Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Sally PB]

My boy is okay!!!!!! He has one pair of clothes, a phone and a backpack to his name... but he is whole

So glad to hear this!

Oh I am so relieved to hear this.
Not about the only one pair of clothes part obviously. Thank you so much for taking the time to update us.

Yes, thank you for the update.

Hugs for both of you. I know you've been under a terrible strain with this.

 

[Molpet]

My boy is okay!!!!!! He has one pair of clothes, a phone and a backpack to his name... but he is whole ♡♡♡ thank you all for the good thoughts ♡♡♡♡

I am so glad to hear this.
Thank you for letting us know

 

[MrsNorthie]

My boy is okay!!!!!! He has one pair of clothes, a phone and a backpack to his name... but he is whole ♡♡♡ thank you all for the good thoughts ♡♡♡♡

That is excellent news! There will be a lot to work through, fire can be traumatic and on that scale, I shudder to think. Hold him tight.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Wh nds vwls?

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Cute.

 

[RoyalChick]

Wh nds vwls?

Tx:
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Wh ndd?
Cute picture.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Fire is a very devastating element of Mother Nature.

Temperature is in the 80s.

Have a great day!

 

[MaryJanet]

My boy is okay!!!!!! He has one pair of clothes, a phone and a backpack to his name... but he is whole ♡♡♡ thank you all for the good thoughts ♡♡♡♡

What a relief!!

I wish him well in the rebuilding.

 

[Shadrach]

Wow! Fine dining in the Bristol allotments! Lucky chickens!

Have you found a convenient and reliable supplier yet? I'm getting to the end of a sack of peas so have bought a different mix to try, intended for young pigeons, consisting of maples, wheat, white peas, red dari (milo, sorghum), blue peas, white dari (a nutritionally better variety of sorghum), tares and safflower. It'll make a change for them at least, mirroring the change of season. I tried to grow safflower a couple of years back but it didn't grow here very well.

Nope, not yet. Buying bits of this and that as I find them.

 

[Shadrach]

I noticed something really odd today, and I'd like to share/ask if anyone's experienced something similar. Today one of the hens was in the nest box, and another one desperately wanted to get in the same nest box as well. They have multiple nest boxes, but they insist on laying in the same f-ing one. Now here is where the interesting thing happens. By some chance, the lead hen (the ISA brown) noticed the commotion. Instead of the hen actively wanting to lay, the lead hen was the one who initiated the escort call, and only then did the other hen join. Kolovos came pretty quickly after that, but has anyone else noticed their lead hens doing escort calls on behalf of their lower ranking sisters?

Yes, but it's usually been to come and sort out the dispute about who lays first.
The important things to notice in such situations is who got the nesting box, who left with Kolovos and what did the senior hen do after making the call?
It's often not the main event that catches ones eye that gives the most information but what the other chickens do while the event is going on and the bit afterwards.

 

[Shadrach]

Pleased to read your boy is unharmed @TropicalBabies Will he come and stay with you while he tries to put his life back together?