Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

Wonderful update Royal!
So glad for you it all worked out perfectly (so far?) . Are you still worried about the Marek?

We are just now in the period when Marek’s is most likely to strike down the Littles.
The scientific data says I should expect to lose 20% based on the timing between vaccination and exposure to the virus.
That would be one chick.
But the scientific studies are based on giving a bolus, and presumably ‘large’ dose of virus. I took steps to reduce the load of virus they were exposed to by creating a clean brooder and dusting off Tassels before popping her in there.
At this point I just have to hope for the best.
My new uncertainty is that one of the supposedly all female chicks is looking like a cockerel. I still have to get my mind around that!

 

[rural mouse]

We are just now in the period when Marek’s is most likely to strike down the Littles.
The scientific data says I should expect to lose 20% based on the timing between vaccination and exposure to the virus.
That would be one chick.
But the scientific studies are based on giving a bolus, and presumably ‘large’ dose of virus. I took steps to reduce the load of virus they were exposed to by creating a clean brooder and dusting off Tassels before popping her in there.
At this point I just have to hope for the best.
My new uncertainty is that one of the supposedly all female chicks is looking like a cockerel. I still have to get my mind around that!

You're still in the window for either way....and the most recent pics say cockerel, pullet, cockerel, pullet so....

 

[kcan2]

I am also supposed to do planks (TBH I cannot yet do them flat - without a low bench or step), but the Chicken Palace seems like a less amenable place for those.

Methinks a plank in the chicken coop would be a quick plank

 

[Molpet]

As I get older and lose weight (which is a good thing) I am very focused on building and maintaining muscle strength so that I can remain as independent and mobile as possible for as long as possible.
I have been told squats are a good thing to do and so I try to do some when the opportunity arises.
What better time than when you spot little Chicklets sunbathing in a low down and difficult to access part of the Chicken Palace?
I think Tassels is actually just extremely puzzled (probably amused) by my ‘working out’ in the Chicken Palace, but why not?!
I am also supposed to do planks (TBH I cannot yet do them flat - without a low bench or step), but the Chicken Palace seems like a less amenable place for those.

I started doing downward dog, worked to add planks and then added upward dog. This took several years of almost every day.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Methinks a plank in the chicken coop would be a quick plank

The fumes would end that one fast!

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours. Wet and windy.

 

[BDutch]

 

[Perris]

While a countdown is fun, we are not talking about a rocket launch here. For starters, I have never handled Glais, so I must first catch him, and that may not work when I try it; and if it doesn't, and I spook him instead, it could be set back a while. I already have 8 roosting out now, and if he joins them it'll get even trickier.

 

[kattabelly]

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So, so jealous of your apples. PROPER apples (not the shite they sell in supermarkets) are my favourite thing ever - I used to get enough for free through orchard and gardening jobs when I lived down south that I could eat several every day for almost half the year. Now instead of visiting family for Christmas, I go down when Egremont Russets are at their best and fill a 90L rucksack to take back with me.

 

[Perris]

So, so jealous of your apples. PROPER apples (not the shite they sell in supermarkets) are my favourite thing ever - I used to get enough for free through orchard and gardening jobs when I lived down south that I could eat several every day for almost half the year. Now instead of visiting family for Christmas, I go down when Egremont Russets are at their best and fill a 90L rucksack to take back with me.

In my experience, if you happen to know someone with a fruit tree of any type you are gifted several bag-fulls of their surplus if you should chance to meet them at harvest time . I am currently grateful for some apples and some plums .