Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[kcan2]

Everybody lived despite my absence.
From what I can gather they got out the coop run for one hour once, in six days.
Carbon looks pretty grim. I know we've been here before, but once again I think this moult might kill her.
I think some, probably the adults with Henry, have spent their nights on the extension roost bar. They used to roost like this in the old coop during the summer.

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Let out once in six days? Very different from their norm - I'm sure you were very much missed! Get well soon, Carbon...hope you are feeling better too, Shadrach!

 

[no fly zone]

Hope Carbon perks up.

 

[Perris]

From what I can gather they got out the coop run for one hour once, in six days.

was that because of their temporary carer's lack of time, or lack of confidence about letting them range / getting them back in the coop? or perhaps they tried it early and it went too badly for them to want to repeat it? or did they give some other indication of the whys and wherefores?

 

[SimpleJenn]

Poor Carbon. She's getting up there in age right? Still, I hope she recovers. Are cream legbars production bred?

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s sunny.

Have a great day!

Funny enough, I just saw a glimmer of sunlight. We already canceled our farm swap though, it poured all night and it's not worth hauling crochet or sewing out in this weather!

 

[Shadrach]

was that because of their temporary carer's lack of time, or lack of confidence about letting them range / getting them back in the coop? or perhaps they tried it early and it went too badly for them to want to repeat it? or did they give some other indication of the whys and wherefores?

C was the temporary carer so all of the above plus some.

 

[Shadrach]

Poor Carbon. She's getting up there in age right? Still, I hope she recovers. Are cream legbars production bred?

She is.
They are a production breed, but an early example. They were bred to be autosexing and "improved" to lay more eggs over time. They're small birds that lay large eggs for their size.

 

[Shadrach]

Four and a half hours today. Overcast, dry and 17C.
I need to find a replacement for C for anything longer than a couple of days.
I think I may have a prospect. I'm sure I've written as much in the past.
So, I've had Covid again. The Covid wasn't too bad. I've had it four times now so my body knows a bit about it. I was fine after four days. However, my imune system is tired, it's as old as I am. and a virus that presents as shingles moved into and above my left eye socket, closing the eye and doing something unpleasant to my inner ear so my balance went a bit funky.
I went to the eye hospital in Bristol. Unlike my GP who can only be described as largly absent and a shower of shite, the hospital were rather good. Apparently I'm stuck with the shingles for a few weeks.

The cost of this has been Carbon went downhill in health in my absence and red mite moved in to the coop, lots of them.There were colonies of the little feckers around the outside of the door! There were a few in the roost bar ends and at the bases of the roost bar support uprights. I did some eradication yesterday evening but as those who have had red mite in their coop, one extermination attempt doesn't do the job so I did the whole coop again today. It's an agressive daily chore for a few days now until no tests produce any mites. Getting most of them is not a problem solved.

I got around 50 grams of meat and fish into Carbon plus a dose of rooster booster. She is still eating some of the grain and seed mix plus some forage.

Waiting for me to finish in the coop.

It was dark by the time I finished and I put them in the coop.

 

[no fly zone]

Hope you beat those damned mites.