Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

But it's green..... I have snow and ice melting to mud and flooding

We have mud, it warmed up mid 60's(16-18c) to 70 (21C) to have rain and torrential downpours. The chickens do not seem to care, but I am spending about 2 hours, every evening this week, cleaning and putting vaseline on feet and legs. Even Blue doesn't mind being picked up for the foot and leg massage.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Spring is in the air

I have saddles for all the girls, I am getting ready to get them all dressed up, although the mating practices have been more polite lately . Maybe it is our moderate weather, but they have been at it all winter!

I have a couple of girls that want to sit during the day, but they abandon the clutch at night which is good for now, because I do not want any hatching until late March, early April.

 

[fluffycrow]

Over here, laying is still very much sluggish. The brahma cross aseel pullet is definitely laying, because we're getting brown eggs from the main coop. There appears to be at least one, possibly two oldies laying, and then there is a Tsouloufati pullet who is in lay. Her eggs are a much darker green than her parent's, but not something I'd classify as olive. Probably Kolovos's genes at play. Cruella and Ursula have started "weaning" so they should be in lay some time next month. I don't really care for laying too much. Even a small amount of eggs can sustain all the people it needs to. What I'm mainly hoping for this year, is some more broodies, and more specifically, more broodies in the free ranging coop. My hopes lie with two pullets, Cruella's adopted daughter, and the brahma cross. One has been raised by an exceptional broody, and I really do hope that she has retained some of that information, and would like to sit. The brahma cross supposedly has it in her genes, as she is the daughter of a brahma that (according to the previous owner) raised a batch last spring, and her father is a broody raised aseel. I do feel that my chances of getting a broody in that group have increased, but as with every spring and summer, I find myself disappointed. Dum Spiro spero...

 

[Perris]

This is bonkers: I was doing a bit of gardening and found these in the same area

The Mahonia is supposed to be out now, but the rose is an early summer flower! This sort of climate chaos can have devastating impacts on insects that rely on certain plants appearing at certain times.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in thee 50s and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[Sally PB]

Fret wasn't kidding with her nest box interest yesterday.

Congratulations, Fret!

 

[BDutch]

That’s why I don’t let them hatch eggs, one little rooster is tolerated, more would not be.

I prefer to buy hatching eggs above buying hens. Nobody can keep all the cockerels. Often there is someone somewhere in the process who kills most of the male chicks or cockerels.

I cant keep cockerels either when they start crowing early mornings . So far I have always managed to give them away for free to people wanted and could keep roosters.

 

[BDutch]

Dum Spiro spero

, which translates to "While I breathe, I hope"

 

[MaryJanet]

, which translates to "While I breathe, I hope"

BDutch, I've just seen the link to ecosia in your signature! What an excellent recommendation. I'll be switching

Taxes

 

[Shadrach]

Dry and chilly. Two and a half hours. My eldests dog Spoko had to be euthanized. He was almost 15 years old. I thought he was 13. Needless to write she and her husband are upset. I had them round for dinner yesterday. They're heads weren't sorted enough to be dealing with shopping and cooking and an empty house. I'll miss him. I used to dog sit for them a lot and on the days they were both working would drop in and get him out of the house for a bit before I went to the allotments. On top of this, some family dramas filtered up from the past over Christmas which a couple of my family have had festering since childhood. A couple of the less emotinally stable have said and written stuff they ought not to have and it's all come to light over the past few days.
My phone is running hot and my empathy is running out.
Posting may be a bit on the slim side for a couple of days.