Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Not with Mow. She laid a soft shelled egg shortly after Fret sat the last time and stopped laying. A couple of months later she started to moult and she has only recently finished.

Sounds like some-kind of infection. With a little luck she might start lying normal eggs again in a few months.

PS not my own experience. Was just diving into information on soft shell eggs a few years ago when one of my Naine de Tournaisis laid soft shell eggs. Repeated knowledge. Fwiw.

 

[Shadrach]

One and a half hours today. Nobody was interested in going on to the field. The forcasted winds had just started up (they're having a good blow now 1.30am) Hopefully the coop will stay still and upright.
No eggs today that I could find.
Talking about eggs, I had to buy half a dozen for a meal I'm making. I bought a supposed free range organic offering by one of the big supermarket chains. I boiled a couple for breakfast. Rubbery whites and tasteless yolks.

 

[Molpet]

now 1.30am

I was wondering when do you take vit d, b and fish oil? I was reading to take in the morning because it can disrupt sleep.

 

[Shadrach]

I was wondering when do you take vit d, b and fish oil? I was reading to take in the morning because it can disrupt sleep.

I take one of these in the afternoon with my lunch.
https://www.vitaminexpress.org/uk/vitagen-multivitamin-capsules
I don't take B complex because my diet copes with B demands reasonably well.
I take a cod liver oil capsule in the morning and drink water with vitamin C added throughout the day. I'm aiming for 3 grams of vitamin C per day.
Just food for the rest of it.

 

[Shadrach]

How are your coops standing up to the wind @Perris ? I guess it must be pretty blustery where you are.

 

[BDutch]

I bought a supposed free range organic offering by one of the big supermarket chains.

Dutch store eggs always have a yellow to almost orange yolk. The organic eggs as well as others.
Supplementing beta carotene in the feed (mostly corn) is enough to make the people who buy them happy. Number 1 in the ingredient list is corn in most chicken feed/many brands here.

I have only 2-3 tiny eggs a week now, thanks to Janice. Have to buy store eggs too if we want to prepare food with eggs. I always buy organic bc I don’t want eggs from chickens with very little space, fed with GMO soy and corn.

Whisky is leaving today at 4 pm CEST. To a ‘All inclusive’ full free range arrangement in the country. With 4 adult hens who lost their male mate recently. The lady thinks they mis a man. But I suppose the hens are grieving over their known flock mate/companion.

The rubber mat is there to cover a spot where we don’t want a sand bath.

 

[BDutch]

I take one of these in the afternoon with my lunch.
https://www.vitaminexpress.org/uk/vitagen-multivitamin-capsules
I don't take B complex because my diet copes with B demands reasonably well.
I take a cod liver oil capsule in the morning and drink water with vitamin C added throughout the day. I'm aiming for 3 grams of vitamin C per day.
Just food for the rest of it.

And vitamin D? After breaking my shoulder, I got the medical advice to take 2 tablets a day during winter (400% daily need) and 1 in summer.
+ 4 unities of Calcium (milk, yoghurt, cheese or supplements) because of my fragile bones.
Extra vit D is important for all people in our countries who are getting older. But living so much outside helps a lot too of course.

Is your health improving now Shad?
My pain is almost gone now. Last night was the first night I didn’t take paracetamol.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 30s clear.

Have a great day!

 

[RoyalChick]

And vitamin D? After breaking my shoulder, I got the medical advice to take 2 tablets a day during winter (400% daily need) and 1 in summer.
+ 4 unities of Calcium (milk, yoghurt, cheese or supplements) because of my fragile bones.
Extra vit D is important for all people in our countries who are getting older. But living so much outside helps a lot too of course.

Is your health improving now Shad?
My pain is almost gone now. Last night was the first night I didn’t take paracetamol.

You guys have got me worried. I have never taken any supplements. Well I often do Vitamin C & zinc when a cold starts. You all seem like healthy eaters - why the need for extra?
Genuine question - worried I should be taking stuff!

 

[Shadrach]

And vitamin D?

You will have noticed because you read the link in my post above that vitamin D along with vitamin K is in the capsule.

But living so much outside helps a lot too of course.

Erm, being outside doesn't help with vitamin D unless the sun is shining at a particular intensity and in the UK this only happens during the summer months, assuming the sun shines at some point.

Is your health improving now Shad?

It's better than it was a couple of weeks ago.