Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

My lot don't seem to have any problem seeing through it.
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Ahh, I had something more solid in mind.

 

[Shadrach]

Started raining when I left the flat. It's still raining now. 10C, grey and cloudy.
They did come out in one of the drizzle periods and spent half an hour in the extended run.

 

[kattabelly]

Ahh, I had something more solid in mind.

Just a thought. It wouldn't be much of a problem for someone determined to harass the chickens, but having to make a hole in it to fire canes through (and possibly also the fact that it had been put up, suggesting you're aware of what they've been up to when you aren't around) might be something of a deterrent.

 

[Shadrach]

This particular family have been an ongoing problem. I'm never sure if they're not all that bright, or just don't care. They have the right to walk through the field and sometimes this right gets extended somewhat.

I think I've got some netting that might do. I may give it a try and see what Glais, Mow and Sylph think about it.

 

[kattabelly]

It's difficult. There's an older kid round here who's autistic and often likes to wander near the community garden. I've caught him up by the chickens a few times - though he's never done anything to bother them, as far as I know; I think he just likes to watch them - and I know at one point someone had to speak to his parents because he was pulling down bits of the drystane dyke that partly surrounds the site.

If only people were as easy as chickens.

 

[BDutch]

Just a thought. It wouldn't be much of a problem for someone determined to harass the chickens, but having to make a hole in it to fire canes through (and possibly also the fact that it had been put up, suggesting you're aware of what they've been up to when you aren't around) might be something of a deterrent.

 

[kattabelly]

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Be no bother firing bamboo canes through that!

 

[kattabelly]

Fence tax

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Fence tax
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How can their legs be so clean? Ours are so encrusted in mud that one can no longer tell what color their skin is.

Only when they’re in the spread straw do they get clean, and then as soon as they start scratching, we’re back to brown.

 

[Shadrach]

It's difficult. There's an older kid round here who's autistic and often likes to wander near the community garden. I've caught him up by the chickens a few times - though he's never done anything to bother them, as far as I know; I think he just likes to watch them - and I know at one point someone had to speak to his parents because he was pulling down bits of the drystane dyke that partly surrounds the site.

If only people were as easy as chickens.

The field has a status problem, something that hasn't been made properly clear to the people who live close by and others who may use, or just visit the place. It's not an allotment. The field is private and belongs to the tenants (the group). It's registered as an agricultural holding basically (farm).
It's why we could, and I can, keep a rooster, or half a dozen and other livestock we can keep within the DEFRA guidelines.
Such places are getting scarce within city boundaries.