Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

A belated for Upsula. @Perris.
Been busy and have to catch up a lot here on BYC.

A recent photo of Janice for being late.

Heavy pruning work in progress earlier today.

 

[fuzzi]

My original ten, in a scrum!

 

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours in sunshine would you believe.
More fireworks had been let off in the field.
It took me a while to coax them out from the coop extension.

 

[fuzzi]

Idiots.

(not the chickens!)

 

[Ikslo]

A belated for Upsula.

Uppsala, no? Like the Swedish town?

 

[rural mouse]

I have a 4x4 huddle box. In the winter I have seen 24 chickens in there. It's like a clown car when they hear me with feed.

Daily....

 

[Labsandchickens8]

RIP Uppsala. She was absolutely fine this morning - as it happens I got a photo of her dustbathing while I was stalking the cockerels to get photos of them for the current compo - and she just now had a seizure at tea, and died within a minute in my arms. 3 years 4 months old.
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Edited to add some more photos of her: she was 2nd in the large fowl non-APA competition just 2 months ago
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/non-apa-aba-large-fowl-hen-show—2025-byc-summer-fair.1670297/post-28797991

So sorry Perris. She was gorgeous

 

[BDutch]

Are humans used to the drones yet? When neighbors and real estate agents [accidentally?] fly drones over our property, I'm unnerved. I'm careful not to fly uninvited like that.

Was actually wondering about this. So many people. It's funny what concerns the chickens and what doesn't.

Not anymore. Not in Europe anyway since the Russians sent spy drones to Europe. Its on the news almost daily. The last week Belgium got them. They fly mostly above airports.

It freaks people out and disturbs the flights. They cause delays and passengers land on other airports. These spy drones always come when its getting dark and are hardly visible.
It seems the Netherlands didn’t register any bc our airports are visible on Google.

 

[ksbkeys]

RIP Uppsala. She was absolutely fine this morning - as it happens I got a photo of her dustbathing while I was stalking the cockerels to get photos of them for the current compo - and she just now had a seizure at tea, and died within a minute in my arms. 3 years 4 months old.
View attachment 4247005
Edited to add some more photos of her: she was 2nd in the large fowl non-APA competition just 2 months ago
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/non-apa-aba-large-fowl-hen-show—2025-byc-summer-fair.1670297/post-28797991

So sorry for your loss of Uppsala.

 

[Perris]

Thanks again for the many condolences on Uppsala's sudden death. I did an amateur necropsy but am none the wiser really as to the cause. I did however establish that she wasn't the as yet unidentified salpingitis-sufferer, that she was parasite free, and that she'd been eating well.