Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

I've got another broody A second Penedesenca pullet. She has to be broken as we already have two broods circulating and she's near the bottom of the pecking order; next year Polka, next year...

 

[GregnLety]

@ManueB Gorda likes to hang out in the coop even during the day but hopefully the bigger door opening makes it easier for her to come and go.

 

[Shadrach]

What did you do with her beak ?

I file them a very little at a time. By little I mean one full file stroke each side every couple of days.

 

[Shadrach]

tax for phone trash: Chirk imprinting on his new flock members (apologies for the dark, it was not long after dawn and overcast) View attachment 3176721

Great shot. So many chicken keepers never see this and sometimes if they do, they think the rooster is going to hurt the chicks.

 

[Shadrach]

100 per week???

Easy. 19 hens.
Todays. 2 left in a nest box.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I honestly get about the same I fill egg cartons if I get too many I take the extra to our food bank .. Cut cartons in half so they can hand out more to folks.

 

[Shadrach]

Sold my first bag of chicken shite compost today. I've been hacking it out of the coop run. It's ten inches thick in places! I happened to mention I was hacking it out to one of the allotment holders and they bit my hand off. Filled a 20Kg feed bag and off they went home with it. They want another for their plot this weekend. Apparently good compost is hard to get.

Sunny today.

 

[Shadrach]

Most of the muck on the back of Matilda's legs is gone now. I can just see signs of scale regrowth. I Vaselined her legs after I took this picture with a bit of Iodine mixed in. She's been looking a lot more comfortable. Yep, she's got spurs.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good evening one and all!

82 and sunny with humidity 65 % and it feels like 92.

I give a lot of my eggs to charities.

I give to the Bread of Life, Rodeheaver's Boys Ranch, The Lee Conley House, plus many more.

Last month I sent 22 dozen to the ranch.

I sell my eggs for $3.00 a dozen.

I will probably have to raise my price this year.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

I honestly get about the same I fill egg cartons if I get too many I take the extra to our food bank .. Cut cartons in half so they can hand out more to folks.

Unfortunatley one of my customers dropped dead this week. He used to take a dozen a week. I've spoken to all the new plot holders suggesting they buy their eggs from me in future. Given I'm there every evening they've sounded interested. C has tried this in the past, but it meant catching C at the allotments or at home and C isn't at either place except before going to work so the uptake was poor.