Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[ksbkeys]

Four hours today.
Tull died sometime this morning. I found her dead next to Fret in the coop extension. She had a heart attack. No mistaking the signs, neck far out and hackles slightly raised. Poor Tull. Poor all of them.
Fret is no better but she had managed to leave the coop and perch on the board that separates the coop and the coop extension, something I had sever doubts about when I left her last night. I put Fret on the roost bar in the coop tonight and she wobbled a bit but settled.
If everybody was dying with even vaguely similar symptoms I could believe something contagious was being picked up and was spreading through the group, but they're not.
Grave digging tomorrow again. I should at least have some help for that as my friend who lives close by has offered to help. my eldest's husband who would and has helped in the past has a broken wrist and the treasurer who would also help has hurt his back.
Sylph is laying again a few days after the shell less egg she laid and the eggs are normal.

It's complete nonsense but I can't help thinking if Henry was alive none of this would be happening.
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So sorry for this difficult time with your flock! Thank you for sharing even the sad and difficult things with us.

 

[RoyalChick]

Did you ever notice that chickens tell a different story if they experienced a scary adventure?

I noticed this especially with Ini mini. The first time after she escaped from a dog and flew over a few hedges to a neighbour a couple of gardens from ours where she was trapped when the adrenaline flush was over. This neighbour had a high fence around his garden and Ini mini ok obviously didnt know how to get back. A neighbour groupsapp was a great help to be able to bring her home. When I put her in the run with the other chickens she started to vent about her ‘scary adventure’. The other hens gathered around her and reacted with a reassuring sound. Ini mini repeated about her feeling/adventure a couple of times. The other chickens did the same.

She performed this typical 'chicken-chorus-' a second time after a scary adventure when she was lost and not able to come home again to roost.

Yesterday I lured Ini mini into the humans house to trim her beak and to treat the area around the gland. She was not amused and scared when I grabbed her and took her to the bathroom. Cleaning and disinfecting the gland. Cutting a tip and sanding the beak was undoubtedly scary for her.

After the treatment I gave Ini mini her freedom back, outside on the terrace. She started to search her family, friends and competitors to vent about her scary story, which sounded much the same as previous totally different scary adventures. This time she went back to her normal behaviour quickly and didn’t repeating it endlessly.
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When Pooh survived being grabbed by a hawk she went around for days telling everyone about it.
I suspect she was bragging as she is very tiny compared to them and she still survived!

 

[RoyalChick]

Pooh the mighty hawk warrior!

 

[no fly zone]

Skeksis Jr's baby.

 

[Shadrach]

Lot’s of love and good thinking went into this. I hope you can bring in a few newcomers very soon to fill the gap.
How many do you want to add?

One male and two females if I can. Some rescue centers have a male or two sometimes.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

When Carrots was a little pullet, she used to run across the yard to jump on my shoulder and chatter directly into my ear. Always sounded like she was tattling on the others for not sharing the mealworms.

Foraging honey bees dance in specific patterns to share the direction and distance of good nectar sources. More of a description of that:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hivecomm.html

If insect communication is this intricate, you know Carrots had something serious to say to me. She probably thought I was pretty dumb for not reacting appropriately but forgave me because, well, mealworms.

Still not sure what's communicated by wearing a rooster on your head. Raisin channeling dear Fret again, sigh:

 

[fuzzi]

My Sussex pullets (13 months technically) Esther and Joanna still chatter and keep up a stream of commentary when I am in the yard.

Chick tax:

 

[Shadrach]

When Carrots was a little pullet, she used to run across the yard to jump on my shoulder and chatter directly into my ear. Always sounded like she was tattling on the others for not sharing the mealworms.

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Foraging honey bees dance in specific patterns to share the direction and distance of good nectar sources. More of a description of that:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hivecomm.html

If insect communication is this intricate, you know Carrots had something serious to say to me. She probably thought I was pretty dumb for not reacting appropriately but forgave me because, well, mealworms.

Still not sure what's communicated by wearing a rooster on your head. Raisin channeling dear Fret again, sigh:
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Interesting stuff about the bees. It's wasn't just Fret then...

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

human pregnancy is 40 weeks gestation, so actually 10 lunar months, or 10 hormone cycles of a woman's body.

Why people say 9 is likely because If we divide 280 days by the average month length of ~30.4 days, we get 9.2 months

I was basically right on time for my 3

I was going to say the same thing. Nobody tells you about lunar months until you’re pregnant and you have to actually deal with them haha

 

[SimpleJenn]

My tiny (and currently broody) silkie pullet is a big talker too!

She's always chattering or making velociraptor noises at me.