Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

That ladies and gentlemen is the end of the allotment Ex Battery hens that were here when I started trying to care for them.

What is important now is to make sure chickens, male and female, continue to be kept here. I have collected votes from the plot holders and have a majority of 6 in favour, 2 not bothered and 2 against. One of those against is C.
Not much C can do about it. My coop, I feed and care for them and soon to be voted on, the coop run becomes my plot.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I've been offered some (I don't know how many yet) Light Sussex chickens that were rescued from a farm/smallholding that is closing down.
I've also been offered two rescue Legbars.
Finally, where my heart is but maybe not the best of choices, more Ex Battery hens.
I can house and feed eight realistically. The weather is going to cool a little and I should be able to get some of the plans I have for the run into action.

I'm going to talk to my eldest.

Sorry for another loss

 

[TropicalChickies]

The coop suddenly looks very big.

Oh man, what a week. That "big coop" feeling is a hard hitter. When Cheri and Paco died on the same day, the broodies were nesting in their apartments, Butchie was sleeping in the kitchen as she prefers, and I hadn't brought in the new pullets yet, it was just Lucio and Cleo spending the nights in the coop. I guess that's when they got close, like a wise auntie and a teenage boy.

It's been a tragic year here too so far chicken-wise. It is good to see the mum's and chicks moving into the coop and the new energy they infuse. I really hope your can bring in some chickens to your allotment soon. No doubt they will benefit from your care and amplify back in to the space, as chickens do.

 

[TropicalChickies]

I'm glad to see someone else who doesn't rush to bury or dispose of the body. I also let them lie in a peaceful place at least until the body is quite cold. Maybe it's silly, but I don't think the life energy goes away just like that. I think it takes awhile to dissipate. Tibetans who still practice Tibetan Buddhism will keep a dead family member or clan kin around for five days to let the person's vital energy leave the body to look for a new place or being to inhabit.

 

[TropicalChickies]

Maybe they should vote C out of the allotment group.... I don't know if it is possible. It is a great thing that you do for these chickens, knowing that whatever time they have left, they are actually cared for is special.

Agree. Why is this horrid toad of a human even there?

 

[ManueB]

Five hours today and what a lovely day it was.
I met C coming out of the allotments on my way in. C mentioned she had given the geese some water and I enquired after Ella. After I had explained who Ella was, C said she had seen Ella out of the coop and thought she looked a bit droopy.
When I opened the run up, Ella was lying in the full sun, looking a lot more than a bit droopy!
I picked Ella up and placed her in the shade under my chair. I did manage to get a little water into her and Henry, Fret, Carbon and I watched her die. I stroked her from time to time and Henry cood at her. Nobody ventured far from the chair. Fret cuddled up next to Ella at one point after I had take Ella off my lap where I had syringed a few drops of water into her mouth and wet her wattles.
These are the pictures of Ella dying. She died on grass, in the shade with her adopted family around her looking down the allotments full of growth and hope on a lovely day.
I don't know much about her life after the battery. She was one of four that arrived here when the person who took them in from the rescue centre found the deaths of 3 or 4 prior to donating the rest to the allotments too hard to deal with. Judging from the condition they arrived in they were well cared for but not used to much in the way of freedom.

Ella still alive but wouldn't drink by herself.
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Stroking Eall as she faded.
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These are pictures over the course of the afternoon witht the others gathered around Ella and me.
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Ella is dead now with Fret sitting beside her.
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The view down the allotment from chicken height with Henry and Carbon sat just in front of the chair.
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Henry walking away calling the others to roost.
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The coop suddenly looks very big.
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I'm sorry, Shadrach, for loosing Ella so soon after Lima. I know you expected it, but two in a row is harder.
I would hope you continue keeping ex-batts, in spite or because of all the setbacks.

 

[Perris]

Thanks for giving Ella a loving and peaceful death

 

[Perris]

That ladies and gentlemen is the end of the allotment Ex Battery hens that were here when I started trying to care for them.

What is important now is to make sure chickens, male and female, continue to be kept here. I have collected votes from the plot holders and have a majority of 6 in favour, 2 not bothered and 2 against. One of those against is C.
Not much C can do about it. My coop, I feed and care for them and soon to be voted on, the coop run becomes my plot.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I've been offered some (I don't know how many yet) Light Sussex chickens that were rescued from a farm/smallholding that is closing down.
I've also been offered two rescue Legbars.
Finally, where my heart is but maybe not the best of choices, more Ex Battery hens.
I can house and feed eight realistically. The weather is going to cool a little and I should be able to get some of the plans I have for the run into action.

I'm going to talk to my eldest.

Good luck with your plans. How will you manage quarantine and integration if you're successful with the acquisitions?

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

Thanks for giving Ella a loving and peaceful death

X2

 

[Perris]

Chirk's stumbling then convulsions progressed to being prostrate these last 4 days, and his symptoms are consistent with avian encephalomyelitis (a sort of bird version of polio in humans). Does anyone here have any good recovery stories (for mature adult birds like him, not chicks) from this viral infection to warrant continuation of his current intensive care regimen? Obviously if his central nervous system has lesions that won't heal, I shouldn't continue.

 

[no fly zone]

She fought hard, but my poor sweet Skeksis took her last breath this morning. She will be buried beside her beloved Mr. Bumble. I am absolutely devastated. I have never had a pet like her and never will again.