Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

The dangers of excessive seed oil consuption has made the popular press recently. A few newspapers have run with the recent research story.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ower-corn-colon-cancer-symptoms-b2665511.html

I was shopping in the local supermarket today and out of curiosity checked quite a number of products to see what they contained.
Smoked mackerel with sunflower oil as second ingredient.
Nan bread with both rapeseed oil and sunflower oil in it.
Every pre made sauce I picked up had one or more seed oils in them.
Every ready meal I checked had sunflower oil in it.
I even found a couple of fruit deserts with sunflower oil in them.
It became a challenge to find anything except "fresh" produce that didn't have at least one seed oil as a major ingredient.
It's not just that they are present in these products, it's they are present in suprisingly high amounts.
Many people cook with seed oils so the overall level of consumption in the average modern diet adds up to lots!

 

[Shadrach]

is that the old goose pen at the back of photo 1? Any chance of extending the chicken run into it? I can't remember the details of the aerial photo of the site you shared a long time ago, but both chickens and geese were on the same side of the site I think, and not too far apart.

Not into the goose run itself. The ground between the goose run and chicken run will go to sole chicken use now though. It needs some work doing; scrap wood removal mostly and some patches need digging over.

 

[Shadrach]

Strong winds and rain late this afternoon. We got out for an hour or so.
Mow and Sylph are laying every other day. This is good news given they're pullets (Mow is just a hen) Many breeds will lay every day at their ages. Slow to grow and reach egg laying age and fewer eggs while young is what I would be breeding for if I had any say in the matter, so I'm pleased.

Sheltering from the wind behind the old fruit bush plot.

Roosting is very calm these days. As you can see Henry naps right through the whole affair. I gave him a bum check this evening. He gave me one slightly irritated look and stuck his head back under his wing.

The hens however when it comes to be examined seem to be singing this.

 

[Perris]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.

 

[notabitail]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.
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[L-plate chicken mum]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.
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So sorry to hear this, Perris. She had a good life, got to hatch babies and raise them and died peacefully, what more could a hen ask?

 

[no fly zone]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.
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Sorry to hear that. I hate EYP, as that is what took Skeksis from me.

 

[Perris]

Sorry to hear that. I hate EYP, as that is what took Skeksis from me.

she lives on in your memory; and that's a sort of immortality.

 

[Molpet]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.
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Sorry for your loss

 

[Sally PB]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening.

She had a wonderful chicken life with you. An easy passing is all we can hope for at the end of any life.


Fly high and free, lovely Idris.