Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[SimpleJenn]

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.

Could be, I've read baby-killing can be passed down. Turkeys tend to be hit or miss right?

 

[Shadrach]

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

Lovely action shot of Henry bathing in the previous post

It should work well for you given the type of coops you have.
I highly recommend the gas torch I linked to above. It's small enough to not be cumbersome in confined spaces and let go of the trigger knob and the falme goes out unlike many of the plumber style torches.
I did the inside again today in the rain. Easy and quick.
I wish now I had taken pictures of the mites before I started trying to deal with them. Just on the outside there was a patch of mites six inches by six inches and seething. In a few days I wasn't there the mites got everywhere.
Must be the worst infestaion I've had to deal with and I expect to be dealing with them for a while yet.
Today there were just a few small patches.

 

[Molpet]

Chicken Youngsters play fighting

Mom and a turkey broke it up

 

[Molpet]

Could be, I've read baby-killing can be passed down. Turkeys tend to be hit or miss right?

Turkey hens are notorious for being terrible first time moms. But they usually improve. I'm hoping this one does.

 

[Shadrach]

25th.

 

[BDutch]

25th.
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Sundays is your day off, isn’t it? Did C send you this photo?

How is the rash on your head doing now? Feeling better?

My Black is improving. She went outside to free range with the others for a bit today.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

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.

Sorry you had to put her down.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

Sundays is your day off, isn’t it?

Was my day off quite some time ago.
Days off are for when they and I are healthy. I prefer to be there if I can get there when I'm sick. I'm very chicken like in that respect; isolation doesn't get me better any quicker.

I've been living outside for all intents and purposes for twenty, or more years. Beds and kettles are great but geen fields and stuff to do is even better.

 

[Shadrach]

The left hand side of my face is a mess. I've got a six wide strip of swelling, scabs and dying skin from one side near the top of my skull to just below my left eye. It looks pretty gruesome, close to something from a zombie game.

I wear an eye patch because bright light hurts my eye and my glasses are light sensitive darkening.
I'm on the bus. There's a women with a bit of a brat of a child in the seats in front of me. The child hangs off the headrest the wrong way round in the seat and keeps staring at me and pulling faces.
I bent my head down, took the eye patch off which does cover a lot of the damage and the glasses and then raised my head leant towrds the child and went "wuuuuhwaaah." The child burst into tears.
Sometimes being horrid is just so satisfying.

Two and a half hours today. Dry and warm at 20C.
Still cooking mites.