Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

I love this phrase.

Abso-chickin'-lutely!

 

[RoyalChick]

I love this phrase.

Yes me too. @MrsNorthie I am afraid I already borrowed it to explain why I didn't want to attend an event!

 

[fuzzi]

I don't understand why people want their email clogged up with BYC messages about posts. I follow a number of threads and most of them have at least one new post every day. This is one of them. Many I could check 10 times a day and always fine a new post. I just open the site and click on "watched threads" under "Forums". All with new posts are listed first.

I don't see that on my phone.

 

[Molpet]

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I don't see that on my phone.

 

[fuzzi]

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Thank you!

I had clicked on the forums icon, didn't see it there.

 

[BDutch]

I don't understand why people want their email clogged up with BYC messages about posts. I follow a number of threads and most of them have at least one new post every day. This is one of them. Many I could check 10 times a day and always fine a new post. I just open the site and click on "watched threads" under "Forums". All with new posts are listed first.

Doesn’t work for me. I do wonder why.

Do they use them for food? Or do they waste the cockerels?

It depends.

I bought my first chicks from someone who wasted the tiny Dutch cockerels he really couldn’t sell. But he did make an effort to sell them/ give them away for free. He sold laying hybrids at point of lay as well. He bought them as day old chicks and these were already sexed by the hatchery. And some buyers like to have a innocent small rooster as an an alarm clock for predators to accompany the laying hybrids. The bigger cockerels he would eat. They were worthwhile to process.

The Naine de Tournaisis hatching eggs I bought from a breeder who was into shows and hatched many chicks every early spring. He tried to sell wat was not perfect enough for his breeding program. He didn’t bother too much and wasted wat he didn’t want to keep and wasn’t sold.

The bantam Rhode Island red eggs, I bought from a breeder for shows too. He too tried to sell wat was not perfect enough for his breeding program. He processes all the cockerels he can’t sell.

The Dutch eggs I bought from a breeder for shows too. He too tries to sell /give away for free wat was not perfect enough for his breeding program and he makes a lot of effort in doing so. I see his advertisements on our Marktplaats.nl (sort of craigslist). I’m not sure if he processes or wastes any.

The bantam Sussex and Vorwerk eggs I bought from a breeder for shows too. Like with the RIR, he eats what he can’t sell.

Other stories I know are from the Dutch chicken forum, a gardening forum or people I know who (almost) bought chickens. I heard stories of cramped coop/runs with little space with sometimes even sick looking pullets and cockerels. Some people who go there to buy some pullets do this anyway because they feel sorry for the young chickens. And often regret this later because it’s not okay to have have bought sick birds. Some people choose to look elsewhere.

A recent story: Someone in my neighbourhood recently started with keeping backyard chickens. She bought 6 pullets from someone who had them in a rather small and crowded cage. But she bought them anyway because she loved this breed/colour and drove far to buy them. Now she has one feather pecker in separation. The one who got pecked a lot, has a purple comb and is coughing. She asked me what she could do. I advised to put her in a quarantine cage and make a choice: give electrolytes/ some herbal supplements wait and see or go to a vet where she probably gets antibiotics. Also informed her about were she could find info and were she can ask questions (BYC and the dutch chicken-forum) if she likes a second opinion. Hope I did right.

Edited: I deleted a double post.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

Doesn’t work for me. I do wonder why.

That's the wrong spot, you want watched  threads, not forums . I'm on my phone right now and can't remember how different it looks on the computer...

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Prima takes cover while Segundo peers out to see if the threat has passed.
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Tobias stands his ground, prepared to give life and limb to defend his siblings.

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The fierce "predator" -- it's Toucan Sam!
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Note: to their credit, toucans are not the nicest of birds. They are mainly fruit eaters, but they will take the eggs of small birds out of nests. However, they do not and cannot attack a chicken or carry off a chick.

Good to know! Next time I'm eating fruit loops I'll think, how ironic is this? Hummmm tucan. Sam. ??

 

[Ladies-Eight]

I don't understand why people want their email clogged up with BYC messages about posts. I follow a number of threads and most of them have at least one new post every day. This is one of them. Many I could check 10 times a day and always fine a new post. I just open the site and click on "watched threads" under "Forums". All with new posts are listed first.

I had no idea you could access the threads like that.

There is still a lot I don't know about using BYC.

 

[Molpet]

Doesn’t work for me. I do wonder why.
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It depends.

I bought my first chicks from someone who wasted the tiny Dutch cockerels he really couldn’t sell. But he did make an effort to sell them/ give them away for free. He sold laying hybrids at point of lay as well. He bought them as day old chicks and these were already sexed by the hatchery. And some buyers like to have a innocent small rooster as an an alarm clock for predators to accompany the laying hybrids. The bigger cockerels he would eat. They were worthwhile to process.

The Naine de Tournaisis hatching eggs I bought from a breeder who was into shows and hatched many chicks every early spring. He tried to sell wat was not perfect enough for his breeding program. He didn’t bother too much and wasted wat he didn’t want to keep and wasn’t sold.

The bantam Rhode Island red eggs, I bought from a breeder for shows too. He too tried to sell wat was not perfect enough for his breeding program. He processes all the cockerels he can’t sell.

The Dutch eggs I bought from a breeder for shows too. He too tries to sell /give away for free wat was not perfect enough for his breeding program and he makes a lot of effort in doing so. I see his advertisements on our Marktplaats.nl (sort of craigslist). I’m not sure if he processes or wastes any.

The bantam Sussex and Vorwerk eggs I bought from a breeder for shows too. Like with the RIR, he eats what he can’t sell.

Other stories I know are from the Dutch chicken forum, a gardening forum or people I know who (almost) bought chickens. I heard stories of cramped coop/runs with little space with sometimes even sick looking pullets and cockerels. Some people who go there to buy some pullets do this anyway because they feel sorry for the young chickens. And often regret this later because it’s not okay to have have bought sick birds. Some people choose to look elsewhere.

A recent story: Someone in my neighbourhood recently started with keeping backyard chickens. She bought 6 pullets from someone who had them in a rather small and crowded cage. But she bought them anyway because she loved this breed/colour and drove far to buy them. Now she has one feather pecker in separation. The one who got pecked a lot, has a purple comb and is coughing. She asked me what she could do. I advised to put her in a quarantine cage and make a choice: give electrolytes/ some herbal supplements wait and see or go to a vet where she probably gets antibiotics. Also informed her about were she could find info and were she can ask questions (BYC and the dutch chicken-forum) if she likes a second opinion. Hope I did right.

Edited: I deleted a double post.

I never had these little breeds. But they must have as much meat as quail or squab