Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

Sky Dancer

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Temperature is in the 50s.

Have a great day!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

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He is just regal looking.

 

[no fly zone]

He is just regal looking.

He is a handsome little fellow.

 

[bruceha2000]

What I find unusual is how early he goes to roost. It's often half and hour before I would expect him to by light levels. The hens tend to hang around for at least a further half an hour if I'm there.

How does he expect to protect the hens if he's the first inside come evening and they stay out??

 

[Molpet]

How does he expect to protect the hens if he's the first inside come evening and they stay out??

I think Henry leaves that to bucket boy

 

[BDutch]

How does he expect to protect the hens if he's the first inside come evening and they stay out??

I think Henry leaves that to bucket boy

X2

 

[GregnLety]

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Is Mr Bumble his father and who's his mom?

 

[Shadrach]

How does he expect to protect the hens if he's the first inside come evening and they stay out??

What Molpet has written below.
I think if I wasn't there the hens while perhaps not going immediately to roost would stay close to the coop. They stay fairly clos when I'm there anyway. Funnily enough tonight Carbon saw the rat again and had a bit of a rant at it and Henry came back out of the coop to investigate.
Henry finds getting on to the coop extension roost bar difficult. For some reason he is reluctant to fly up directly from the ground. Instead he climbs the coop door ladder and makes a rather untidy jump onto the roost bar. I'm going to try to make it easier for him but I'm not sure how yet. There is enough room to jump. There was less room on the outside bar at the old coop and he made that. But, there was a box thing below the bar and he did use that to make the climb.

 

[Shadrach]

Dry and 13C.
Henry rushed off for another bath when I let them out. Carbon wnet over the back of his head sorting his feathers out.

We didn't get on to the allotments this afternoon because there was a dog running about on the road and in and out of the allotments gate.
I took the opportunity to do some weeding and digging around the edge of the fence.