Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

The likes of Barbour ? I love them but they are heavy (or used to be when I wore one thirty years ago).

yes that sort of thing. Drover's coats too.

 

[BDutch]

Fret doesn't always look entirely approving of the juvenile females interest in her man.

Funny you should mention that. I'm working on a reinterpretation of Dolly Parton's Jolene in which she wishes Jolene would take her man away because he's always looking at other women and she's getting real tired of his nonsense should get a few laughs!

Maybe Fret is just worried about any hereditary disease due to blood relationship.

More Sylph who has decided the best place to wait for the adults to settle in the coop and her siblings to come home is on my head!

This is a marvellous picture. Great to enter for : picture of the week & the caption contest!

The only thing I just can't find is waterproof footware that isn't a wellington.

Good climbing boots are often waterproof too. And more comfortable to wear than rubber boots.

 

[Perris]

This was our area last night

This morning the drive looks like it's been jet washed! Unfortunately other people in the area have suffered flash flooding. The power was very intermittent too, as lightning kept interrupting supplies. And it's only the 1st week September

 

[Perris]

further to the last, it turns out over a month's worth of rain fell here yesterday, and half of it fell in just 1 hour. Like stair rods.

Good thing the coops weathered it all just fine. Must have been noisy though - it was bad enough in the house.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s cloudy with light rain expected.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

Old tech might work better than so-called high tech. HRH used waxed jackets. Yes they're expensive and they need to be re-waxed periodically, but wax is hydrophobic and it works.

Unfortunately the last waxed cotton jacket I had (Barbour) didn't work, well it sort of did. It didn't leak as such, more it seeped at the seams making the liing feel damp and uncomfortable. They are good for rough country. Very hard to rip and give plenty of protection from whatever undergrowth one might wade through.
Best I've tried for all round performance is my friends waterproof tweed shooting jacket; six hundred odd pounds woth of it.

 

[Shadrach]

I have had some luck with hunting clothes, they are the right mix of technical and sturdy.

That's what I've gone for and so far I'm impressed.
https://www.newforestclothing.co.uk/products/new-forest-country-sport-jacket?variant=42423591764159

My last coat did well for the price but it's starting to leak and the pocket are ripped at the zipper start.
https://www.workwear.co.uk/portwest-s553-radial-3-in-1-stormproof-jacket.html
Okay for the money. I don't expect much to last more than a year. I wear the stuff for 4 to 5 hours every day and I work wearing it.

My top pick for just keeping the rain out, being packable, and freedom of movement is this.
https://www.protecdirect.co.uk/Clot...0ad27e18c16626de9323cc144823cd&fo_s=googlecsv

However thornproof it isn't. You need to remember what you are wearing before you let that pointy little toe nailed chicken scramble up it.

 

[notabitail]

That's what I've gone for and so far I'm impressed.
https://www.newforestclothing.co.uk/products/new-forest-country-sport-jacket?variant=42423591764159

My last coat did well for the price but it's starting to leak and the pocket are ripped at the zipper start.
https://www.workwear.co.uk/portwest-s553-radial-3-in-1-stormproof-jacket.html
Okay for the money. I don't expect much to last more than a year. I wear the stuff for 4 to 5 hours every day and I work wearing it.

My top pick for just keeping the rain out, being packable, and freedom of movement is this.
https://www.protecdirect.co.uk/Clot...0ad27e18c16626de9323cc144823cd&fo_s=googlecsv

However thornproof it isn't. You need to remember what you are wearing before you let that pointy little toe nailed chicken scramble up it.

My chickens really like standing on my arm and digging in big time. That or I've had some try climbing up my chest. Ouch.

 

[fuzzi]

That's what I've gone for and so far I'm impressed.
https://www.newforestclothing.co.uk/products/new-forest-country-sport-jacket?variant=42423591764159

My last coat did well for the price but it's starting to leak and the pocket are ripped at the zipper start.
https://www.workwear.co.uk/portwest-s553-radial-3-in-1-stormproof-jacket.html
Okay for the money. I don't expect much to last more than a year. I wear the stuff for 4 to 5 hours every day and I work wearing it.

My top pick for just keeping the rain out, being packable, and freedom of movement is this.
https://www.protecdirect.co.uk/Clot...0ad27e18c16626de9323cc144823cd&fo_s=googlecsv

However thornproof it isn't. You need to remember what you are wearing before you let that pointy little toe nailed chicken scramble up it.

I love the look of the New Forest country sport jacket.

 

[MaryJanet]

PS And it pops up in the news every now and then e.g.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321
Isn't it funny how technologies that are supposed to facilitate what we do quite quickly change to determining what we can do?

That's the power of affordances.

Affordances in technologies don't merely curtail the actions of humans, they prevent alternative actions. As technologies are designed to serve the dominant economic paradigms, they often fail to serve as vehicles for transformative engagements and actions.