Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

View attachment 3174415View attachment 3174417new coop for the blind chick and Guineas. Need to add roosts and shade cloth.

Wow! Great job!

 

[GregnLety]

Jeff and I get better with every coop. Might start a coop building side biz, lol. Will work for beer and food

Wow! Great job!

 

[no fly zone]

She has some inherent weakness in foot or immunity then?

Bad luck?

Plus it'd be so much easier to wrap her feet if she didn't have all those feathers.

 

[micstrachan]

I've never seen an overgrown beak like that! Quite extraordinary.

Me, neither!

 

[TropicalBabies]

Jeff and I get better with every coop. Might start a coop building side biz, lol. Will work for beer and food

I'd put you two to work! Looks terrific!

 

[ManueB]

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Miss Broody.
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One of the friendly fence hoppers. No trouble. Just picke her up and put her back over.






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The hen in the bin looks so funny! They must be happy the rainy days are over. Was it not a pain working in the mud ?

Got the holes for the vent slot drilled. Found my rivit gun but no rivits!
Where the holes are will be a full cut out, hardware cloth covered, rivited in place. It will look neat enough when it's finished. Plastic is rivits, or nuts and bolts for construction.
Built the base frame for the run and found wood for the doorway.
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It looks very good. Maybe when you're finished you could send the picture to the company you bought it from as suggestions to make a better version of the coop, especially regarding the roost height! Still planning on making a window ?

Home at last.Up to date now. These are from this evening and it stayed dry.
No more dog hair in everything. No hour long walks in the morning either.
The hens I've been hen sitting for are a sweet pair.
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You're not a morning person, or not a long walk person? Or is it the dog ? You managed to pull off a nice bit of work during that time though. Always nice coming home.

 

[ManueB]

We had an unforeseen storm yesterday. It didn't last for more than 30 minutes but with awful gush of wind, thunder and hail all of a sudden. Luckily Chipie had already brought the chicks in the coop. We had to pull away the hens from under the laurel tree under the hail and carry them one by one to the coop as there were branches falling everywhere, they were in a total panic.
We have lots of damage in the garden and on the property.
This morning I didn't wake up which is exceptional for me so I didn't open the coop at 5.30 but at 6. It was havoc between the hens and the little family. I noticed after they got out Chipie was bleeding in her face, she got pecked very close to her eye. I can't catch her, but it doesn't seem too bad and in the past she has always healed very well from pecks.

Rant tax :
Théo is now best friends with Nougat, who had been chasing and bullying him and Chipie since their arrival. He won her over by tidbitting!

Bye people

Ex-batts hen can lay in funny places too

He monitors every move in the village below for morning gossip

 

[Perris]

the rainy days are over.

If only! Every day is potentially a rainy day in Blighty!

 

[Perris]

We had an unforeseen storm yesterday. It didn't last for more than 30 minutes but with awful gush of wind, thunder and hail all of a sudden. Luckily Chipie had already brought the chicks in the coop. We had to pull away the hens from under the laurel tree under the hail and carry them one by one to the coop as there were branches falling everywhere, they were in a total panic.
We have lots of damage in the garden and on the property.
This morning I didn't wake up which is exceptional for me so I didn't open the coop at 5.30 but at 6. It was havoc between the hens and the little family. I noticed after they got out Chipie was bleeding in her face, she got pecked very close to her eye. I can't catch her, but it doesn't seem too bad and in the past she has always healed very well from pecks.

Rant tax :
Théo is now best friends with Nougat, who had been chasing and bullying him and Chipie since their arrival. He won her over by tidbitting!
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Bye people
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Ex-batts hen can lay in funny places too
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He monitors every move in the village below for morning gossip
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another one of those posts of yours that need a wow as well as a love! sorry to hear about the storm; sounds dreadful.

 

[TropicalBabies]

another one of those posts of yours that need a wow as well as a love! sorry to hear about the storm; sounds dreadful.

☝X2!!! just absolutely stunning. ♡♡♡