Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

o you think it was a path and dirt accumulated on top?

Something like that probably. There are a lot of things at the allotments that have been done with the right intentions. The rubble around the inside of the run fence was I imagine to keep rats etc out. Rats love a pile of rubble, especially an old pile that has settled. They have an easy dig through the gaps in the rubble and the rubble stops the tunnels from collapsing.

 

[Shadrach]

Right in our diveway
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Are they uncommon?

 

[Shadrach]

@GregnLety

This is Ella. Hopefully you can see in the picture the type of beak regrowth I mentioned earlier. Quite a few of the Ex Battery hens grew these wings on the sides of their beaks but the tips didn't fill in.

Look! No coop!

I've been told that this run has been dug over in the last three years. Has it ####. There were two of this grids about eight inches down under which the rats were living and where the various rat tunnels led in and out.

Now I can move in there I've started to dig over the entire run.

This is the small coop one rarely sees in the pictures I post, partly because it was difficult to get around. Somebody thought about this coop. I'm going to try and save it.
The frame is on the outside; a major plus point ime. I can use a blow torch in there and get it properly clean.

The roof was removable and I can fix it so it will be again.

The ventilation is quite clever. There is a gap at the top of the walls behind the overhang.

It needs a new roof and a nest space and/or roost bar fitting.

Everybody went out for over three hours today.

Roosting orientation. Obviously Lima doesn't know her arse from her beak.

 

[no fly zone]

Are they uncommon?

No. I see hawks all the time.

 

[GregnLety]

@GregnLety

This is Ella. Hopefully you can see in the picture the type of beak regrowth I mentioned earlier. Quite a few of the Ex Battery hens grew these wings on the sides of their beaks but the tips didn't fill in.
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Look! No coop!
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I've been told that this run has been dug over in the last three years. Has it ####. There were two of this grids about eight inches down under which the rats were living and where the various rat tunnels led in and out.
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Now I can move in there I've started to dig over the entire run.

This is the small coop one rarely sees in the pictures I post, partly because it was difficult to get around. Somebody thought about this coop. I'm going to try and save it.
The frame is on the outside; a major plus point ime. I can use a blow torch in there and get it properly clean.
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The roof was removable and I can fix it so it will be again.
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The ventilation is quite clever. There is a gap at the top of the walls behind the overhang.
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It needs a new roof and a nest space and/or roost bar fitting.
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Everybody went out for over three hours today. View attachment 3416521

Roosting orientation. Obviously Lima doesn't know her arse from her beak.
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Ella's regrowth looks better than Jr's cross beak when he was younger. This makes me optimistic for Jr. I have attached a recent photo before the breakoff.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

No. I see hawks all the time.

Hawks and owls are plentiful in Florida.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

@Shadrach You have really been getting things cleaned up.

66 sunny 86% humidity feels like 66 rain 0%.

Have a great day!

 

[HiEverybirdy]

It's sandy soil. I live in SW FL. It is some kind of hawk.

Are you sure it's not a Burrowing Owl? The kind Carl Hiaasen wrote about in Hoot? Sure looks like a burrow behind it.

If so, that's a special thing to where you live: https://myfwc.com/conservation/you-conserve/wildlife/burrowing-owls/

 

[Perris]

Are you sure it's not a Burrowing Owl? The kind Carl Hiaasen wrote about in Hoot? Sure looks like a burrow behind it.

If so, that's a special thing to where you live: https://myfwc.com/conservation/you-conserve/wildlife/burrowing-owls/

it's got an owl-like appearance to me, and it's clearly small

 

[bruceha2000]

Interesting!

In my coop, it's either north or south. Most face south.

My girls have 2 roosts running N-S and 2 that run E-W (each half the length of the N-S ones) in a U shape. They face whatever direction they like though I think on an individual bird level, they do have a preferred direction.