Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Thank you! It sounded like the hen in this video. She was standing on the roost in the dark. She has been squatting low with wings out to her sides the past few days. I just thought it was weird she was doing it from the roost at bedtime.

Well, apart from the ignorance of the presenter that is the escort/come and fertilize my next egg call.

 

[BDutch]

I'm 5' 2" and y husband is 6' 3".

We do pretty good working together most of the time.

When he gets frustrated with me he just goes in the house.

Why do you Brittish and US-Americano’s use inches and feet.
I might be 1 inch longer but I don’t like to check tonight.

It's been chucking it down on and off most of the day. Despite the downpours the chickens were determined to get out of the run the moment the rain abated.
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Sitting on the roost bar with the chickens waiting for the hail to stop.
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The state of the run.
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. Poor chickens, poor Schad.
How many cm of water did you get today?

If there’s much loam or clay in the ground I do recommend drains or several deep holes filled with pebbles. That way the water sinks in the ground quickly. Worked for me. But maybe the amount of water we have here from time to time is less extreme?

 

[Shadrach]

There is a very simple way of testing the escort call out if you have a rooster and he's the rooster of the hen who layed the egg. Any old rooster won't do.
When the hen makes the call grab her rooster and plonk him down next to the hen if he hasn't already come to collect her.

In many confined chicken keeping arrangements roosters don't bother to answer their hens calls because he knows exactly where she is and knows that no other roosters are there and the hen isn't going anywhere.

 

[BDutch]

I'm missing Ribh who hasn't posted on her thread for a while.
I'm going to be around less for the next couple of weeks.
Most of my family have caught yet another bout of Covid and I need to help them out as best I can. So far 6 are down with the bug.

Gosh, even more misery.
Is Ribh about you’re age Shad? Hope she isn’t sick like you’re family.

Wish you and you’re family the best. And be careful to keep the virus at a distance. I (We) don’t want to miss you longer as necessary!

 

[Shadrach]

Is Ribh about you’re age Shad? Hope she isn’t sick like you’re family.

I think so. She's had a really rough time over this past year.

 

[Iluveggers]

There is a very simple way of testing the escort call out if you have a rooster and he's the rooster of the hen who layed the egg. Any old rooster won't do.
When the hen makes the call grab her rooster and plonk him down next to the hen if he hasn't already come to collect her.

In many confined chicken keeping arrangements roosters don't bother to answer their hens calls because he knows exactly where she is and knows that no other roosters are there and the hen isn't going anywhere.

Informative as always!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Darn I am so Sorry about the Covid running the gamut of yours @Shadrach
I am so sorry we had it here even vaccinated no party.

 

[Perris]

Why do you Brittish and US-Americano’s use inches and feet.

I can't answer for the yanks, but the UK started adopting decimal measures for most things in 1971.

However, while the change was made dramatic for currency, it wasn't for measures (ever the pragmatists) and e.g. miles and pints have stayed in common usage, and feet and inches too for quite a lot of us, even people born after 1971 (because our kids are surrounded by people who don't think or speak in metric measures). You might find this website entertaining https://ukma.org.uk/ - still campaigning for the change, 51 years later

Ultimately imperial measures, so called, are based on body parts, and they are easier to visualize and use than abstract measures based on once-and-ideally-but-no-longer-accurate measurements of the circumference (horizontally) of the earth. (And they were invented by the French, which doesn't help with adoption here of course.)

 

[Perris]

and he's the rooster of the hen who layed the egg. Any old rooster won't do.

I sometimes see one or other roo standing by the entrance (or further away but in eyeline) of one of the coops while a hen or pullet is laying. Does this mean he is mating her and the others aren't? Or that he just wants to ensure that he gets first dibs on exit? I'm not sure all my hens are monogamous, in fact, I'm sure some aren't, at least some of the time.

I also know that some make the escort call and some don't - they're really sneaky and go in and out of the nesting box or secret nest without making a sound. Of course the ones that do squawk or the roos that wait by specific bushes in beds and borders don't keep their nests secret from me for long

 

[Perris]

I'm going to be around less for the next couple of weeks.
Most of my family have caught yet another bout of Covid and I need to help them out as best I can. So far 6 are down with the bug.

Sorry to read this. I hope they all get well soon, though the version currently doing the rounds seems to be a bit tardy leaving. I trust C will step up to the chicken plate...