Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

How's Skeksis @no fly zone ?

 

[no fly zone]

How's Skeksis @no fly zone ?

Her abdomen swelling seems slightly reduced. She still has her usual appetite; albeit she kind of just wants to sit in one spot. She's usually all over the place.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm a bit late but chiming in about handling the chickens. I've tried a few times the option of taking a chicken off the roost at night and bring him or her inside, or treat them in the coop if possible, with skittish rooster and hens. While it is efficient, it really, really doesn't help build trust.

I had the exact opposite experience of trust slowly building as time passed. It helped when I was lifting each hen every evening up to a high roost. They loved it.

But each flock has a different starting point and if there's already a lot of trust, none would be gained through night time lifting.

 

[Shadrach]

Cooler today. It tried to rain a couple of times in a rather pathetic manner and then gave up and the sun came back out. Still, some rain is better than no rain at the moment.
We all got out. Transport is usually a bit of an issue in the longer days and Sundays it's more like a crisis recently. Lots of trains canceled this week and today they stopped altogether at around 8pm. I put the chickens in the coop half an hour early; they were already on the roost bar, and manged to catch the 9.30 bus.

"What's for supper bucket boy?"

These two while not quite so insistant were also interested.

Carbon discovered I had brought food for me! She was just not quite confident enough to make a jump onto my lap to make sure she got some. I gave her a bit of beef anyway.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Little cool for my liking did start a fire in the stove to warm it up.

 

[Brabra]

I don't close the coop door. With the tribes in Catalonia I used to feed them their supper about an hour or so before roost time, mainly to get them out of the trees. Rather than climb the ramp, they jumped onto the perch bars outside and waited for the senior rooster to inspect the coop and then sort of filed in by order of seniority.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/getting-chickens-out-of-trees-and-into-their-coops.75511/

With the allotment chickens, Henry and a few of the others roosted outside on the coop run roosting bar anyway. When I got the new coop and built the extension I wanted to allow for roosting in the run anyway so a roost bar we could all sit on which is handy when it's raining seemed the obvious thing to do.
A lot of the chickens I've known prefer roosting out of the coop if the weather is reasonable. Henry, the allotment rooster has so far, only gone into the coop when the weather has been coldish.

Ty so much I will try this for health checks

 

[MrsNorthie]

Sometimes our truck does not move for a week.

We do not have public transportation where I live in Florida.

We only leave the property twice per month, unless there is an emergency. We have had our truck since February and we do not have 1000 miles on it. We live out in the country in SC, with no public transportation, needed it so that we could get the supplies that we need to build stuff for the chickens and some other projects that need doing. Somethings you can't get delivered or if you can, then it is really expensive.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Cinnamon is a good herb to use to have them move on.

I have fire ants everywhere, and when I sprinkle the Cinnamon over the nest they disappear.

The ants just move to another area.

That is a great idea! We usually boil the kettle and pour it on them after poking the mounds, but some escape and move on and rebuild, elsewhere. They are really bad here.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Temperature is in the 70s.

Remember the Cinnamon does not kill the red ants but it will make them move to another place.

Have a great day!

 

[Perris]

That is a great idea! We usually boil the kettle and pour it on them after poking the mounds, but some escape and move on and rebuild, elsewhere. They are really bad here.

have you tried sugar and borax? Many years since I've needed/used it (chickens eat the ants that live here) but it works with ants here; mixed in equal quantities and left on one of their trails, the sugar attracts the workers to take it back to the nest and feed to the youngsters, which the borax kills. I wouldn't use it where chickens can get it though.