Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Reproductive cancer is not contagious.
Neither is getting fatally mauled by a GSD.
Or an incurable vent prolapse.
Or a hen and a cockerel that flew into the coop/run wall and broke their necks.
Or a hawk strike fatality.
Regardless, most diseases of poultry would not be communicable to mammalian predators.
Last I checked, I don't have disease in my flock.

I will ask if an animal in the wild dies and other animals feed on it are we going to say was that animal okay for them to eat?

I don't think so.

 

[Sortacountrychicken]

I bury dead animals in an area that is going to be planted with something a few years down the line. Our soil is sandy and isn't any good unless it is amended with something. Carcasses are a whole lot cheaper than MiracleGro.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I asked the recent be put in the compost ..
Went to the poultry auction today only bought a white silkie so have 5 pullets in banty.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Alice, Edwina and pepper?
It looks like they're hot! Is it summer where you live?

If you were naming them from left to right, you got Pepper right.

Yep, I'm in Australia. Not as hot as it usually gets in Summer but quite humid this season.
The girls know to seek shade. The sun here feels like it's actively trying to kill you.

 

[Iluveggers]

If you were naming them from left to right, you got Pepper right.

Yep, I'm in Australia. Not as hot as it usually gets in Summer but quite humid this season.
The girls know to seek shade. The sun here feels like it's actively trying to kill you.

Sun? I forgot what that is!

 

[MaryJanet]

If you were naming them from left to right, you got Pepper right.

Yep, I'm in Australia. Not as hot as it usually gets in Summer but quite humid this season.
The girls know to seek shade. The sun here feels like it's actively trying to kill you.

That's a really good way of describing the sun!

 

[Perris]

if we could have some of your sunshine and heat, and you could have some of our cool and damp, we'd all be smiling!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

That's a really good way of describing the sun!

I can't claim it. I saw it on a T-shirt once.

That's why I stay inside on my computer.... where it's safe.

 

[ManueB]

Although it's winter where I live we only had two days without the sun since...early December!
We're praying for snow or even rain at this point. (Truth be told, the hens and cats don't agree).

 

[DobieLover]

That's a really good way of describing the sun!

It's -6F this morning and I'd rather that than deal with a sun that is trying to kill me!
NY winter TAX: