Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[notabitail]

I like a well told story and I think this is one.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-turbulent-story-of-marshmallow.80321/

That reminds me, I know someone who has a parking lot chicken. She found it in a parking lot and now it's doing just fine, though if I'm not mistaken her other hens don't really accept it.

 

[fuzzi]

Was he dumped?

I suspect so.

That was my question. In a photo in the first post about him, it looked like his spurs were still small. Perhaps they saw your other chickens and thought it'd be a good place to drop him.

No one can see my chickens from the road, and I'm the last house on a deadend street, so if he was dumped it wasn't necessarily due to my flocks.

I'm starting to feel sorry for him, but don't want him aggravating or infecting my birds.

Naked neck or turken or...?

No tail feathers, but I see some decent spurs.

 

[Skyeknight]

Naked neck or turken or...?

This source seems to suggest that the Naked Neck is the breed, while turkens are crosses with the Naked Neck gene. I think officially the breed is called Transylvanian Naked Neck. Since you don't know if it's purebred I guess it would be a turken.

Edit: It posted way too soon

 

[SimpleJenn]

Tractor supply sold naked neck meatbirds this year, could he be one of them? I suppose not with those spurs. He might be molting.

 

[no fly zone]

I suspect so.

No one can see my chickens from the road, and I'm the last house on a deadend street, so if he was dumped it wasn't necessarily due to my flocks.

I'm starting to feel sorry for him, but don't want him aggravating or infecting my birds.
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Naked neck or turken or...?

No tail feathers, but I see some decent spurs.

Are you able to keep him safe at night until you figure out a course of action?

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I suspect so.

No one can see my chickens from the road, and I'm the last house on a deadend street, so if he was dumped it wasn't necessarily due to my flocks.

I'm starting to feel sorry for him, but don't want him aggravating or infecting my birds.
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Naked neck or turken or...?

No tail feathers, but I see some decent spurs.

He's handsome. He may run more of a risk of wooing than aggravating your hens but I know you've found a balance with your roosters and didn't intend to have a bunch of speckled naked necks running around...

He looks quite healthy for someone who's just been through the horrible trauma of being dumped. Have you provided him feed/water/grit/roost away from the coops so he might not try as hard to join your chickens?

 

[rural mouse]

Tractor supply sold naked neck meatbirds this year, could he be one of them? I suppose not with those spurs. He might be molting.

Spurs say he's at least a year+....approx 18 months or more. It's possible he's the older fellow, displaced by the new cockerel (whether through losing or through human decisions, results the same). He may be a chill fellow as he's likely past the idiocy phase.

 

[Perris]

It isn't really. I can't do much about the field. "Do you mind if I plant this hardy hedge bush in the plot you're cultivating?" isn't going to go down well.

Can/do they track around the edge to the orchard at all? Or the other boundaries?

 

[Perris]

on being let out of the coop run he flew straight up the extended run, over the new fence and sort of ran and flew up and down the top of the field as soon as he had eaten.

Glad to read he's keeping fit. He did less flying here than most of the other cockerels, but it's good to know he can still get in the air and clear a low fence, despite apparently consuming vast quantities of your expensive food

 

[BDutch]

Montana

If you put this in your account details, we always know.

I'm looking at a cane construction that may work as cover but it won't do shelter as well.

Just an alternative idea:
Living willow branches will begin to sprout when they come into contact with moist ground. If you put the willow branches in a tent ️ / tunnel shape, you can create immediate aerial shelter and within 1/2 a year it grows into a lushly green hide out.

He's handsome.

Matter of taste I presume. Poor chap.