Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Matilda has gone as have two Legbars (not Fret) and two of the larger Ex Battery hens. I have seen some pictures of where they've gone and from what little I can see it looks okay.

Removing the top hen from the group is not the way I would go about it. The remaining hens were much more aggressive than usual and I had to break up a couple of fights. Henry was a bit subdued I thought.

Didn't get above freezing. C has broken the water containor I assume by smashing the ice. The allotment tap is frozen solid. Feed all over the ground. Rats running under the pallet C chucked in there.

Slightly more acceptable.

 

[Shadrach]

Totally off topic but @Shadrach I found the Bowmore Islay that you suggested at the liquor store. Bought one for my wife and one for my mother-in-law for Christmas presents. I hope it is as good as you say, $54 per 750 ml bottle

Of course it's good old chap. Whether your mother-in-law and wife like it is another matter. That's the cheap stuff.

 

[bruceha2000]

No, the "cheap" stuff we usually get (Glenfiddich or Glenlivet usually) were $36/bottle. They did have some really cheap stuff, I don't think I'd want a single malt scotch that cost $12/bottle.

 

[Shadrach]

No, the "cheap" stuff we usually get (Glenfiddich or Glenlivet usually) were $36/bottle. They did have some really cheap stuff, I don't think I'd want a single malt scotch that cost $12/bottle.

Only teasing.
There are so many to choose from and the differences particulalry from the same distiller can be hard to pick out.

I liked this a lot.
https://www.houseofmalt.co.uk/produ...49708078132&utm_content=PL - Product Types MM

 

[Shadrach]

As a reminder to the reader and myself I need to make something clear. What you have seen in the pictures of the chickens is two or three hours of their day.
The other twentyone hours they are bored, often hungry, trying to keep out of the wind and generally not leading the life you've seen in the pictures.

Just about everything bad I had always thought about coop and run chicken keeping has happened here. It's been a vivid illustration of how a few simple word can change the welfare of the chicken.

Livestock: suddenly there is no individual chicken and for many the welfare of their livestock falls far below the welfare of their pets.

exbatts: worn out has beens that we are doing a favour for by taking them in.

They are all just as lovely and just as interesting as any other chickens I've met.
There is no way C can or it seems even willing to give the chickens adequate care.
I've made a difference, but not enough of a difference to state that they wouldn't be better off elsewhere.
I would like for chicken to never again be kept at the allotments while C holds the licence or has anything to do with the running of it.

 

[Sequel]

As a reminder to the reader and myself I need to make something clear. What you have seen in the pictures of the chickens is two or three hours of their day.
The other twentyone hours they are bored, often hungry, trying to keep out of the wind and generally not leading the life you've seen in the pictures.

Just about everything bad I had always thought about coop and run chicken keeping has happened here. It's been a vivid illustration of how a few simple word can change the welfare of the chicken.

Livestock: suddenly there is no individual chicken and for many the welfare of their livestock falls far below the welfare of their pets.

exbatts: worn out has beens that we are doing a favour for by taking them in.

They are all just as lovely and just as interesting as any other chickens I've met.
There is no way C can or it seems even willing to give the chickens adequate care.
I've made a difference, but not enough of a difference to state that they wouldn't be better off elsewhere.
I would like for chicken to never again be kept at the allotments while C holds the licence or has anything to do with the running of it.

I clicked like but I feel like crying.

 

[Perris]

As a reminder to the reader and myself I need to make something clear. What you have seen in the pictures of the chickens is two or three hours of their day.
The other twentyone hours they are bored, often hungry, trying to keep out of the wind and generally not leading the life you've seen in the pictures.

Just about everything bad I had always thought about coop and run chicken keeping has happened here. It's been a vivid illustration of how a few simple word can change the welfare of the chicken.

Livestock: suddenly there is no individual chicken and for many the welfare of their livestock falls far below the welfare of their pets.

exbatts: worn out has beens that we are doing a favour for by taking them in.

They are all just as lovely and just as interesting as any other chickens I've met.
There is no way C can or it seems even willing to give the chickens adequate care.
I've made a difference, but not enough of a difference to state that they wouldn't be better off elsewhere.
I would like for chicken to never again be kept at the allotments while C holds the licence or has anything to do with the running of it.

Coop and run is a modern, Western, so-called developed country phenomenon. It's not how most people in most times and places have kept chickens. Hopefully it'll be short-lived, like most of our fads and fashions.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I clicked like but I feel like crying.

Same here.

At least you got to see pictures of where they were going, like you were possibly part of the conversation? Here's hoping they've gone to people who cherish them, know how to check their crops and keels and feet and feathers, and give them an endless supply of good feed, unfrozen water, and grass to run around on.

Plenty of times reading this thread, I've wondered what it's been like to leave them every night when you don't know if (or what) they'll be fed the next morning. I'd find it particularly hard to leave when a bird was sick, knowing a night or 2 indoors could make the difference in her life.

This all makes me want to go hug my chickens. Which I won't, because they hate that.

 

[BDutch]

Sorry to hear Mathilda was chosen to accompany the ex-allotment ex batts.

Tax with a tiny bit of snow and sun.

Scratch time .

The chickens like to sit underneath the Portuguese laurel nowadays.

Songbirds like the scratch too. Today a red breasted bird (robin) was having diner in the run.

 

[Molpet]

Coop and run is a modern, Western, so-called developed country phenomenon. It's not how most people in most times and places have kept chickens. Hopefully it'll be short-lived, like most of our fads and fashions.

Most times people would eliminate predators and have an outdoor dog to guard the livestock.. nowadays most people can't do either legally