Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

None of my ex batts were/are lap sitters but I do have one that once sat on my shoulder. This was last fall and she has never done it since but I was lucky enough to catch a picture of it. She was in a pretty hard molt at the time and to be honest I was surprised she had enough flight feathers left to make it to my shoulder (of course I'm rather short so it's not all that great a feat).

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that's a lovely picture. How many hens did you have?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Sin tax for calling you weird. That's Rojo again. Your "weirdness" consists of daring to actually pay attention to the object of study rather than just swallowing conventional wisdom. You're turning everything we think we know on its head. Please, keep up the good work!

 

[Shadrach]

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Sin tax for calling you weird. That's Rojo again. Your "weirdness" consists of daring to actually pay attention to the object of study rather than just swallowing conventional wisdom. You're turning everything we think we know on its head. Please, keep up the good work!

I would love to take credit for the above but it is established knowledge from people who have kept chickens long long before the backyard chicken movement and scientists who have studied chicken biology.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I would love to take credit for the above but it is established knowledge from people who have kept chickens long long before the backyard chicken movement and scientists who have studied chicken biology.

It may be known to some, but I appreciate you bringing it to us.

 

[Sortacountrychicken]

I got 5 ex batts at 16 months old. I had also taken in 5 older hatchery birds from a family member a couple months before. I lost one of the ex batts within the month to some kind of internal issue. She had gone to roost one night looking slightly off and she was dead by morning. I lost another this summer. She had actually taken over as flock leader when the groups were put together and was a feisty figure. The hatchery hens I had gotten were ranging from 4-6 years old and the matriarch of the group was an old Buff Orpington that this ex batt fought brutally to take over from. I didn't have any roosters at the time but I did have some young cockerels and pullets running around and she beat them all into submission as well. She was named Godzilla by a family member of mine as her vocalizations were remarkably similar sounding to her namesake. She was famous for politely mugging small children for their snacks and was always underfoot. My birds are completely free to roam and she simply didn't come to roost one night. I never found any trace of her. I still have the other 3 in my flock of now 37 birds, 19 of which are the hatchery chicks I was given this spring along with some chicks that have hatched out here over the years.

Godzilla, a bit beat up from enforcing her tyrannical rule.

Godzilla again

The hen in front here is the first one that died. The other is still around.

 

[LozzyR]

I'm apologies beforehand too all dedicated vets...
They are better at accounting than actual caring about animal's.

Even the charity vets let animals down and will only see an animal of it lives in a certain distance from them or postcode.

As for chicken vet???? Where? Their costs are insane. It's all about ££s that's their care first and foremost.

There should be a small SET fee for a visit and a reasonable fee for treatments and as for operations that's another matter depending on time and cost of tools time and difficulty

But the charges shouldn't differ from place to place. That's only my opinion.

There’s an appalling video (and I won’t share where) from an animal welfare charity officer’s body cam showing the charity’s vet casually breaking the neck of a poor battery hen in appalling conditions. This is why I no longer donate to large charities, only small legitimate ones.

Tax:

 

[micstrachan]

Yep, Slip and Slide the two Golden Comets.

Oh, I missed those names. Good ones!

 

[micstrachan]

I think I'm correct in writing these were this years intake. I believe one died, one was put out of it's misery. one other was the one I found under the coop.
Accurate information is hard to come by.
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Who took this photo and when?

 

[micstrachan]

This ones in quite good condition. She's also one of the hens that jump onto my lap.
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Does she have a name yet?

 

[micstrachan]

None of my ex batts were/are lap sitters but I do have one that once sat on my shoulder. This was last fall and she has never done it since but I was lucky enough to catch a picture of it. She was in a pretty hard molt at the time and to be honest I was surprised she had enough flight feathers left to make it to my shoulder (of course I'm rather short so it's not all that great a feat).

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That’s a really cool photo! Amazing that you were able to capture the one and only shoulder perch!