Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

So it is confirmed Skeksis has EYP. Vet estimates she has a 30% chance to live. I am a mess right now.

Such a shame. She's 4 years old isn't she? I realise that chickens have to die of something but 4 years isn't a long life by chicken standards.

 

[no fly zone]

Such a shame. She's 4 years old isn't she? I realise that chickens have to die of something but 4 years isn't a long life by chicken standards.

She hatched out march 19, 2019

 

[no fly zone]

Yes.

When he opened her up he saw her oviducts had detached from her cloaca and had started rotting. So he removed everything dead or dying and tied off the rest. He saw her a week later and said she was doing well. Her next follow up is in 3 weeks from now, which is a month after the surgery.

Hope your girl gets a clean bill of health

 

[MaryJanet]

Hope your girl gets a clean bill of health

So far, so good. She has a great appetite, lots of energy, lots of digging, and bossing the other hens around like the worst boss ever

I hope you have a similar story to share one day. Skeksis is a special hen.

 

[Shadrach]

Not a good day. Three hours today. Dry with sunny spells. The person with the screaming children was at the allotments. Two hours of screaming kids running around waving sticks and gardening forks. We got out of the allotment run but the chickens didn't want to venture much further than my chair and spent most of the time there.
There must be something badly wired with this person. They can see surely that the allotments is a quiet place. It's one of the main reasons people come there. It's usually peaceful and one can forget about whatever crap one had to deal with that day and spend some quiet time enjoying being a little more in touch with nature.
Towards the end of the two hours of screaming this person comes up to me as I sat there surrounded by the chickens and said "see what I have to put up with."
Am I supposed to feel empathy, or even sympathy for them? Even more to the point, if they are aware of how disruptive and out of control their kids are why do they think it's okay to inflict them on others.
The chickens and I are in full agreement. Don't bring them to the allotments.

Niether Ella or Lima looked well this afternoon. Some of this I'm attributing to the heat. Some I'm attributing to the red mites (I'm still finding and killing some) some I think is related to their reproductive problems. Even Henry who is normally as steady as a rock did not look at ease this afternoon and kept coming over to me and making complaining sounds.

We are due some rain in the early hours. Looking at the radar weather map it should be a lot of rain.

 

[no fly zone]

So far, so good. She has a great appetite, lots of energy, lots of digging, and bossing the other hens around like the worst boss ever

I hope you have a similar story to share one day. Skeksis is a special hen.

That she is. I never knew I'd come to love such a funny looking little bird so much.

 

[MaryJanet]

That she is. I never knew I'd come to love such a funny looking little bird so much.

Chickens are a very endearing species.

 

[Iluveggers]

Not a good day. Three hours today. Dry with sunny spells. The person with the screaming children was at the allotments. Two hours of screaming kids running around waving sticks and gardening forks. We got out of the allotment run but the chickens didn't want to venture much further than my chair and spent most of the time there.
There must be something badly wired with this person. They can see surely that the allotments is a quiet place. It's one of the main reasons people come there. It's usually peaceful and one can forget about whatever crap one had to deal with that day and spend some quiet time enjoying being a little more in touch with nature.
Towards the end of the two hours of screaming this person comes up to me as I sat there surrounded by the chickens and said "see what I have to put up with."
Am I supposed to feel empathy, or even sympathy for them? Even more to the point, if they are aware of how disruptive and out of control their kids are why do they think it's okay to inflict them on others.
The chickens and I are in full agreement. Don't bring them to the allotments.

Niether Ella or Lima looked well this afternoon. Some of this I'm attributing to the heat. Some I'm attributing to the red mites (I'm still finding and killing some) some I think is related to their reproductive problems. Even Henry who is normally as steady as a rock did not look at ease this afternoon and kept coming over to me and making complaining sounds.

We are due some rain in the early hours. Looking at the radar weather map it should be a lot of rain.

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I’m sorry to hear that the children are taking away a peaceful retreat. Not all kids in gardens act like heathens. When my son was small, I used to belong to a u-pick CSA (farm I paid a fee to in order to harvest my own veggies (unlimited) once a week throughout the summer. My young son loved coming with me, and we would peacefully seek out the produce on our list, while admiring the wildflowers. The berry bushes were always last, as we would snack while we picked. It was a lovely place, and so few families chose the u-pick option over the delivered box, that often we had the whole field to ourselves excepting the dairy cows rotationally grazed through the adjacent grass fields. Very hard to find peace when people are screaming….

 

[fuzzi]

Was that you who posted about preening your rooster's neck, @Shadrach ?

I tried it, today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I think as we age screaming anything is not well tolerated.
Hello X Batts I have a friend that comes over her kids say in her car.