Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

You know the old saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes”? Well, at least around here, it appears that there are no flock divisions in bitter cold.

I started cramming the older pullets into the Nestera last Sunday night at lockdown. Tuesday night I started going back out at 10 pm or so and cramming them back in, although usually 1 or 2 of the olders had stayed in. Friday night I started putting the back on the Nestera to keep them in (it’s off during the day, door always closed.) Tonight I went out and everyone had put themselves to bed in the Nestera and gave me that chicken-y look of “human, what took you so long?”

Temp when I got up: 31°. 29° by the time I left for church. 21° around 4 pm. 18° now (6:30 pm.) Forecast overnight low: 11°. (In °C, roughly: -0.6°, -1.6°, -6°, -8°, -11.7°, respectively.)



- Oh, yes, and 20 mph gusts still going on, down from 30-40 during the night, although still nothing like what Shad puts up with on a daily basis.

 

[Shadrach]

9C, cloudy with bursts of sunshine. The wind though, It's given up on the 40mph to 50mph gusts and gone for a constant 20mph to 30mph.
They did come out for half an hour but late afternoon saw a drop in temperature and colder wind and they retreated to under the coop. I didn't bug them. It wasn't nice weather to be out in. I did some digging mainly to keep warm.

No sign of Mrs Chew a Coop for three days now. The two small grey rats that come from the field next door now number one. They take the food I sweep out from the coop from the chicken shite buckets. I don't often see them in the run.

Glais tipped over the food tray again.

A jackdaw flew a couple of feet above his head making for the gate. Can you get diazepam for chickens?
Maybe I should make a post asking for the correct dosage and watch the thread burn.

 

[notabitail]

Glais tipped over the food tray again.View attachment 4266370 A jackdaw flew a couple of feet above his head making for the gate. Can you get diazepam for chickens?
Maybe I should make a post asking for the correct dosage and watch the thread burn.

Wait for next April 1st. I would love to see this.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

9C, cloudy with bursts of sunshine. The wind though, It's given up on the 40mph to 50mph gusts and gone for a constant 20mph to 30mph.
They did come out for half an hour but late afternoon saw a drop in temperature and colder wind and they retreated to under the coop. I didn't bug them. It wasn't nice weather to be out in. I did some digging mainly to keep warm.

No sign of Mrs Chew a Coop for three days now. The two small grey rats that come from the field next door now number one. They take the food I sweep out from the coop from the chicken shite buckets. I don't often see them in the run.

Glais tipped over the food tray again.View attachment 4266370 A jackdaw flew a couple of feet above his head making for the gate. Can you get diazepam for chickens?
Maybe I should make a post asking for the correct dosage and watch the thread burn.
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Well, at least you’re safe from jackdaw predation!

 

[kattabelly]

... slappy flaps ... face curtains.

There needs to be a wattle classification system based on descriptions like these.

Well, at least you’re safe from jackdaw predation!

I was going to suggest that integration/desensitisation might be easier with a tame jackdaw...

 

[BDutch]

Glais tipped over the food tray again.

A jackdaw flew a couple of feet above his head making for the gate. Can you get diazepam for chickens?
Maybe I should make a post asking for the correct dosage and watch the thread burn.

Please do.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

You know the old saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes”? Well, at least around here, it appears that there are no flock divisions in bitter cold.

I started cramming the older pullets into the Nestera last Sunday night at lockdown. Tuesday night I started going back out at 10 pm or so and cramming them back in, although usually 1 or 2 of the olders had stayed in. Friday night I started putting the back on the Nestera to keep them in (it’s off during the day, door always closed.) Tonight I went out and everyone had put themselves to bed in the Nestera and gave me that chicken-y look of “human, what took you so long?”

Temp when I got up: 31°. 29° by the time I left for church. 21° around 4 pm. 18° now (6:30 pm.) Forecast overnight low: 11°. (In °C, roughly: -0.6°, -1.6°, -6°, -8°, -11.7°, respectively.)



- Oh, yes, and 20 mph gusts still going on, down from 30-40 during the night, although still nothing like what Shad puts up with on a daily basis.

The forecast was wrong. It wasn’t 11° when I went out.

It was 10°.

Once I came back inside from letting them out, I went promptly back to bed!