Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

What is Donk?

Well, her grandmother and grandfather were chickens (Bantam mix and Marans) Her mother and father were chickens (mix and mix) so, I guess she's a chicken.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm not sure. We are right next to a reservation so I checked their documentation on birds of prey and it could either be a sparrowhawk or a goshawk. It was pretty clever, because it flew over the day before but didn't attack since I was there. It must have seen we were too far away to intervene.

To their credits the girls did really well : two, including the one that he caught hid in the laurel tree and the 5 others actually hid really well under a stack of hay in the corner of the coop. All I could see was a pair of eyes .
Théo, however, just flew away! and flewed back 15 MN after it was over : from his poop we gathered he went 50 meters above our house .


It's crazy the difference. In the states you can get quite a few antibiotics for animals over the counter. Here you always need a prescription, and now EU is even thinking of completely banning antibiotics use for vets!
I can see both points of view but right now I would really prefer being able to get some terramycin or Neosporin .

I would go for a Goshawk. Sparrowhawks prefer smaller creatures ime.
Yup, the rooster fights off massive hawk stories are much exagerated at best and a few I've seen have obviously been set up. A hen with chicks is another matter altogether. I've had a few fight off a Goshawk.
How's the hen with the eye injury doing?

 

[Shadrach]

The bantams are one year old today.

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Happy birthday Bantams!

 

[Sortacountrychicken]

My payment.

 

[Shadrach]

That certainly is commitment. In Wales we have free bus passes for pensioners; is it the same in England? Perhaps more importantly, how long does this take you by public transport? (Freebies are worthless if the service is unsuitable, for whatever reason.)

I've got a bus pass. It's my favourite bit of plastic.
Fastest is by train 25 minutes door to door. I have a railcard but it still costs £1.30.
Cheapest is bus. I need to catch two so the time it takes depends on timing and more recently, if there are drivers for the buses.
The bus sevice is frequent on the first part of the journey; not so much on the second part but it's quick once you're on the bus.
I'm retired I think is the right expression these days but it doesn't feel much like it. I don't mind the travel. I often stop in at one of my daughters who live in the area of the allotments either going to, or coming from the chickens. Also, the chickens get me out of the flat and provide some structure to the day. My mental welbeing likes a bit of structure. Even on weather miserable days like today when I stand about in the rain waitng for the hens that will go out and forage in just about any weather, I still enjoy doing it.

 

[Shadrach]

I guess you'll just have to learn to AI a hen


cod liver oil or castor oil?


Castor oil is both of those as well as as anti "several other things". And unlike Vaseline, it isn't gooey but will smother mites. I used it to remove a wart from my thumb that Compound W took down until I stopped using it, popped right back up. No sign of the wart after a few weeks of daily castor oil treatment. No gluing to the skin like C-W, no "crust" removal, no skin ripping. That was a couple of years ago.


One does what they have to do! Did you go down with the chainsaw later and cut the tree out of the driveway?

My uncle used to use caster oil. I may give it a try.

 

[Shadrach]

My payment.
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Can't be doing with all that white stuff!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I know my Mother always had it around for the birds

 

[Shadrach]

It was just begining to dry out and then today ruined it.
They all came out for some chopped tomatoes, walnuts and cabbage. A few stayed out but most went back and got under cover.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Tell ya what my coops do not get that muddy ever ..
I am so sorry I have pavers 12 x 12 pavers to walk on if there is any mud.