Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Six hours today. A rather pleasant afternoon.
I may have solved the roosting problems we've been having. I'll leave a bit more room for the chicks tomorrow and see how that goes. I think this is all that's needed. It stops Mow shuffling along the bar and pecking the chicks as they arrive in the coop and preventing them from getting on the bar.
It worked tonight. The went from perching in the tree to roosting in the coop while I was at the other end of the field chatting.
Mow got off the bar when I took the picture and disturbed them but she got straight back on in her place after a couple of mouthfulls of food.

Out and about.

 

[Molpet]

I got second place with my last article, beaten by an excellent article with a natural writing style I would find difficult to match.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...icle-writing-contest-21.1607242/post-27880490

Congratulations

 

[Perris]

I got second place with my last article, beaten by an excellent article with a natural writing style I would find difficult to match.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...icle-writing-contest-21.1607242/post-27880490

congratulations Shad!

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

I got second place with my last article, beaten by an excellent article with a natural writing style I would find difficult to match.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...icle-writing-contest-21.1607242/post-27880490

Congratulations, well deserved

 

[BDutch]

I may have solved the roosting problems we've been having. I'll leave a bit more room for the chicks tomorrow and see how that goes.

Do you mean you only wait a bit longer?

And congrats with the price for the article!

 

[Perris]

you might find this interesting Shad: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...trad-views-on-nutrition.1567953/post-27882281
there could soon be a lot of alternatives to spelt for the better nutritional profile you're looking for in wheats

 

[fluffycrow]

I got second place with my last article, beaten by an excellent article with a natural writing style I would find difficult to match.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...icle-writing-contest-21.1607242/post-27880490

Congratulations on your article, Shad!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s partly cloudy.

Have a great day!

@Shadrach Congratulations on placing second with your article.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Have you thought about feeding them soaked feed?
I ferment a day and they love it.

It's a good thought, and I did ferment back when I was splurging on whole-grain feed. The chickens were indifferent I also couldn't get the timing right so stopped trying after a couple months.

This thread inspired me to try again with the good organic scratch we get. It fermented effortlessly. But again, the birds were like, meh.

They just want water added to commercial crumble. Which I used to do for them every morning, but as they've been aging, I worried it would make birds like Frida overeat, especially in warmer months. We feed a high-nutrition chick feed. I don't want them to eat so much that they don't balance it with the plants and bugs they forage all day.

 

[MrsNorthie]

I got second place with my last article, beaten by an excellent article with a natural writing style I would find difficult to match.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...icle-writing-contest-21.1607242/post-27880490

Congratulations!