Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

52 mostly cloudy 63% humidity feels like 51 rain 0%.

Reading this and other threads have given me information and help that I gained from everyone.

I feel like you are my friends and you support me as well as others in our times of need.

Thanks for being there.

Have a great day!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Last 4 boards to paint one side today go get chicken food..
Paint the other side next day.
Posting the white bird who has grown to be a favorite here, hatched here.

 

[Perris]

Today Frida came to say 'hello!'

 

[Shadrach]

Interesting gallery indeed. Have the Marandi chickens been exported to your knowledge ?

As I understand it Paz is trying to save some breeds local to his area so I would assume there are not many of them. I don't know if any have left his country.

Maybe I won't feel the same after I've seen dozens of chickens die but it helped me a lot to share about my first two deaths here and on @BY Bob thread. It would probably have been the end of keeping chickens for me without the voices of those more experienced.

There you have it in a manner. One can only bear so much sadness.

 

[Shadrach]

Some of us on these threads consider each other to be friends. I think expressing care and offering support to a friend who is sad is simply showing empathy and being a good friend.
I am not sure I would describe that as drama. But whether it is or is not drama, I know from personal experience that it does help.

I understand this. Perhaps drama is the wrong word.

 

[Shadrach]

It didn't rain today.
This is the sick looking Legbar. I massaged her crop twice yesterday. She doesn't like being handled, or hasn't in the past. There are two distinct balls in her crop. When I massaged her crop again today and got some coconut oil into her there was only one ball. Yesterday I got about 300ml of water into her by tipping her head into a small containor of water. Needless to write we both got wet.

A couple of strange things. Normally she and the other Legbars stay just out of reach. Today this one came to me when I sat down and I picked her up for another massage with very little protest. Something has improved for her because instead of standing on her own hunched up she was foraging with the others and drinking a lot from the extra water bowl I put in the allotment run.
As usual Lima, Miss I can be any breed of chicken I want, hung out with the Legbars.

Matilda having finished pecking my leg and trying to pull a bit of paper out of a side pocket settled down in her Bucket Boy wind break position.

It was quite pleasant for half an hour.

C told me today that they are not out of the coop when she comes to feed them in the morning which is a change from their behaviour in the old coop.

 

[BDutch]

Something like that is what I’m looking for.

I saw something similar at my local farm store. Next time I go I’ll take a measure tape with me to make sure the feeder will fit inside. This looks like it would work.

I would prefer pelleted feed, but the local milled stuff is so good (U_stormcrow checked the proteins & amino acid profiles and said it was a very good one), that I sacrifice the occasional spilled & wasted feed for the nutrition.

When I used the rather fine feed, the chickens ate the bits and didn’t eat the fine meal. I let the fine feed in the bowl for a few days. After three/4 days I added a little water, yoghurt, and apple cider vinegar, sometimes garlic too. And stirred until it was a nice crumbly paste to feed.
A treat and nothing was spilled.

The mill doesn’t have this chicken feed anymore. Only pellet feed (complete for laying hybrids) and mixed grains (scratch). Which I use now.

 

[BDutch]

Aw, sorry to hear that. I know you don’t like those sympathy remarks, but it still makes me a little sad when a chicken dies. I didn’t know about her, since I’ve been on able to keep up very well on BYC. I had to put Cashew down, the buff Orpington who mothered three chicks, a month or so ago. She had ascites that was affecting her breathing and progressing rapidly. An Avian Vet was not able to draw very much fluid off or provide much relief. It seem like she was going to continue to decline, and I did not want her to suffocate so I had her euthanized. She had started crowing several months back, and her comb had gotten much larger and fleshier than it was before. I thought something might be up with her hormones. She had started squatting for me, but didn’t like to be handled, even though she had before. I figured it was from discomfort. Even though she had started squatting, she did not produce an egg. Poor baby. Avian Vet thought it was likely cancer. Just like everybody says, now that I am getting more experience, I am finding that it’s usually cancer or some other infectious laying disorder that’s killing them. Also, in my case, as you know, they’ve had obesity and fatty liver problems.

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You may remember when she took the chicks to my lap. I’m having trouble finding that picture at the moment. Anyway, in the weeks before I had her euthanized, Cashew would follow me into the coop after I let them out in the morning. I know now she was trying to tell me something. I think she was trying to tell me she wasn’t feeling well and asking for help. Poor girl. I miss her.

Oow how sad. Sorry for this loss.

 

[BDutch]

My Foxy was very sure about her frog. She worked on (played with) it for hours.

After the frog came Nancy Pelosi's step down speach.

 

[lightm]

After the frog came Nancy Pelosi's step down speach.

Hahaha. Sorry, Dailymotion is evil like that. My Foxy deserves better.