Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ribh]

I wish you the best of luck. These are just wildly incredible and I can see their amazing good looks would make you overlook and come to love "their antics" and yes, make you brave enough to breed them
I look forward to following along

Thank you. Not only are they gorgeous to look @, they have loads of personality. They are independent & intelligent & do well in my mixed flock. They aren't aggressive to other breeds & most of the hens get along with them but they aren't really suitable for a backyard & I can see why they would drive people crazy. Luckily, where I am @ present my neighbours are besotted with their good looks & personality so tolerate their not so adorable habit of hopping the fences & pooping all over someone else's lawn!

 

[ManueB]

Lima.
Lima has gone from that poor wretched creature you may remember from some of my earliest posts to being a very successful hen. Yep, she looks a bit of a mess; she always has. She has filled out and is very active. She is probably the fittest hen here if running around is any measure. She is very alert and aware of who to avoid which she does with a nimble ease.
With me she's been a completely calm hen to handle since before she fell asleep on my lap.
I wrote many pages back about the day she backed down a goose having found herself with little option. A goose mind you, three times her bodyweight and a longer reach.
Most of the hens seem to like her. She has some bond with one of the legbars which I don't understand that lets her mingle in with them and she does.
Henry likes her as you can see from the back of her head.
It's Lima you've seen roosting with Henry, Mtilda and the Legbars in earlier pictures. I've put her in the new coop and she comes straight back out. There's no fuss or drama about it. I pick her up, open the back of the coop and put her ona perch. By the time I've secured the door and got to the front of the coop, Lima had come out of the pop door and was heading for Henry and the others. I could see us doing this routine all night. Sometimes it's better to go with the flow...
Most nights she roosts next to Henry on one side or the other.
She eats well. She a very active forager and eats things that some of the others wont.
She can dig and knows how and when to do it. She's very quick. It's dig, check, dig, check, and on to the next site.

If I was a breeder it's this hens genes I would want go forward.
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If ever you still have doubt if it was worth it to get involved with the allotment crew, Lima's story is your answer.
It's definitely one that counterbalances all the sadness about rescues.

In the second picture of this evenings post you can see a Legbar at the left of the picture. She has an infected follicle. Not quite sure how I'm going to tackle that.

There are 4 hens with SLM one quite bad. I'm treating them with Vaseline mixed with Brulidine at the moment.
One hen who I've mentioned before looking sick is looking sick again.

The front of the new run I discovered is not going to work with mesh. This has a lot to do with the heavy gauge fencing that defines the shape not being anything like as stiff as the cattle panels used in the builds I've read.
I'm going to build a solid front using plywood. It will need to be replaceable easily because the plywood I have is not marine ply and will rot.

Is SLM contagious ?
It's too bad for the fencing. I hope the plywood front will do. There are pretty good protective treatments to keep it longer but I'm not sure how toxic they are.

Do you know the story of Shadrach and his two brothers?

I stand corrected. I do know the story but did not remember the names.

They had different Hebrew names but the Chaldean names have stayed.

I have no idea, RC. I haven't really looked into it yet. In a rural area a closed flock would be optimal & I would assume there are commercial breeders. I am looking round the Burnett area which farms a wide variety of different things. My mother grew up in this area so knows it well & was quite excited when I mentioned the township I am interested in. It's no closer to her time wise but is much closer geographically. I've always wanted a tiny bit of land. An acre would do me nicely...

It's a great project. I hope you can find a way to make it work!

 

[ManueB]

I swear this dude is growing bigger throughout the day.
All he thinks about is food. He cries for food when he sees me, eats like a pig and pecks desperately the closed small buckets where I keep the sunflower seeds.
He cries and whimpers for fear when he sees Chipie even though he is now three times her size.

He really makes me think of a thirteen year old male human .

 

[bruceha2000]

I wish. My wife wants to move to NJ.

Odd, most of the time it goes the other direction

what a great idea! We should try that with company wages.

Especially the CEO and other top execs.

A big green one for green waste which I assume goes to a big compost producer. A small blue one for landfill. A big yellow one for all the recyclables. The blue one is emptied every week, the yellow and green alternate.

We have similar but the green one is the size of a large waste basket and the blue (your yellow) and black (your blue) are the same size. It would be far better if the landfill was every other week since we have WAY more recyclables than trash. Can't get rid of the cardboard (and WAY too much of it with all the things that seem available only on the web these days) because there is never any room.

I rarely use the compost bin since I give everything that is reasonable for chickens to the girls and the rest that will compost in the back yard goes into my 3 large compost areas. I don't know how people who don't have these things manage their compostables. Anything that goes in the provided bin goes moldy right off and people have to deal with this for 2 weeks at a time?!? I bet most of it is going in the trash even though that is illegal now.

tax (from 2018) 12 week old Golden Campine and Barred Rock. The Rock is still here, the 2 Campines would not stay in the fenced area and presumably eventually became fox food.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

I like to sit under my live oak and watch my dogs and chickens. They all have their own personalities. They're just like kids.

I totally agree with you.

If I give something to I have to get something for the rest of them.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Lima.
Lima has gone from that poor wretched creature you may remember from some of my earliest posts to being a very successful hen. Yep, she looks a bit of a mess; she always has. She has filled out and is very active. She is probably the fittest hen here if running around is any measure. She is very alert and aware of who to avoid which she does with a nimble ease.
With me she's been a completely calm hen to handle since before she fell asleep on my lap.
I wrote many pages back about the day she backed down a goose having found herself with little option. A goose mind you, three times her bodyweight and a longer reach.
Most of the hens seem to like her. She has some bond with one of the legbars which I don't understand that lets her mingle in with them and she does.
Henry likes her as you can see from the back of her head.
It's Lima you've seen roosting with Henry, Mtilda and the Legbars in earlier pictures. I've put her in the new coop and she comes straight back out. There's no fuss or drama about it. I pick her up, open the back of the coop and put her ona perch. By the time I've secured the door and got to the front of the coop, Lima had come out of the pop door and was heading for Henry and the others. I could see us doing this routine all night. Sometimes it's better to go with the flow...
Most nights she roosts next to Henry on one side or the other.
She eats well. She a very active forager and eats things that some of the others wont.
She can dig and knows how and when to do it. She's very quick. It's dig, check, dig, check, and on to the next site.

If I was a breeder it's this hens genes I would want go forward.
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What breed is she?

She always looks like she could tear you apart.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

That's my rooster.

And he is beautiful!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

87 mostly sunny 74% humidity feels like 99 thunderstorms predicted for today.

Have a great day!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon X Batts. Very hot here to hot for human or beast.

 

[Marie2020]

Hello everyone . It's been another hot and busy day