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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Why do chickens stand on one leg? On general I have good balance. A few Parkinson group meetings ago one of the compensating exercises suggest was to do a range of balance exercises, most of which I was able to do. Standing on one leg with the raised foot/ankle touching the calf of the standing...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    A sunny, if a bit chilly, afternoon. Two hours today. Everyone went onto the field for the duration. Mow ate half a tin of sardines, Sylph and Glais ate the other half.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    We got lucky. It stopped raining when I got there and didn't start again until I got home. We got an hour and a half out. They're about as far down the field as I'll let them go in the first picture. All rather different from a few weeks ago when they were reluctant to venture out of the...
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    The Exercise Thread🤸🏻‍♂️🏃🏿‍♀️🚴🏽🏋🏻

    It's a difficult exercise. A good way to start is to do let-downs rather than pull-ups with as much control as one can.
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    The Exercise Thread🤸🏻‍♂️🏃🏿‍♀️🚴🏽🏋🏻

    Did someone mention pull-up bars...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's a hosepipe.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    You have to worry about your sanity when you hear yourself asking a person who has just told you they found a large rat lying dead on the path which they threw in the hedgerow, "which rat was it? What did it look like?" I did have a brief look in the hedgerow but it was immediately obvious I...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    25/02. Cloudy but remained dry. They were wanting out on my arrival. We had a couple of hours on the field. Got more crud off Mow's right foot and gave it a coating of iodine and Vaseline. Still going to roost earlier than I would expect in fine weather.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    What a great video and didn't Peck get rightfully named. She's good at it, if a bit rough. Love the half hearted you're my girl shuffle about halfway through.:D
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    Questions about food in Spain

    Spain is a big place. Whereabouts in Spain are you? With the conditions you state a feed of 16% protein should be fine. As Papaye mentions the feed at 24% is for ducklings not adults. Whole wheat would be my choice. I found there was a greater range of decent quality feeds in Catalonia where I...
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    Free Range in Central Florida

    It rather depends on what one considers successful. For some keepers a single loss to a predator is a disaster. If this is your view then free ranging isn't for you, there are always predator losses when free ranging in my experience. There is a learning curve for the keeper and the chickens. It...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    There is a bit more to it than Shad being moody. One would have to have followed the events of the past few months very carefully to understand. I could have handled the situation better, but I didn't and that's unfortunately part of being human. Sometimes life does everything at once acts and...
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    Is this scaly leg mites?

    It looks like a few injuries to me. Not much more one can say until the feet are cleaned up and one can see the damage better.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Ohhh, look, it's almost spring like. Two and a half hours. Everyone came out but Mow headed back to the run (there were other people in the field this afternoon and that may be a factor) but when I went to get her she went on to the field without complaint and once she'd located Glais and Sylph...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I do as well. They're welcome to post here.
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