Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[HiEverybirdy]

We've had some blueberry feedback. I spent an hour yesterday cleaning Sylph's arse. It was a really disgusting mess. It's still not clean but I'm hoping I've cleaned enough for the congealed mucky wet stuff for the rest to dry off and then it will crumble off when rolled between the thumb and forefinger.
No more blueberries for a while.
Sylph's digestion does not deal with fruit well but she loves blueberries.
Mow is clean where it matters I'm pleased to write. She seems to have a high pressure vent.

Oh my! Ours don't have that issue with blueberries. Their poops turn nearly black from blueberries but keep good consistency. Too many cucumbers, though, and bumbums go boom boom

Haha. Demanding.

 

[Shadrach]

A sanitary trim of feathers needed?

If only! The worst of it was tight up to her skin.

 

[fuzzi]

Chicks sunbathing.

I was working on the raised beds, getting them ready for fall planting, and noticed grasshoppers in my beans, BIG grasshoppers! I caught one, slipped it through the wire into the first run, and a fight ensued. So I kept going back to the bean patch to catch grasshoppers. I divvied them up between the coops. The hens were chasing the grasshoppers, and each other, but not sharing with the chicks. I sense the broody hens are close to being DONE.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

… The hens were chasing the grasshoppers, and each other, but not sharing with the chicks. I sense the broody hens are close to being DONE.

Well, to be fair though, live grasshoppers!

Surely moms need a little Me time too, don’t they??

 

[Perris]

This is for info, not to provoke another political detour: I read this this morning
https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-pancic...tinction-due-to-global-warming/video-73642812
I am happy to report that I planted one here over 20 years ago, and it is doing very well. (Pancic spruce = Serbian spruce = Picea Omorika.) Good to discover that it does not need another one nearby in order to produce viable cones. It is just getting mature enough - or maybe it was hot enough this year - to produce cones - seen for the first time this spring. The chickens love hanging out under its skirts, btw.

 

[rural mouse]

This is for info, not to provoke another political detour: I read this this morning
https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-pancic...tinction-due-to-global-warming/video-73642812
I am happy to report that I planted one here over 20 years ago, and it is doing very well. (Pancic spruce = Serbian spruce = Picea Omorika.) Good to discover that it does not need another one nearby in order to produce viable cones. It is just getting mature enough - or maybe it was hot enough this year - to produce cones - seen for the first time this spring. The chickens love hanging out under its skirts, btw.
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Gorgeous tree.

 

[Perris]

Gorgeous tree.

I think so too. I got teased a bit when it was young that I'd planted a Christmas tree, but as it's grown its branches have assumed their characteristic pagoda-shape, and hopefully it will produce cones in due course (it dropped all the little ones it started). I didn't know at the time it was under threat in its native home - maybe it wasn't then, of course.

 

[BDutch]

This is for info, not to provoke another political detour: I read this this morning
https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-pancic...tinction-due-to-global-warming/video-73642812
I am happy to report that I planted one here over 20 years ago, and it is doing very well. (Pancic spruce = Serbian spruce = Picea Omorika.) Good to discover that it does not need another one nearby in order to produce viable cones. It is just getting mature enough - or maybe it was hot enough this year - to produce cones - seen for the first time this spring. The chickens love hanging out under its skirts, btw.
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A real beauty Perris. Thanks for the link .

On the other side, these are often planted by growers in NL and sold als Servian or Omorika Christmas trees (one of the 5 species sold as Christmas tree). These trees don’t loose their needles quickly .

 

[Perris]

A real beauty Perris. Thanks for the link .

On the other side, these are often planted by growers in NL and sold als Servian or Omorika Christmas trees (one of the 5 species sold as Christmas tree). These trees don’t loose their needles quickly .

you should let DW and the Serbians trying to save it know! They don't need to try growing it in Finland.

 

[kattabelly]

Meanwhile, in Orkney...