Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

Wednesday?

The whole of the Addams Family doesn't exactly embody what I'd like her name to be.

I'm thinking (Lady) Galadriel would be a good fit. She is almost always calm, nurturing, etc, but under no circumstances weak, or fearful

 

[fluffycrow]

Born one day later, Happy Birthday to this girl, who hates my guts

 

[RoyalChick]

the current government have been in power for 1 month and 3 days.

How much control of (or responsibility for) anything do you think they have?

Well there are the governments of other countries to consider.
Social media misinformation has clearly played a role spreading falsehoods about who stabbed the little girls in the ‘precipitating event’.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk...role-sowing-discord-leading-riots-2024-08-05/

 

[lightm]

On arthritis: AGC went from cute and wobbly to alarmingly unsteady earlier this year. He started rocking back on his hocks occasionally and roosting on the coop floor.

He had zero foot abrasions, hot joints, obesity, or neuro, digestive, or respiratory symptoms. He had no trouble getting up, walking, running, dancing, jumping, or standing on one foot to scratch his head. He just had posterior balance issues.

After hours of research, observation, and homegrown diagnostics (including testing his knees with support sleeves sized for a chihuahua), I concluded it was his hips, possibly dysplasia/faulty connective tissue.

We began the following regimen, and while I wasn't feeling optimistic about his future, it was a wonderful surprise how much stability he regained within days of starting the glucosamine.

• In the morning, he knows to hang back for his special tablespoon of scratch dribbled with 0.5 ML of glucosamine/MSM/turmeric (sorry to link to stupid AMZN but couldn’t find the brand elsewhere).
  • I tried adding salmon oil for omegas, but he didn’t like it.
• When he’s stiff (about once a month), he gets a 3-5-day course of aspirin, which is 1/6 of a 325mg aspirin rolled into a raisin.
  • Ideally it's in the a.m. and p.m., but it’s harder to get him alone in the evenings, and he’ll give the raisins away in a heartbeat, so often he'll only have aspirin in the a.m.
• I made adaptive upgrades to his coop: he now sleeps on a gymnastics mat, and the feeder & waterer are on shelves so he doesn’t have to bend down as much.

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• He gets some warm epsom-salt soaks, since he’s very comfortable being handled, though the soaks are mostly for relief from leg-feather issues.

Here's an additional link on arthritis I found helpful:
http://scottsdaleveterinaryclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/07/AvianArthritis.doc.pdf

Wow, this is very useful information. Thank you for that. I have it bookmarked.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s mostly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[woodworm]

Hi everyone. Got to sit in the garden with the flock for an hour yesterday.

Anyone found a way to open a crisp packet without being mugged?

 

[RoyalChick]

Hi everyone. Got to sit in the garden with the flock for an hour yesterday.

Anyone found a way to open a crisp packet without being mugged?

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I can’t even take my hand out of my pocket without being mugged!

 

[notabitail]

I can’t even take my hand out of my pocket without being mugged!

I have to be sneaky about food when I bring it to my office. In Albis will sit by the door because she knows when I'm going to go get some. That or she'll send Agathae to spy on me.

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

I can’t even take my hand out of my pocket without being mugged!

Can’t even open a door…..

 

[Molpet]

And why is it when one takes a treat out of big bowl , others chase for that particular treat.
By the time they come back to the bowl it's emptied because others took 6 treats.
If I throw the treats the faster smalls get trampled by the slower large.