Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

Sad news about Fret. Hopefully with your care and her resilience, she can bounce back

 

[thistlewick]

I am going to be thinking about Fret and sending her good healing energy and she absolutely *is* under the best care possible

 

[MrsNorthie]

There are differences between the Bracket and Fret in this condition. Bracket from what I recall ate and drank as usual while Fret doesn't.

Is it possible that the differences in Fret's behaviour is that she is still mourning/pining for Henry or the lack of a male presence? Not necessarily in a psychological way, the way we humans mourn, but in a biological way.

Or could the failure of the broody switch to flip, be the chicken version of menopause (henopause)?

I have seen comments on here where some people put the broody in something where the air flow allows for physical cooling, like a cage off the ground, if physically cooling them works to break broodiness, (this may be totally an old wives tale or just a silly idea..) could maybe taking a ziplock baggy of ice (by the time you got to the field, it should still be cold-ish but not entirely frozen..) and placing that under her while you give her water and rooster booster, help?

No matter what the cause, I hope that it breaks and she resumes eating normally and recovers fully.

 

[Shadrach]

Is it possible that the differences in Fret's behaviour is that she is still mourning/pining for Henry or the lack of a male presence?

It's possible.

I have seen comments on here where some people put the broody in something where the air flow allows for physical cooling, like a cage off the ground, if physically cooling them works to break broodiness, (this may be totally an old wives tale or just a silly idea..) could maybe taking a ziplock baggy of ice (by the time you got to the field, it should still be cold-ish but not entirely frozen..) and placing that under her while you give her water and rooster booster, help?

If Fret was sitting on a nest, with or without eggs then the above methods might be worth considering.

 

[Shadrach]

28/06.
Three hours.

 

[Perris]

Now Aberglasny has gone broody
Xmoor and Rhondda are still sitting....

 

[fuzzi]

Now Aberglasny has gone broody
Xmoor and Rhondda are still sitting....

You want chicks, admit it.

Naomi's eggs died. I bought her replacement chicks. She has settled into motherhood as if she's done it before.

 

[Ribh]

Henry died some time this morning; probably in the early hours.
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So sorry, Shad. I have been missing so much of everyone's happenings but I know what a soft spot you have for roosters. He was one of the good ones.

 

[Shadrach]

He was one of the good ones.

Most of them are in my experience. Some won't become compliant, probably a laudable attitude when it comes to dealing with humans.
I think the saying might be for some of these "difficult" rooster is "better dead than pet." I can't disagree with that.
I know that to a certain extent the field chickens have become my pets and I'm not at all happy about the situation. We are not good for the chicken no matter how well intentioned we may be.

Fret is dying now. I haven't done all I could; what I have done is what I think I should.
One possible definition of intelligence is to be aware of ones mortality. I think chickens have this ability. It's possible that they know they are dying.
I think Fret knows she's dying.
I'm finding some small irony in that there is a bill being debated in the UK parliament currently on assisted dying. Not having read the bill I don't know those important details. A friend asked me how I would vote on the topic; I wasn't sure.

I'm not going to intervene with Fret further. It's undignified and uncomfortable being syringe fed and while Fret has put up with me lifting her on and off her nest, she has never been an affectionate chicken towards me so I assume the amount of contact and handling she has had recently is just further ignominy she is too weak to struggle against.

 

[fuzzi]

Most of them are in my experience. Some won't become compliant, probably a laudable attitude when it comes to dealing with humans.
I think the saying might be for some of these "difficult" rooster is "better dead than pet." I can't disagree with that.
I know that to a certain extent the field chickens have become my pets and I'm not at all happy about the situation. We are not good for the chicken no matter how well intentioned we may be.

Fret is dying now. I haven't done all I could; what I have done is what I think I should.
One possible definition of intelligence is to be aware of ones mortality. I think chickens have this ability. It's possible that they know they are dying.
I think Fret knows she's dying.
I'm finding some small irony in that there is a bill being debated in the UK parliament currently on assisted dying. Not having read the bill I don't know those important details. A friend asked me how I would vote on the topic; I wasn't sure.

I'm not going to intervene with Fret further. It's undignified and uncomfortable being syringe fed and while Fret has put up with me lifting her on and off her nest, she has never been an affectionate chicken towards me so I assume the amount of contact and handling she has had recently is just further ignominy she is too weak to struggle against.