Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

that does sound like extreme weather! Glad you did not suffer the worst of it.

 

[ManueB]

that does sound like extreme weather! Glad you did not suffer the worst of it.

Ditto. All the more as I seem to remember there has been quite a few of these violent weather events where you live in the last years.

 

[ManueB]

I was very naughty this evening and gave Henry a cuddle.
I was trying to hand feed him. The hens won't give him a chance if it's something nice. It was haddock, oats, chopped bread (Good Polish bakery down the road here that makes proper bread) and chopped fresh tomatoes this evening. Every time I put my hand down with some food in he would reach down to take a bit and get promptly barged out of the way by one of the hens.
Eventually I picked him up and fed him with my free hand. He wasn't at all bothered by it.
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Wonderful ! Cuddles to Henry and playing sweethearts with Dustin. I'll refrain from further comments .

 

[MaryJanet]

Thanks Perris and ManueB. Yes, Australia has had way too much fire and flood in recent years. I live in Adelaide and we've been very lucky compared to people on the east coast.

 

[ManueB]

If all goes well the eggs Chipie is sitting on should hatch on Sunday. I'm sorry my partner is working so he won't be there to see that.
I'm putting up the dog cage we will use as a brooder tomorrow and I'm still hesitating between setting them inside the coop , or just outside in a small closed pen on the right of the coop, under metal sheet shelter. It's predator and cat safe.

Inside they'll have constant temperature, but not much light and I've recently seen what I'm worried may be lice in the cup of food I left for Chipie. Outside they will have more temperature variation and maybe a thunderstorm Monday. Any opinion ? The door is the entrance to the coop and the pen is on the right.

 

[ManueB]

Photo spam : the Cherry war

 

[Perris]

Thanks Perris and ManueB. Yes, Australia has had way too much fire and flood in recent years. I live in Adelaide and we've been very lucky compared to people on the east coast.

There was an issue with drought before if I remember aright, especially along the Murray and Darling catchments; have the rains at least restored the aquifers and water tables, or did they fall in the wrong places?

 

[Perris]

If all goes well the eggs Chipie is sitting on should hatch on Sunday. I'm sorry my partner is working so he won't be there to see that.
I'm putting up the dog cage we will use as a brooder tomorrow and I'm still hesitating between setting them inside the coop , or just outside in a small closed pen on the right of the coop, under metal sheet shelter. It's predator and cat safe.

Inside they'll have constant temperature, but not much light and I've recently seen what I'm worried may be lice in the cup of food I left for Chipie. Outside they will have more temperature variation and maybe a thunderstorm Monday. Any opinion ? The door is the entrance to the coop and the pen is on the right.
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I think you can only try it and see. As she's not laying, you could give Chipie a few drops of ivermectin to the back of the neck to kill any lice.

 

[ManueB]

I think you can only try it and see. As she's not laying, you could give Chipie a few drops of ivermectin to the back of the neck to kill any lice.

Ivermectin was already impossible to get without a prescription before COVID. There was such a huge political controversy around it in France that now you would probably get in trouble for trying to get some .

 

[Perris]

Ivermectin was already impossible to get without a prescription before COVID. There was such a huge political controversy around it in France that now you would probably get in trouble for trying to get some .

so what is available to treat lice?