Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Caught them!

 

[RoyalChick]

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That is some major earthworks they have going there!

 

[Windrider]

Do you have a source for this?
I tried to look it up to find more information, and the closest I can find is a wikipedia entry with several major differences: she is credited with making the first BROILER house in Delaware (not layers, and not battery cages). But the name, date, and number of birds match.

I'd have to dig into it more, but I watch Public television sometimes and Huell Howser's travels around California, and I remembered this episode visiting Petaluma and the earliest egg industry (started in 1870s) in California. Now, this is completely non-academic hokeyness geared toward the public, and in our point of view it is pretty appalling, but the tours of the museum and the old chicken houses are interesting. They also claim the first "commercial incubator" was from Petaluma.

https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2000/01/08/historic-chickens-californias-gold-2009/

 

[Shadrach]

It's a shame I can't do videos atm.
This is how Lima will get fit and she does it more and more these days. The grass gives a fair bit of resistance and you can see her body twist as she pulls at it.
She still hasn't got the hang of digging yet. I don't know if it's lack of strength or she doesn't reslise she has to peck the ground to loosen it up then scrape with her feet.

 

[Shadrach]

That is some major earthworks they have going there!

It's great isn't it. The two lighter coloured hens in the picture are Slip and Slid. Slip was looking under the weather for some time; tail down, not that interested in socialising and she was high on the watch list.
She's looking much better now after worming and four days of tonic treatment.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'll help you out:

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Oh that middle is so handsome! And is that a rumpie Ameraucana?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That is some major earthworks they have going there!

At that rate, you can plant trees if you wanted to!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Battery group here .. Very cold here this morning.

 

[Windrider]

Caught them!

They look great! Tails up, feathers smooth, and the ground looking like a chicken run should look!

 

[RoyalChick]

It's great isn't it. The two lighter coloured hens in the picture are Slip and Slid. Slip was looking under the weather for some time; tail down, not that interested in socialising and she was high on the watch list.
She's looking much better now after worming and four days of tonic treatment.

It great. I love a good chicken excavation!
The guy who did most of the heavy lifting for me in building the Chicken Palace came by to visit the ladies (he brings them shrimp!) and asked why I was digging out the foundation.
He was clearly a bit hurt that I didn’t turn to him for help.
But it wasn’t me. It was mainly Diana and Maggie’s doing!
With dedication they can really go quite far down