Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

Oooh. You are giving me ideas!

One thing about living in a hundred-year-old house with original windows: there are plenty of old storm windows lying around!

 

[RoyalChick]

One thing about living in a hundred-year-old house with original windows: there are plenty of old storm windows lying around!

Yup. I have a collection in the barn which I cannot get to because the road has become a luge run.

 

[BDutch]

Oooh. You are giving me ideas!

Tessa still gets a bit confused by the clear glass bit:

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I made a second hand window in the run to keep the sand bath dry & for shelter of cold wind and rain. It blocks off rain that comes sideways with a western storm in the little covered run behind it.
Its not clear anymore bc moss grows on the glass.

PS the larger run has no roof but netting on top.

 

[Shadrach]

Dry, cold with bursts of sunshine as the evening drew in.
They came out to the extended run to eat, hung around a bit and when I opened the gate to the field Glais as usual headed out and tore around for a bit. Mow and Sylph went back into the coop extension. I went with Glais. We spent about half an hour on the field. When we went back to the extended run Mow and Sylph came out and foraged a bit while I cleaned the coop and did food and water.

Before I took the job in Catalonia I used to visit fairly often. This a picture of one of the Marans chicks called Twitter. Looks a complete nutter.

 

[Shadrach]

Something to stop them wandering off to destroy someone's entire brassica crop or investigate the road, be enough of a barrier that an off-lead dog can probably be grabbed or called off before it grabs them, and that won't just fall over or go flying off in the wind.

I have a few designs in mind, some old structures (broiler tractor, veg mini tunnels) that can probably be modified and plenty of scrap wood, water pipe offcuts, chicken wire and rat mesh.

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Ora...MI3f3I0dDrkQMV85hQBh1_vhwEEAQYBCABEgIYvPD_BwE

https://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Produ...pcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A2MUPRV6IM1D1S

The above combination is quick to put up and take down, not silly money and it will stop a dog for a while as long as the pegs are driven in well.

 

[BDutch]

Before I took the job in Catalonia I used to visit fairly often. This a picture of one of the Marans chicks called Twitter. Looks a complete nutter.

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Did you forget a few words? Or are you a complete nutter too?

Best wishes to all birds of a feather.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Happy New Years. We celebrated with a new laying girl. Fairly sure it's Hooky here, my girl that needs beak trims.


Sadly the egg half froze and broke open. Cute little pullet egg, cute (not so) little pullet bird.

 

[rural mouse]

Fence tax: the bedtime bus was late tonight because I didn't fancy trying to rearrange everyone so the chicks could roost while it was hailing at about 40mph. We sat in the greenhouse for a bit and I think they would've been quite happy spending all night inside my jacket.
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That pic is lovely!

 

[rural mouse]

Oooh. You are giving me ideas!

Me too

 

[kattabelly]

The "sun spots" here are more often shelter spots. I switch up which three sides are enclosed to stop them turning into a wind tunnel.

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Orange-Barrier-Fencing---1m-x-50m/p/114496?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PMAX Shopping||Garden Fencing&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20236447160&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3f3I0dDrkQMV85hQBh1_vhwEEAQYBCABEgIYvPD_BwE

https://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Produ...pcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A2MUPRV6IM1D1S

The above combination is quick to put up and take down, not silly money and it will stop a dog for a while as long as the pegs are driven in well.

Not all that different to how I use the fishing net, if I bothered to set it up a bit more securely. Like I say though, I want a "roof" for putting them to work on single veg beds down the other end of the field.