Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

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!

I was persuaded to open an account on Facebook shortly after I arrived back in the UK. It did prove to be useful in putting me in touch with people I had lost track of, a couple of people I hadn't seen or heard from in 50 years.
A raft of memories bubbled up and I remembered why I hadn't seen them in 50 years.
I closed the account.

 

[notabitail]

My parents had Facebook. Supposedly they played Farmville with relatives and deleted it because it wasn't worth keeping.

 

[Shadrach]

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

No I haven't. To make contact one needs to sign up for it to be effective.

 

[BDutch]

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.

We had borage before we had chickens. It disappeared the first year. Clover disappeared after a few years. Thyme lasted 10 years. Many tasty flowers disappeared over the years.

 

[rural mouse]

No I haven't. To make contact one needs to sign up for it to be effective.

I thought I saw phone numbers at the bottom of listings

 

[MrsNorthie]

I was persuaded to open an account on Facebook shortly after I arrived back in the UK. It did prove to be useful in putting me in touch with people I had lost track of, a couple of people I hadn't seen or heard from in 50 years.
A raft of memories bubbled up and I remembered why I hadn't seen them in 50 years.
I closed the account.

Exactly this! My mother is "FB Friends" with all our relations, that she always goes out of her way to be nice or helpful to, always sending birthday cards, only one of them has called her or reached out to her since my dad died, or her stroke, they never think of her b-day, but they are a bunch of gossipy nosey parkers that I am happier living as though they don't exist. So I blocked my mum on fb, to avoid any contact from the parasites, then decided to just cancel my account, altogether.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I use Facebook to talk to those friends and relatives who won't talk to me any other way. And to trawl chicken and crocheting groups.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I use Facebook to talk to those friends and relatives who won't talk to me any other way

This madness right here is why I don’t facebook. People can’t be bothered to actually communicate anymore.

 

[Shadrach]

Three and a half hours today. Warm with occasional sunshine.
We ventured halfway down the field today. When I headed back Sylph and Mow followed. Some of the Jackdaws are back and so is the partner of the Magpie the cat killed. I haven't seen the wagtails, or the Whitethroat that I think lives in the bottom hedgerow. A pair of doves turned up. I'm not fond of them or the pigeons so I didn't miss them.

The courgettes are getting out of hand again.

This year at least some of us are collecting fruit from the fruit trees. The time gap between ripe and bug ridden is pretty small. We got around twenty plums from one young tree. The pears are mostly bug ridden. Might get one good one in eight. if we get even a couple of the younger fruit trees shaped up a bit this winter, putting a bug cloth over them shouldn't be too difficult. Some trees. while better after this years pruning (we had someone from the RHS show us how do it) the older trees are in better shape but need more work doing before they are covering them is practical.

A few members have obviously given up on their plots for the year. This year, to keep stuff healthy one really needed to go to the field every day. Normally, or what was normal, a couple of visits during a week was enough; a bit of weeding and watering and stuff grew. I have an advantage in being there every day, while a couple more have been regular enough to keep most of what they planted suitable for cropping. I was trying to explain to someone today that while the cabbages on one plot have grown big, the hearts have cabbage white and of course, having got that big the outer leaves will be as tough as leather.

Sylph and Mow have done very little crop damage this year. They did munch a few leaves of beetroot which was a bit of a surprise because last year they left mine alone mostly.
Mow and Sylph are still more nervous than is good for them.

Sylph has versatile tail feathers, Sometimes they're in a Marans style bunch and sometimes they're in sort of fan.

I like this picture. I took it blind through the pop door.

 

[Molpet]

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

I look at FB like any other tool. It's how you use it. A hammer can build a house or be used to kill.
Most of the eggs and poultry I have sold have been through FB farm groups. I tried Craigslist last year and had some different people. On FB I can look at their profile and get an idea of what they are like.