Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

One of my favourite recipes
Tasty greek recipe for zucchini pie easy to make:

• Olive oil spray, to grease
• 4 sheets (25 x 25cm) or 8 smaller sheets of frozen butter puff pastry, just thawed

Filling (mix it in a bowl)

• 3 eggs
• 1 large of 2 small zucchinis, coarsely grated
• 150g -200 g feta, drained, crumbled
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh dill or basil if you prefer the taste of basil
• 1 piece (toe?) of garlic squezzed or chopped very fine
• 1 onion chopped fine
• pinch of pepper
  
  Use a oven dish/bowl spray olive oil on the surface. Add a layer of the puff pastry. Add the filling. Slice the leftover of the puff pasty and decorate in on top of the filling.
  
  
• 25 -30 min in the oven on 180-200 C.

I might try this. Thanks.

 

[Shadrach]

Zucchini makes a good loaf of bread, it's like banana bread.

I have the recipe if you would like to have it.

I would be interested in your bread recipe as well.

 

[Shadrach]

Three and a half hours today. It was 28C when I got to the allotments and they were not the slightest bit interested in coming out from under the shade box. I did their water and supplied food; sat in the allotment run in the shade for a while and then round to the eldests for tea and some late lunch.
Back to the allotments a bit after five in the afternoon and while still hovering around 30C the sun had moved far enough West to give decent shade on my plot and out in the allotment run. They all came out for supper and a forage. Fret and the chicks had a dust bath. They ate and drank some more and headed off to roost.
The tribes in Catalonia would have been out and about at 30C only seeking shade for breaks from direct exposure to the sun. At 35C they would spend much more time in the shade but wouldn't look uncomfortable until it got above 35C heading to 40C. Above 40C they would stay in the shade most of the day and look for deep shade during the mid day temerature peaks.
I guess this lot are just not used to it. I'm really glad I built the shade box. It seems to work rather well at todays temperatures.

 

[BDutch]

Three and a half hours today. It was 28C when I got to the allotments and they were not the slightest bit interested in coming out from under the shade box. I did their water and supplied food; sat in the allotment run in the shade for a while and then round to the eldests for tea and some late lunch.
Back to the allotments a bit after five in the afternoon and while still hovering around 30C the sun had moved far enough West to give decent shade on my plot and out in the allotment run. They all came out for supper and a forage. Fret and the chicks had a dust bath. They ate and drank some more and headed off to roost.
The tribes in Catalonia would have been out and about at 30C only seeking shade for breaks from direct exposure to the sun. At 35C they would spend much more time in the shade but wouldn't look uncomfortable until it got above 35C heading to 40C. Above 40C they would stay in the shade most of the day and look for deep shade during the mid day temerature peaks.
I guess this lot are just not used to it. I'm really glad I built the shade box. It seems to work rather well at todays temperatures.
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My Dutch love to sunbathe when its 28 C with sun. This is the warmest spot and their favourite spot.

But when it’s getting over 30 C the chickens start looking for more shade.

 

[Molpet]

sounds delish.

a segment is a clove of garlic, while the whole bulb is called a head, in English

I went from toe to cloven hoof.

 

[ManueB]

My Dutch love to sunbathe when its 28 C with sun. This is the warmest spot and their favourite spot. View attachment 3628303
But when it’s getting over 30 C the chickens start looking for more shade.

My chickens also start looking uncomfortable over 32/90.
While most of them have grown up here or arrived at three months, they don't all react the same to heat.
I recently read on our public radio website that for humans one of the explanation of our different reaction to heat, other than being used to it, is that our individual body temperature are actually not all similar. It varies with age but also with genetics. Possibly this is true for chickens as well.

My version of the grated zucchini pie is with chiseled mint, without the onion, and with or without feta (it's nice with fresh goat cheese as well). If you like the taste of mint it's quite interesting.

I’m so over summer garden as well. I dream of pumpkin pie, butternut soup and white beans stew .

 

[Perris]

We're finally getting some heat (that's up to 26 C here) and sunshine, and I feel like I've been a bit short-changed on summer this year, so not in a hurry to see autumn arrive (come to think of it, we had autumn already, in July and August).

I've grown physalis for the first time this year, and the harvest is just beginning; fresh off the plant those little orange berries are really intense! Definitely one to try again next year.

 

[fluffycrow]

I don't know what yall are doing, but over here we're freezing. It's 22°C and it's not even October

 

[fluffycrow]

I don't know what yall are doing, but over here we're freezing. It's 22°C and it's not even October

I guess I shouldn't complain, wildfire season is pretty much done, until next year

 

[Perris]

we're freezing. It's 22°C

you do realize this is a contradiction in terms for a Brit...? Freezing = below 4 C and 22 is definitely a nice day here