Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

I recently read to cut it off chest height, so it's not sending up ground suckers . It's hard to find the suckers when they are little and they get big enough to feed the tree before we wack them.
They said to keep and eye on them and when they leaf, remove the leaves. This will be a continuous thing until they die.
I figured I'll give it a try with marking tape on them to find them easier

I will try that. They are pretty, but if they are a threat to native species and do not offer the food sources for the native birds and critters, then they must go.
South Carolina is making it illegal to sell them in the State, but they are very prolific and do not seem to need much encouragement. This was a big hay field, basically, so all of this growth has be brought in on the wind and by birds.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

There are other ways to live. With chickens is a good place to start

Preach it!

 

[Molpet]

Skeksis Jr's baby. Very unique looking.

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Like a dalmatian or appaloosa

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach - three hundred onions?!

Do you have a space where you can store them, or a seriously onion-heavy favorite recipe, or ??

Yup, 300. 100 are for a local food bank. I'll probably give away another 50 or so to family and friends. For the past two years I've grown onions, usually 60 or so. I keep them in a string bag or onion plaits. Each year I leave one in the bag to see how long they'll last. Both years the onions have still been good when I planted the next years crop.
There are certain vegetables I'm very fussy about. Onions (I like them strong.
Tomatoes (just can't get good tomatoes in the UK even those I've grown have just hit the okay mark)
Tinned tomatoes. (I buy Mutti which I've found to be reliable in taste and sweeter than other brands I've tried)
Aubergine. I cook quite a lot with them, vegetable lasagna for example. This is a good recipe base.
https://www.theendlessmeal.com/easy-vegetarian-skillet-lasagna/
The last one I made I added black olives and artichoke hearts. Great hot and cold.
Parsnips. The supermarket parsnips are preety balnd compared to what I've grown on my plot.

 

[Molpet]

Yup, 300. 100 are for a local food bank. I'll probably give away another 50 or so to family and friends. For the past two years I've grown onions, usually 60 or so. I keep them in a string bag or onion plaits. Each year I leave one in the bag to see how long they'll last. Both years the onions have still been good when I planted the next years crop.
There are certain vegetables I'm very fussy about. Onions (I like them strong.
Tomatoes (just can't get good tomatoes in the UK even those I've grown have just hit the okay mark)
Tinned tomatoes. (I buy Mutti which I've found to be reliable in taste and sweeter than other brands I've tried)
Aubergine. I cook quite a lot with them, vegetable lasagna for example. This is a good recipe base. The last one I made I added black olives and artichoke hearts. Great hot and cold.
Parsnips. The supermarket parsnips are preety balnd compared to what I've grown on my plot.

I usually eat an onion almost every day, so I plant about the same

 

[ChaosMom]

Yup, 300. 100 are for a local food bank. I'll probably give away another 50 or so to family and friends. For the past two years I've grown onions, usually 60 or so. I keep them in a string bag or onion plaits. Each year I leave one in the bag to see how long they'll last. Both years the onions have still been good when I planted the next years crop.
There are certain vegetables I'm very fussy about. Onions (I like them strong.
Tomatoes (just can't get good tomatoes in the UK even those I've grown have just hit the okay mark)
Tinned tomatoes. (I buy Mutti which I've found to be reliable in taste and sweeter than other brands I've tried)
Aubergine. I cook quite a lot with them, vegetable lasagna for example. This is a good recipe base. The last one I made I added black olives and artichoke hearts. Great hot and cold.
Parsnips. The supermarket parsnips are preety balnd compared to what I've grown on my plot.

Onions make great donations to food banks! They last long enough to get sorted and distributed.

I love growing heirloom tomatoes for their flavors, but wow, we’re getting hammered with viruses carried up from the Gulf Coast, and it gets heartbreaking for the poor Brandywines and Cherokee Purples and their friends. The Italian heirloom tomatoes are doing well, so it will be Costoluto Genovese, San Marinos, and Jimmy Nardellos.

 

[Shadrach]

Just avoided the rain.
Two hours today, one hour in the extended run while I did a few things and the next hour out on the field with me acting as lookout and herder.

About the grass. There are two main types at the field. The difference can be seen in the picture below.

The broad leaf clumps don't appeal to the chickens. They like the thiner leafed grass.
The first picture is what the ground looks like closest to the chicken coop; quite a lot of different plans grwo here.

This picture is of the area the geese used to range in and it's mostly the clump type grass. I should look up the names of these grasses.

I'm going to try out a clove patch in each area to see how it gets on.

Out in the field.

Fret is roosting on the same bar as the rest. She hasn't done that in a long time. She had a fight with Tull this afternoon which she won without breaking stride. Sylph is rather in awe of Fret and Mow is quite happy being second most senior.

 

[fuzzi]

There's an app I use, iNaturalist, which is free, and they're non-profit. You upload a photo and it searches for the closest match. Last weekend I identified all the shrubs I was about to remove before I removed them.

 

[notabitail]

Just avoided the rain.
Two hours today, one hour in the extended run while I did a few things and the next hour out on the field with me acting as lookout and herder.

About the grass. There are two main types at the field. The difference can be seen in the picture below.
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The broad leaf clumps don't appeal to the chickens. They like the thiner leafed grass.
The first picture is what the ground looks like closest to the chicken coop; quite a lot of different plans grwo here.
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This picture is of the area the geese used to range in and it's mostly the clump type grass. I should look up the names of these grasses.
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I'm going to try out a clove patch in each area to see how it gets on.

Out in the field.
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Fret is roosting on the same bar as the rest. She hasn't done that in a long time. She had a fight with Tull this afternoon which she won without breaking stride. Sylph is rather in awe of Fret and Mow is quite happy being second most senior.
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Fret is the Cream Legbar, right? The photo of her on the outside perch shows that she has one stray dark brown feather. Agathae got one but she tried to hide it.

 

[Shadrach]

Fret is the Cream Legbar, right?

She's not. She's a cross between a Creasted Cream Legbar and a Marans. There were CCLs at the field.