Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[SimpleJenn]

One of my buddies from college is starting a flock, and he's open to getting some of Skeksis's descendants to keep the lineage going.

Awesome news!
I got some chicks from a rooster that I fell in love with last year, it's so nice having his kids in my flock now.
I'm sure your friend will feel the same!

 

[Molpet]

One of my buddies from college is starting a flock, and he's open to getting some of Skeksis's descendants to keep the lineage going.

 

[Shadrach]

One of my buddies from college is starting a flock, and he's open to getting some of Skeksis's descendants to keep the lineage going.

Does he live close by?
Will you be able to help out?

 

[Shadrach]

They're on to something.

Last year, the first 3 weeks of June were scorchingly hot, stressing our fruit trees, except for the pear tree that was annexed into the chickenyard when we expanded it for Andre & his baes.

Here's the pear tree outside the fence. It produced much less fruit than usual.

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And inside the chickenyard: over 100 pears.

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The only stress this tree had was that a branch broke due to the weight of the fruit.

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I've had similar and the discussions to go with it. My view, not a popular view I expect here on BYC is most people just do not know how to keep chickens. I had the chickens on the vegetable plot in Catalonia. One of the people from the main house would shoe then off whenever they saw the chickens in there.
I took them to a few of the local small holdings that had their chickens running around the place. Many of these smallholding used to fence the chickens on the vegetable plot rather than off it so the chickens would do the work cleaning out pests, tilling the soil and fertilizing the ground. Delicate (read chicken favourites) got temporarliy covered with wire cages much like I've used at the field. My plot at the field is the most productive per square metre cultivated. Yup, every now and then a plant gets dug up or some leaves get chewed but if I'm out there with them it's easy to prevent or put right. People at the field ask me how I get so much produce from the area, so they've noticed it's very productive. I tell them it's because the chickns are on it most days for a while. Nope, they won't believe that's the reason it's more productive then their plots which they haul in shop compost to maintain.

 

[no fly zone]

Does he live close by?
Will you be able to help out?

No. We left Florida in June 2023.

 

[Shadrach]

No. We left Florida in June 2023.

That's a shame. I thought it might have been a friend close by where you live now.

 

[MrsNorthie]

I've had similar and the discussions to go with it. My view, not a popular view I expect here on BYC is most people just do not know how to keep chickens. I had the chickens on the vegetable plot in Catalonia. One of the people from the main house would shoe then off whenever they saw the chickens in there.
I took them to a few of the local small holdings that had their chickens running around the place. Many of these smallholding used to fence the chickens on the vegetable plot rather than off it so the chickens would do the work cleaning out pests, tilling the soil and fertilizing the ground. Delicate (read chicken favourites) got temporarliy covered with wire cages much like I've used at the field. My plot at the field is the most productive per square metre cultivated. Yup, every now and then a plant gets dug up or some leaves get chewed but if I'm out there with them it's easy to prevent or put right. People at the field ask me how I get so much produce from the area, so they've noticed it's very productive. I tell them it's because the chickns are on it most days for a while. Nope, they won't believe that's the reason it's more productive then their plots which they haul in shop compost to maintain.

LOL I just love when people ask you how you accomplished something then tell you that you are wrong! Proof is in the scratching.