Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

You talking about me or Lorraine

Oh, you of course...
I was in fact thinking about the hen called Miss Lorraine.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Tax for tomfoolery: calendar-contest entry this year of Miss Lorraine.

 

[fuzzi]

As promised, sire and son:

Double guard duty!

 

[RoyalChick]

As promised, sire and son:
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Double guard duty!
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Gorgeous.
Mr. Chips doesn’t have that much green on his chest yet. I wonder if he will as he grows. I gave him a blueberry this morning and he called for the ladies and waited with it in his beak and dropped it at Cookie’s feet.
So I gave him another blueberry and he let Geronimo take it from his beak again.
He didn’t get worked up when I fed the next three blueberries to Piglet who wouldn’t come down because he was standing there.
Blueberries 6 through most of the pot he ate himself.
I am not complaining!
Some of you will have seen this tax photo elsewhere, but it shows where Piglet wouldn’t come down from.

 

[fuzzi]

Gorgeous.
Mr. Chips doesn’t have that much green on his chest yet. I wonder if he will as he grows. I gave him a blueberry this morning and he called for the ladies and waited with it in his beak and dropped it at Cookie’s feet.
So I gave him another blueberry and he let Geronimo take it from his beak again.
He didn’t get worked up when I fed the next three blueberries to Piglet who wouldn’t come down because he was standing there.
Blueberries 6 through most of the pot he ate himself.
I am not complaining!
Some of you will have seen this tax photo elsewhere, but it shows where Piglet wouldn’t come down from.
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Thank you. Zaccheus was hatched in April 2024, so he's not quite 2. His son, Jacob, was hatched in July 2025. I like how they seem to be sharing guardian duties.

Here is an interesting article about different egg labels ("cage free", etc.) in the USA, scroll down past the advertising links for the article itself:
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-egg-label-trap-what-cage-free

 

[Shadrach]

Pfffttt! No chance of the chickens going out in the weather we had this afternoon.
It got a bit windy. Another tree over on the road boundary. A few flying objects and that looks like the end of the goose run for the foreseeable future.

According to the Met Office we are due for some less windy and drier weather over the next few days, and, it's going to stay warmer then average.

 

[Shadrach]

A post on another thread caught my eye about a hen with sour crop that wasn't shifting. I mentioned in the thread that the blockage may be in the proventriculus opening and this led to Gloria the vet, who I've mentioned often in this thread, and the story of unblocking Fat Birds obstruction.
If you scroll down the page in the link you'll find Gloria Sitges.

https://www.clinicavetland.es/clinica-veterinaria-cardedeu-barcelona/

I learn't a lot from Gloria. Best vet I've come across.

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Pfffttt! No chance of the chickens going out in the weather we had this afternoon.
It got a bit windy. Another tree over on the road boundary. A few flying objects and that looks like the end of the goose run for the foreseeable future.
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According to the Met Office we are due for some less windy and drier weather over the next few days, and, it's going to stay warmer then average.

We have flood warnings over here, we've had 60mm of rain in 48hrs, which is substantial. Early predictions were up to 3x that much for the week, but they've dialed it back since. I hydroplaned on the drive to college yesterday morning

 

[BDutch]

No storms or flooding here. In the Netherlands we have extreme warm weather. After a week with relatively mild weather with lots of soft showers and very little sun, December 9 reached 13.1 degrees Celsius, making it officially the warmest December 9th ever (since monitoring daily around 1900).

I have been working in the garden in the same clothes as I wear inside (jeans and sweater) and this was almost too warm. Bizarre this time of the year. One of my Amrock chickens thinks spring arrived. She started to lay again after her moult.

For today they forecast the warmest December 10th ever.

The reason for this won't surprise you. Climate change is making it increasingly warmer, including in the Netherlands. It's now over two degrees warmer in the Netherlands than it was a century ago, and that also applies to December. Previously, the average temperature in December was 2.9 degrees C; now it's 4.9 °C.

 

[kcan2]

Glais looks to be in no mood for such gusty weather. He really does have some magnificent wattlage. My guy would like to challenge him to a wattle endowment contest: