Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

Woke up this morning...
By the end of the day, my eldest's husband had had a stroke, the youngest had been misdiagnosed with shingles, in fact, after a second opinion, it was found to be another virus, a friend here has a prostate operation go wrong, the rat has been back overnight and my phone keeps switching itself off and, I've got a women at the flats that wants to be my friend and is getting close to stalking me.

Two hours, no rain, some sunshine. Not sure what the temperature was because I had to leave the field quickly to get to hospital.
I got them out. They charged back to the coop after I fed them their meat and a couple of blueberries each. I went and ushered them out but instead of guiding them onto the field I ushered them up the run between the chicken coop and the goose run. I ushered them into the cage for a while and then out around it. They were fine in the cage. I left the door open and stood outside. They seem to know that the cage is secure despite being able to see through the wire. Once they had been out a while, about half an hour in this area, they all settled down and went bug and plant hunting.

I can make a couple of cage type structures. I have some of those U shaped canes which will do for one and some stock net I can make another with. These should be light enough to move around to find where the chickens like it and easy enough to make windproof.
The dog house hasn't proven to be of any interest to any of them.
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Wow, what a day! So sorry about your son-in-law; that sounds awfully young. I hope he’s rapidly improving! Also all the rest.

Sooo… your stalker - does she like chickens? And does she have a car?

 

[Molpet]

Woke up this morning...
By the end of the day, my eldest's husband had had a stroke, the youngest had been misdiagnosed with shingles, in fact, after a second opinion, it was found to be another virus, a friend here has a prostate operation go wrong, the rat has been back overnight and my phone keeps switching itself off and, I've got a women at the flats that wants to be my friend and is getting close to stalking me.

Two hours, no rain, some sunshine. Not sure what the temperature was because I had to leave the field quickly to get to hospital.
I got them out. They charged back to the coop after I fed them their meat and a couple of blueberries each. I went and ushered them out but instead of guiding them onto the field I ushered them up the run between the chicken coop and the goose run. I ushered them into the cage for a while and then out around it. They were fine in the cage. I left the door open and stood outside. They seem to know that the cage is secure despite being able to see through the wire. Once they had been out a while, about half an hour in this area, they all settled down and went bug and plant hunting.

I can make a couple of cage type structures. I have some of those U shaped canes which will do for one and some stock net I can make another with. These should be light enough to move around to find where the chickens like it and easy enough to make windproof.
The dog house hasn't proven to be of any interest to any of them.
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Sorry for the illnesses.
I also was going to ask if the stalker has a car

Sounds like this was a stressful day.

 

[Shadrach]

With Glais, maybe he's just going through various phases as a youngster and is still adjusting to the difference in terrain and to his new responsibilities, as well as the loss of his old chicken family?

Anyway, maybe right now, Glais is doing his "extreme caution around jackdaws" phase, and next month he'll decide to overturn the feeders every day, and the following month he'll sleep facing the other direction, that kind of thing. And all you can do is continue to be consistent and kind.

All of the above. It's why I write one needs to wait at least a year, preferably eighteen months before one judges the character. This allows for a full year of seasons independant from their parents. A years worth of experience basically.
It's just that the keeping circumstances are frustrating. Cockerels growing up has been mostly hands off for me in the past, apart from the few I've adopted until they either join, or make their own tribe.
In these circumstances feel I need to be more proactive in getting evryone settled, if they will. I want to add two more hens for one thing and the point of me being there with them is so they can get out of the coop run which I beleive is very very important for both physical and mental health. Much like me getting out of a city flat everyday.

 

[Perris]

Woke up this morning...
By the end of the day, my eldest's husband had had a stroke, the youngest had been misdiagnosed with shingles, in fact, after a second opinion, it was found to be another virus, a friend here has a prostate operation go wrong, the rat has been back overnight and my phone keeps switching itself off and, I've got a women at the flats that wants to be my friend and is getting close to stalking me.

Two hours, no rain, some sunshine. Not sure what the temperature was because I had to leave the field quickly to get to hospital.
I got them out. They charged back to the coop after I fed them their meat and a couple of blueberries each. I went and ushered them out but instead of guiding them onto the field I ushered them up the run between the chicken coop and the goose run. I ushered them into the cage for a while and then out around it. They were fine in the cage. I left the door open and stood outside. They seem to know that the cage is secure despite being able to see through the wire. Once they had been out a while, about half an hour in this area, they all settled down and went bug and plant hunting.

I can make a couple of cage type structures. I have some of those U shaped canes which will do for one and some stock net I can make another with. These should be light enough to move around to find where the chickens like it and easy enough to make windproof.
The dog house hasn't proven to be of any interest to any of them.
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Hope your family members recover quickly and your stalker desists.
Your experiments with cover sound promising.

 

[kattabelly]

I really hope all the illnesses and stresses and difficulties you and your friends & family (including the chickens) are going through atm come to a quick, and positive, end. For the rat just a quick end would do.

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Sorry to hear about what sounds like a very trying day, Shad. I hope everyone's okay/gets better soon. Bad things have a habit of happening all at once, it seems :/

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Slightly off topic from chickens, but I installed an update for the BYC app that promised to fix the issue with uploading photos (previously I had to open up the website if I wanted to post pictures, very inconvenient). Pictures seem to work now, but it appears that the app has decided that it must stick ads in between posts in forums now. I have an adblocker, but the grey rectangles are still pretty intrusive (attached). It seems the changelog failed to mention this