Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

I'm still testing positive but felt a bit better this evening. I'm very tired of this bug now.

I can't say I'm looking forward to the move itself assuming it all goes through.

I am glad to hear that you are starting to feel better!

Moving is always a dreadful! I am super organized kind of mover, I start packing months before the move, everything labeled, we end up with just a few essentials that get packed up the night before, but there is always something that does not go according to plan. Still, the reasons for your move will make it worth it. Fingers crossed that this is exactly what you are looking for!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

My chickens dustbathe where ever they want to.

They have some very deep holes, if I were to step in them I would probable kill myself.

Temperature is in the 70s and cloudy

Have a great day!

 

[BDutch]

My chickens dustbathe where ever they want to.

They have some very deep holes, if I were to step in them I would probable kill myself.

I throw a few bricks in deep holes or lay a piece of hwc on top of the hole. The chickens keep digging deeper if I let them do as they please.

 

[TropicalChickies]

I am glad to hear that you are starting to feel better!

Moving is always a dreadful! I am super organized kind of mover, I start packing months before the move, everything labeled, we end up with just a few essentials that get packed up the night before, but there is always something that does not go according to plan. Still, the reasons for your move will make it worth it. Fingers crossed that this is exactly what you are looking for!

The best thing about moving is it's time to purge all the things you don't use or need. I would always move apartments every two years (max) when I lived in cities. My admittedly insane method was to wait until 48 hours before the move date to start packing. That way all the most important stuff got packed first. The last four hours were reserved for trips to used book shops to sell books and the thrift shops to drop off anythjng else. Whatever wasn't packed in that time went to the aforementioned places, or got put in a box on the sidewalk with the words "Take me" written on it. After a decade of this strategy I can say I truly became a minimalist. I would only acquire things based on "Will it make the next moving day?" Obviously, I was made for camping out in a forest, so eventually I just made it my lifestyle.

Tax. Speaking of moving, it's been a busy week moving and rehoming 2 of our cockerels. I'll update on that madness soon, but here is little Segundo, finally getting his chance to offer treats to his new girlfriends Ginger and Bebe. Lucky lucky fella.. He's still getting used to going from number four to number one rooster just like that, but he's rising up to the occasion.

Ginger and Bebe. 9 month old pullets I moved them into a new coop at our neighbors up the road from our farm. Now I get to teach them all about chickens... My dear partner is so relieved I finally have a captive audience for chicken talk

Wait... Those cutie pies are FOR ME? Are you serious? How did I get so lucky? (The Food Lady is a sap, buddy, that's how )

 

[RoyalChick]

The best thing about moving is it's time to purge all the things you don't use or need. I would always move apartments every two years (max) when I lived in cities. My admittedly insane method was to wait until 48 hours before the move date to start packing. That way all the most important stuff got packed first. The last four hours were reserved for trips to used book shops to sell books and the thrift shops to drop off anythjng else. Whatever wasn't packed in that time went to the aforementioned places, or got put in a box on the sidewalk with the words "Take me" written on it. After a decade of this strategy I can say I truly became a minimalist. I would only acquire things based on "Will it make the next moving day?" Obviously, I was made for camping out in a forest, so eventually I just made it my lifestyle.

I have unfortunately not achieved minimalist status and am now an inveterate hoarder. But your story reminds me of after my grandfather died. He had lived in the same apartment for decades with the same landlady (it was always a question in our minds which of them would outlive the other).
Anyway, when he died the landlady gave us 3 days to vacate the apartment. We had a friend who had a much smaller place about a half mile away and said we could store as much as we could fit in.
We had no car.
So my mother and I spent three days walking stuff over to the friend's apartment and we would leave things in the street along the way. Usually they were gone by the time we walked by again,
We got really good at knowing 'the market' - pots and pans go faster from that corner, vs that alley really likes books! It turned a sad and depressing event into quite an entertaining and certainly memorable experience.

Tax because that had absolutely nothing to do with chickens so here is a chicken. Bernie.

 

[TropicalChickies]

I have unfortunately not achieved minimalist status and am now an inveterate hoarder. But your story reminds me of after my grandfather died. He had lived in the same apartment for decades with the same landlady (it was always a question in our minds which of them would outlive the other).
Anyway, when he died the landlady gave us 3 days to vacate the apartment. We had a friend who had a much smaller place about a half mile away and said we could store as much as we could fit in.
We had no car.
So my mother and I spent three days walking stuff over to the friend's apartment and we would leave things in the street along the way. Usually they were gone by the time we walked by again,
We got really good at knowing 'the market' - pots and pans go faster from that corner, vs that alley really likes books! It turned a sad and depressing event into quite an entertaining and certainly memorable experience.

Tax because that had absolutely nothing to do with chickens so here is a chicken. Bernie.
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That's a great story.

 

[fuzzi]

I am glad to hear that you are starting to feel better!

Moving is always a dreadful! I am super organized kind of mover, I start packing months before the move, everything labeled, we end up with just a few essentials that get packed up the night before, but there is always something that does not go according to plan. Still, the reasons for your move will make it worth it. Fingers crossed that this is exactly what you are looking for!

This, all this!

I don't label the moving boxes with the contents, but write on the outside of the box the room where I want it to go in the new place. The last few boxes I throw together have "miscellaneous" or "misc" scribbled on the side!

 

[fuzzi]

I have unfortunately not achieved minimalist status and am now an inveterate hoarder. But your story reminds me of after my grandfather died. He had lived in the same apartment for decades with the same landlady (it was always a question in our minds which of them would outlive the other).
Anyway, when he died the landlady gave us 3 days to vacate the apartment. We had a friend who had a much smaller place about a half mile away and said we could store as much as we could fit in.
We had no car.
So my mother and I spent three days walking stuff over to the friend's apartment and we would leave things in the street along the way. Usually they were gone by the time we walked by again,
We got really good at knowing 'the market' - pots and pans go faster from that corner, vs that alley really likes books! It turned a sad and depressing event into quite an entertaining and certainly memorable experience.

Tax because that had absolutely nothing to do with chickens so here is a chicken. Bernie.
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Nice photo!

 

[fuzzi]

I guess I need to pay tax...

Martha pecking my skirt, wanting a treat.

 

[Shadrach]

If it works out, it's a very short delay. Do you need to move in by the 16, and if so would you have time to make the formalities to leave your current flat ?

There aren't any formalities bar looking at the place and signing the lease. It's the same housing provider so its an internal transfer.