Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[TropicalChickies]

I recommend red cabbage. The chickens love it and the brilliant neon green that emerges at the end is shockingly artificial looking!

I've seen that. I was truly terrified they had eaten antifreeze.

 

[RoyalChick]

I've seen that. I was truly terrified they had eaten antifreeze.

Exactly! It is not a color normally seen in nature.

 

[Shadrach]

Mostly cloudy with outbursts of rain. Luckily I avoided most of the rain.
Two hours today. I had a short list of things I needed to get done apart from the chickens and allotment and they just soaked the time away.

C, bless her ego driven drama ridden persona, managed to get all the way from her house, a mere one hundred and something metres away, to the goose pen and let them out at some point during the day.. Plastic food wrapper in the run so I guess they got fed something.

I took 180 grams of mash for the chickens this afternoon and they ate the lot, plus forage, plus some mixed grains.

There are also a couple of the bolted spinach plants left for them to strip which they are working on.

June growth berries are done now between the chickens and the pigeons and the Autumn crop is ripening but at the top of the plant the chickens can't reach. I need to cut the stems back fro the June growth.

It's not just Fret who is a bit strange. This is Carbon on the outside of the coop extension working her was along the bottom edge drinking the drops of water that hang there.

A picture take through the coop while I was cleaning in the rain while that lot stayed in the dry.

After ensuring that beakfast had been laid out in the feed tray Henry led them to roost about half an hour earlier than usual. I guess he saw the clouds that rained on me as I walked to the bus stop.

 

[LTAY1946]

It's time to go water down the log pile again.

 

[RoyalChick]

This is Carbon on the outside of the coop extension working her was along the bottom edge drinking the drops of water that hang there.

Mine all do that. When it is raining they all line up under the hardware cloth to catch the drips.
Same with snow.
It must taste better when dripping off wire!

 

[fuzzi]

Mine all do that. When it is raining they all line up under the hardware cloth to catch the drips.
Same with snow.
It must taste better when dripping off wire!

Like catching snowflakes on your tongue?

 

[Sally PB]

It must taste better when dripping off wire!

More minerals?

 

[Molpet]

Mine all do that. When it is raining they all line up under the hardware cloth to catch the drips.
Same with snow.
It must taste better when dripping off wire!

Snow on boots must be the best

 

[MrsNorthie]

We have kaolin here in the stream bed. I smear it on my face as a facial mask. Good for drawing the venom out of bug bites and stings too.

That is exactly what I need! I don't normally go outside in the summer, once the temps get over 80F/26C, I typically hibernate..lol, but.... the feathered masters require my attention 2-4 times a day. I am bit up, I seem to not only be the preferred food of mosquitos and fire ants, but now the horse flies... I am using Sudocrem, but it doesn't quite cut it. LOL

 

[MrsNorthie]

It's time to go water down the log pile again.

You know that they have tricked you, you water the woodpile, more bugs hang out there and they feast... I think it is a plot!