Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

I'm doing what's known as spreading the load.

A benefit of your many, many years of experience...

 

[RoyalChick]

@Sally PB @RoyalChick

This is slippery elm when subscribed to us by the vet. "Give 1-2ml by mouth once every 12 hours".
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It was in liquid already (and yes very slimy) and administrated through syringe.

This year, we needed to treat more crop problems and bought slippery elm powder at some natural foods store. They are in the form of powder in capsules.
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Each capsule is 400mg. With some conversion,
each capsule ≈ 10 doses worth of powder ≈ 5 days of usage.

A small accurate scale can be helpful. After getting the powder, I mix it with very little water and use a syringe to give it to our sweeties.

Thanks!

 

[Sally PB]

Yes, @lightm, thank you very much for the information.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Thanks for the nice wishes Ladies8 . I hope your day is/was okay.
I suppose the silence must be awkward .
Are you making new plans?
Do you have an idea what you need to do to prevent this horrible experience to ever happen again?
Any idea when (if) you want start again with a new flock?

It sure is very quite.

I had just bought a shed to make coop out of.

So, I will just make all the necessary changes I need.

I will need to cover the run again, which I had just taken off to get the shed in place.

Now I need to get the old coop taken down as it has a lot of rotten wood in it.

I will be able to get some chicks around February from Tractor Supply.

Thanks for asking.

 

[Perris]

There has been a change in the roo hierarchy here, not connected with moulting I think. Tintern has been subordinate to Gwynedd since they were chicks - I got a photo of them chest-bumping at about 6 weeks old that I posted on this thread at the time if I remember aright.

Anyway, they both turned 1 in September, and as they've filled out, Tintern has grown into a real unit; he's now bigger than Gwynedd in all respects, and he may even have surpassed Killay in stature. Evidently he has noticed this himself, and decided a few days ago to stop running when G came along. I've seen them sparring briefly a few times, more testing than real fighting, and they both have some scabs on comb and wattle to show for it, but no real damage to feathers even. It's a poor photo but the best I've got:

While at the same time Gwynedd - tail still held high - was spotted walking away from the feeding station and disappearing round the corner

and he's clearly now last in the queue for food (behind even the juveniles), while Tintern was enjoying first dibs with Killay and the senior hens.

There was no such reversal with Killay and Fforest, who were hatch-mates like G and T, only a year earlier. (In case anyone's wondering, Fforest, No 2 roo, also eats at first sitting, at a bowl at one end, but needs to be ready to run should Killay decide it's time to throw his weight around).

But it occurs to me, after seeing the reversal with G 'n' T, that decisions about which roo to keep and which to cull (which is a not uncommon question on BYC, as many who hatch chicks do not want more than 1 roo in the flock) might be made somewhat prematurely if it takes about 14 months for their mature characters and abilities to come out on display.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready and vey good.

Temperature is in the 80s sunny with 7% chance of rain.

Have a great day.

 

[Molpet]

There has been a change in the roo hierarchy here, not connected with moulting I think. Tintern has been subordinate to Gwynedd since they were chicks - I got a photo of them chest-bumping at about 6 weeks old that I posted on this thread at the time if I remember aright.

Anyway, they both turned 1 in September, and as they've filled out, Tintern has grown into a real unit; he's now bigger than Gwynedd in all respects, and he may even have surpassed Killay in stature. Evidently he has noticed this himself, and decided a few days ago to stop running when G came along. I've seen them sparring briefly a few times, more testing than real fighting, and they both have some scabs on comb and wattle to show for it, but no real damage to feathers even. It's a poor photo but the best I've got: View attachment 3997006

While at the same time Gwynedd - tail still held high - was spotted walking away from the feeding station and disappearing round the corner View attachment 3997005and he's clearly now last in the queue for food (behind even the juveniles), while Tintern was enjoying first dibs with Killay and the senior hens.

There was no such reversal with Killay and Fforest, who were hatch-mates like G and T, only a year earlier. (In case anyone's wondering, Fforest, No 2 roo, also eats at first sitting, at a bowl at one end, but needs to be ready to run should Killay decide it's time to throw his weight around).

But it occurs to me, after seeing the reversal with G 'n' T, that decisions about which roo to keep and which to cull (which is a not uncommon question on BYC, as many who hatch chicks do not want more than 1 roo in the flock) might be made somewhat prematurely if it takes about 14 months for their mature characters and abilities to come out on display.

Very true. But unless there's a grow out pen too many cockerels causes problems.

 

[no fly zone]

Chippy & Skeksis Jr (with a Skeksis grandbaby in the back)

 

[Perris]

But unless there's a grow out pen too many cockerels causes problems.

Well, we're up to 6 unconstrained males (only 2 technically cockerels but another 2 only recently graduated, and all under 3 years old) and we haven't had problems here, though 'too many' is nebulous; so the statement perhaps should be altered to *may* cause problems.

 

[Shadrach]

There has been a change in the roo hierarchy here, not connected with moulting I think. Tintern has been subordinate to Gwynedd since they were chicks - I got a photo of them chest-bumping at about 6 weeks old that I posted on this thread at the time if I remember aright.

Anyway, they both turned 1 in September, and as they've filled out, Tintern has grown into a real unit; he's now bigger than Gwynedd in all respects, and he may even have surpassed Killay in stature. Evidently he has noticed this himself, and decided a few days ago to stop running when G came along. I've seen them sparring briefly a few times, more testing than real fighting, and they both have some scabs on comb and wattle to show for it, but no real damage to feathers even. It's a poor photo but the best I've got: View attachment 3997006

While at the same time Gwynedd - tail still held high - was spotted walking away from the feeding station and disappearing round the corner View attachment 3997005and he's clearly now last in the queue for food (behind even the juveniles), while Tintern was enjoying first dibs with Killay and the senior hens.

There was no such reversal with Killay and Fforest, who were hatch-mates like G and T, only a year earlier. (In case anyone's wondering, Fforest, No 2 roo, also eats at first sitting, at a bowl at one end, but needs to be ready to run should Killay decide it's time to throw his weight around).

But it occurs to me, after seeing the reversal with G 'n' T, that decisions about which roo to keep and which to cull (which is a not uncommon question on BYC, as many who hatch chicks do not want more than 1 roo in the flock) might be made somewhat prematurely if it takes about 14 months for their mature characters and abilities to come out on display.

I have written a number of times on BYC that I've found it takes 18 months before I've got much of an idea on how a male will behave in the long term.
Most of the serious fighting between males hasn't occured until around this age.
I don't think it's just about size, I've had bantams give full sized roosters a very hard time. I think it's about experience and my view is, the more experiences they have from hatch to 18 months, the more one can tell about their personality.