Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

People beating each other to a pulp (rather than tearing them apart) is still popular with spectators in some quarters, and let's not forget bull fighting, or running with/from the bulls, which attracts a certain sort of person to participate. But animals set to fight have no choice in the matter, and that's an important difference.

Exactly, all about making the choice. I always root for the bulls, btw. LOL

 

[MrsNorthie]

Used to be big entertainment in Rome with humans too.

Team sports and the Olympics were training for battle .
Warriors battling it out and survival of the strongest or smartest or just plain luckiest.
I'm not into team sports either.

I like some team sports, I figure if adult humans make the choice to do something where they could be injured, or worse, it is up to them.

 

[Shadrach]

Cloudy and grey. a bit over six hours today. I harvested what gooseberries the pigeons hadn't got to yet. I got 820 grams from one large bush. If I had netted it it would doubtless have been at least twice as much. At least I got some this year.

I closed the gate and waited outside to see what the chicks did once inside the coop run. They did use the rossting bar in the extension and made occasional trips into the coop still too early.
The female chick has got it worked out. She slips in and roosts next to Henry. Mow was in a nestbox so I took the opportunity to reach n the back of the coop and place the other three on the roost bar Mow usually roosts on; lmost instant quiet.
Tomorrow I'll wait it out for the full performance. On Sundays, if I miss the 9.30 pm bus I have to wait a further hour for the next one usually. The trains don't run late on Sundays.

 

[MrsNorthie]

he female chick has got it worked out. She slips in and roosts next to Henry.

Daddy's girl.

 

[Perris]

Fforest, Killay, Frida, Quenell, Uppsala and Ystrad are 2 today!

 

[BDutch]

Another tremendous Birthday party!
Congrats to all, Perris.

 

[Companihen]

Wow! Having read this whole thread (over the course of a few weeks) rather like one reads a book, from cover to cover but sometimes skipping ahead when the tension is too great but then returning so as not to miss details, I have eventually reached the end!
Shed some tears at the sorrows of losing special chickens and some anxieties over the regular posters who have recently gone quiet, hope they're ok.
Received huge amounts of advice from treating chicken ailments through to dealing with difficult pple an excellent thread, appreciate it a lot.

Ironically I was eating a Chinese fortune cookie at the time of finishing the thread.... this was the msg.... and a few pics of my hens (i have 6)... and current chicks (I have 12, incubated them)

 

[fluffycrow]

Fforest, Killay, Frida, Quenell, Uppsala and Ystrad are 2 today!

Happy birthday to them, and the three year olds, with many more years of happily foraging and ranging to come!

 

[MrsNorthie]

Fforest, Killay, Frida, Quenell, Uppsala and Ystrad are 2 today!

Congratulations! Happy Birthday to the wonderful twos!

 

[MrsNorthie]

Ironically I was eating a Chinese fortune cookie at the time of finishing the thread.... this was the msg.... and a few pics of my hens (i have 6)... and current chicks (I have 12, incubated them)

The message is so very true! Your chickens are beautiful!