Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[ManueB]

Doubtless it happens but I have never had a rooster or cockerel attack a chick.
They get a slap now and then through a swift peck, but that's been it.
Roosters and mums with chicks can be a strange business. Things change when the hen starts laying eggs again and often about that time she dumps the chicks.
Happy rooster now he's got his hen back?

It looks like things are going to turn out just like you predicted here, and I'm really relieved!
Chipie and Théo are living a new honey moon. She roosted with Théo the second night she walked away from the chicks. He's joining her wandering around the garden, and he leaves the chicks alone-just ignores them. In the morning he escorts the ex batts out of the coop so they don't attack the chicks.
Every now and then Chipie still joins the chicks. She pecks the little cockerel pretty hard, he's grown as big as her so I guess she's making him understand he can't play rooster with her. He mounted Vanille by surprise a few days ago .

The chicks are a bit clueless though, they're not very good at staying together. The smaller one especially doesn't follow and loose the others all the time. He's about the size the other were at three weeks, and still doesn't fly, so I'm not sure he will survive. Yesterday we had a storm and I locked them in, they were very unhappy, but not sure they would have had the sense to shelter- do you people leave the chicks to decide on their own during heavy rain and thunder ?

Love is eating side by side

we own the garden

I forgot to grow

I'm pretty by now sure he/she isn't a duck but still wondering if it's not a blackbird

 

[MaryJanet]

They cancelled all the trains from 9pm or earlier it seems just when it was getting cooler! They say the tracks warp in the heat. What they make them out of? Plastic!?
Renfe in Catalonia managed to run trains on time in 40C+ temperatures.Better plastic I suspect.
The bus didn't show up. The tarmac was probably too sticky.
I can't help thinking that somewhere in the contracts awarded to these companies there is something about providing a public service while you make a profit if you can.

My eldest drove me home in the end.
I mean come on, It's not that hot and it's only going to last a couple of days. I suppose where it's between 35C and 45C for months the plastic tracks have warped themselves back into shape.

Tracks do sometimes buckle in the heat. I recall one summer when I was a kid, long before OHSW&IM laws, the trains carried water to cool the tracks down and the train drivers had to disembark in order to apply the water to the tracks!

 

[Perris]

do you people leave the chicks to decide on their own during heavy rain and thunder ?

yep

OHSW&IM laws

I'm guessing the H and S are health and safety, but what are all the other abbreviations?

 

[MaryJanet]

yep

I'm guessing the H and S are health and safety, but what are all the other abbreviations?

Welfare and Injury Management

 

[Perris]

Welfare and Injury Management

I've got a four letter word for all that: care

Wait, it has never been so hot there that the technique is not common??

Indeed. Summer here means high 70s and low 80s, normally/historically.

 

[Shadrach]

Probably a dumb question, but as chickens don’t sweat (I think I got that right), do they benefit from the cooling effect of a breeze that we feel?

Yes.

 

[Shadrach]

It looks like things are going to turn out just like you predicted here, and I'm really relieved!
Chipie and Théo are living a new honey moon. She roosted with Théo the second night she walked away from the chicks. He's joining her wandering around the garden, and he leaves the chicks alone-just ignores them. In the morning he escorts the ex batts out of the coop so they don't attack the chicks.
Every now and then Chipie still joins the chicks. She pecks the little cockerel pretty hard, he's grown as big as her so I guess she's making him understand he can't play rooster with her. He mounted Vanille by surprise a few days ago .

The chicks are a bit clueless though, they're not very good at staying together. The smaller one especially doesn't follow and loose the others all the time. He's about the size the other were at three weeks, and still doesn't fly, so I'm not sure he will survive. Yesterday we had a storm and I locked them in, they were very unhappy, but not sure they would have had the sense to shelter- do you people leave the chicks to decide on their own during heavy rain and thunder ?

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In general the younger hens go back to the rooster quite quickly. The older hens, well not quite so impressed with him. Experience teaches that about partners.

 

[Shadrach]

Tracks do sometimes buckle in the heat. I recall one summer when I was a kid, long before OHSW&IM laws, the trains carried water to cool the tracks down and the train drivers had to disembark in order to apply the water to the tracks!

Your tracks probably use the same plastic as ours.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes.

How? We benefit because we sweat and the wind evaporates the sweat.

 

[Shadrach]

How? We benefit because we sweat and the wind evaporates the sweat.

The chickens body radiates heat. This heats the air next to their skin. Assuming the air temperature is lower than that of the chickens body, each change of air provides a slightly cooler sink. The old air reaches the same temp, more or less as the skin temp if it is trapped. A breeze gives a more regular air change.