Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

And here are today's pictures. Getting warmer at 25C and still dry.
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Is August usually this brown where you live?

 

[fuzzi]

And here are today's pictures. Getting warmer at 25C and still dry.
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The fluffy butts...

 

[kcan2]

The fluffy butts...

They look like floofs with bustles!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

So. After a very acceptable level of co-existence in the run and the yard, it was time for sleeping.

The Littles have never put themselves back into the run at dusk. They run back and forth, in front of where I’m sitting on the deck, cheeping anxiously. I’ve tried herding them in, and what a PITA.

Tonight I ignored them until it was nearly dark, and the Bigs had already gone into the run. I walked beside them on the walkway, outside the chicken yard, and they took themselves into the run, where I left them, locking the run door but not putting them into their cage/coop.

I went back to the deck and read my phone some more, listening to some muffled bawking and squawking, and gave it 20 minutes. Went back to the run with my flashlight. No one was in the coop (it’s warm tonight), but the Bigs were on one leg of the L-shaped roosts (their new outside sleeping porch), and the Littles were on the other, all asleep.

I guess they’re integrated.

 

[Perris]

Is August usually this brown where you live?

I'll take the liberty of answering this as it's only about 100 miles east of here. No. Grasslands and cereal fields are usually brown by mid August but this year most of England has had an exceptionally dry spring and summer.

We get more rain in the west, i.e. in Wales, and we've also had some coastal fog and mist when England was baking dry in one or another (of now the 4th) summer heatwave, so it's still nice and green here. That's partly why my chickens, sheep and other pastured livestock do well here; green grass all year round.