Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Sally PB]

Hi there!

This picture made me smile.

 

[Shadrach]

Yes I would have given them a whipping with an allotment cane

I'm told I'm not allowed to do that; not even to the parents.
The clip around the ear-hole has it seems fallen out of favour along with eating the kids if the message doesn't get through from the clip.

 

[Shadrach]

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Hi there!

This picture made me smile.

I've been amazed at how much Mow and Sylph trust me and pleased that Glais has taken the view that if they trust him then I probably should to.

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

I'm told I'm not allowed to do that; not even to the parents.
The clip around the ear-hole has it seems fallen out of favour along with eating the kids if the message doesn't get through from the clip.

I think the little brats would be inedible even at their tender years

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

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Hi there!

This picture made me smile.

Would make a good caption competition picture. Some privacy please, bucket boy!

 

[Molpet]

I think the little brats would be inedible even at their tender years

I pressure cook tough cocks for a couple hours and they get tender and quite edible

 

[no fly zone]

Today would have been Skeksis's 7th birthday. I miss her so much.

 

[Molpet]

Today would have been Skeksis's 7th birthday. I miss her so much.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Dealing with a double nest destruction this week with the free rangers, my broody hen was beaten up and dragged off her nest, so I gave her remaining eggs to the other broody in the nest below hers, she was also treated the same. Who did this? The roosters? Other hens? We're in a cold snap so did the poor conditions trigger it?
My third broody in the coop+run complex has been unbothered so I gave the last surviving egg to her in hopes it survived.
I will need to build some broody maternity suites/integration pens soon if I want my hens to be able to raise the next generation themselves. I suppose my run birds could raise them but it feels mean to take them from the relaxed safety of a secure run to put them out in the real world.

 

[Molpet]

Dealing with a double nest destruction this week with the free rangers, my broody hen was beaten up and dragged off her nest, so I gave her remaining eggs to the other broody in the nest below hers, she was also treated the same. Who did this? The roosters? Other hens? We're in a cold snap so did the poor conditions trigger it?
My third broody in the coop+run complex has been unbothered so I gave the last surviving egg to her in hopes it survived.
I will need to build some broody maternity suites/integration pens soon if I want my hens to be able to raise the next generation themselves. I suppose my run birds could raise them but it feels mean to take them from the relaxed safety of a secure run to put them out in the real world.

I have had bully hens chase a broody off her nest. I have several coops and move the bully