Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[ManueB]

They just know who the real rooster is! That's what my partner always tell Théo .

on that subject I can't believe what I've just seen : Vanille, my alpha hen, exactly replicated Théo's clucking sound to call the hens, and then gave over the worm she had found to Brune! She's never made that sound before and she has most certainly never, ever, given food to another hen!
Is she competing for rooster status ?

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

The temperature is 67 and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[no fly zone]

Well, no hatching of baby chicks yet. Maybe I did not get them into the incubator in time.

 

[Marie2020]

Well, I understood him & I'm an Aussie.

Then take a hike

Not really

 

[bruceha2000]

I wish there was a way to crush them maybe they would absorb better

I just use a small metal measuring cup. Put the pill on the plate, set the cup on top and press down.

There were 8 of them. 4 died recently through no fault of the person who kept them from what the condition of these 4 tell me. It all just got too much for the person they came from apparently.

Given none of us like losing a hen I wonder if the prior owner just couldn't emotionally handle losing half the birds.

Have you tried a coffee bean grinder or a spice grinder?

I think you would lose too much of the pill as dust.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fazed

Same meaning in "American"

 

[Shadrach]

I saw C this evening. C is going to ask about the coop. Apparently it's a Solway but I don't know which model. Solway now specialise in recycled plastic coops.

https://www.solwayrecycling.co.uk/shop/pig-poultry/hen-houses

I pointed out that it might be worth paying for. Don't know how well that went down.

It occurs to me that long term planning is probably off the menu given it seems likely that C will take practically any creature in. It may be lovely but in the circumstances far from prudent or wise.

Meanwhile back in the jungle...sorry, allotments, life staggers on.
The newcomers are getting bullied a bit. This should sort itself out in time. Nobody is getting injured.
I'm going to be showing C how I file down the points on spurs with a not so keen participant called Henry.

They were hungry. Multiple feed stations, even if it's just thrown on the ground, are important when there are this many hens and newcomers. Making sure the newcomers get to eat properly and not get bulied away from the food is important for long term group stability, not to mention health. There was one feed station out when I got there this evening.
They ate 1.3 Kilos of feed while I was there.

I think I may have taken a half decent picture by accident.

These two, both newcomers are friends. I'm not sure why or how but they are.
It seems possible with what I know about rescue centers that some hens may have known each other at the battery while others may have come from a different building or even a different battery.

She's in the bath again! This is one of the newcomers who obviously does know how to dust bath.

 

[no fly zone]

One of these eggs looks like it is bleeding. I have no clue what that indicates. It did get a bunch of gunk on it from that broken egg a few days ago.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I looked at your Coop page they are great looking better than anything here and prices reasonable .. Very honest in sizes the idiots around here lie through their teeth about who willl fit in what.

 

[Shadrach]

I looked at your Coop page they are great looking better than anything here and prices reasonable .. Very honest in sizes the idiots around here lie through their teeth about who willl fit in what.

My sister has a plastic coop from another maker. She's got on well with it.

 

[MaryJanet]

I looked at your Coop page they are great looking better than anything here and prices reasonable .. Very honest in sizes the idiots around here lie through their teeth about who willl fit in what.

I also appreciated the way size was described. Very sensible.