Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

My mother used to grow decorative squash/pumpkin. All looking different, some resembled the ones on the top left. These fruits were not tasty or meant for consumption.

Yes the top left and gourds the chickens might eat the seeds but not the flesh.

 

[Perris]

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[RoyalChick]

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Gosh - he is gorgeous!

 

[no fly zone]

I read about that. I don't begin to understand it - feels a bit like magic - but there is apparently well documented evidence of this for rice. I didn't know it worked for potatoes too.

I do not understand how it works either, but i do know i dropped about 55-60 lbs.

 

[no fly zone]

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Very handsome rooster.

Looks a bit like the late Rick:

 

[fuzzi]

Tax
April 25th hatched by turkey . He hangs out with the turkeys more than the chickens. Does Chase the pullets.
Part dark Cornish and black jersey giant. Looks like his dad.

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Pretty Boy!

 

[fuzzi]

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He's GORGEOUS!

 

[fuzzi]

Henny is much more comfortable this weekend, the feathers have emerged from the quills but she still looks 1/2 her normal size. She has taken to pecking my trousers & when we are all sitting down, my fleece. Not sure if she is checking if I’d make a good meal or grooming me. Definitely checked to see if the phone cover was edible
I was very touched that a, she sat on my arm & b, trusted me enough for a snoozelet as she normally wouldn’t do either.

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Last photo a bit blurry as she’d decided to get down but does show the secondary wing feathers emerging.

Ow.

Poor Naomi has no tail, looks miserable. Tamar, in the back, had a rough molt but is looking and acting more like her normal self.

 

[Shadrach]

Today. Breakfast.
One large whole meal pitta bread, preservative free, halved with no added sugar, or anything else for that matter, peanut butter.
One banana.
One handfull of blueberries.
One handfull of raspberries.
One cup of tomato juice made with tomato passat with 4 drops of Worcestershire Sauce.

Lunch.
Hot as in chlli and tempeature, sweet potatoe soup with chopped cashew nuts and baby spinach topping.
One very potent vitamin pill with no junk in it.

Tea.
One large slice of Stollen cake. Ooops. The Sweet tooth monster ambused me in the supermarket.

Supper.
Steamed brussel sprouts, carrots and french beans with a packet smoked mackerel fillet and boiled potatoes.

I'm still hungry.

 

[Shadrach]

My animals eat better than me. Most of my monthly income goes to feeding them (I'm on disability benefits). What's left over feeds me so that means cheap stuff.

There are times I think the field chickens get a better diet than me.
I used to eat well with very little money but there were the benefits of growing veg and things, plus what the henters brought, plus all the fruit trees.
I struggled for money for the first few months of being back in the UK and when I finally got sorted out with somewhere to live and pesnions paid etc my good eating habits went West.
It's only been the last year when I've tried to get a grip on what I eat in a more serious manner. Of course, living in the city as I do, most stuff has to be bought and good quality food (organic maybe, fresh not frozen, right point of ripeness, right keeping and growing conditions etc) is expensive and I've added at least 30% to my food budget a month which doesn't inlcude the recent price hikes.
Stuff never seems to go down in price.