Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[TwoCrows]

You should enter them photos on the POW!

I have never entered for the POW. Maybe I will!

 

[Shadrach]

I stop by occasionally just to look at everyone's photos, lately a lot of broodies in these pages, so I got hooked! ❤ But I just had to chime in on the posted video and clarify. I don't have a lot to share in your thread what with my mutt stock, so I will leave the beautiful chicken photos to those with gorgeous birds. Keep posting everyone!

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You are welcome to drop by anytime. Lots of mutts here to.

 

[fuzzi]

Is this the same bird that you're using as your avatar?

Tax as in chicken photos? I got a million of those!

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Very healthy, very pretty!

My tax:
I dumped a bag of mower clippings in the coop, and it was well received. The flock was so enthusiastic with their scratching that they wound up with grass clippings on their backs!

(all nine in one photo)​

 

[TwoCrows]

I stop by occasionally just to look at everyone's photos, lately a lot of broodies in these pages, so I got hooked! ❤ But I just had to chime in on the posted video and clarify. I don't have a lot to share in your thread what with my mutt stock, so I will leave the beautiful chicken photos to those with gorgeous birds. Keep posting everyone!

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Is this the same bird that you're using as your avatar?

The bird in my avatar is the bird on the right in the above photo.

 

[lightm]

I haven't posted pictures for a while.

Light being spoiled and happy.

Inky

Crew working very hard in the compost

 

[BDutch]

It sounds a bit Yemen or one of those countries over there.

Yes, I speak Turkish, grew up bopping between Izmir and Kadikoy Turkey for first 5 yrs of life. I am not Turkish but half Greek and half Native American.

There are definitely a couple of Turkish words in the video. Like ewet. Which means yes.

I guess that's my cue to pay some taxes. Lady Gaga, Foureira, and another unnamed serama pulletView attachment 3632891View attachment 3632892View attachment 3632893

Poly oreilla . (I don’t have greek letters on my phone).
Just a few things I remember from hollidays in Greece and Turkey

More memories: getting enormously sick from chicken souflaki in a time when I thought chickens where so dumb, that I didn’t feel guilty eating them.

more tax:

 

[BDutch]

@Shadrach Great to see and read how the chicks + adults are doing.
Cant wait to see some more mama’s with fluffs . @Perris !

I think it’s a good idea to lock the food up too overnight. Giving good chick food to rats isn’t the best way to eliminate them.

I suppose I’m lucky to have so many neighbour cats. Only dislike the cats for killing songbirds too. But very nice I haven’t seen any rats in many years now.

In august I had other feed thief’s. When it was raining a lot , I had a slugs and snails invasion. Unfortunately the cats and chickens dont eat slugs.
Putting the feed on top of a stool and a table seems to help. They are definitely not such a good climbers like rats. I collected a few jars to make beer-traps when it starts to rain again next week. Hopefully the chickens don’t like beer. Or has anyone a better idea for a food trap?

The catch, checking one evening in the rainy week when I had feed on the floor. Tonight I found just one slug with warmer weather and the feed out of reach.

 

[Perris]

How many eggs in her clutch?

this was what was set; I think it's 3 of Paprika's, 2 of Puffin's, and 1 of Polka's, but it's not easy to tell them apart to be honest!

 

[Perris]

Still not cracked the bar roosting yet despite Fret's best efforts.

I read with interest in Nicol that up to 20% of chickens in furnished cages (so where they have the option to roost on perches) consistently choose to roost on the floor (p.86).

 

[BDutch]

I read with interest in Nicol that up to 20% of chickens in furnished cages (so where they have the option to roost on perches) consistently choose to roost on the floor (p.86).

This research is conducted with British commercial layers as wel as different heritage breeds. I presume it is an average, is that right? (The online version only shows 52 pages).

From reading all kind of personal messages from BYC keepers, I concluded it differs for different breeds / different types of chickens.

I also concluded and my own experience confirms this statement : circumstances (like harassment / a mother that teaches her chicks / or a keeper that puts the chicks on a roost at nightfall) do influence their preference.