Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

BTW, Esther is not doing well. I brought her inside as it's going to be frigid tonight. At least she'll be warm.

July 2025

 

[kattabelly]

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He looks like an ideal candidate if your house ever needs a bouncer on the door

(Just a joke because of his expression and posture/position there - not hoping or suggesting you'll ever need one!)

I know I'm a relative newcomer to the thread but I've enjoyed reading through it, and sometimes joining in the conversation recently. I've always found what you had to say interesting and worthy of proper consideration, even when I didn't completely agree with you. I really hope you've felt the same when we've talked and I apologise sincerely if that ever hasn't been the case - it wasn't intentional on my part but that doesn't make it any less real if you've ever felt angry or upset about something I wrote.

I hope all the difficulties you're dealing with can be resolved, at least as much as is possible, quickly and with some kind of positive outcome.

Tax:

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Oh, so glad the lodging house has re-opened!!

A few of you saw the pic I posted on @thistlewick ’s thread yesterday: the Littles are finally laying! And the Bigs probably as well.

Egg tax, best I’ve got:

Updated photo, newest eggs in top player, bottom and middle:

Bottom left Lil or Willow, bottom center Willow, bottom right Tessa, middle center (gold brown) Trudy, middle right Willow. Last two both today:

Because It’s Always Something, we also have a rat, it appears. With the ground in the run frozen solid, it’s going to be a matter of patching with concrete pavers for a while to at least harass it, until I can dig things up.

 

[notabitail]

When I first joined BYC (I will refer to BYC as Chicken Town/TC for here on) like many I suspect I wandered the streets looking at the various threads (I will refer to these threads as houses) for somewhere to stay. I stayed at the town pond for a while and sat on a Lily leaf. I moved into the town Cafe for a while, even made the morning coffee on occasions. I visited the various craft shops and started my own. I had a brief look in the various churches and spent a few hours looking around the old peoples home. I met lots of welcoming people, made a few friends in the various places I visited but the desire to have my own home in Chicken Town led me to building my own house, Shadrach’s Ex Battery and Rescues house.

I wanted a house where chickens could come and go, much like my house In Catalonia and most of all, I wanted a house that was rooster friendly.

I built the house made a plan on how to run it and opened the doors. More lodgers than I expected moved in. They came from all parts of the world and the house grew. Some lodgers moved in and moved on, some lodgers moved in and stayed. Overall the house functioned very well. The lodgers paid their rent in chicken tax, bar a few who were to chicken poor to pay and the vast majority of lodgers seemed to appreciate the house atmosphere and evictions were rare.

It seems from the conversations I’ve had with the lodgers that closing the house down has made them homeless and some have said they will not be coming to chicken town as often as they did and others are not looking forward to being back on the streets.

I don’t want that, despite the difficulties I’m having maintaining the house, it’s not the fault of the lodgers. I don’t want to be making people homeless in chicken town.

I’ve reopened the house and hope that the lodgers will help maintain the house while I deal with the problems I have outside chicken town.

I'm glad you opened the doors again, it means I can come here, crash, blab about Linux, and get tossed out for a bit .

Tax:

Felicitas. She's weirdly friendly, and when I used to be able to let them out all day she'd let me pick her up and take her straight to the coop. Now she eats from my hand and won't stand for Dominica trying to do the same.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I didn’t say anything at the time cause I figured you need some time with your own thoughts but I was very bummed when you closed this thread. I’ve been in and out since the beginning—out because I took a break from BYC when I had to take a break from chickens. Glad you’re back!
Tax: Tito—outstanding in his field

 

[lightm]

When I first joined BYC (I will refer to BYC as Chicken Town/TC for here on) like many I suspect I wandered the streets looking at the various threads (I will refer to these threads as houses) for somewhere to stay. I stayed at the town pond for a while and sat on a Lily leaf. I moved into the town Cafe for a while, even made the morning coffee on occasions. I visited the various craft shops and started my own. I had a brief look in the various churches and spent a few hours looking around the old peoples home. I met lots of welcoming people, made a few friends in the various places I visited but the desire to have my own home in Chicken Town led me to building my own house, Shadrach’s Ex Battery and Rescues house.

I wanted a house where chickens could come and go, much like my house In Catalonia and most of all, I wanted a house that was rooster friendly.

I built the house made a plan on how to run it and opened the doors. More lodgers than I expected moved in. They came from all parts of the world and the house grew. Some lodgers moved in and moved on, some lodgers moved in and stayed. Overall the house functioned very well. The lodgers paid their rent in chicken tax, bar a few who were to chicken poor to pay and the vast majority of lodgers seemed to appreciate the house atmosphere and evictions were rare.

It seems from the conversations I’ve had with the lodgers that closing the house down has made them homeless and some have said they will not be coming to chicken town as often as they did and others are not looking forward to being back on the streets.

I don’t want that, despite the difficulties I’m having maintaining the house, it’s not the fault of the lodgers. I don’t want to be making people homeless in chicken town.

I’ve reopened the house and hope that the lodgers will help maintain the house while I deal with the problems I have outside chicken town.

I'm so happy for this reopening! I was becoming homeless... Despite the fact that I am not talking too much in this town anymore.

 

[CoopBoots]

Tax from a very grateful lurker: This is Hobbles the cockerel (who has made a full recovery and is now a determined skirt-chaser with no sign of a limp)

I don't have much to say but I love this thread and the chickens and people who frequent it. I'm grateful it is back. Huge thanks to Shad for creating this space.

 

[no fly zone]

BTW, Esther is not doing well. I brought her inside as it's going to be frigid tonight. At least she'll be warm.
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July 2025

Hope she improves.

 

[BDutch]

Glad you reopened Shad. The way you closed the ‘house’ felt a bit awkward.
And I love to hear about the future developments, but don’t feel obliged.
Do post whenever you want to. Don’t if you prefer to skip.

Tax (50%)
Kraai drinking from ‘wild’ water in a bowl with sort of fermented autumn leaves. The chickens love it. Earthy taste? Needing the minerals?

 

[Appalachickens]

I had just started reading this thread and was sorry to see it close, so I’m glad you’ve re-opened it. I sure get the impulse to step away for a breather. This is my first comment here, so I’ll go ahead and pay my tax with this photo of my new boy Knuckles.