Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

I did thanks.

It's a shame because I have lots of pallets

@gtaus , made a thread about things you can make with pallets. Maybe interesting for you?

 

[BDutch]

Roll on, it's been so awful here.

Going to make you jealous. I had lunch outside on a terrace today with a few colleagues.
Out of the wind and in the sun it was really wonderful weather. Even without a coat. Extremely nice for this time of the year.

I bet the chickens loved it too. But at the gime I got home they just started to roost.

So strange. Summer flowers are stil blooming in november.

 

[MaryJanet]

Going to make you jealous. I had lunch outside on a terrace today with a few colleagues.
Out of the wind and in the sun it was really wonderful weather. Even without a coat. Extremely nice for this time of the year.

I bet the chickens lived it too. But at the gime I got home they just started to roost.

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So strange. Summer flowers are stil blooming in november.

Those are one of my favourite meadow flowers.

 

[Marie2020]

Going to make you jealous. I had lunch outside on a terrace today with a few colleagues.
Out of the wind and in the sun it was really wonderful weather. Even without a coat. Extremely nice for this time of the year.

I bet the chickens lived it too. But at the gime I got home they just started to roost.

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So strange. Summer flowers are stil blooming in november.

The weather's suddenly changing all time is very peculiar but kind of nice when the animals have time out.

Here it definitely feels like November the past few days

 

[Marie2020]

Those are one of my favourite meadow flowers.

They're beautiful

 

[BDutch]

I've had the same question, but from the flip side. This summer, there was some totally unexpected behavior between our rooster Stilton and his best girl Ashley, who he's been tight with since the brooder.

They spend a lot of time together, roost together at night, and Ashley preens Stilton daily. They're quite bonded. Although, interestingly, Stilton doesn't tread Ashley very often.

Anyway, this summer, Ashley started a fling with Merle Hagbird through the fence, and Stilton didn't care! She'd find any reason to be by the fence so Merle could dance for her. Merle's hens were also neutral about it, but that wasn't as surprising as Stilton's acceptance of their relationship. Stilton, who plots the deaths of other male chickens.

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By comparison, when Merle had the audacity to dance for any of Stilton's Langshans, Stilty would stomp over and place himself in the middle, hackles up, daring Merle to get close enough to peck through the fence. But all the hours Ashley spent gazing lovingly at Merle through the fence, Stilton barely gave them a side-eye.

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It gets more sordid: while we're careful to keep Stilton and Merle separate (they seem secretly glad for that), the ladies sometimes sneak into each other's yards while I'm with them. Over the summer, Ashley took every opportunity to dart through the gate to Merle's yard. The first time he raced over and tread her, Stilton noticed, and I thought it would surely kick off a war through the fence. I also worried that Stiltz might punish Ashley.

Nope. It happened a few times, and each time, when Ashley trotted back through the gate to Stilton, the 2 toddled off to forage together like normal. There's been no additional hostility between the roosters. The flirting has stopped, possibly for the cold months, or maybe it was just a summer fling. Ashley and Stilton are as close as ever, leaving my human brain to riddle over Stilton's lack of jealousy.

Is it possible that Ashley and Stilton are like a brother and sister in their behaviour. Not so strange if they grew up together.

It seems that people who grow up together (not genetically related) often have the same affection as you describe with Ashley and Stilton.

Chickens and humans are not so very different in their behaviour as people often think.

 

[Iluveggers]

The weather's suddenly changing all time is very peculiar but kind of nice when the animals have time out.

Here it definitely feels like November the past few days

Weather here has been crazy, too. Below freezing two nights ago. Today was mid-60F. I am home sick, so the ladies got extra time out in the garden. They behaved and stayed out of the kale! I gave up on the brussels sprouts, they gre nice and big leaves but no Brussels sprouts on the stalk. So the girls can pick them apart til their hearts content. The white feathers really stand out in the leaves, but I had an image flash in my mind of everything covered in snow, and maybe they’ll have the camouflage advantage if they want to range in the garden in the white stuff.

 

[Molpet]

Picked up Halloween pumpkins and straw bales today. More pumpkins out of sight .

 

[Iluveggers]

Picked up Halloween pumpkins and straw bales today. More pumpkins out of sight .
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Nice! I grabbed a couple left on the side of the road, and have friends saving me theirs. A nice treat to keep them busy! How long does it take yours to get through one mostly?

 

[Molpet]

Nice! I grabbed a couple left on the side of the road, and have friends saving me theirs. A nice treat to keep them busy! How long does it take yours to get through one mostly?

I have a lot of birds, over adult 50 chickens and over 30 turkeys plus grow outs, so they go through quiet a few the first week...then they get bored with them and eat one a day. So far they have eaten a few dz since Nov 2nd.