Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

81 sunny 65% humidity feels like 79 rain 6%.

Have a great day!

 

[BDutch]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

81 sunny 65% humidity feels like 79 rain 6%.

Have a great day!

Ex Batts Good evening one and all.

95% dark, bright sky almost full moon.

Have a nice evening!

 

[ManueB]

Ex Batts Good evening one and all.

95% dark, bright sky almost full moon.

Have a nice evening!

Full moon was yesterday : we had some rain. Here the elders say the weather on the day the moon changes will be the dominant weather for the next moon cycle. I don't know if this is a local saying or something that was a common belief in older times, but I would welcome a month of rain.
Rain tax.

 

[BDutch]

Full moon was yesterday : we had some rain. Here the elders say the weather on the day the moon changes will be the dominant weather for the next moon cycle. I don't know if this is a local saying or something that was a common belief in older times, but I would welcome a month of rain.
Rain tax.
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Last month we had enough rain to attack the drought we had last summer.
Now we don’t need much rain anymore.

This afternoon we had a tiny bit of rain.
I don’t mind having that much rain in average for the upcoming 4 weeks.

The weather forecast looks good:

Tax: ini mini a few years ago.

 

[Iluveggers]

Haven’t really paid rooster tax since I only have hens, however I hatched some chicks and my aunt took the boys. Here is my favorite. 17 week old Buff Orpington, he has yet to crow. He’s been a very good boy so far, nice to the girls and no conflict with the other cockerels, and fingers crossed he stays easy for her to be around. We have (at her farm) 4 cockerels and over 40 pullets/hens, all the boys will stay unless there are behavior problems. Two coops (large converted sheds) and room to range once they are of mature age, right now the young group is confined to their run but our older ladies are out in the fields as long as someone is there.

 

[MaryJanet]

Haven’t really paid rooster tax since I only have hens, however I hatched some chicks and my aunt took the boys. Here is my favorite. 17 week old Buff Orpington, he has yet to crow. He’s been a very good boy so far, nice to the girls and no conflict with the other cockerels, and fingers crossed he stays easy for her to be around. We have 4 cockerels and over 40 pullets/hens, all the boys will stay unless there are behavior problems. Two coops (large converted sheds) and room to range once they are of mature age, right now the young group is confined to their run but our older ladies are out in the fields as long as someone is there.
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Such lovely hens.

 

[Perris]

I think Paprika's eye is wandering; this was snapped through glass (sorry for awful quality) when they re-emerged from the border into which they'd both disappeared a few minutes earlier... this fine fellow's been hanging around, eying up the hens, for about a month now Apparently they can interbreed successfully.

 

[Shadrach]

I wonder, if it’s natural for chickens to roost in a tree, then why do chickens have a problem with the wind?
In a tree the chickens endure all kind of weather. And I always believed (from reading) they don’t live long out there because of nightly predators. Never heard that they die from the wind. But I can imagine that ex-bats who lived in a warm cage for 2 years don’t handle natural weather very well afterwards. Or the specialism of the laying hybrid’s ‘breed’ is not fit for natural circumstances anymore. I wonder what’s you’re view on this?

I’m surprised that such legs can look normal again with vaseline and iodine. Fortunately my chickens never had these mites/parasites. Do the ex-bats take them from the factory farm to the allotment and infect the healthy chickens with it?

I think that wind in a tree, usually surrounded by other trees is a rather different experience than wind on a solo perch with nothing to break the wind up surrounding it.

They've picked up the SLM here.

 

[Shadrach]

What, you have a real life outside of byc

I do. Most of the time I manage to avoid real life interfering with the important stuff like chickens but sometimes it can't be avoided.

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach In a discussion on Bob's thread a female keeper, @Ponypoor mentioned she'd like to be able to more easily handle her rooster. As a general rule I don't touch the roosters unless they are ill. But I notice that my wife handles our roosters on a regular basis. They even do their dance and attempt to court her. Am I loco but do you think they know their keepers by gender or is it a coincidence?

I don't think it's gender. Chickens are very fluid regarding gender as crowing hens, females leading tribes, etc seems to show.