Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

Here it was 72 degrees yesterday and today it is snowing again.

 

[Molpet]

Here it was 72 degrees yesterday and today it is snowing again.

That was Tuesday and Wednesday here.
70 , hail and tornadoes... then the next day flurries

 

[fuzzi]

Here it was 72 degrees yesterday and today it is snowing again.

It was 90° yesterday, now it's 40° and still dropping. Expected low overnight is 31°!

Tax:

Silas from a low angle.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Here it was 72 degrees yesterday and today it is snowing again.

Same here. So gross.

 

[Shadrach]

Whenever I am doing anything with metal bits in the coop or run (stapling up/removing air filter material, attaching anything with screws), I use a magnet cup to hold screws/staples. The cup will hold them very securely. If I do drop one, I move the magnet slowly through or over the bedding or ground to pick it up.

I do have a magnet for doing this but I forgot to take it to the field.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Same here. So gross.

We got freezing rain.

 

[Sally PB]

If anyone's wondering what I mean by a magnet cup this is it.

To empty, slide the cup off the base, and it's no longer magnetic, so all those pulled staples will fall right in the trash.

So much better than putting them in my pocket. Ask my fingers!

 

[Molpet]

To empty, slide the cup off the base, and it's no longer magnetic, so all those pulled staples will fall right in the trash.

I have one of those, works great.
I didn't know the cup came off the magnet.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I dropped two small nuts that were on the screws holding the auto door unit onto the coop. It took me twenty minutes to find them. There is one nut and screw that I can't undo on my own, so eldests husband is going to come and help tomorrow hopefully. I put it on on my own but the nuts and bolts were new then and just the weight of a ring spanner was enough to hold the nuts still enough to be able to tighten from the outside of the coop.

Good pictures and good luck with door construction! Hope it has gone well.

Regarding the search for tiny dropped things: Neighbors called the other day to ask for help finding a hearing aid lost in the grass with our metal detector. Three people had already been searching for an hour.

I found it thanks more to a hunch than the detector. I left their search area and retraced their steps before the moment they thought the hearing aid popped off. It ended up being 50' from where they thought.

The owner had become resigned to not being able to hear for a few weeks and having to shell out $$$$ for a replacement, so that hearing aid was the best treasure I found this week. And I've also found the first morels, a 4-leaf clover, an arrowhead, and The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior on the $1 book-sale shelf at the library. How's that for a Friday the 13th week!?

 

[fuentemoon]

They were skeptical about my claim of a good worm spot, but finally followed me see.

I wasn't lying!