Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

BDutch · 2022-07-16T02:19:13-0500

Shadrach said:
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I've had another read of Molpets hooped coop trying to make sure I'm not going wrong. The mesh should be stiff enough to just bend and hold it's shape once bent.
I'm still undecided about which quarter inch hole mesh to get. There are few that come on a roll to choose from. Stainless steel would be nice but it's very expensive. It's how good the galvenising is on the mesh that's concerning me.
I need at least 15metres of 90cm tall.
There's a bit of messing about to do where the run joins the coop.

Thanks for the pics of the coop. Great works. :caf

But I don’t grasp what you’re plans are with the mesh ? Is it to make a run attached to the coop? How can 90 cm be enough?

ManueB said:
I've done this countless times when I did ultra trail running but always with water https://lnt.org/why/7-principles/dispose-of-waste-properly/

Missing a fabulous 8th principle if you go camping with a group or family in the wild. : take a pig with you. They are superb in cleaning all feces.
(I was on Corse long ago free camping , where free ranging domestic type pigs live. They cleaned the toilet area every day.)

ManueB · 2022-07-16T04:09:38-0500

Chipie has left the chicks and gone to lay! She made a strange plaintive noise an hour ago that turned out to be a call to Théo for protection. He has accepted, made the shuffling around her thing to say ok you're back in, and led her to the nest box.
Does this mean she has abandoned the chicks ?

I really hope Théo will stop rejecting them now he has got his Chipie back. The smaller one isn't ready to be on it's own against six hens and an angry rooster.

@Perris the worse is yet to come. The 50 birthday party is tonight. Our visitors will have left so I can't use them as an excuse to go home early, and also I'm afraid to leave the chicks if they are on their own before they are safely in bed. I guess we'll get there late

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ManueB · 2022-07-16T04:15:17-0500

BDutch said:
Missing a fabulous 8th principle if you go camping with a group or family in the wild. : take a pig with you. They are superb in cleaning all feces.
(I was on Corse long ago free camping , where free ranging domestic type pigs live. They cleaned the toilet area every day.)

I had the same experience hiking and climbing there many times, and was woken up once or twice by hungry pigs coming to get what food was in the tent. They're not standard pigs though they are black and have some boar blood in them.

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