Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s mostly sunny with 77% chance of rain.

Have a great day!

 

[HiEverybirdy]

One of the problems I've found, not just here on BYC is much of the advice on sickness in chickens, including parasite problems are pretty much a copy and paste from medical texts that were developed for the commercial sector. The commercial sector isn't going to be interested in saving one or two chickens out of possibly thousands or even have the resources to deal with any alternative remedies without impinging on their profit margins.
I've read a lot of stuff directly lifted from the likes of WebMD which is either wrong or completely inappropriate for the backyard keeper.

This should be pinned to the top of BYC.

Yes, not just a BYC problem, but as a new keeper, it would've been extraordinarily helpful to see this truth spoken somewhere prominently.

 

[Shadrach]

Yes; she can put weight on the left leg but clearly minimises it, and rests a lot more than her siblings, and while they are running this way and that chasing insects flying above the grass, she is focussed on what's in it close to her. Sometimes I've seen her take time out and just sit somewhere comfortable while they go on another foraging expedition, but they'll all be back together again an hour or three later. No she doesn't get picked on, thankfully. But she would definitely be easiest for a predator to catch; slower than anyone else in the flock.

My concern is for when the males start trying to mate her. If she can't bear her own weight, bearing theirs too would be worse.

I'm dealing with a similar problem with Fret. She still limps. Sometimes she'll walk almost normally and other times the limp is very pronounced. She rests much more than she used to but she doesn't show signs of being in pan unless she moves the leg with the limp badly. She roosts and jumps fine. She'll run and that's almost normal as well. She eats, drinks, bathes and grooms normally.

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours today. Mild at 16C and it stayed dry until I got home.
Fret and Henry deciding on just how big a hole they need for a decent bath.

This was interesting. The darker of the two juvenile females sharing a bath with Henry. Both the juvenile females have big personalities and this one seems to have decided that Henry is rather nice.

Fret doesn't always look entirely approving of the juvenile females interest in her man.

Juveniles out foraging.

 

[MaryJanet]

Fret doesn't always look entirely approving of the juvenile females interest in her man.

Funny you should mention that. I'm working on a reinterpretation of Dolly Parton's Jolene in which she wishes Jolene would take her man away because he's always looking at other women and she's getting real tired of his nonsense should get a few laughs!

 

[fluffycrow]

Fez's chicks are 10 weeks old today, so it's an opportunity to catch up on some tax, which I haven't paid in a while. Aberglasny has developed some lovely plumage, to my biased eye
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and Cadoc is still hanging in there, here sunning her gammy leg.
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I need to read up on managing a lame pullet, because it's pretty clear now that whatever damage she sustained in week 2 of life is not going to get better. If anyone has any tips, do please share with me. TIA.

Aberglasny is gorgeous. Hopefully Cadoc can have a normal life with some help

 

[Perris]

Funny you should mention that. I'm working on a reinterpretation of Dolly Parton's Jolene in which she wishes Jolene would take her man away because he's always looking at other women and she's getting real tired of his nonsense should get a few laughs!

that reminds me of this
https://connectere.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/why-punctuation-is-important/

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good evening one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s with 100% rain.

Have a great day!

 

[RoyalChick]

that reminds me of this
https://connectere.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/why-punctuation-is-important/

Marvelous!
Lots of good examples in this little volume - but none as sophisticated as that exercise.
https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-...7&psc=1&mcid=0ee2f570fd5b3b1d8b102fc9f42b6401

 

[Shadrach]

An hour and a half today. Tipping down with rain most of the day with drizzle in the evening. Trains cancelled on the line I use due to flooding. The line runs next to the river Avon from the city centre to the docks. One would have thought after all these years they would have done something effective to prevent the track flooding. It has been going on for years.

I've named the two female juveniles. The one on the left I've named sylph; she's the lighter coloured of the two. The one on the right I've named Tull after the inventor of the seed drill.

This is Sylph.

I must admit she doesn't look very sylph like in these pictures but she's a quick and gracefull bird who likes to fly. Tull mainly likes eating.

Henry was already in the coop when I arrived. He came out to eat, had a short wander around and went back to roost with Fret and Mow following shortly after.
The juveniles went out foraging in the drizzle.

Nobody stayed out late and I got home half an hour earlier than usual.