Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Great for you to be close to them again.
Imagine you missed them in Spain a bit?

Some of them Penny.

 

[Shadrach]

To be fair half the population is in line to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth

An impression brought about by excessive media propoganda.

 

[Shadrach]

Did you ever get in touch with Solway about your improvements and how they could tweak their design to make it better?

I see there's another company now offering a similar product, Shaneco, so with Nestera and Arkus that's 4. I think recycled plastic coops must be catching on

Not yet, but I will when I've finished messing about with it. I'm expecting to have to make further adjustments once I've seen more of how the whole coop and run combination works.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

77 cloudy 90% humidity feels like 75 thunderstorms.

Have a great day!

 

[lightm]

Crew working hard on turning the massive wood chip pile:

Tina's specialty is compost though

 

[RoyalChick]

Crew working hard on turning the massive wood chip pile:
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Tina's specialty is compost though
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Oooh. I really like those compost containers. Are they metal or plastic? Where did you source those. My pallet ones are nearly ‘at one’ with the compost so I will need something to replace them soon.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Started by pairing a clown to a superstripe. Out of 10 eggs, i got 2 specter females het for clown. Raised them up and bought a butter yellowbelly clown male. Paired him with both females, and out of 15 total eggs, all the genes lined up for those 3.

Here is one of the two clutches:
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They are all beautiful, but my fave is the top right, with the "alien faces" or "ghost" pattern. Nicely done!

 

[Shadrach]

Yes. Feed back to the sales department/factories would be something we all should do buying ready made coops. They sell the same stupid wooden prefab I bought 10 years ago without him any significant changes. Maybe this could be something for the BYC project managers to initiate on the whole forum.

And maybe there are more products from recycled plastics in the shop soon. Because the oil got so expensive, recycled plastic could be a ‘cheaper’ alternative. Better for the environment too.

P.S. I have send a mail to the byc managers.

Hopefully the company will appreciate it. I haven't done anything radical to the coop and in general but I think other keepers would have done much the same.
There will be people who won't consider a plastic coop because they think they would be unable to make alterations.
With power tools most of the cutting could be done in hours. I've cut the plastic using a hacksaw blade in a holder.
A point about plastic you can tap a thread into it and with decent engineering screws the screws will self tap if you drill the right sized pilot hole.

 

[lightm]

Oooh. I really like those compost containers. Are they metal or plastic? Where did you source those. My pallet ones are nearly ‘at one’ with the compost so I will need something to replace them soon.

They are plastic and they are really awesome. I bought them maybe 5 years ago on Amazon.

It is just one big rectangular plastic sheet with holes. You fold it to make the size of the compost bin that you want (you can hopefully see what I mean in the picture). If you want to turn it or harvest your compost, you can unfold it really easily.

I took both of them with me when I moved across the country.

Let me see if I can find a link: https://www.amazon.com/BanKhok-Geob...663535490&sprefix=compost+bin,aps,178&sr=8-16

 

[BigBlueHen53]

They are plastic and they are really awesome. I bought them maybe 5 years ago on Amazon.

It is just one big rectangular plastic sheet with holes. You fold it to make the size of the compost bin that you want (you can hopefully see what I mean in the picture). If you want to turn it or harvest your compost, you can unfold it really easily.

I took both of them with me when I moved across the country.

Let me see if I can find a link: https://www.amazon.com/BanKhok-Geobin-Compost-Bin/dp/B010V673AC/ref=sr_1_16?crid=1VG48346LGJVE&keywords=compost+bin&qid=1663535490&sprefix=compost+bin,aps,178&sr=8-16

Smart!