Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

IDs are always harder from photos but happy to try and help if you want.

Thank you, that's kind.

 

[fuzzi]

Day 20, Naomi moved to brooder last night, staying on her eggs. I don't think she left the box today, at all. She devoured some tomato bits, and watermelon seeds that I offered. She usually doesn't like eating from my hand, so probably is hungry.

 

[Shadrach]

Would your neighbors tolerate a crowing rooster, should you one day add a cockerel? I don’t know how noisy Henry was. (I miss seeing pictures of Henry.)

There have been other roosters at the field before Henry. There were three cockerels living in the trees at one point. So, the field has had chickens since from when the lease started, or shortly after. The lease allows the keeping of livestock. This hasn't been put to the test, but in theory, we could move a herd of goats in, for example.
Something I've tried to get the field group members to understand and pointed out in this thread, is that the conditions of the field lease are very rare in an urban environment. It's not like the conditions imposed on a council run allotment, some of which one can keep hens, but not males in most cases, let alone a herd of goats.
It's worth preserving and to me the most important part that needs preserving is keeping a rooster at the field.
Henry wasn't quiet and I could hear him as soon as I got off the bus about a third of a mile away. Most of the people I've spoken to whose gardens back on to the field tell me either they've got used to a rooster crowing and a couple who say they've come to like it and in the past, before Henry, when there wasn't a rooster there for some reason or other, they missed hearing them crow.

I know of two people who don't like it.
Yes, someone might complain. But, should the group give up the lease what will happen is the council will build on the land; something I've been very careful to point out to the people whose property is close to the field. Your choice, support the field as a new mini estate is going to make the sound of a rooster music to your ears.

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours today. It rained and it drizzled, then rained some more. We got an hour or so on the field.

 

[Shadrach]

IDs are always harder from photos but happy to try and help if you want.

Thank you. I'll see how I get on.

 

[Carontheroad]

Agathae is making me post this:
"Look at how alive and beautiful I am! #broodinessislife
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I, on the other hand, do not endorse going broody. Not unless I've got some real chicks for the crazy beast to raise.

She’s magnificent!

 

[SimpleJenn]

That picture of Mow looking at you is adorable!

 

[MrsNorthie]

There have been other roosters at the field before Henry. There were three cockerels living in the trees at one point. So, the field has had chickens since from when the lease started, or shortly after. The lease allows the keeping of livestock. This hasn't been put to the test, but in theory, we could move a herd of goats in, for example.
Something I've tried to get the field group members to understand and pointed out in this thread, is that the conditions of the field lease are very rare in an urban environment. It's not like the conditions imposed on a council run allotment, some of which one can keep hens, but not males in most cases, let alone a herd of goats.
It's worth preserving and to me the most important part that needs preserving is keeping a rooster at the field.
Henry wasn't quiet and I could hear him as soon as I got off the bus about a third of a mile away. Most of the people I've spoken to whose gardens back on to the field tell me either they've got used to a rooster crowing and a couple who say they've come to like it and in the past, before Henry, when there wasn't a rooster there for some reason or other, they missed hearing them crow.

I know of two people who don't like it.
Yes, someone might complain. But, should the group give up the lease what will happen is the council will build on the land; something I've been very careful to point out to the people whose property is close to the field. Your choice, support the field as a new mini estate is going to make the sound of a rooster music to your ears.

You sound like a man about to or at least closer to introducing a new cockerel or rooster to the field. ;-) I love hearing my boys, and I always get a serenade. I know each individual's unique "voice" and I can tell when it is just a hello, or if something needs attention.

 

[BDutch]

Thank you’ll for the contributions about bees.
Did you know that most wild bees have nest in the ground?

These kind of constructions are meant for the other wild bees. ^^
Do you have bee hotels where you live too?
This one was in a Arboretum park we (family outing) visited yesterday.

This is another one from a natural park (Renkums Beekdal - The stream valley of Renkum) where I work as a volunteer.

 

[Perris]

Do you have bee hotels where you live too?

yes, and lots of other invertebrates use them too, many of which are forage (the flock don't eat the bees of course, at least not as adults, though I expect they'd eat eggs or pupae if they found them).
I create different piles of hardwoods, softwoods, mixed woods, twigs to logs, in sun, semi-shade and deep shade, to try to cater to all invertebrate tastes