Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

I understand how you feel. My first batch of 6 hens all came undernourished and sick with a respiratory disease, probably IBV. Two also had severe bumblefoot and one also suffered from laying huge eggs and chronic prolapse. Two died within a week of arrival of suffocation/cyanosis. I had to euthanize the one who prolapsed all the time about a year later. The others held on and actually became fairly healthy and had good lives, but none lived to be older than four.

It was the word "rescue" that drew me to this thread. I didn't intend to get "rescue" hens but that's how it ended up. It was a sad and tremendously difficult experience. But I learned a tremendous amount and am ever more grateful for the healthy chickens I have now, the majority hatched and raised here by broody mums.

It takes a certain fortitude to take care of ailing birds. I salute you.

It's a delightful hobby, I don't feel stoic about it, I mostly obtain great joy and satisfaction from spending time with the hens. The success rate isn't too bad for six years of chicken keeping, especially if you deduct the one fox raid and the lipidosis, which were my mistakes. When it's read in one short post it seems awful, but it reads worse than it really is.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

All of the chicks are so cute. and I love watching them grow.

Temperature is in the 80s.

Have a great day!

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

@no fly zone
I wondered if you had considered getting someone to paint a picture of Skesis. I'm sure you have plently of pictures that can be copied.
Somone I know painted this picture of Major a few days before he died. It's on a wall in my flat.
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The company Build a Bear gives you the ability to not only create the animal but, insert a little pre recorded sound. I thought that was so neat! Which sound would you use for your chicken stuffy if you had one? I would do the gals chatting to me while we dig stuff

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

LOL I'm sure they don't want your mice either. I worked at a college and they had a mouse and racoon problems. They used sticky traps to catch the mice thinking the instructors and secretaries could just throw them away. Needless to say a screaming mouse caught didn't go over well.
I dislike glue traps for anything but fleas and flies

Funny story, hubs used a sticky trap in the basement and I went down and seen a young mouse stuck and struggling. I quickly went online and learned how to get it off the trap. Olive oil! The little buddy was covered in oil, but, alive. I put him in a box with bedding in the corner of porch outside. Next morning he was gone and I was pleased Hubs hates that story.

 

[Molpet]

Funny story, hubs used a sticky trap in the basement and I went down and seen a young mouse stuck and struggling. I quickly went online and learned how to get it off the trap. Olive oil! The little buddy was covered in oil, but, alive. I put him in a box with bedding in the corner of porch outside. Next morning he was gone and I was pleased Hubs hates that story.

Fire department said the fire at parents house was caused by mice chewing the cord to the freezer in the basement.
At work there was a mouse on the break table. The guys were trying to hit it, but there was too many papers and parts. I seen were it was hiding and grabbed it by the tail. As I was walking to released outside, it swung up and latched on my pinky. After that I learned not to be nice to the mice.

 

[BDutch]

Let's face it, paint is the least of their problems!

Two are six years old now (Eye Injury and Bacteria Lady). Two are four (Lipidosis Chick Killer and OMG a Healthy Hen). One's age is unknown, possibly three (Reproductive Red Flag but Not Dead Yet!). Two are one (OMG TWO More Healthy Hens).

, you lost soo many chickens that I wonder how many chickens did you buy/hatch and do you have 7 hens now?

btw: I used a natural sort of paint. Its a fungi coating that blackens the wood. The preservative coating is kept ‘alive’ with linseed oil.
The coop smelled like a just painted oil canvas

 

[BDutch]

Came back with a possibly better visualView attachment 3636081. Foureira eggs next to one Euro. Serama, the real production breed of all the modern day dinos

Top 4: eggs are fairy eggs collected over the years.
Near the € the biggest is from Katrientje my bantam RiR. Janice and Katrientjes eggs are 39-43 grams. The smallest are from my tiny Dutch bantams. 29-36 grams.

 

[fluffycrow]

Too: eggs are fairy eggs collected over the years.
Near the € the biggest is from Katrientje my bantam RiR. Janice and Katrientjes eggs are 39-43 grams. The smallest are from my tiny Dutch bantams. 29-36 grams. View attachment 3636345

You know what, I did consider pretending these were fairy eggs . Now I'm in the phase of questioning what a serama fairy egg would look like. My best guess is as big as a grain of rice

 

[MrsNorthie]

(We'll just pretend my memory isn't failing )

Thank you for the information. I have a memory like a steel sieve! I blame it on being too busy with multiple things...lol

 

[fluffycrow]

Too: eggs are fairy eggs collected over the years.
Near the € the biggest is from Katrientje my bantam RiR. Janice and Katrientjes eggs are 39-43 grams. The smallest are from my tiny Dutch bantams. 29-36 grams. View attachment 3636345

Oh, if you don't mind me asking, what's your process for making them last so long?