Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Another mild and pleasant day..

Another patch weeded.

Only ten on the roost bars tonight.

The ventilation at the back. Don't know if its enough yet.

 

[MaryJanet]

Shadrach, your technique for picking up chickens also works with wild pigeons.

When Mary and Ivy were foraging a couple of days ago, I forgot to close the door between the sleepout where they'd been staying and the back porch. An hour later there were six wild pigeons in there, unable to find their way out. So I tried picking them up from below and carrying them out. It worked!

By the time it was pigeon 3's turn, I'd realised they preferred being held aloft. I guess it feels safer.

TLDR: thanks for teaching me how to handle birds!

 

[lightm]

This morning I hiked to get our bimonthly cheese delivery at the bottom of the village and met a few roosters free ranging along the way. Here are some of them :
This handsome guy I often see, usually tidbitting for a very pretty hen. He was alone today scratching up a garden.
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Remember I mentioned I had seen a hen that really looked like Chipie with a bunch of chicks ? I saw them again today harvesting grapes from a vine on the side of the road, they have grown so much! They were in the company of a pretty bantam rooster whose back was just like Théo. Unfortunately he was scared of me, so he got them to hide before I could take a picture, you can only see him as he went in last.
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Then on the way back I saw this guy on the path, in a rather narrow place, with two ex-batts ladies. I was coming from where they live so I was afraid he would run from me, or attack my naked ankles to protect his hens, but he did nothing of the kind. He made a low growling sound, let me pass, and then quickly took the ladies back home .
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Maybe 20 minutes after coming home and letting the chickens out, I see them all staring up. I was afraid it was hawks again but I saw Merle doing her tree hugging thing. She bears her name well, Merle means blackbird.

I enjoyed this post so very much.

 

[RoyalChick]

Shadrach, your technique for picking up chickens also works with wild pigeons.

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When Mary and Ivy were foraging a couple of days ago, I forgot to close the door between the sleepout where they'd been staying and the back porch. An hour later there were six wild pigeons in there, unable to find their way out. So I tried picking them up from below and carrying them out. It worked!

By the time it was pigeon 3's turn, I'd realised they preferred being held aloft. I guess it feels safer.

TLDR: thanks for teaching me how to handle birds!

Wow. Well done!

 

[MaryJanet]

Wow. Well done!

They were surprisingly calm once they standing on my hand and being moved away from me. A couple of them hung on when it was time to fly away, it took two launch attempts!

 

[no fly zone]

I'm in N FL - not to minimize your concerns, but the models are almost never correct, 3-4 days out. Wherever it goes, we are all getting wet. The question is only whether we are getting summer storm winds, or hurricane force?

Pack your ice box, pack the voids with frozen water - you know the routine.

That is why I said "could be". Will plan for the worst, hope for the best. The model has already shifted it west a bit.

 

[Molpet]

They were surprisingly calm once they standing on my hand and being moved away from me. A couple of them hung on when it was time to fly away, it took two launch attempts!

Could be tame

 

[MaryJanet]

Could be tame

It's remotely possible but I think it's more likely they were tired and bewildered from flapping against the windows, and felt standing quietly while moving steadily away from the human and towards the outdoors was safe.

 

[kcan2]

I am an occasional lurker who has evaded tax, but I did want to state how much I enjoy stopping by this thread every now and then! It seems like a very pleasant place, and the bird updates are great!

 

[Shadrach]

I am an occasional lurker who has evaded tax, but I did want to state how much I enjoy stopping by this thread every now and then! It seems like a very pleasant place, and the bird updates are great!

Every assessee wants to escape from paying taxes, which encourages them to use various means to avoid such payment. And when it’s about savings if taxes, the two most common practices that can be seen all around the world are tax avoidance and tax evasion. Tax avoidance is an exercise in which the assessee legally tries to defeat the basic intention of the law, by taking advantage of the shortcomings in the legislature.



On the contrary, tax evasion is a practice of reducing tax liability through illegal means, i.e. by suppressing income or inflating expenses or by showing lower income. In other words, Tax Avoidance is completely lawful because only those means are employed which are legal, while Tax Evasion is considered as a crime in the whole world, as it resorts to various kinds of deliberate manipulations.

I'm sure you meant to write avoided paying tax.