Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Easy clean floor.

Needed a towel on the only bit of soft furnishings I had.

For somereason Fat Bird was fond of sitting on my laptop.

Knock wondering if the chickens she saw on the screen are hiding under the desk.

 

[notabitail]

Easy clean floor.
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Needed a towel on the only bit of soft furnishings I had.
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For somereason Fat Bird was fond of sitting on my laptop.
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Knock wondering if the chickens she saw on the screen are hiding under the desk.
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That is a very nice looking house.

Fat Bird has good taste in technology.

 

[no fly zone]

Will you be trying boiler welding?

No.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Probably something wrong with it.

It has a wonky leg, but eats well, and has the will to live, so I am going to take it to the vet and see, meanwhile, I am massaging the joint and trying to help train the foot to go flat. Egg thief could not watch the others peck it to death.

 

[Shadrach]

Warmish and dry. Three hours today. People working on their plots so the chickens were confined to the allotment run between their coop and the goose coops.
Fret was particulalry grumpy today.

 

[Perris]

She's the only one currently. One of the other three broke via the attempted rehoming, and two spent two or three days in broody jail, where young Idris now is. Pressure's on to make space by June to let at least one hen sit...

Scratch that. Rhondda's flipped now ( ), so we're at 2. She'll be joining Idris in jail later...

 

[Ladies-Eight]

on a fork - how posh! Or are they just picking the last morsels off the serving implement?

No they are not just picking off the morsels.

I use the fork to keep them from biting me.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[fuzzi]

Scratch that. Rhondda's flipped now ( ), so we're at 2. She'll be joining Idris in jail later...

I have three not laying.

Tamar is sitting on 6 eggs I ordered after culling Samuel. The other six are in an incubator. She's been consistent enough to "trust".

Yep, she's in a wheelbarrow.

Rahab is practicing, sits on faux eggs, but keeps switching nesting boxes.

I don't trust her with fertilized eggs, yet. The ones I got are on Day 14.

Martha's not cut the apron strings, yet. She's been a good broody, and great momma. She's got all the chicks on the roost, while protecting them from the other hens.

I am hoping to get at least a couple pullets from the eggs...

 

[Shadrach]

Three hours today. Warmish with the occasional spitty shower.
Fret got off her nest shortly after my arrival. It looks like an egg has hatched early. Not sure what happened here. It's possible Fret broke the egg.
I let her stay off the nest long enough to eat a little and have a drink; she had alread had a poop in the coop, and ushered her back to the nest in the hope that she might save the chick. I'll see tomorrow. I'm not going to interfere. If the chick is dead tomorrow I'll take it out and hope Fret continues to sit.

It's the growing season so the chickens are confined to the allotment run; not the coop run, but the fenced area between their coop and the goose coop. On the plus side I've got an agreement to extend the the chicken coop run into the abondoned fruit bush plot. The bushes in the are well established and while the chickens may eat the low hanging fruit I think the bushes will survive.