Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

i love how the hens all jump in together!

Have the chickens had a good look at the coop? Or gone in it?

They've all looked and decided discretion is the better part of valour.
I moved things forward a bit today as you will read I hope.

 

[Shadrach]

No, but I so enjoyed your stories about the Tribes that I started reading this monster thread 4 days ago. And now I am hooked! Picture is of my hatchery BO's.

Not planning on starting with a couple and working up then (?)

 

[Shadrach]

Well there probably weren't that many people left at 9 pm in the allotment.


Here's another clue. If nobody knows it means there was no one there to watch.
I would have said Henry helped, but he was probably asleep by then . I would bet on some sort of rolling without having to lift trick.
Are you not going to tell us ?


Love the picture. She looks really, really offended! And very pretty too.

The section of fence you can see in the picture is about the only section that isn't covered in weeds and bound to the ground by the undergrowth.
I just cut it away from the gate post and pulled it out of the ground far enough to stagger through with the coop.

 

[Shadrach]

Only 1 bird at this moment. My theory is he hurt himself zooming around the coop chest bumping with his brothers.

That seems to be the most likely explanation until proven otherwise.
Any kind of lameness and people shout Mareks.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I commend your ability to move the darn thing alone still
@Shadrach

 

[Shadrach]

I commend your ability to move the darn thing alone still
@Shadrach

It's called stubborness Penny

 

[BDutch]

It's called stubborness Penny

stubborness & muscles

 

[Shadrach]

Relaxing in my chair watching the chickens. About the only worthwhile thing I've done today.

Lima was first in. She stepped over the edge and then came back out.
I put a handfull of layers pellets on the floor inside. A couple of the Ex Battery hens sort of hovered by the opening, took a step in to reach the pellets and came out again. Henry arrived and I went and got on with cleaning out the small coop.
Henry did go in but didn't stay.

Matilda was the first one to go in and explore properly. She was in there for a while and made quite a lot of calls which I didn't understand. Henry answered but didn't go to meet her. One, then two and three Ex Battery hens went in while Matilda was exploring.

Then something really strange happened. I can grab Matilda and take her off the roost bar with no drama but she has never attempted to make any contact of her own initiation. This evening when she came out of the new coop she came straight over to me, pecked my boot and then pecked my overall trouser leg a number of times making soft clucking sounds.
I think Matilda knows its another coop.

 

[Iluveggers]

Relaxing in my chair watching the chickens. About the only worthwhile thing I've done today.
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Lima was first in. She stepped over the edge and then came back out.
I put a handfull of layers pellets on the floor inside. A couple of the Ex Battery hens sort of hovered by the opening, took a step in to reach the pellets and came out again. Henry arrived and I went and got on with cleaning out the small coop.
Henry did go in but didn't stay.
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Matilda was the first one to go in and explore properly. She was in there for a while and made quite a lot of calls which I didn't understand. Henry answered but didn't go to meet her. One, then two and three Ex Battery hens went in while Matilda was exploring.
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Then something really strange happened. I can grab Matilda and take her off the roost bar with no drama but she has never attempted to make any contact of her own initiation. This evening when she came out of the new coop she came straight over to me, pecked my boot and then pecked my overall trouser leg a number of times making soft clucking sounds.
I think Matilda knows its another coop.
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I got all teary-eyed reading about Matilda.

 

[Shadrach]

I got all teary-eyed reading about Matilda.

She's the most senior hen here in years and status. She's one of Henry's daughters. She's very steady and in many ways reminds me of a senior hen called Fat Bird who goverend Tribe 1 for the entire time I lived in Catalonia.