Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

It's in! :wee
A friend and took the gate off and slid it in on its side.
A perfect fit on the post lugs into the underside of the coop.
It was almost dark by the time I had fitted the ramp and got the gate back on.
There are a couple of problems though.
The roost bars are plastic and made to go through the two small round holes you can see on the front and back of the coop. They are too high so I'll need to make something to replace them.
The seam around the roof to front and back hasn't been cut very well and the gaps will need filling on two sections.
It's likely to be quite warm in there when it's summer. I don't know how much a problem this is yet.
At the moment I'm just pleased its in and it fitted the base as planned.
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Congratulations 👏!
It must have been very gratifying to take that picture of Henry staring at the entrance ! Print it and pin it on your fridge !

Please excuse my ignorance : would the heat problem come from the inside at night ( generated by the chickens and not enough ventilation) or from the sun on the roof ?
 
Hit a nice 98 degrees today. I force fed a sardine to Sky, as she is still not eating on her own for whatever reason.

She shows the babies where to eat, but takes none for herself. She is skin and bones at this point. I may have to do this every evening, like I did with Mr. Bumble a few months back.
Did she eat the sardines on her own or did you have to make her? Hopefully feeding her some nice supplement daily would be enough without separating her like you did for Mr Bumble.
Did you get the test results ?
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Tax, for too much non chicken rambling.

This is my oldest hen Ini mini (Dutch) in the evening sun.
I already said it when you posted her before, I find her really stunning.
 
A perfect fit on the post lugs into the underside of the coop.
Well done! Always good when a plan comes together nicely :p
The seam around the roof to front and back hasn't been cut very well and the gaps will need filling on two sections.
Instead of filling the gaps you could cut more to improve the ventilation under the eaves, as Green Frog do on one side of their coops
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(the castellation stops users shutting off all ventilation in ignorance)
It's likely to be quite warm in there when it's summer. I don't know how much a problem this is yet.
My coops, made of a similar tough ex-agricultural plastic, don't; in fact they keep surprisingly cool, which you wouldn't expect given the sides are black.
 
I got the breeder's authorization to paste it, so here is the text I posted the link to a while ago on Instagram regarding shipping hatching eggs.
Its from https://www.theoliveegg.com/
https://www.instagram.com/the_olive_egg/

Shipping eggs comes along with a set of challenges that are inevitable. You’re shipping super fragile little orbs encasing a blastoderm, just waiting to get disrupted on a cellular level, through an unforgiving mail system that jostles them around for days on end, while sometimes exposing them to extreme temperatures. And no matter how many times you mention shipped eggs are a gamble, there will always be disappointed people when eggs don’t hatch; no one enjoys losing. As a breeder pouring blood, sweat and tears into your breeding program, it can end up feeling like you just can’t win. You can diligently conduct fertility checks, do test hatches, invest in the best feed and supplements, do all preventative pest and illness treatments necessary while keeping up with required testing for exporting eggs, and still, some folks (almost half, it seems this year) will get unlucky and have bad hatches. Eggs will get internally scrambled if the box gets punted like a football or dropped off a 10’ conveyer belt, and generally don’t develop after such treatment, despite being fertilized. No amount of good packaging can prevent such a thing. I try to be as up front about that as humanly possible, but I’m also the type of person that wants everyone to be happy with their experience, so I generally send more eggs for the cost of shipping when people have a bad hatch. I have quickly discovered that is not a viable long term business practice. With profit margins already shrinking due to rising grain prices, it’s just not practical to send free replacements anymore. And that leaves me feeling powerless to fix situations where customers end up unhappy. I don’t want to run a business where inevitably half of my customers have a bad experience, but that would be the reality if I want to break even and be able to feed my flock over the winter.
 
Did she eat the sardines on her own or did you have to make her? Hopefully feeding her some nice supplement daily would be enough without separating her like you did for Mr Bumble.
Did you get the test results ?

I already said it when you posted her before, I find her really stunning.
Force fed means it was not taken willingly.


And the vet's office has not yet called about Achilles.
 
Getting better day by day Shadrach! 💝👍

Are you sure the roosts are too high? It seems the roosts are just a little higher than the nest boxes. And not too high to jump on for ex batts.

P.S.
I think the coop does need more ventilation under the rooftop. Some of these are quite cheap.
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There isn't much room for anything large than say half inch holes around the top without weakening the structure. I shall probably cut and vent both pop door and human door and put a series of half inch holes around the top.
 
Well done! I wonder if cutting a bit more ventilation high up would help deal with the heat. Do you know the prevailing wind direction? Orienting that way might help as well.
I do and when enough of the old coop is dealt with I shall angle the coop so the rounded side is presented to the wind. The current problem is there isn't a lot of space to move things around in.
 
Congratulations 👏!
It must have been very gratifying to take that picture of Henry staring at the entrance ! Print it and pin it on your fridge !

Please excuse my ignorance : would the heat problem come from the inside at night ( generated by the chickens and not enough ventilation) or from the sun on the roof ?
Assuming the sun shines from time to time, it's the sun rather than the chickens.
 

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