Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Fluffy Butt Acres has pretty much everything that I remember reading from you on it.

I still tell people to watch a chicken lay a egg once.

Yup, there's a lot on Bob's thread and I've got threads I've started with still more.

 

[notabitail]

Yup, there's a lot on Bob's thread and I've got threads I've started with still more.

The "Find All Threads" button when hovering over your username can find all of them.

 

[Perris]

I don't like this at all. The older I get the more disgusted I am about the lot of the field chickens.

Maybe you can take some consolation in knowing that their lot is better with you than without you.

Poor Mow. I do hope her foot improves soon. I would guess that it happened about the time she went from being forager extraordinaire to not foraging much / stopped laying; perhaps you noted that in one or other of your 28K posts, and at the time thought she was just off colour/ill. Or maybe it's much more recent and she was then just ill.

 

[BDutch]

I don't like this at all. The older I get the more disgusted I am about the lot of the field chickens.

I don’t grasp this. Bc I assume Perris is right.

Do you really think the field chickens are unhappy with the way they live now? Bc I think they are fine in your care with the space they have + 1-2 hours in the field during winter and hopefully a bit more in summer.
Or are you looking at the future if you are no longer able to travel that far if something happens with your health again and aren’t able to attend them?

It might we wise to stop them from multiplying though and aim for a status quo this year. Sorry Fret and Mow.

I wondered a few times how your health is nowadays. Did the rash end completely by now or do you still have some pain from the shingles? Are there any visible scars left?

Hope Mows toe is healing nicely. And good luck with the SlM treatments. Maybe you can ask the person who helps once a week, or someone else who has a plot on the field to assist you for those extra hands?

 

[ManueB]

Without access to a sheltered or indoor place and warm water, some health issues are certainly very challenging to manage. Just as having another pair of hands makes a world of difference.
But chickens can lose their toe even when their keeper has all that, and is careful at monitoring them.
Any possibility of taking Mow to your daughter's place or someone who lives closer to the field once she looses the toe to tend to it once or twice properly ?
Bringing warm water to the field in a thermos flask ?

Now maybe the disgust you talk off doesn't only relate to Mow's health issue.
I suppose each of us has some ideal standards of how we want our chickens to live. While sometimes our setup doesn't fulfill our standards in every way, that does not always mean that the chickens conditions are unacceptable.
Still it's an important question to think about before chicken maths happen.

 

[no fly zone]

Poor Mow.

 

[Molpet]

This is talking about temperature changing broiler sex organs if I read it right.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645652400202X

 

[Perris]

This is talking about temperature changing broiler sex organs if I read it right.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645652400202X

Interesting; thanks for linking. I'll read it properly in the morning, but in the meantime, having scanned the abstract, readers might find this interesting; it's an info board on a wall at the Zoology Museum in Cambridge, where, btw, there was another board asserting very clearly that birds are not just descended from dinosaurs, they *are* dinosaurs.

 

[notabitail]

Interesting; thanks for linking. I'll read it properly in the morning, but in the meantime, having scanned the abstract, readers might find this interesting; it's an info board on a wall at the Zoology Museum in Cambridge, where, btw, there was another board asserting very clearly that birds are not just descended from dinosaurs, they *are* dinosaurs.
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I have very clearly told people they are dinosaurs. A broody hen is proof.

 

[Perris]

A broody hen is proof.

can you unpack that for me please?