Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Chickens! I hope she heals up fast! How are Carbon and Mow doing?

Carbon is doing okay. She's eating and drinking and foraging. She still has moments of just standing with her middle eyelid close.
Mow is okay as well I think. She's nor eating much which is often the case with moulting hens but she forages.

 

[Shadrach]

C had a look at an old picture they have. Fret arrived at the field as a pullet, a few months old in June 2019, That makes her five years old.
Carbon and the other Legbars were already at the field when. They arrived the year before. They were hens when they arrived so Carbon in probably seven years to eight years old. I don't know how long they lived where they were rescued from.
It bugs me that there doesn't seem to be a properly accurate record of when chickens arrived.

Warm and dry, 22C at 4pm.
Henry and Fret raiding the chard.

Carbon bug hunting.

Mow, not even particulalry interested in beef.

Juveniles eating the chard.

Mow.

Going to roost. Fret is holding things up.

 

[fuzzi]

C had a look at an old picture they have. Fret arrived at the field as a pullet, a few months old in June 2019, That makes her five years old.
Carbon and the other Legbars were already at the field when. They arrived the year before. They were hens when they arrived so Carbon in probably seven years to eight years old. I don't know how long they lived where they were rescued from.
It bugs me that there doesn't seem to be a properly accurate record of when chickens arrived.

Warm and dry, 22C at 4pm.
Henry and Fret raiding the chard.
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Carbon bug hunting.
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Mow, not even particulalry interested in beef.
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Juveniles eating the chard.
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Mow.
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Going to roost. Fret is holding things up.
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Did Henry arrive at the same time as the Legbars?

Zack got up on the roost while I was gathering eggs and filling feeders. He looked as if he were posing, so I obliged him by taking some Glamour Shots.

He's 3 1/2 months old.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Did Henry arrive at the same time as the Legbars?

Zack got up on the roost while I was gathering eggs and filling feeders. He looked as if he were posing, so I obliged him by taking some Glamour Shots.
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He's 3 1/2 months old.

He is a handsome looking little fellow!

 

[MrsNorthie]

C had a look at an old picture they have. Fret arrived at the field as a pullet, a few months old in June 2019, That makes her five years old.
Carbon and the other Legbars were already at the field when. They arrived the year before. They were hens when they arrived so Carbon in probably seven years to eight years old. I don't know how long they lived where they were rescued from.
It bugs me that there doesn't seem to be a properly accurate record of when chickens arrived.

Warm and dry, 22C at 4pm.
Henry and Fret raiding the chard.
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Carbon bug hunting.
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Mow, not even particulalry interested in beef.
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Juveniles eating the chard.
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Mow.
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Going to roost. Fret is holding things up.
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Time goes so fast in chicken years. Considering their origin, they are doing extremely well, mostly due to you making their living conditions so much better and giving them peace!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s partly sunny with expected light rain.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

Did Henry arrive at the same time as the Legbars?

C didn't get Henry; their partner did and they are dead but I do know Henry was there before the Legbars.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

It bugs me that there doesn't seem to be a properly accurate record of when chickens arrived.

That would bother me, too. Keeping track of ages, egg laying, molts, etc. has been vital in picking up the rhythm of chicken keeping.

 

[MaryJanet]

That would bother me, too. Keeping track of ages, egg laying, molts, etc. has been vital in picking up the rhythm of chicken keeping.

I guess those people didn't care enough to observe it.

 

[Shadrach]

I took a guy I talk to at the flat complex to the field this afternoon. I'm trying to entice him into taking a plot at the field. He's done a bit of veg growing and did share an alltment plot with someone a while ago. He's having a few problems currently and spends too much time in his flat by his own addmission. I got him bus tickets and having talked about coming with me for a while he managed it today.
It was good. He did a lot of weeding and the more he did the happier he looked.
I know it's a long way to travel but he's been on the waiting list for a local council allotment for five years. He's old enough for a bus pass. he's also reasonably fit.

27C today. Too hot for me and the chickens who kept in the shade until early evening.