Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

I've been a bit concerned about the water freezing. If it has, it's been a thin skin gone by mid morning I would have thought. Last year the bowl of water in the coop froze but I think that was around -6C overnight and it didn't get above freezing for a couple of days.

If you get a min/max thermometer and pop it into the coop, you should be able to find out how low it gets in there.

 

[Perris]

I have never noticed a creature apart from humans act on faith

Galbraith undertook a good analysis of power that addresses that
https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpower0000galb
(conditioned power)

 

[BDutch]

Some of us do look beyond bureaucratic propaganda, and see the reason for it.

if we ignore that the cost we are not making now for innovations (like effectively using solar and wind energy with a better network and e-storage ) —>> will lead to much more costs in the future.
All the cost from weather extremes, hurricanes, flooding and wide spreading fires will increase year by year.

If we ignore it bc we don’t want to invest now, its gets horrific in the future for many people all around the world.
Of course there are more things we need to change besides decreasing the use of fossil fuels. Things we can’t achieve as individuals, bc there are so many who ignore it, if we have no rules and regulations to make the change.

Black paying tax, old photo.

 

[Shadrach]

if we ignore that the cost we are not making now for innovations (like effectively using solar energy with a better network and e-storage ) —>> will lead to much more costs in the future.
All the cost from weather extremes, hurricanes, flooding and wide spreading fires will increase year by year.

If we ignore it bc we don’t want to invest now, its gets horrific in the future for many people all around the world.
Of course there are more things we need to change besides decreasing the use of fossil fuels. Things we can’t achieve as individuals, bc there are so many who ignore it, if we have no rules and regulations to make the change.

Black paying tax, old photo.

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And this has got what exactly to do with chickens?

 

[BDutch]

And this has got what exactly to do with chickens?

Just wait and see? Or think ahead.
What will you do with your flock in a hurricane, flooding or a fire?
Sorry if I offended you talking about climate change. But if people try to ignore it, I try / hope they at least think about the consequences every know and then.

More tax.
Cockerel silver partridge Dutch bantam cockerel (2023).

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

What will you do with your flock in a hurricane, flooding or a fire?

Fun story: we had a hurricane here last year. I didn’t have chickens yet because we had just relocated (nice timing on our part), but my friends have a landrace they call “apocalypse chickens.” During the hurricane the chickens roosted in the trees and they took videos of the trees swaying in the wind and rain and the chickens just hunkered down in the branches. As far as I know all their chickens survived whereas I know people with cooped chickens who lost whole coops and all their chickens. Every day I drive by the remains of a chicken setup I once admired—now a mess of mangled fencing with no coop in sight. All this definitely factored into my goals when I got my new chickens and coop.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm going to have to look into a method of supporting some form of netting over the coop run for the inevitable DEFRA directions due to bird flu. A couple of posts in the middle of the run might be required for support. Could really do without this problem.