Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Looks like they were sending it to China
https://woolallianceforsocialagency.blog/2018/11/16/where-is-most-of-dutch-wool-going/

Largely a good article but very focused on the environmental impact of wool produce in china, not saying anything about the environmental impact of acrylic and other plastic fibres, not really comparing with cotton /organic cotton. No word about flax, viscose and hemp which are all upcoming fibres. The whole fast fashion clothing market is wrong, polluting and often made with forms of slavery (exploiting people).

This claim: “The amount of travel miles for wool must be massive and has impact for the environment” is true for anything that is being shipped over the ocean. And it has another reason why they do so. The ships that bring all the cheap plastic rubbish from China don’t have to return without cargo.

Tax 2 chickens and a blackbird in a wall painting ?

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

It's a Jackdaw. It thinks it should eat with the chickens.

And why should it not, perhaps it identifies as a chicken

 

[Perris]

Cadle was waiting by the back door this morning; we have another tree-hugger Actually I think she used the hedge; I saw her fly up to the top of it when they were going to roost last night; it didn't occur to me that she'd join the garden birds in it! Anyway, hopefully it's just a phase while she's being bullied to learn her place at bedtime

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

I would love for this to get more common. Here in the Netherlands sheep wool is worth absolutely nothing. We pay around 3 to 4 euros per sheep to be sheared and their coat if white is worth maybe 10 cents. But nobody wants to buy it anyways. It's sad that something like wool is basically considered thrash, would be lovely if it can be used again.

Encouragingly there is a growing “movement” finding new ways to use wool around the world. Here in Britain we have what used to be the wool marketing board championing its use (last link)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230413-can-regenerative-wool-make-fashion-more-sustainable

https://www.countrycollection.co.uk/blog/10-common-10-surprising-10-bizarre-uses-of-wool

https://shop.britishwool.org.uk/

Who knew that the old technologies can be infinitely better all around than the new!

 

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours yesterday.

Waiting to be let on to the field.

 

[RoyalChick]

Encouragingly there is a growing “movement” finding new ways to use wool around the world. Here in Britain we have what used to be the wool marketing board championing its use (last link)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230413-can-regenerative-wool-make-fashion-more-sustainable

https://www.countrycollection.co.uk/blog/10-common-10-surprising-10-bizarre-uses-of-wool

https://shop.britishwool.org.uk/

Who knew that the old technologies can be infinitely better all around than the new!

Thanks for sharing that.
I had forgotten that wool is fire retardant. That was one of the selling points for me on the wool mattress. They are exempt from regulations requiring chemical fire retardant because wool is naturally fire retardant.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Two and a half hours yesterday.

Waiting to be let on to the field.

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When I first saw the last pic (hens in the coop), I thought I was looking at more lumps of Dutch wool!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

@Skyeknight and @BDutch, when you write “isolation,” you’re talking about insulation, right? (a material that slows or blocks heat transfer.) I’ve gotten a little confused.

- ahh, here comes the coffee!️ That will help.

 

[Skyeknight]

@Skyeknight and @BDutch, when you write “isolation,” you’re talking about insulation, right? (a material that slows or blocks heat transfer.) I’ve gotten a little confused.

- ahh, here comes the coffee!️ That will help.

Yeah it's insulation. In Dutch we say "isolatie" and all three of those words look so similar.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Yeah it's insulation. In Dutch we say "isolatie" and all three of those words look so similar.

Thanks!

The equivalent struggle in English is insulation vs insolation (amount of solar energy hitting a surface), which are almost opposites in effect. - the more insolation you have, the more insulation you need.

Add to this the tendency of (American) English to slur and blur vowels, so that when spoken, both words sound the same! My class on Energy in environmental sciences was wonderfully confusing.