Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[JacinLarkwell]

20-something pullets in one of my pens, most I ever got in one day was 7 eggs (granted roughly half are bantams)

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Yeah, it's sad but she did find out some of what being a proper chicken is all about. Millions don't and die much the same and nobody even notices.

Did Slip cross the rainbow bridge?

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

The temperature is 54 and sunny.

I spent yesterday morning at the bank opening a new account because someone was trying to clean out my checking and savings accounts.

Have a great day!

 

[LaFleche]

I spent yesterday morning at the bank opening a new account because someone was trying to clean out my checking and savings accounts.

I hope they were not successful!

 

[Pippin quail]

I have 16 pullets that will be 35 weeks old tomorrow and I'm getting from 11 to 14 eggs a day.

I got 16 eggs once.

Weather is probably a lot nicer where you are. We're coming into -20's and -30's C for Christmas and on. I'm actually trying to figure out what to do about humidity as the humidity in the coop today is 91%! But it's 96% humidity outside, so it's not a ventilation problem. It's just somehow super high humidity outside. Does anyone know if adding heat to the coop will reduce or increase humidity?? tax

 

[Solanacae]

Weather is probably a lot nicer where you are. We're coming into -20's and -30's C for Christmas and on. I'm actually trying to figure out what to do about humidity as the humidity in the coop today is 91%! But it's 96% humidity outside, so it's not a ventilation problem. It's just somehow super high humidity outside. Does anyone know if adding heat to the coop will reduce or increase humidity?? View attachment 2936770 taxView attachment 2936776
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Those are chilly temps! I’m no help to you, though. The highest humidity I ever see is in the 40’s.

 

[AnnaWolf]

Weather is probably a lot nicer where you are. We're coming into -20's and -30's C for Christmas and on. I'm actually trying to figure out what to do about humidity as the humidity in the coop today is 91%! But it's 96% humidity outside, so it's not a ventilation problem. It's just somehow super high humidity outside. Does anyone know if adding heat to the coop will reduce or increase humidity?? View attachment 2936770 taxView attachment 2936776
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I use lots more absorbing bedding in the winter. I have a mix of hemp straw and paper shreds at the moment, my bedding is 35 cm deep and i have poop boards, which i clean daily.
My humidity is the same but it's only -3c.

 

[Shadrach]

she's lovely; how old is she?

I'm not sure Perris. There were three I think. One died at 13 years old but I think Freya was from the second group. I'll ask my sister.

 

[Shadrach]

Slip died this morning, underwieght in freezing tempeatures having been bred to produce ten times the amount of eggs her poor body was capable of.
She did get a few hours of living like a chicken in the last weeks of her life.
I did sit in the coop run last night for a while with her in my lap trying to warm her up before I slipped her in the middle of the others. She didn't struggle or object in any way and all I could think to say to her was sorry.

 

[Shadrach]

This is Tap. She's a hen from Tribe 1 in Catalonia. She was hatched by her mother, knows her father and has been free all her life.