Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Glad you are back


One for you, one for Carbon and one for the red mite infestation.
I really feel sorry for all this shit you went though/are going through. Hope your head gets well too very soon.

Maybe its a good idea to wear a mask in public transport from now on. It reduces the risk of a contamination because of the cloth and because most people tend to keep more distance.

I hope you or one of the allotment people can help you to find a co-chicken lover who loves to care for these chickens as a duo-job.

Red mites really suck, and I was afraid of a new infestation this year. Especially with the humidity this spring, 2x broodies and chicks it felt as a high risk to get a new infection. Apart from the DE I started to add the Finecto+ herbs in powder and liquid this spring. So far no troubles here.

Hope you succeed to eliminate them all!

They won't be there for long!
One of the great advantages of the plastic coop, you can get rid of every mite. It may take a few goes. I had mites in the coop last year if you recall and I got the lot.
I have no idea if this is true but I've been told by someone who is educated in such matters that it's not that they won't try and live on plastic, it's they can't/wont lays eggs on it. Something that allows the eggs to stick to the surface doesn't work on plastic.

 

[Shadrach]

the co-brooded chicks are 1 week old today and growing like weeds
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The twins' wings are almost to their bums, while the browner chipmunk's are barely started. And the little black one is showing his/ her maternal (Maria's) spunk already, despite being half the size of his/ her siblings

Lovely to see chicks out and about on natural ground.

 

[Shadrach]

I don't know - I was looking at them rather than at what they were looking at,

It took me ages to stop doing that. My friend who kept Fayoumis in Catalonia told me I would learn more faster if I looked at what the rest of the flock were doing rather than the one who brought your attention to something.
It's particualry helpfull for working out what a call means for example. Take the warning call from a rooster. It gets instant heads up and a motion freeze. Hear one and see the other over and over again and one has something to work on.

 

[MaryJanet]

@Shadrach

Sorry you had Covid again, now it needs to leave you alone.

You have my sympathy for the shingles.

I have had them for 22 weeks and still going.

Mine are on my face around my right eye and the pain can be atrocious at times.

That is a long time! When I had shingles, it cleared up in a couple of weeks. But it did leave me with neuralgia, which at first taught me the meaning of 'excruciating' and faded with time, luckily!

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach

Sorry you had Covid again, now it needs to leave you alone.

You have my sympathy for the shingles.

I have had them for 22 weeks and still going.

Mine are on my face around my right eye and the pain can be atrocious at times.

it's not on the top of the list of my favourite virus I must admit.
I think I've been fortunate in not being in much pain with what I've got/
I have had an almost constant headache for a couple of weeks. The virus got to something in my inner ear and my balance went off for a bit.

 

[Shadrach]

That is a long time! When I had shingles, it cleared up in a couple of weeks. But it did leave me with neuralgia, which at first taught me the meaning of 'excruciating' and faded with time, luckily!

Go on. Cheer me up.

 

[Shadrach]

Four hours today. 18C and dry.
Did the coop again. There are still a few mites. I'll do the perch ends tomorrow and the next day the whole coop.

Carbon feeling miserable.

Out and about.

 

[Sally PB]

Aw Carbon... Hang in there, dear lady.

 

[MaryJanet]

Go on. Cheer me up.

Sorry!

I have no trace of neuralgia any more and its incidence is very low. Most people get over shingles without any further nerve pain.

 

[fuzzi]

Four hours today. 18C and dry.
Did the coop again. There are still a few mites. I'll do the perch ends tomorrow and the next day the whole coop.

Carbon feeling miserable.
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Out and about.
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for Carbon, and you. Being sick sucks.