Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

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Skeksis is entirely unsure about this instrusive froggo

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My Foxy was very sure about her frog. She worked on (played with) it for hours.

 

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Turns out that it is not available here. But also turns out it is related to Witch Hazel and American Witch Hazel has a similar growth pattern and good Fall color. I am going to see if I can find some to plant in spring. I already planted some native magnolia for the chickens so by next summer they should have a nice mainly native garden.
I am absurdly happy about that!

Great info!

 

[no fly zone]

My Foxy was very sure about her frog. She worked on (played with) it for hours.

Skeksis made no attempt to go after it

 

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Skeksis made no attempt to go after it

We have 8 chickens. Foxy thoroughly enjoyed it but nobody else was interested.

 

[Solanacae]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/members/kiaa.116318/#recent-content

Whoa, those are some massive dogs! I loved seeing the colored Sultans in the pictures. My two are culls from a breeding project to create a colored Sultan. They didn’t have the correct number of toes.

 

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Ex Batts good evening one and all!

58 clear 83% humidity feels like 59 rain 2%.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

Aw, sorry to hear that. I know you don’t like those sympathy remarks, but it still makes me a little sad when a chicken dies. I didn’t know about her, since I’ve been on able to keep up very well on BYC. I had to put Cashew down, the buff Orpington who mothered three chicks, a month or so ago. She had ascites that was affecting her breathing and progressing rapidly. An Avian Vet was not able to draw very much fluid off or provide much relief. It seem like she was going to continue to decline, and I did not want her to suffocate so I had her euthanized. She had started crowing several months back, and her comb had gotten much larger and fleshier than it was before. I thought something might be up with her hormones. She had started squatting for me, but didn’t like to be handled, even though she had before. I figured it was from discomfort. Even though she had started squatting, she did not produce an egg. Poor baby. Avian Vet thought it was likely cancer. Just like everybody says, now that I am getting more experience, I am finding that it’s usually cancer or some other infectious laying disorder that’s killing them. Also, in my case, as you know, they’ve had obesity and fatty liver problems.

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You may remember when she took the chicks to my lap. I’m having trouble finding that picture at the moment. Anyway, in the weeks before I had her euthanized, Cashew would follow me into the coop after I let them out in the morning. I know now she was trying to tell me something. I think she was trying to tell me she wasn’t feeling well and asking for help. Poor girl. I miss her.

I don't post much about the sick ones. I mention my watch list from time to time. There really isn't much I can do apart from try to ensure they have as good a life as possible under the circumstances.
I've got three on the watch list currently. Two of these have been on the watch list for months but they have improved since they started looking sick.
It is likely that there is Mycoplasma in the allotment crew so this is always a consideration.

Aw, sorry to hear that. I know you don’t like those sympathy remarks, but it still makes me a little sad when a chicken dies.

I think that after some experience many people don't make public the deaths in their flocks. I've seen a lot of chickens arrive and leave this life. It's always sad but the drama doesn't help.

 

[Shadrach]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03592-w

 

[ManueB]

Thank you to all those that showed the type of containers you use to limit waste. My problem isn't so much tipping over as having bantams- they tend to eat with their feet first and they are small enough to put both feet inside the buckets I use, so that I don't really want to put what has come out back in the feeder.
I didn't mention it but I give access to food non stop, so this explains partly why I get so much waste. I won't go back on this, at least while we have ex-batts. We used to feed them twice a day, but they were so stressed about not getting enough that they gobbled it up and bickered and had panic attacks if we were five minutes late. I much prefer when they can eat at their own rythm and they don't eat more.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/members/kiaa.116318/#recent-content

Interesting gallery indeed. Have the Marandi chickens been exported to your knowledge ?

Afternoon X Batts. I did not get up till 10, I think painting the first 6 boards I unplugged.
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Seems like it is coming in nicely. I wouldn't have thought of the dark green colour, but it looks really good and discreet !

I think that after some experience many people don't make public the deaths in their flocks. I've seen a lot of chickens arrive and leave this life. It's always sad but the drama doesn't help.

Maybe I won't feel the same after I've seen dozens of chickens die but it helped me a lot to share about my first two deaths here and on @BY Bob thread. It would probably have been the end of keeping chickens for me without the voices of those more experienced.

 

[RoyalChick]

I don't post much about the sick ones. I mention my watch list from time to time. There really isn't much I can do apart from try to ensure they have as good a life as possible under the circumstances.
I've got three on the watch list currently. Two of these have been on the watch list for months but they have improved since they started looking sick.
It is likely that there is Mycoplasma in the allotment crew so this is always a consideration.


I think that after some experience many people don't make public the deaths in their flocks. I've seen a lot of chickens arrive and leave this life. It's always sad but the drama doesn't help.

Some of us on these threads consider each other to be friends. I think expressing care and offering support to a friend who is sad is simply showing empathy and being a good friend.
I am not sure I would describe that as drama. But whether it is or is not drama, I know from personal experience that it does help.