Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[LaFleche]

Just love how momma hens sprout additional legs

 

[fuzzi]

Oh, I did, and will. They're now out in the nesting box with Rahab, who is looking very happy.

 

[Shadrach]

Surely 12,000 steps justifies a Polish cake or two?

I struggle to eat one cake from the Polish bakery down the road.

 

[Shadrach]

Mini-Fret!

ETA: I zoomed in on that 1st photo and fell in love with the baby on the feeder.

Maybe even Fret Minor.

 

[Shadrach]

Do I see that Fret and the chicks have no nest and sit on the bare floor? To avoid red mite?

The only mites in the coop are going to be Scaly Leg Mite.
I've had a few hens that won't return to the hatch nest once the chicks are mobile. Donk, a hen in Catalonia frogmarched 4 chicks from the maternity unit straight back to her tribe's coop at two days old and established herself wedged in a corner until the chicks could roost on a bar.
Inconvenient it may be for the keeper, my thinking is this is probably good survival instinct.

 

[Shadrach]

An hour this morning and two this afternoon. Dry until I got to the city on the way home.
Some of the area closer to the goose run had become very overgrown and under used. This got brush cut today and the chickens and geese have more usable room now.

Nope, he's not dying This is Henry sunbathing. He gets into some most uncomfortable looking positions.

 

[no fly zone]

Nice to see Henry so relaxed.

 

[MrsNorthie]

This got brush cut today and the chickens and geese have more usable room now.

That is excellent news!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morrning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s and clear.

Have a great day!

 

[HiEverybirdy]

But, a phone on average lasts about three or four years, ( especially if you use it in chicken surroundings ) whereas a good camera can last at least twice that time.
I would like to have a phone that takes good pics but I don't agree with spending that amount of money for something so short lasting ...and so polluting .

This is a good point. Phones – especially around chickens, gardens, rain, dirt – don't last long. I can never quite talk myself into shelling big bucks for one. I will pay for more device storage because I take oodles of pictures and videos with my phone, top quality or not.