Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[HiEverybirdy]

We've had some blueberry feedback. I spent an hour yesterday cleaning Sylph's arse. It was a really disgusting mess. It's still not clean but I'm hoping I've cleaned enough for the congealed mucky wet stuff for the rest to dry off and then it will crumble off when rolled between the thumb and forefinger.
No more blueberries for a while.
Sylph's digestion does not deal with fruit well but she loves blueberries.
Mow is clean where it matters I'm pleased to write. She seems to have a high pressure vent.

Oh my! Ours don't have that issue with blueberries. Their poops turn nearly black from blueberries but keep good consistency. Too many cucumbers, though, and bumbums go boom boom

Haha. Demanding.

 

[Shadrach]

A sanitary trim of feathers needed?

If only! The worst of it was tight up to her skin.

 

[fuzzi]

Chicks sunbathing.

I was working on the raised beds, getting them ready for fall planting, and noticed grasshoppers in my beans, BIG grasshoppers! I caught one, slipped it through the wire into the first run, and a fight ensued. So I kept going back to the bean patch to catch grasshoppers. I divvied them up between the coops. The hens were chasing the grasshoppers, and each other, but not sharing with the chicks. I sense the broody hens are close to being DONE.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

… The hens were chasing the grasshoppers, and each other, but not sharing with the chicks. I sense the broody hens are close to being DONE.

Well, to be fair though, live grasshoppers!

Surely moms need a little Me time too, don’t they??