Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

 

[RoyalChick]

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Nice! I got one that was half red and while I considered whether to pick it a chipmunk did a drive-by and grabbed it right from under my nose!

 

[Shadrach]

Drizzle and rain on and off all day. I spent a couple of hours with them, mostly out on the field.The recent rainfall has pushed the vegitation into overdrive, as it has for much of what's been planted. Bugs have come to the surface and the ground has softened.

 

[ChaosMom]

Drizzle and rain on and off all day. I spent a couple of hours with them, mostly out on the field.The recent rainfall has pushed the vegitation into overdrive, as it has for much of what's been planted. Bugs have come to the surface and the ground has softened.

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This field just looks like chicken heaven.

 

[MrsNorthie]

https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/05/26/roaming-roosters-claim-the-streets-of-miami

LOL that is awesome!

 

[MrsNorthie]

There are a few feral chicken videos on the net. What srtruck me about this one is the mum with chicks that look the age they would still be in a brooder in many backyard keeping arrangements and this lot seem to be navigating a busy town.

Ours have all done so well with the chicks, I will never have traditional brooder space again. They are even accepting and protective of the turkey poults that cannot be contained. The turkey mom's are amazing too. We are firmly convinced to just let the chickens chicken and the turkeys turkey.

 

[MrsNorthie]

It’s becoming very obvious that the Buff Orp and Barred Rock will be pretty massive when seen from behind, compared to the EE.

Orps are famous for going broody, and I almost want to see Buffy go broody (once!), just to see the weaponized fluff.

I don’t remember if I posted it here, but there’s a great comment on Reddit that broodies carry their anger in their feathers.

Broody Buffs are funny! They are fine with me, but they terrify the Egg Thief! LOL

 

[Perris]

Janeka has a secret nest. I hadn't seen her at tea for a few days, so was on the look-out, and there she was on the lawn near the coops this morning at dawn waiting for breakfast...

Hopefully I'll find the nest sooner rather than later, and neither she nor her clutch will be predated. She's an old hand at this, having been broody once a year for most years of her adult life (she's 6 now), but most of her secret nests have been large, with donations from other hens, and the last thing I need now is yet more chicks

Talking of which, Nybro started chest-bumping Wig at breakfast this morning. N is half the age, and size, of W. Got lots of bottle, that one