Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Henry is a love

To be fair to almost every other rooster (cockerels can be, erm, different until they learn) has been at least as attentive and gentlemanly as Henry. Many much more so. Henry still has a lot to learn, lovely though he is.

 

[no fly zone]

Mr. Bumble & Skeksis

 

[Shadrach]

It's so incredibly sad for these chickens that C cannot try too feed and change their water . God knows how they survived before you got there.

C does try to feed them and change their water. C tries to do a lot of things. Unfortunately trying and doing the job properly are different things.
C feeds them most mornings. C just doesn't feed them enough. There are I have come to learn a mixed bag of reasons for this.
C cleans them out twice a week and C does a reasonable job of it. It's the mess and method that requires some attention. In many respects it's that word "attention" that is the clue to part of the problem. There are some people who find it very difficult to concentrate on the task at hand. Sometimes because the task seems mundane and they consider it a chore to be rushed so they can do more exciting things.
Some people are thinking about what they will be doing next instead of what they are doing now.
I've watched people trying to dig a hole of particular dimensions with some amusement. The frustration is evident when you inspect it and tell them it doesn't reach the specification. Often the reply is FFS it's just a hole! My response was yep it's just a hole but it's a hole your're getting paid to dig to particular specifications and believe it or not there is a skill to be learnt here.

 

[Shadrach]

At least she asked for help, gotta give whoever put up the notice credit for recognizing a problem

C put the notice up. Complex reasons yet again.

 

[Shadrach]

Help? Help is an occasional thing, this person has left all of the responsibilities on Sharach. Maybe she should ask for shift helpers, so they never go hungry and don't have to keep drinking filthy water. As it stands right now during the summer they won't even have water at all if shadach isn't there

Not quite true Marie. Halfwit Shadrach volunteered. It would be cool if when people do such things others didn't take the piss but it's not a perfect world.
Some people would just walk taking the attitude that they won't have the piss taken out of them; sort of pride and anger driven in a way, away but what happens to the chickens then?

 

[Shadrach]

They might have to invest in a large waterer, one that will last for several days, so that if a day gets missed it's not an all out disaster.

The water container will hold enough for a couple of days. But, because the run is such a state and the nature of the container, the water gets filthy very fast.

 

[RoyalChick]

I consider anything the chickens find for themselves as forage. I don't and never have fed them grass. Treats are anything I give them apart from their commenrcial feed.

Got it. So source-based rather than nutritional content-based. Helpful way of thinking about it.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm no ridiculing her simply making a suggestion. She needs more than one person, because she's is not coping and those chickens are being severely neglected

Finding someone who will "work" with C is a very difficult proposition. There have been others before me. I know two of them quite well. Neither are quite as stubborn perhaps as Bucket Boy and niether has Bucket Boys love for chickens let alone his knowledge.

 

[Shadrach]

It's Lima!

 

[Ribh]

The water container will hold enough for a couple of days. But, because the run is such a state and the nature of the container, the water gets filthy very fast.

Got it. One other thought, though I know when conditions get really bad it doesn't work as any sort of feasible solution, Is it possible to chuck a few bales of hay or straw over the worst areas in the run? It will soak up some of the moisture & temporarily give the chooks a less muddy environment.