Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MROO]

Everybody says Facebook.
I don't have and don't want an account but needs must when the devil drives.

Don't bother. It's so full of AI now that you can't trust anything but Marketplace. Not worth the trouble ... or the dangers!

 

[notabitail]

I have been severely limiting my social media time, everything is so fake. I haven't had a facebook account for a few years and really loathe it, but if it helps find a nice young lad that fits the bill, as soon as you have him, you can let it go dormant or even cancel it.

I believe you can "deactivate" it so you don't delete it but it'll be frozen until you need it again.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Correct.
The bi annual clue should have given it away.

Ahem:

It’s bi annual I believe

 

[BDutch]

Lots of flowering plants, butterflies and birds near the great monastery of Chambery in the lower French Alps.

 

[Perris]

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Lots of flowering plants, butterflies and birds near the great monastery of Chambery in the lower French Alps.

speckled wood on hemp agrimony?
(Are we still playing 'what's in my photo?' )

 

[BDutch]

speckled wood on hemp agrimony?
(Are we still playing 'what's in my photo?' )

I cant share any new photos of my flock atm. My dear neighbour takes care of them right now. She even lets the girls free range 1-2 hours every evening.

So I shared a vacation photo that seemed fit. Mountains, a foot path, nons or a monastery where the other options from todays hike.

Compliments that you know both names. Both speckled wood and hemp agrimony go way beyond my normal English vocabulary. Especially because I don’t even know the Dutch names for them.

 

[Shadrach]

Found this website. There's a LOT of cockerels on there. Maybe worth contacting some of them to see if they want to "retire" one of their mature roosters?

https://www.freeads.co.uk/

I've been checking that site for a while.

 

[Shadrach]

I have a non-rooster sourcing question!

I can't really tell from this photo - could this be borage (Borago officinalis)? Because if so, my chickens adore it. They've loved it almost to death, in fact. Also the bees, of course - bumblebees and some honey bees (we have fewer honey bees this summer.)

As borage grows, it gets incredibly floppy under its own weight, sprawling everywhere, but it's lovely and will come back in following years.

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Borage should grow here but I haven't seen any locally. Something is out competing it. It could be the nettles. It's not the top nettle top growth that's a problem, it's the root system once they've got established. It has made digging in hardware cloth aprons very irksome around the run.

 

[Shadrach]

I didn't know it was a test

It wasn't. It's just me being enormously pleased that I can identify a handful of plants at the field now. I think I've mentioned, my botanical knowledge is lamentable.

 

[rural mouse]

I've been checking that site for a while.

Have you called any of them to see if they have a rooster they want to retire from their breeding programs?