Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

Perris is going to tuck Glais under their arm and cycle from Gower. You know how much Perris likes the old school stuff.

Surely old school would be in a wicker bicycle basket?!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Perris is going to tuck Glais under their arm and cycle from Gower. You know how much Perris likes the old school stuff.

Surely old school would be in a wicker bicycle basket?!

 

[Shadrach]

Surely old school would be in a wicker bicycle basket?!

I saw a man in Sicily cycling down the road with a hen under his arm.

 

[no fly zone]

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That little rooster's name is Eric. Sadly, he died a year or two ago.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

How old is he? If he's been living outside did he have a harem in the trees with him or living in a coop?

I’m not actually sure how old he is. I asked my friends for any they could spare because I know they have a landrace that are part game, part EE. I do know that he has been sleeping out with their hens. I have the barn I can set him up in so he knows where to sleep if he wants to leave a tree. Maybe I will do that…

Thank you!

 

[Shadrach]

I’m not actually sure how old he is. I asked my friends for any they could spare because I know they have a landrace that are part game, part EE. I do know that he has been sleeping out with their hens. I have the barn I can set him up in so he knows where to sleep if he wants to leave a tree. Maybe I will do that…

Thank you!

I'm sorry I can't be more helpful. There are so many variables. I think one develops a better chicken sense with experience, provided one has extensive contact with them. I'm currently slightly stressed at having to introduce a cockerel to two hens in a confined setting. I've never done it before.
I suppose an advantage I should have with experience is knowing what is and isn't acceptable behaviour; chickens get wrong'uns much as humans do. Some one can straighten out, others one has to kill.
My belief is there are many more successful introductions than not. Like myself, you don't have another male who the new comer has to adapt to. In theory this should make life easier.

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours. It was supposed to rain but it didn't until I was back at the flat. Both have slowed down egg laying. The eggs they do lay are good.
I mentioned to J today that I would like to show them how to catch and hold the chickens. They seem comfortable enough with J for them to be able to do a tail grab.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Two hours. It was supposed to rain but it didn't until I was back at the flat. Both have slowed down egg laying. The eggs they do lay are good.
I mentioned to J today that I would like to show them how to catch and hold the chickens. They seem comfortable enough with J for them to be able to do a tail grab.
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I so wish I had so much land!

 

[fuzzi]

No. You click the like for the pic. It pops the thing for the pass code and when the desktop comes up, it auto-opens the internet with a new tab for whatever the pic is like you did a search for it. I might like the pic, but I don't need/want to know more about the pic right now.

I was able to shut off the same "feature" for the desktop pics, just not the lock screen.

It just started doing that on my desktop at work.

 

[fuzzi]

Surely old school would be in a wicker bicycle basket?!

I can see it now...