Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[pennyJo1960]

Hey X Batts What I fear is C will dump the 5 with no more thought than was done to the others.

 

[Iluveggers]

Cold and sunny.
All the feed in the tray I left overnight finished. It looked like nobody had even been there this morning. Bucket of water for the geese empty and knocked over.
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Hearing this makes me super angry. There are days I don’t feel like getting up early to do chicken chores. Days I don’t feel like dealing with my sometimes crazy dogs. But getting animals is a commitment, just like having kids. You can’t take a day off of their care. You can take shortcuts if necessary, but not checking water is a life or death decision.

I almost think C should pay a caretaker for the livestock if s/he isn’t going to commit fully. @Shadrach What you are doing for them is worth more than anyone could ever pay you.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

73 hazey 67% humidity feels like 71 rain 5%.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

I don't know if it's the case for C. but my partner's father's problem is not specifically with chickens but with money in general. I think the reason for it is a rural childhood in extreme poverty being the elder son of a widow. Others here had the same life and grew out of it though.

C's problem with everything is money related if one listens to the rhetoric. I think the money bit is just a symptom. The underlying problems are a bit more complex.

 

[Shadrach]

Hey X Batts What I fear is C will dump the 5 with no more thought than was done to the others.

This is a possibility. I hope for the time being at least I've redirected. C doesn't really have anything to do with the chickens any more. As long as they are not an inconvienence we might struggle on a while longer.

 

[Shadrach]

Hearing this makes me super angry. There are days I don’t feel like getting up early to do chicken chores. Days I don’t feel like dealing with my sometimes crazy dogs. But getting animals is a commitment, just like having kids. You can’t take a day off of their care. You can take shortcuts if necessary, but not checking water is a life or death decision.

I almost think C should pay a caretaker for the livestock if s/he isn’t going to commit fully. @Shadrach What you are doing for them is worth more than anyone could ever pay you.

I get paid plenty in chicken love. and they're working for a livng these days.

 

[Shadrach]

Lovely afternoon. It got up to 10C and planty of sunshine.
Nothing done with the chickens this morning. I'll assume this is the norm now.


C arrived to feed the geese about 3.30 pm and let the geese out. I took the food and water out of the run and shut the gate. I mentioned to C that if they leave food for the geese I'll feed them in the evening. I'll also divide the allotment run on a temporary basis and the geese can be out when I'm there. Mixing them is a definite no. Apart from the health aspect the geese spend their time trying to get to the chicken feed. I think it may have dawned on C that leaving the geese out unsupervised isn't such a great idea. I think the last goose death drove the point in; it's just taken a while for the point to hit home.

Ella is sitting down because she had to dig earlier.

Ella is quite fussy about Henry's appearance. She grooms him quite a lot.

Everybody home. Clean beds, shelter, full crops and from what I can see, parasite free. Not a lot to ask for is it.

 

[Sally PB]

Everybody home. Clean beds, shelter, full crops and from what I can see, parasite free. Not a lot to ask for is it.

Nope. Glad you're there for them, @Shadrach.

 

[no fly zone]

Lovely afternoon. It got up to 10C and planty of sunshine.
Nothing done with the chickens this morning. I'll assume this is the norm now.


C arrived to feed the geese about 3.30 pm and let the geese out. I took the food and water out of the run and shut the gate. I mentioned to C that if they leave food for the geese I'll feed them in the evening. I'll also divide the allotment run on a temporary basis and the geese can be out when I'm there. Mixing them is a definite no. Apart from the health aspect the geese spend their time trying to get to the chicken feed. I think it may have dawned on C that leaving the geese out unsupervised isn't such a great idea. I think the last goose death drove the point in; it's just taken a while for the point to hit home.
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Ella is sitting down because she had to dig earlier.
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Ella is quite fussy about Henry's appearance. She grooms him quite a lot.
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Everybody home. Clean beds, shelter, full crops and from what I can see, parasite free. Not a lot to ask for is it.
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I do like full crops at bed time.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey X Batts, I like full crops at bedtime also.
New coop is darn close to finished.
Girls sure where happy we hit 60 today. Last photo them lounging in the sunshine.