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  1. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Half full eggs are a delicacy on some cultures.
  2. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    From my perspective, if I am paying for a rare breed I am, by my financial support, contributing to its continued survival. I feel no guilt at doing whatever I want with the birds. If I didn’t buy the chicks, they would get no support from me at all. It would be a different matter if I...
  3. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Wednesday? :)
  4. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Morticia, Lucia, and Erica the Red
  5. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    But in any case, inflammation might be part of the problem. Can't hurt.
  6. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    A landrace can be either human created or natural. It is simply a highly diverse population that is adapted to the particular area and has been for some time. Generations, generally. Human populations generally add the "useful to humans" tag, but it's not necessary.
  7. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I h I have had a broody collect all the eggs (including the fake eggs) into one nest. I have heard, but have not seen, that if there's a divider they will hold the eggs under their wings to maneuver around it.
  8. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I keep one of these in the coop.
  9. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have had people surprised that they could actually grow garlic, or fruit, or seasonings. One neighbor thought almonds were an exotic and needed lots of water. She told me my almond tree would die because it was a tropical. Although it was a revelation to me a few years ago when I learned of a...
  10. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Indiscriminate use of any technology without thought for the POSSIBLE consequences is a problem. "But" is the key to Pandora's box, and once opened it can't be closed. When humans start messing with nature, no matter their good intentions, it nearly always ends in disaster.
  11. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My thought (started today) is a drainage channel feeding into a small pond in the run.
  12. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I just reread it. I think it's confusion between the broody coop and the isolation coop in the same paragraph. My brain read them as the same thing.
  13. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The main purpose of using the sand was insulation from the mud. Sand drains water much more easily than clay (the only other option) as shown by the storms the last few days. The run is a morass of mud, the main coop wet under the wood chips, and the broody coop more or less dry. Yes, I need to...
  14. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    You mentioned in the article that you moved broodies into a nest in the house, apparently just before lockdown. Was there a purpose to this? Do you move them all, or only those that chose an unsafe spot?
  15. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I used the incubator for a couple reasons. First, we have snakes and have lost a few clutches either to the snakes or to Mama trampling the eggs trying to fight off the snake. I figured if a snake got her eggs I'd have replacement chicks. (The coop is open all day and the birds free range, so...
  16. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I currently have a broody hen sitting on six eggs. I tried more, but I brought them inside as they ended up on the coop floor in the first few days and she ended up with 6. She is currently on day 17. The others are in the incubator and hopefully she'll accept them. The nesting boxes I use are...
  17. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Only a guess--maybe since she doesn't feel a desperate need for Henry's protection any longer she's giving herself a little bit of space?
  18. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have given away several hens who were aggressive toward chicks. I think that breeding broodiness out of hens may be affecting their behavior toward chicks in general. I am not talking about normal "it's my food, you have to wait" behavior, but brutal, murderous hatred, where a chick is...
  19. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Self-serving behavior, no matter who does it. Cruelty or selfishness? Same deal. It is natural for every being to put their own needs and the needs of their descendants above everything else. The thing that sets humans aside is the ability to put instinct aside in the service of others. For...
  20. LaurenRitz

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    If behavior can be inherited, no way it would just be the male genes that pass it on. It must be two sided, although the specific behavior may not show itself in the hen. Just like any other trait, it must be a combination of male and female. I think the problem is that because the behavior...
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