Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[kattabelly]

Mmmm, wild water!

This is where my own hygiene standards are slightly higher than the chickens'

 

[fuzzi]

Hello!
I've been lurking my way through the thread (I'm on page 1300 ish) admittedly mostly scanning through your diary posts @Shadrach or I'll never catch up, so I think I must owe some tax, and an introduction!

I'm looking after new-to-me chickens who came with the house we bought a couple of months ago. There were 5 hens, all 6-8 years old ish we think (the previous owner struggles with memory) underfed and rather neglected, but very free range, living on about half an acre of woodland & orchard.
2 went broody within days of us arriving, so we got them some hatching eggs and we now have three five week old chicks. Other than Scaly leg mite on one of them, they both seem healthy.
One is so flighty we can't get close enough to check her out properly, but she eats and drinks and does chickeny things so we assume she's ok! The other 2 died in the first few weeks we were here, but that's another story.

This is our current tribe - we think one of the chicks is a boy, so does he count for tax?View attachment 4236757

Welcome!

 

[fuzzi]

So did I and probably still do. I posted some time ago that I had sat down on the pavement at a bus stop and someone gave me a pound coin thinking I was a homeless person.

I don't recall, did you keep it?