Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

I once met someone in a farmer's market not far away (Mediterranean climate) looking for mangoes (tropical climate) and in a hurry. I suggested trying a supermarket because local farmers can't grow tropical fruit but he doubled down on his certainty and kept looking

Tax

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A couple vendors at farmers market bring in fruits from over 700 miles away. Although It's items that would be grown here, just 2 or 3 months early.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Summer is soon as the temperature and humidity are going up and it is unbearable outside.

Have a great day!

 

[MaryJanet]

A couple vendors at farmers market bring in fruits from over 700 miles away. Although It's items that would be grown here, just 2 or 3 months early.

That surprises me. Where I live, the point of a farmers market is that the produce was locally grown. The carbon footprint matters.

 

[Molpet]

That surprises me. Where I live, the point of a farmers market is that the produce was locally grown. The carbon footprint matters.

They don't advertise that it's from a couple states away..... but when I asked how they had melons already , they said they were from another state.

 

[Molpet]

Chickens eating off a spoon

 

[Shadrach]

Raining when I got there; raining when I left.
They got about twenty minutes out on the allotments before the rain drove them back in. We sat in the run extension until Henry went off to roost early disgusted by the weather no doubt.

Both Carbon and Fret wanted to lay eggs when I arrived. Fret got in one nest box (they mostly lay in just one) and Carbon called for Henry. Credit to Henry, he answered and went to see what the problem was. He didn't just stand at the bottom of the ramp and call up "Is there a problem darling" as he picked his ear, he went into the coop to have a look and herded Carbon out.

Cold but mainly dry days forcast for Friday and Saturday and then it's supposed to get noticably warmer.

 

[MaryJanet]

They don't advertise that it's from a couple states away..... but when I asked how they had melons already , they said they were from another state.

At least they were honest about it, but if they did that here it would be all over social media.

Tax in keeping with Molpet's chickens eating from a spoon theme, here's Ivy eating from a bowl.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon X Batts My birds seem to like the new coop things are moving well on it.
Banty are my tax

 

[ManueB]

They don't advertise that it's from a couple states away..... but when I asked how they had melons already , they said they were from another state.

When I lived in Nice there was no local producers market. It's really sad that the valley right outside that was extremely fertile has been totally turned into a business and commercial zone. The town were my parents live nearby used to be famous in all of France for it's strawberries : now there is only one producer and he's more of an attraction than anything serious.
Heated greenhouse are a part of the problem I think. An item that been grown in a heated greenhouse can be sold as organic here. So you can grow strawberries (or tomatoes or whatever summer fruits you want) in winter in Italy or Spain in a heated greenhouse where the workers will be migrants much less paid and controlled than in France, and then sell them here as organic.

Raining when I got there; raining when I left.
They got about twenty minutes out on the allotments before the rain drove them back in. We sat in the run extension until Henry went off to roost early disgusted by the weather no doubt.

Both Carbon and Fret wanted to lay eggs when I arrived. Fret got in one nest box (they mostly lay in just one) and Carbon called for Henry. Credit to Henry, he answered and went to see what the problem was. He didn't just stand at the bottom of the ramp and call up "Is there a problem darling" as he picked his ear, he went into the coop to have a look and herded Carbon out.

Cold but mainly dry days forcast for Friday and Saturday and then it's supposed to get noticably warmer.
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How did you find Lima?
Is she regrowing any feather or do you think she will stay like this ?
Henry lives dangerously !

 

[Perris]

my wordle scores on the current run now form an almost perfect normal distribution! 0 2 11 51 11 1 - I really don't want another 6 just to even it up!