Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

I never saw the film, but I enjoyed the book!

I enjoyed both.

 

[Shadrach]

There is something deeply wrong with me.
I woke up this morning with the thought that the chickens may not like the new coop. Perhaps they have become attatched to their rotting pile of firewood.
Maybe they're concerend about the use of plastic. Suppose they don't like the colour. They might call it Shadrachs Folly and refuse to use it.

 

[Perris]

It'd be interesting to see who's first to explore it, and how their different personalities express in and around a new coop. The old one has familiarity going for it, and very little else as far as I can see . I expect the smartest of the flock to recognize a better home quite quickly.

 

[Shadrach]

It'd be interesting to see who's first to explore it, and how their different personalities express in and around a new coop. The old one has familiarity going for it, and very little else as far as I can see . I expect the smartest of the flock to recognize a better home quite quickly.

I have the impression that chickens may take a Republican view on this and consider it as state interference. You know, each to his own and never mind the evidence.

 

[Shadrach]

Time to go I think.
The petulant whinging heap of electronics in my pocket has run out of leccy and needs feeding. I have some wood to aquire for the new coop frame and thanks to my distressingly middle class eldest I now have plants in the house that need pots.
Life eh. Everything needs feeding and me on a limited budget and all....

 

[Perris]

charity shops are good for cheap pots - always lots of choice in the ones round here - last time I popped into the Red Cross shop I picked up a genuine French chicken brick for a fiver

 

[no fly zone]

No progress from that first egg, but looks like the second one will come out soon.

 

[no fly zone]

And Sky is broody again. She was trying to sit on roughly two dozen eggs. Poor girl.

 

[ManueB]

I didn't thinks paps was a term still used... well, unless you're Irish. They have some mountains known as *the paps of Anu*.

Papi means grandpa in french .

There is a reason but I don't know what it is.
Originally I thought it had something to do with accessing feed in the batteries.
But, a couple of the Legbars have the same feature and they've never been in a battery.
It affects some hens but not others. It may have something to do with their roosting behaviour as in the sleep on the floor and not on roost bars. Hopefully I will learn more when the new coop arrives and they sleep in there.

Vanille and Blanche are also missing feathers in front of their neck. From what I could see, they are the hens with the most fragile feathers, and when their feathers start coming out or being unruly, they pluck them out themselves, and they do that a lot in front of their neck. I only saw it because they needed to make a very strange neck contorsion to do this and I wondered what they were doing.
If you find out some other explanation I'd be interested to know.

 

[ManueB]

No progress from that first egg, but looks like the second one will come out soon.

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Will you negotiate with your wife to keep the brooder inside ? Or are the temperatures warm enough in Florida now to have them outside quickly?

On my run this morning I nearly stepped on that little one bathing in the sunshine. Vipera aspis, the only venomous we have around here, usually they are too quick to see but she must have been dozing.