Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Chicken feed was stolen, or human feed ?

!0 kg of chicken feed.

Wasn't the Russian people (?) That helped out before?

The last time they lasted three days and texted me in hospital saying they couldn't cope.

 

[Shadrach]

24/08

 

[Shadrach]

There are times I wonder if I have a brain at all. I know blow torches work. I've used them for years but until now I've gone with the s
permethrin spray which isn't environmentaly friendy and works out expensive and messy. You can't blow toech a plastic coop people say. They're wrong. You can. In fact the recycled plastic stands up to 400 centigrade better than wood. I'm still kicking myself for my own stupidy.
The blow torch arrived and I did the entire coop in lees than an hour. Fried red mite anyone? The satisfaction of hearing the mites pop and sizzle just cannot be explained. Kills the eggs to.
It took around three seconds of staionary flame before the plastic showed any signs of distress.
This nest box cover got less than half a second per mite patch and the mites and eggs were dead. One continuous slow sweep did the job. Just brush the dead mites off and the job is done. The flame penetrates the joins much better then the permethrin spray I found. I'm sure I didn't get them all but I got most of them in one sweep.
The torch I settled on was this. It works at any angle, has trigger stop or continuous flame and I didn't even use a tank of gas for the entire coop.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPSY3...s=diy&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw&th=1

 

[Perris]

There are times I wonder if I have a brain at all. I know blow torches work. I've used them for years but until now I've gone with the s
permethrin spray which isn't environmentaly friendy and works out expensive and messy. You can't blow toech a plastic coop people say. They're wrong. You can. In fact the recycled plastic stands up to 400 centigrade better than wood. I'm still kicking myself for my own stupidy.
The blow torch arrived and I did the entire coop in lees than an hour. Fried red mite anyone? The satisfaction of hearing the mites pop and sizzle just cannot be explained. Kills the eggs to.
It took around three seconds of staionary flame before the plastic showed any signs of distress.
This nest box cover got less than half a second per mite patch and the mites and eggs were dead. One continuous slow sweep did the job. Just brush the dead mites off and the job is done. The flame penetrates the joins much better then the permethrin spray I found. I'm sure I didn't get them all but I got most of them in one sweep.
The torch I settled on was this. It works at any angle, has trigger stop or continuous flame and I didn't even use a tank of gas for the entire coop.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPSY3...s=diy&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw&th=1

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very interesting; I'll give it a go and report back.

Lovely action shot of Henry bathing in the previous post

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Sorry for your loss.
Did you find her death or did she vanish without a clue?

She was dead when I entered the run.

She was laying by the water bowl.

She was 3 years and 4 months old.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Dispatched my first chicken today, she repeatedly tried to kill chicks so she had to go.
We will use the meat, but she will be missed.
@Shadrach Thanks for being so matter of fact about there being some behaviors that cannot be allowed, it's helping me come to peace about having to do it.

 

[fuzzi]

Dispatched my first chicken today, she repeatedly tried to kill chicks so she had to go.
We will use the meat, but she will be missed.
@Shadrach Thanks for being so matter of fact about there being some behaviors that cannot be allowed, it's helping me come to peace about having to do it.

I understand. I had to cull my rooster earlier this year for the same reason. It's an unpleasant but I believe necessary duty of animal husbandry.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I understand. I had to cull my rooster earlier this year for the same reason. It's an unpleasant but I believe necessary duty of animal husbandry.

Yeah, I had given her a second chance but this last time she really was trying to kill the poor chick. I know she had a good life and a quick, merciful end.

 

[Molpet]

Yeah, I had given her a second chance but this last time she really was trying to kill the poor chick. I know she had a good life and a quick, merciful end.

I had a turkey hen that 3 years in a row had dead poults that had just hatched under her. Last year I caught her killing one. I gave her poult and eggs to a good mama. Someone was looking for a hen to keep their tom company. I sold her cheap with full disclosure that she was a baby killer. This year another keeps having dead babies. I gave her eggs from the incubator a few days before hatching...and caught her hatch day with an open egg and dead baby. I banded her so I know which she is.
I wonder if she was hatched from that hen last year.