Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[woodworm]

Good afternoon here - just got home from work

 

[notabitail]

Help Needed.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ck-slow-and-has-bumblefoot-need-help.1629742/

 

[Shadrach]

An eye opener for all today.
Henry dug a dust bath. The chicks got in it. Carbon went and pecked the chicks until they got out. She must have hurt one because Fret went for her in what I would call a serious manner. She was definitely very pissy. She chased Carbon all the way back to the coop and when Carbon cam out again, Fret went for her again. The chicks ran to behind my chair and returned to mum shortly after Fret had finished making her point. Mow, who has also been rather hard on the chicks but not as bad as Carbon watched the whole thing. I hope she's taken the sight of her pissy mum to heart.

Three hours in total today.

They're venturing further into the goose end of the allotment run. The ground is pretty rough. I had to look carefully to spot the chicks.

 

[Sally PB]

She must have hurt one

Is this chick ok?

 

[fluffycrow]

An eye opener for all today.
Henry dug a dust bath. The chicks got in it. Carbon went and pecked the chicks until they got out. She must have hurt one because Fret went for her in what I would call a serious manner. She was definitely very pissy. She chased Carbon all the way back to the coop and when Carbon cam out again, Fret went for her again. The chicks ran to behind my chair and returned to mum shortly after Fret had finished making her point. Mow, who has also been rather hard on the chicks but not as bad as Carbon watched the whole thing. I hope she's taken the sight of her pissy mum to heart.

Three hours in total today.
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They're venturing further into the goose end of the allotment run. The ground is pretty rough. I had to look carefully to spot the chicks.
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Sounds like Fret is very fair with her corrections

I wonder if it's her age that's made her be what I'd call a balanced broody, both lenient and firm, or the fact that it's her second round. Possibly both

 

[fuzzi]

An eye opener for all today.
Henry dug a dust bath. The chicks got in it. Carbon went and pecked the chicks until they got out. She must have hurt one because Fret went for her in what I would call a serious manner. She was definitely very pissy. She chased Carbon all the way back to the coop and when Carbon cam out again, Fret went for her again. The chicks ran to behind my chair and returned to mum shortly after Fret had finished making her point. Mow, who has also been rather hard on the chicks but not as bad as Carbon watched the whole thing. I hope she's taken the sight of her pissy mum to heart.

Three hours in total today.
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They're venturing further into the goose end of the allotment run. The ground is pretty rough. I had to look carefully to spot the chicks.
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Yeah Fret!

Hope the chicks are okay.

 

[fuzzi]

On a similar note:

Somehow Rahab wound up with Tamar's chicks as well as her own! I liked how she didn't go after them.

Everyone is back with the correct momma this evening.

 

[BDutch]

Somehow Rahab wound up with Tamar's chicks as well as her own! I liked how she didn't go after them.

Co mothering isn’t a strange thing. Seen that before.

I once had a broody, named Pino who sat in a nestbox next to two broodies with chicks who hatched. She pecked the chicks that came out of the nestbox. I replaced Pino with her eggs that expected to hatch within a few days.
(She staid put on her new nest )

A few days after her chicks hatched I opened up. There was no pecking anymore and very soon all 8 chicks had 3 mothers.

Pino with Black & Pearl in 2015

Ini mini and Zoë with Tammy and her brothers

Pino learning all the kids to roost.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[woodworm]

I posted about my new girls from BHWT a week or so ago, although we have let them out of their pen they have still been enclosed with some temporary fencing.

Today was their first day to experience freedom!

There was sunbathing ...

lots of "nosying"

↑↑↑ That is my wife's hand reaching for her glass, not for hennies throat!

I suspect they were after our Mimosa's

Overall there has been a few squabbles and we are keeping a close eye on them, but I feel they look healthier and happier than how they arrived ...