Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

First glimpse of the new addition(s) to the flock:
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Sweet little one! Any idea how many hatched?

 

[Shadrach]

Rather pleasant this afternoon. Three hours, mostly sunshine and warmer than yesterday.
Just waiting for Fret to do her thing or not.

 

[TheFatBlueCat]

I have had pretty much no luck ever getting my flock to do what I think they should do. Hence why over half of them sleep in trees, while a big, expensive, beautiful coop lies empty, used only for its nesting boxes which are apparently in hot demand. The roof of my original coop has woolen blankets thrown over it because one of my hens insists that is the best place to sleep, even though she occasionally sleeps inside the coup and is welcome in there. I have decided it is best to simply go with the flow. I was successful at stopping my first chicks from roosting in the trees but it was damn hard work and took a long time. All the rest have must have been told this tale because they roost much too high for me to do a thing about it.

 

[TropicalChickies]

He hoped the two Dutch cockerels could live with them without fighting when they grow older (as brothers). He would give it a try.

Hooray! That's great news. Tell him the brothers with almost certainly scuffle a bit to figure out who's dominant. Probably somebody somewhere has brothers who never fought, but I think that would be a remarkable exception. My little 14 week olds Tobias and Segundo haven't fought (beyond some hackle raising) since their big melee last month. But I think the tussles now and then to determine who's on top are a rite of passage for the younguns. It's to be expected early on but doesn't mean they will automatically spend their whole lives fighting.

 

[Shadrach]

I have had pretty much no luck ever getting my flock to do what I think they should do. Hence why over half of them sleep in trees, while a big, expensive, beautiful coop lies empty, used only for its nesting boxes which are apparently in hot demand. The roof of my original coop has woolen blankets thrown over it because one of my hens insists that is the best place to sleep, even though she occasionally sleeps inside the coup and is welcome in there. I have decided it is best to simply go with the flow. I was successful at stopping my first chicks from roosting in the trees but it was damn hard work and took a long time. All the rest have must have been told this tale because they roost much too high for me to do a thing about it.

I know a bit about this business.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/getting-chickens-out-of-trees-and-into-their-coops.75511/

 

[MrsNorthie]

He hoped the two Dutch cockerels could live with them without fighting when they grow older (as brothers). He would give it a try.

That is great news and I hope that it works out for them!

 

[BDutch]

I have had pretty much no luck ever getting my flock to do what I think they should do. Hence why over half of them sleep in trees, while a big, expensive, beautiful coop lies empty, used only for its nesting boxes which are apparently in hot demand. The roof of my original coop has woolen blankets thrown over it because one of my hens insists that is the best place to sleep, even though she occasionally sleeps inside the coup and is welcome in there. I have decided it is best to simply go with the flow. I was successful at stopping my first chicks from roosting in the trees but it was damn hard work and took a long time. All the rest have must have been told this tale because they roost much too high for me to do a thing about it.

I had several bantams who preferred sleeping in trees as wel. If I didn’t have a run it would have been impossible to change this preference. Giving scratch in the run each evening around sunset / about 1 hour before darkness did wonders. They all come running for the goodies. Closing the run while the chickens had a feest didn’t give them the opportunity to roost in the trees.

My experience: After max. 6 weeks I broke their habits.

Of course there’s more info in Shads article.

 

[Perris]

Sweet little one! Any idea how many hatched?

not yet. I hope she'll show me today, but it's raining (again), so she may stay in the coop and I'll have to wait longer for a good view.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

@Perris Congratulations on the birth of one chick.

Temperature is in the 80s.

Yesterdays temperature was 99F with heat index of 113.

Have a great day!

 

[Perris]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

@Perris Congratulations on the birth of one chick.

Temperature is in the 80s.

Yesterdays temperature was 99F with heat index of 113.

Have a great day!

thanks LE - now established we have 4.

Janeka was holding on for one that quit early, and the sixth was only about half out of the shell before succumbing to something (since 2 days ago I guess from the smell - I think that's what finally got Janeka to give up on the one which, it turned out, was never going to hatch). All four looking good at the moment. And staying in the coop very wisely given the weather.

Meet Betws, Idris, Skomer and Towey.