Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

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Ok- got a definite pip on one of the bantam eggs.

 

[Perris]

My sister has a plastic coop from another maker. She's got on well with it.

Ditto. So easy to clean and keep clean. I have 3 recycled agricultural plastic and 1 wooden. My birds are free to choose where to roost and none of them ever wants to go in the wooden one.

 

[ManueB]

I saw C this evening. C is going to ask about the coop. Apparently it's a Solway but I don't know which model. Solway now specialise in recycled plastic coops.

https://www.solwayrecycling.co.uk/shop/pig-poultry/hen-houses

I pointed out that it might be worth paying for. Don't know how well that went down.

It occurs to me that long term planning is probably off the menu given it seems likely that C will take practically any creature in. It may be lovely but in the circumstances far from prudent or wise.

Meanwhile back in the jungle...sorry, allotments, life staggers on.
The newcomers are getting bullied a bit. This should sort itself out in time. Nobody is getting injured.
I'm going to be showing C how I file down the points on spurs with a not so keen participant called Henry.

They were hungry. Multiple feed stations, even if it's just thrown on the ground, are important when there are this many hens and newcomers. Making sure the newcomers get to eat properly and not get bulied away from the food is important for long term group stability, not to mention health. There was one feed station out when I got there this evening.
They ate 1.3 Kilos of feed while I was there.
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I think I may have taken a half decent picture by accident.
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These two, both newcomers are friends. I'm not sure why or how but they are.
It seems possible with what I know about rescue centers that some hens may have known each other at the battery while others may have come from a different building or even a different battery.
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She's in the bath again! This is one of the newcomers who obviously does know how to dust bath.
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Apart from the feed station bit, it seems it's turning out really well for now. It's wonderful to see them having those social interactions. I bet the lot of ex-batts that are not dustbathing will learn from the new comers.

I looked at your Coop page they are great looking better than anything here and prices reasonable .. Very honest in sizes the idiots around here lie through their teeth about who willl fit in what.

My sister has a plastic coop from another maker. She's got on well with it.

The prices are quite reasonable indeed. I did look up at plastic coops when I thought we would have to isolate the bantams from the ex-batts, but here I could find only the ones from O....t which are rather small and quite expensive and not recycled to the best of my knowledge. I like the idea of using recycled plastic for a coop.

Ok- got a definite pip on one of the bantam eggs.

Hope you get an Easter hatch !

 

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First one out.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

The temperature is 70 and partly sunny.

Have a Happy Easter and a great day!

 

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Still waiting for a second one.

 

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[RoyalChick]

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Is there a Skeksis chick to come?

 

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Is there a Skeksis chick to come?

Sure hope so. There is a second baby about to hatch, but it's one from Laserbeak.

 

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