Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

Congrats on your article success @notabitail !

 

[MaryJanet]

Congrats on the article @notabitail !

 

[MrsNorthie]

@notabitail Congratulations! This is an excellent article demonstrating an easy way to raise tasty treats for our feathered friends!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s partly sunny humidity 85%.

Have a great day!

 

[notabitail]

congratulations @notabitail on your article on raising mealworms being featured on the front page of BYC!

Thanks for mentioning it here @Perris.
Great article, and thanks for the ‘easy to raise mealworms’ instructions @notabitail. Are you still raising mealworms?

Congrats on your article success @notabitail !

Congrats on the article @notabitail !

@notabitail Congratulations! This is an excellent article demonstrating an easy way to raise tasty treats for our feathered friends!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.

@BDutch I am still raising mealworms, and I should probably post a V2 of that article.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Fret wants a reeeeeally big tribe, I think she wants to take over the allotment!

I'm team Fret! It can be a community chicken tribe!

 

[RoyalChick]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.

@BDutch I am still raising mealworms, and I should probably post a V2 of that article.

Many congratulations - I remember the article from when you first posted it. Very good. Glad it got front page status.

 

[BDutch]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.

@BDutch I am still raising mealworms, and I should probably post a V2 of that article.

As a premium member you can make changes/improve the article. No need to enter a new v2 version.

 

[Shadrach]

Four hours today. Warmish at 19C and mainly dry this afternoon.
First thing was to sort Fret out. She's not pleased. I took her off her nest and stole her eggs. She went back to sit for an hour on an empty nest and later came out to join the others. She roosted on the bar tonight.

Carbon, she's not doing well. The only plus points are she's eating something and she isn't pecking the feathers on the bald patch on her back.
I spent twenty minutes cleaning her rear end which was a mess. She's mite and lice free. Her crop is working. Not much else I can do for her apart from encourage her to eat which at the moment is roast beef and blueberries plus whatever she forages when she active.

Fret.

Everybody is pleased they can get at the chard now. The juveniles in particular.

Henry.

The older this one gets, the less like a male it seems to be. It doesn't behave like the other two males. It has almost no wattle growth while the other two males have. Despite being the first to hatch it's noticably smaller than the two males.

 

[fuzzi]

Four hours today. Warmish at 19C and mainly dry this afternoon.
First thing was to sort Fret out. She's not pleased. I took her off her nest and stole her eggs. She went back to sit for an hour on an empty nest and later came out to join the others. She roosted on the bar tonight.

Carbon, she's not doing well. The only plus points are she's eating something and she isn't pecking the feathers on the bald patch on her back.
I spent twenty minutes cleaning her rear end which was a mess. She's mite and lice free. Her crop is working. Not much else I can do for her apart from encourage her to eat which at the moment is roast beef and blueberries plus whatever she forages when she active.
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Fret.
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Everybody is pleased they can get at the chard now. The juveniles in particular.
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Henry.
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The older this one gets, the less like a male it seems to be. It doesn't behave like the other two males. It has almost no wattle growth while the other two males have. Despite being the first to hatch it's noticably smaller than the two males.
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You're a good "dad", blueberries and roast beef for Carbon!

If the smaller chick turns out to be a pullet would that be 2 and 2 from the hatch?