Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours today. Wet morning, dry afternoon.
I struggled to get motivated today. I did the cleaning and feeding and then let the chickens onto the field and sat and thought about Henry for a while. I miss him. The ground was too damp to bother working on anyway.

Chickens were well behaved in not heading for the plots, except mine where they know they are allowed and sticking to the orchard side of the field.

Here's someone else who is missing Henry. Being the most junior the other hens boss her about. Henry used to be very kind to her and I think she's missing some of that kindness. She's jumped on to my lap every day now since Henry died. She doesn't stay long but she is asking for some attention from what I can tell.

Hardly out of the gate and they're eating the grass.

 

[notabitail]

She says she eats the finest junk food. She is also tax for any previous posts.

 

[fuzzi]

Two and a half hours today. Wet morning, dry afternoon.
I struggled to get motivated today. I did the cleaning and feeding and then let the chickens onto the field and sat and thought about Henry for a while. I miss him. The ground was too damp to bother working on anyway.

Chickens were well behaved in not heading for the plots, except mine where they know they are allowed and sticking to the orchard side of the field.

Here's someone else who is missing Henry. Being the most junior the other hens boss her about. Henry used to be very kind to her and I think she's missing some of that kindness. She's jumped on to my lap every day now since Henry died. She doesn't stay long but she is asking for some attention from what I can tell.
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Hardly out of the gate and they're eating the grass.
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Is that Tull on your lap?

 

[ChaosMom]

You wrote a few posts back that you don't like bland food. Well, there's a cook who sells a range of branded goods in one of the UK supermarkets with the slogan taste the difference and I can't in the few I've tried. I did feel the burn in my wallet at the prices though.

I like my food and like you I don't like bland. I can taste the difference between the Mutti tomato products and the regular supermarket stuff. You can buy a pack of six four hundred gram tins for around five pounds at the internet shop I better not mention in case BDutch has a melt down.

If it’s the internet shop I’m thinking of, I just call it “Darth Bezos.”

 

[ChaosMom]

@Shadrach @Perris (and anyone else, for that matter) - do you ever can what you grow? “Can” meaning preserve in glass jars via heat or pressure canners, a linguistic contradiction that hurts my poor Asperger-y brain.

If you have access to full-flavor ripe non-gassed tomatoes, especially paste-type tomatoes like Romas and San Marzanos, you can cook up a few gallons of your own perfect sauce. There are some canned (tinned) tomatoes and sauces that I mostly like, but there always seems to be the slightest metallic taste. I’m guessing that the acid in the tomatoes reacts with the metal can, something that doesn’t happen with glass jars.

We started doing this during Covid and still do, although we mostly can (glass jars, grrr) tomato salsa, pickles, and chow chow, which I guess is sort of a Southern US veg chutney. It’s classically made with unripened tomatoes and other vegetables that need to be picked when the first fall frost hits.