Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[bruceha2000]

I'm not certain I understand what damnest means here. Hard to believe, horrible, incredible ?

Pretty much. "hard to believe", unexpected

 

[Molpet]

Kannibalisme!
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I didn’t grasp the jake and looked for an explanation.

PS Sort of turkey I guess.

Male turkey under a year. Tom is over a year.

 

[no fly zone]

I'm not certain I understand what damnest means here. Hard to believe, horrible, incredible ?
Are they not both your favorite?

hard to believe

 

[Shadrach]

Dry at around 11C with a cold Northeasterly wind.
We got out on to the allotments.

I watched Henry this afternoon considering Janiedoe's suggestion that his eyesight might be failing. I couldn't see anything that suggests to me that his sight in daylight is suffering. I let him go to roost as normal then encouraged him out again when the light was begining to fail. No sign he was having any problems seeing and despite what I said yesterday, this evening he proved me wrong and jumped/flew onto the extension perch from the ground. What he did have problems with was turing around on the roost bar. He managed it though. I think he's just a bit set in his ways. It took him a long time to change coops and it's taken him a long time to try out the extension roost bar. The hens were delighted to have him on the bar and the usual scuffles broke out for the position next to Henry. When he did jump back down to the ground it was a tidy enough jump for a pensioner and he's coping a lot better with the coop ramp.

Once he had gone in with Lima and Ella following close behind I thought I would give Carbon a check over and I placed her on one of my legs with my foot resting on the ramp which made my thigh horizontal. She fussed for a moment and no sooner had she got her balance Lima fired out of the coop, jumped straight onto my thigh and tried to shove Carbon off. Lima was undoubtably jealous. Did I hear someone say chickens don't feel emotions...
I had both on my thigh for a few minutes.
Carbon needs a bum clean but otherwise she's in the best feather condition of the lot. Mite free. Clean skin and feather folicles. Slightly dirty nostrils but breathing without any whisling or wheezing. Lima is clean as well.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey all X Batts The last 2 night I have had the 7 amigos roosting outside in the bare walnut grove. First night they jumped from the table wandering about the floor.
Last night they all stayed on the table I put them on.
My Grandma was the person the gave her birds tables to roost on.

 

[Perris]

I think he's just a bit set in his ways.

People are the same. That's why you can't convince people about the egg song/ escort call etc. and I have such a hard time with the nutrition argument. Most people don't question received wisdom.

 

[ManueB]

I need to start eating pullets

It seems like you have the opposite problem of most chicken keepers !
I hope your health has gotten a bit better since the last time you mentioned post COVID fatigue.

I haven't eaten chickens in a very long time and the only time I ate a backyard chicken was a very old hen, so I have a silly question. Do people refrain from eating young pullets because they don't taste good or because it's economically more interesting to keep them for the eggs / breeding ?

People are the same. That's why you can't convince people about the egg song/ escort call etc. and I have such a hard time with the nutrition argument. Most people don't question received wisdom.

We are all a bit like Henry, I think .
In all honesty, it's easier for me to notice / read/ hear things that confort what I already think.
It's also easier to accept new or conflicting information when you know nothing about a subject, than when you feel you are already well informed.

 

[Perris]

We are all a bit like Henry, I think .
In all honesty, it's easier for me to notice / read/ hear things that confort what I already think.
It's also easier to accept new or conflicting information when you know nothing about a subject, than when you feel you are already well informed.

so true.

 

[Perris]

I've got 11 cartons of eggs to sell today (a week's worth from 15 hens, 4 of them over 3 years old, and ignoring the dozen eggs we've eaten), and that's without whatever's laid today
That is a record for me, and I think will do as a conclusion to my little experiment on avoiding commercial feed entirely, from hatch.

The pullets who have never eaten commercial feed survived to maturity better than any before, and are laying better than any pullets I've had before. And the old girls are laying well too.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Temperature is in the 50s.

Have a great day!