Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[micstrachan]

Is the fan theater electric?

Heater runs on propane and the fan is rechargeable (battery).

 

[Solanacae]

Morning I have a dot on Smudges cone. Realized yesterday he has frostbite.. You can barely see it in this shot but tax paid. We do normaly have weather that cold but did this year. No one else has any marks.View attachment 2962607

That strikes me as an odd place on the comb to have frostbite. I had one chicken that lost the tips of her comb to frostbite last year, which makes sense because they’re the extremities. Granted, that has been my only experience, so I may just be clueless.

 

[pennyJo1960]

That strikes me as an odd place on the comb to have frostbite. I had one chicken that lost the tips of her comb to frostbite last year, which makes sense because they’re the extremities. Granted, that has been my only experience, so I may just be clueless.

I agree, We did have coldest temps this year much more so than in the last 4 he has been alive.
And that no other birds have any such marks on them.
He has the largest comb but for one hen. Hers are almost as large.

 

[MaryJanet]

Heater runs on propane and the fan is rechargeable (battery).

Really good idea to use the fan like that.

 

[Shadrach]

Terrible pictures. Dusk got through a gap in the allotment run this evening and it took me awhile to find her. Got her but she had me worried.
The not very well ones currently.

Henry keeping an eye on the hens.

 

[Shadrach]

if at first you don't succeed... mine love natural yogurt. And whey, curds, cheese, anything dairy really. The trouble with yogurt, as opposed to the others in that list, is their tendency to fling it off their beaks and onto someone else's back/neck/head/tail, so that for a short while afterwards everyone looks like they've been splattered with paint

Cheese is fine. No problem there. Fish and meat no problem either. I think it's mostly that yogurt is strange and awkward to eat.

 

[RoyalChick]

Cheese is fine. No problem there. Fish and meat no problem either. I think it's mostly that yogurt is strange and awkward to eat.

Here is how they tackle the frozen kefir. In slo-mo you can really see how Maggie can gulp down big chunks of it.

 

[Shadrach]

Here is how they tackle the frozen kefir. In slo-mo you can really see how Maggie can gulp down big chunks of it.

I wonder if soaking oats in kefir might work. Given it's winter here frozen might not be the best way to do it.

 

[RoyalChick]

I wonder if soaking oats in kefir might work. Given it's winter here frozen might not be the best way to do it.

Probably that would work fine. Mine sometimes eat the frozen when it is cold - I haven't given it to them the last few really frigid days but otherwise they like it and of course it lasts longer because it doesn't melt as fast.

 

[Ribh]

If I give yoghurt I mix it in with their regular feed. Far less sloppy that way & the girls love it.