Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[pennyJo1960]

So how many more in the old coop ? cannot be many.
This photo shows the little coop as we call it. Also the one used for a broody once may lay a concrete floor for it before we are done. decided we will lay a floor there.

 

[janiedoe]

So how many more in the old coop ? cannot be many.
This photo shows the little coop as we call it. Also the one used for a broody once may lay a concrete floor for it before we are done. decided we will lay a floor there.View attachment 3230051

Amazing comb on that guy!

 

[Iluveggers]

Had a busy day working on a new run for the farm chickens. It was hot but we finished the enclosure. We are setting it up so they can roam completely around the garden plot which is about 150x150…so lots of space.

I was very surprised by the sounds chicks make. It's as if they have a whole different language and then they change when they grow up.

I love hearing their voices and how different they are! My favorite is the little bedtime trill…sometimes I go in with them at night and just listen. (We designed the coop at my house so it was big enough to sit in if I wanted to lol.)

The forecast says it will rain finally on Monday every week it has said ‘next week it will rain’ and we are now well over a month!

That is unbelievable. Last year I think we had something like 42 days with some length of rain, and we had major flooding and crops rotting out….any extreme is terrible. I hope you get some soon!

 

[Shadrach]

So how many more in the old coop ? cannot be many.
This photo shows the little coop as we call it. Also the one used for a broody once may lay a concrete floor for it before we are done. decided we will lay a floor there.View attachment 3230051

None in the old coop as such. Just the five who roost outside the old coop. The rest are in the new coop now.

 

[Shadrach]

Had a busy day working on a new run for the farm chickens. It was hot but we finished the enclosure. We are setting it up so they can roam completely around the garden plot which is about 150x150…so lots of space.


I love hearing their voices and how different they are! My favorite is the little bedtime trill…sometimes I go in with them at night and just listen. (We designed the coop at my house so it was big enough to sit in if I wanted to lol.)

That is unbelievable. Last year I think we had something like 42 days with some length of rain, and we had major flooding and crops rotting out….any extreme is terrible. I hope you get some soon!

You're getting things done a lot faster then I am!

 

[ManueB]

Eventually one of them face planted trying to get up and cried pitifully until the other came down and they both found a new place. Yours will figure something out.

I'm sure they will , and very likely it will be completely different from where I would like them to roost .

Tacoma Power does a wonderful job of taking care and maintaining the parks they created at reasonable cost to stay at each one. Being retired helps this was the only photos I took there.View attachment 3229992

Nice break! And well deserved, you work a lot for those chicken even if they are not pets!

Major took about three weeks.
Rip a few hours.
Harold was instant.
Snaff who was first a couple of weeks.

Matilda is doing better. Full crop last night and tonight.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I was hoping it was similar to humans that can have a stroke and still live for a long time. With no offense I still very much hope you'll be proven wrong this time !
Glad Mathilda is doing better-she's been on and off for a long time it seems.

My elder sisters last Swedish Flower hen Freya died this week of EYP at eight and a half years old. Not a bad run and she had a great life. My sister will miss her I know.

Sorry for Freya, but more for your sister, 8 years is a long time to grow attachment and she must miss her a lot.

15 in the new coop again tonight and one more than yesterday on a roost bar.View attachment 3230017
The decliners.View attachment 3230016

And I can't help notice we have different colours in there!

 

[ManueB]

I found a fun tax. Other times, other world...this is my grandma feeding grain to the chickens in Algeria, 1923.

My great-grand father had a try at settling in Algeria when it was a french colony as a farmer in 1919, but he was a quick failure and they went back to France ten years after...a very good thing in regard to people's right to self determination and to longer term history !

Back to today : happy to report that the pet carrier I bought following your advice @Shadrach has been adopted to lay in by two of the hens!

 

[Perris]

@Shadrach is this the same sort of darkening of comb tips that Henry's showing?

Phoenix seems to have developed it overnight or first thing this morning.

 

[janiedoe]

I found a fun tax. Other times, other world...this is my grandma feeding grain to the chickens in Algeria, 1923.
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My great-grand father had a try at settling in Algeria when it was a french colony as a farmer in 1919, but he was a quick failure and they went back to France ten years after...a very good thing in regard to people's right to self determination and to longer term history !

Back to today : happy to report that the pet carrier I bought following your advice @Shadrach has been adopted to lay in by two of the hens!
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I love the picture of your grandmother. It is wonderful that you have that.

@Shadrach is this the same sort of darkening of comb tips that Henry's showing? View attachment 3230376
Phoenix seems to have developed it overnight or first thing this morning.

Several of my hens and roosters have had this off and on. It's been so hot here this summer. It seems to get better night and early morning, and worsen in the afternoon. Our rains have started now, so we will have mosquitos and pox to deal with.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm really sorry to hear this. I was hoping it was similar to humans that can have a stroke and still live for a long time. With no offense I still very much hope you'll be proven wrong this time !
Glad Mathilda is doing better-she's been on and off for a long time it seems.

I think they can still live a long time. The roosters I mentioned may have just been unlucky. Major used to get grey comb tips long before the problem became sever. Harold just had a massive heart attack and dropped dead of his perch. Strange though, because he died with his hackles raised. It looked very strange when I found him in the morning.

And I can't help notice we have different colours in there!

They have since I've known them roosted together. They haven't had much choice. Once outside is a different matter.