Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

My parents retired to Texas near the Mexican border in 1990s. They were on a river a mile from the Gulf of Mexico. The fish came in with the tide. Even dolphins, pufferfish and little rays. Until a shrimp farm started inland across the road. At night they would dump the used water into a canal that emptied into the river, upstream from parents house.
The fish disappeared and the river stank. The salt leached into the farmland surrounding the fish ponds.
The ponds were supposed to be sealed and the used water clean before dumped. Neither happened.

I'm told there is a similar problem with the small river I used to fish at when I was a lad. Apparently somewhere along the chess a trout farm was constructed.
I caught some lovely trout there years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Chess

 

[Shadrach]

Poor Mow's lost her tail!

She's got some bald spots on her chest and belly as well.

 

[Shadrach]

Are they quarreling, as children do when stuck inside during bad weather, or are they just sort of plugging along?

There is a problem that I don't know the reason for going on. I have my suspicions but I would need to be there full time for a couple of days to see what's going on.

 

[Shadrach]

Glais looks like he's holding you personally responsible for the weather there!

It's miserable when it just rains relentlessly. Hope you're due some better weather soon. Finally had a few dry, sunny days here but tomorrow looks like it'll be the last for a while.

A dry sunny day today and the wind was light, but the ground is still sodden; more rain tomorrow. We need the water in the reservoirs and on the ground. But it is pretty miserable when you've traveled across Bristol mainly to get them out of the coop run and it just pisses down for the duration.
I still go, sometimes a mite on the tardy side, but there is usually a chance that there will be a short let up in the rain and they'll get some greens.