes it very artificial the way you work highlights the natural aspect and spirit of the wood. You have a special talent, I hope you can still put it to other more artistic use use than making a coop base .