Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[micstrachan]

Lima now a pro digger and forager.
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Henry, "I just can't cope with them all."
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Lima. On the go as usual.View attachment 3000877
Cloud.
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Matilda. There is something under there and later Cloud came along and dug it out.
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The Legbars.
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Wonderful photos! I just love that little Lima and am quite pleased she gas done so well. Is there anyone on the watch list these days?

 

[Solanacae]

It has been blowing snow and altogether unpleasant with windchill that drops the temperature into negative F range. These pictures were the day before this cold front moved in. The ladies were enamored with the puddle on water at the end of the patio. They have constant access to clean water but love drinking from puddles every chance they get. In the summer I will have a couple of open water dishes because I have a little more free time to clean and refill every day. They prefer the open dishes to the nipple waterer that I use year round. Perhaps it’s easier to drink from the open dishes that’s the reason. They also like eating snow.

 

[RoyalChick]

It has been blowing snow and altogether unpleasant with windchill that drops the temperature into negative F range. These pictures were the day before this cold front moved in. The ladies were enamored with the puddle on water at the end of the patio. They have constant access to clean water but love drinking from puddles every chance they get. In the summer I will have a couple of open water dishes because I have a little more free time to clean and refill every day. They prefer the open dishes to the nipple waterer that I use year round. Perhaps it’s easier to drink from the open dishes that’s the reason. They also like eating snow.

I have totally given up on the daily cleaning of water dishes thing. They just do not appreciate it! I use rain water from a barrel that collects it off the roof and every couple of months or so I do a real clean of the waterers.

 

[Marie2020]

My mother looked after a lot of cats and she used to feed them fish offcuts from the market and made it 'go further' by mashing it up with old bread and water.
It sounds horrific now (I have a pampered cat on an anti-allergy prescription diet!), but those cats were tough as old boots and lived to be 16-20 years old. I guess they supplemented their diet with what they caught themselves. One was run over and looked like he would never survive but he made it with nothing worse than a split in his palatte in the roof of his mouth.

At least they had fish and could find other ways too survive
It really make me despair animal's suffering because some people think they know better. Is just sickening

If they were never told or mentally weak that's understandable but I'm sorry I can never agree when they choose too ignore their animals needs. It's not them being deprived, they just being cruel.

Give them dried bread for a few weeks see how much they know then.

I was talking too a lady yesterday, she's almost a hundred years of age. We must have chatted for well over an hour.
That lovely lady has been living almost a century yet she was really interested in the alternative things I do, she's really open minded So much so, she went off too by a salt I use as she left me. I didn't force my ideas on her she kept asking. What an uplifting experience meeting her.

We learned from each other yesterday.

 

[Sally PB]

I was talking too a lady yesterday, she's almost a hundred years of age. We must have chatted for well over an hour.
That lovely lady has been living almost a century yet she was really interested in the alternative things I do, she's really open minded So much so, she went off too by a salt I use as she left me. I didn't force my ideas on her she kept asking. What an uplifting experience meeting her.

We learned from each other yesterday.

What a wonderful experience. I hope you meet up with her again.

 

[Marie2020]

Tax

 

[Sally PB]

Tax: Stormy curious about what's outside the nestbox.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning X Batts it is cold. We now are at
32 it is cold 1 inch of snow fell last night Heat plate
taken to banty coop.

 

[Marie2020]

What a wonderful experience. I hope you meet up with her again.

I really hope so too. She's an amazingly strong minded lady an absolute pleasure to talk to. She lost her daughter and grandson during lockdown.

Her daughter was an ambulance driver had cancer had an operation then was cleared, she died in hospital just weeks later without this wonderful woman being not able too be with her, because of restrictions, my eyes filled up when she told me.

 

[Marie2020]

Tax

Morning X Batts it is cold. We now are at
32 it is cold 1 inch of snow fell last night Heat plate
taken to banty coop.View attachment 3003838

Keep warm penny . This cold has knocked me about so it must be worse for you