Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[sourland]

"One day at a time" is a good motto for chickening.

Also a good motto for life.

 

[Shadrach]

They don’t look blurry to me.

They look focussed on my laptop screen.

They look better now. I don't think they had loaded properly when I looked earier. BYC is running a bit slow over here.

 

[Shadrach]

I've been writing some articles. This is the first and it might be of interest to those of you who follow this thread. It's about taking the old allotment coop to pieces.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/flat-pack-coop-takedown-and-appraisal.78406/

 

[kcan2]

I've been writing some articles. This is the first and it might be of interest to those of you who follow this thread. It's about taking the old allotment coop to pieces.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/flat-pack-coop-takedown-and-appraisal.78406/

Exciting! I found out a lot of new & insightful info already, having never considered internally/externally clad coops or cleaning with a blow torch. What great photo documentation and lots of work! Glad you are detailing this for the benefit of others!
The photo of all 26 crammed in for roosting though...
What great changes and improvements you have made!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

65 mostly sunny 93% humidity feels like 64 rain 1%.

Glad to see Lima is up at it with some gusto.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

4C with occasional bursts of sunshine. No idea what was going on with the wind. It seemed to change direction a lot.

I was having a lovely quiet time digging the rubble out of the run, I'm about 35cm (14 inches) all over the patch I've dug, when C turned up. I may have undone some months of diplomacy.. C told me three straight out really stupid lies one after the other and I pulled them on them. C then got a bit stroppy and I did what I've carefullly managed not to do for the past months and that is, I fired up.

I've heard so much complete bollocks from C over the last eighteen months I've had enough of trying to walk around it. I don't think I've done any lasting damage.

We did after get to discuss two major issues after wards and those are the rubbish that accumulates. There are various little heaps of plastic sheet, geo textile fabric, all sorts that isn't easily compostable. There is this notion that no dig allotments are a thing and here the version of that is throw plastic sheets over the plots and weigh the sheets down with whatever comes to hand. Of course the sheets are just thrown somewhere out of the way come growing season. There is an awful lot of plastic on the allotment.
Now I thought the idea was to use corrugated cardboard. It shuts out the light but both lets water through and reduced evaporation from the soil. The main point though is corrugated cardboard composts quite quickly which is what one wants should one be concerened about the environment and into the green issues.

There is an easy 6 yard skips worth of rubbish. Getting rubbish moved is quite an expensive business. C complained that they had paid for the last lot to be moved and were not prepared to pay again. I know the plot holders would donate.

Anyway, that's enough of a rant.
Two hours out today.

 

[Molpet]

Getting rubbish moved is quite an expensive business.

A bag to each holder to take home and put out with their rubbish would take too long?

 

[Perris]

C told me three straight out really stupid lies one after the other

do tell!

 

[Iluveggers]

do tell!

 

[Shadrach]

A bag to each holder to take home and put out with their rubbish would take too long?

I'll take some pictures. The problem will become clearer. This could work in the future if people would do it.