Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

Unfortunately yes, but the winged variety. I would like to be able to report they are angels but again unfortunately they're crows. They pull seeds and starter plants out, find out they're not to their taste and drop them elsewhere.
The onions are recovering well. I put in another row. The beetroot got redistributed by the crows. I've found 19 of the twenty I planted. They'll have to grow where they are and I'll try and fill in the gaps with something.
Not being a drinker I'm a bit put out at the thought of someone saying "he had to be drunk when he sowed that lot."

Crows are easier to deal with than the human kind and won't abuse the chickens and geese. Think of the fun adventure that you will have with Henry and the ladies going around to harvest the relocated produce! You could also leave an empty whiskey bottle laying at the edge of your plot, just to start tongues wagging.

We are lucky to have an extended growing season here, so we are staggering our planting to get 2 crops in, and will grow some other things under poly tunnels this winter.

The chicken's grass and herb garden is doing really well, nearly everything is up and growing.

 

[Shadrach]

An hour this morning and three this afternoon. Quite cool at 11C but it stayed dry.
I've got three days worth of commercial chick feed left. I'm not going to buy any more. Mother Fret, is now actively discouraging the chicks to eat the chick feed. The chicks would be in the tray, or under everyones feet ,while Mow pecked at any who got close. Eventually the chicks give up and go for the commercial feed in the seperate bowl.
A couple of days ago I chopped up the mix I give to the adults and added some walnuts to give the methionine a boost. I mixed this with the commercial chick feed at at around 25% mix to 75% commercial. Today was the reverse ratio.
I can put up with chopping the amount the chicks eat for a couple of weeks if necessary.

I've been weeding in the allotment run and building compost piles again today.

You just have to post pictures like these just for the awwwww.

Getting there with the weeding. The thistles have to come out with roots as do does a creeper I don't know the name of and anything that looks like hog weed, or tansy. I don't strip the ground but do expose some easy digging patches.

Fruit and veg plot. There are courgette and brussel sprouts and potatoes in the lower part.

 

[fuzzi]

I love your Awwww photo.

Here's one of mine:

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

Unfortunately yes, but the winged variety. I would like to be able to report they are angels but again unfortunately they're crows. They pull seeds and starter plants out, find out they're not to their taste and drop them elsewhere.
The onions are recovering well. I put in another row. The beetroot got redistributed by the crows. I've found 19 of the twenty I planted. They'll have to grow where they are and I'll try and fill in the gaps with something.
Not being a drinker I'm a bit put out at the thought of someone saying "he had to be drunk when he sowed that lot."

Jackdaws do that on our allotments, sometimes they find tasty grubs/worms under the newly planted & watered seeds. They are also fond of stealing bits of horticultural fleece to drop down nearby chimneys so they can build a nest & their piece de resistance is getting broad beans out of their pods so we have to net them to protect them. I call them the ASBO youth of the crow world as they travel in gangs &, once one learns… (ASBO = AntiSocial Behaviour Order - no longer used in England & Wales having been replaced by CPNs & CBOs which just don’t trip off the tongue quite so readily.)
Clever little wotsits the crow family!

 

[Perris]

Clever little wotsits the crow family!

a book I'm currently reading is full of astonishing examples of clever bird behaviour, bad and good.

I'm behind the times, I didn't know ASBOs were history: what are CPNs and CBOs?

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

a book I'm currently reading is full of astonishing examples of clever bird behaviour, bad and good.

I'm behind the times, I didn't know ASBOs were history: what are CPNs and CBOs?

a book I'm currently reading is full of astonishing examples of clever bird behaviour, bad and good.

I'm behind the times, I didn't know ASBOs were history: what are CPNs and CBOs?

Community Protection Order (civil offences) & Criminal Behaviour Order. Brought in in 2014
They do trip off the tongue, don’t they?

 

[Perris]

Brought in in 2014

I'm not just behind, I'm 10 years behind!

 

[Perris]

further to the last, I am, however, up to date with Community Payback Orders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0010zy5/the-outlaws
For those who don't know it, this is very British humour. You have been warned.

edited to add: and it's set on an allotment in Bristol, so could hardly be more appropriate for Shad's thread!!!

 

[Molpet]

further to the last, I am, however, up to date with Community Payback Orders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0010zy5/the-outlaws
For those who don't know it, this is very British humour. You have been warned.

edited to add: and it's set on an allotment in Bristol, so could hardly be more appropriate for Shad's thread!!!

Doesn't work for me in USA

 

[Shadrach]

further to the last, I am, however, up to date with Community Payback Orders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0010zy5/the-outlaws
For those who don't know it, this is very British humour. You have been warned.

edited to add: and it's set on an allotment in Bristol, so could hardly be more appropriate for Shad's thread!!!

Funnily enough we have had community payback groups at the field doing works days. They were a big improvement on the corporate team building days.