Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Confused about the app. Can’t you just read the label?

You can just read the label. The strength of the app is the alternatives it cmes up with. The app itself is rather alarmist.

 

[Shadrach]

Which brick did you have?

Blackview BV4900. It cost less than one hundred pounds. It's done very well given the rough treatment it's had. It's in a bit of a state now and some things don't work anymore.

 

[Molpet]

Blackview BV4900. It cost less than one hundred pounds. It's done very well given the rough treatment it's had. It's in a bit of a state now and some things don't work anymore.

Keep it as a backup in case the new one gets broken. The old ones seem to have been more durable.

 

[ChaosMom]

I’m a bit confused by the discussion of browser, mobile, and app.

Most of my posting is done from my phone, but it’s the browser version (backyardchickens.com), rather than via an app. It functions almost exactly the same on my phone (via browser) as from my laptop.

Where are people having difficulties on mobile?

 

[Skyeknight]

I’m a bit confused by the discussion of browser, mobile, and app.

Most of my posting is done from my phone, but it’s the browser version (backyardchickens.com), rather than via an app. It functions almost exactly the same on my phone (via browser) as from my laptop.

Where are people having difficulties on mobile?

For me personally using the browser on the phone is just inconvenient. It's all so small and a decent risk you will accidentally swipe your whole browser away. On laptop or with an app you don't really have that problem. As with a laptop everything is spread apart and therefore not at risk of accidently clicking and with an app it's purely focused on BYC stuff so also no accidently clicking away to something else. I guess it just comes doen to how annoying small screen are to you.

 

[Shadrach]

15/5.Lovely sunny afternoon. Four hours.

 

[RoyalChick]

I’m a bit confused by the discussion of browser, mobile, and app.

Most of my posting is done from my phone, but it’s the browser version (backyardchickens.com), rather than via an app. It functions almost exactly the same on my phone (via browser) as from my laptop.

Where are people having difficulties on mobile?

I use my phone. I used to use the app but was advised by a moderator not to do so because they don’t update the app.
They showed me how to create what they called a ‘web app’. I don’t understand these things but it is an icon on my Home Screen but apparently isn’t the app but the web page.
Works great!

 

[ChaosMom]

For me personally using the browser on the phone is just inconvenient. It's all so small and a decent risk you will accidentally swipe your whole browser away. On laptop or with an app you don't really have that problem. As with a laptop everything is spread apart and therefore not at risk of accidently clicking and with an app it's purely focused on BYC stuff so also no accidently clicking away to something else. I guess it just comes doen to how annoying small screen are to you.

That makes sense; it’s all what you’re used to.

I’ve broken my right hand and wrist (separate accidents) in the past, and in my working days, I was concerned about repetitive stress disorder on the right. I did a lot of number crunching with my right hand (numerical layout on the right side of the keyboard.) I trained myself to mouse with my left hand, without officially switching it to left-handed mousing, which is a mirror image of right handed. Everyone always asked “Doesn’t that make you crazy?” Nope.

So now I have arthritis in my LEFT hand.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

For me personally using the browser on the phone is just inconvenient. It's all so small and a decent risk you will accidentally swipe your whole browser away. On laptop or with an app you don't really have that problem. As with a laptop everything is spread apart and therefore not at risk of accidently clicking and with an app it's purely focused on BYC stuff so also no accidently clicking away to something else. I guess it just comes doen to how annoying small screen are to you.

I feel like smart phone screens are huge! It’s like having an ipad in your pocket. Of course I not only remember flip phones but the car phones you had to plug into the lighter…like remember first hand because I had one in my minivan

 

[4511chickens]

I have 4 Nesteras, and I have not found that necessary. Look carefully at the coop and one side will have ventilation gaps all along the top under the overhanging roof, and the other has two closable round vents. I've removed the covers from the latter and they are permanently open. No issues with condensation or frostbite. Nor with the storms that blew threw, including Darryl, that felled really big trees round here.

I will hold off on the vent holes for now.

I concur- we are in middle TN where we get consistently very hot summers- have had zero issues with ventilation in the nestera coop. It is in the shade, too.