Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[notabitail]

 

[notabitail]

I didn't even notice Agathae in here until she started moving around.

 

[no fly zone]

I would worry that the neighbour is using poison. May be worth asking them.
Cats do leave their conquests lying around - but actually most cats steer clear of rats. It is a more even contest than you might believe unless it is a very big cat and a very small rat.

I've seen a video clip where a small rooster killed a rat.

 

[RoyalChick]

I've seen a video clip where a small rooster killed a rat.

That I can believe!
Cats do kill rats, but rats can inflict damage so they are wary.

 

[Perris]

I've seen a video clip where a small rooster killed a rat.

how did it do it? I had wondered if one or more of the roos were responsible, but would expect some visible injuries in that case.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Our neighbors use poison, which may be why their rooster just died suddenly last week. :-( Luckily our birds don't touch them, not even the turkeys. We use traps, then throw them to the hawk. It works out, he gets fed well and has no interest in the fluffy butts.

 

[fluffycrow]

More down to earth

Said Aristotle .

Tax, as I suspect I’m terribly behind on tax payments.

A whole bunch of members from the Tsouloufati group hanging out behind Big Red’s pen, which they have turned into a pretty spacious dust bathing location. Galadriel and her giant son in the centre

 

[BDutch]

Our neighbors use poison, which may be why their rooster just died suddenly last week. :-( Luckily our birds don't touch them, not even the turkeys. We use traps, then throw them to the hawk. It works out, he gets fed well and has no interest in the fluffy butts.

Rats don’t respect boundaries. If a sick rat comes into your garden it might die right there bringing the poison to you. The poison spreads with other animals that don’t get killed immediately too.

Rat poison builds up in predators. If there was a status quo in wildlife it gets disturbed by poison. Killing rats can cause some-kind of a plague in the years after.

Something like this happened in a northern province of the Netherlands several years ago. They had a mice plague a year or two after the attempt to kill all the rats. The birds of prey and other rat/mice predators got sick and died too. The fast multiplying mice became a problem for the crops.

They did test on several predators they found dead. And it seemed they had a large amount of rat poison in their bodies.

 

[Shadrach]

If we plant or replant something in the garden we always put a hwc circular fence around it,

I do much the same if I think the chickens will try and eat it,or dig it up. I also cover anything I plnt from seed until it gets establshed; crop plants mostly but I've done it with herbs as well.

How much aspirin does he get Shad? How do you administer it?

I was giving childs Ibuprofene mainly because it's an anti inflamatory. It comes with a graduated syringe and I gave 10 mg per kilo of body weight.
I have some Metacam now but it's at the field and I can't remember the dosage. It also comes with a graduated syringe.

 

[BDutch]

PS about rat poison or rodenticiden : in general it is forbidden to sell or use it in the Netherlands since 2023. Only licensed professionals still can. One off the reasons for this is bc there are mice and rats that don’t respond to the poison anymore.