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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half hours. A bit of drizzle here and there but mostly dry with some sunshine Had a bit of a problem getting them out from the coop extension. They came out to feed, ate a bit then something startled Glais. He ran back to the coop and Mow and Sylph followed. I went and got them out...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Dry all day and sunny with it. Still a bit on the windy side but less of a problem than yesterday.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    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...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Pfffttt! No chance of the chickens going out in the weather we had this afternoon.:D 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...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh, you of course...:p I was in fact thinking about the hen called Miss Lorraine.:love
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    Extreme calcium preferences

    Indeed. I was just pointing out that hens do in fact store calcium. It's the fact that roosters aren't able to store calcium in a similar manner that makes high calcium feeds for males potentially harmful to the kidneys and apparently the liver.
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    Sour Crop Not Resolving, crop not emptying... Crop Blockage? Treatment?

    If a vet isn't an option (there aren't many that would even attempt to clear an obstruction) in the proventriculus then I would hesitate to recommend you try. I've had two hens with blockages at the neck of the proventriculus. My vet inserted a flexible tube down the esophagus past the crop and...
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    Extreme calcium preferences

    Hens do store calcium. They store it in a bone called the medullary bone, the largest I believe being in their legs. In the early days of large commercial egg factories a lot of hens suffered from osteoporosis because the amount of calcium the hen required wasn't well understood. The hens drew...
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    Sour Crop Not Resolving, crop not emptying... Crop Blockage? Treatment?

    It may not be a crop problem. Something may be lodged between the crop exit and the gizzard.
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    Aggressive mating behaviour: a recent review of the literature

    Agreed. It's about courtship and possession. Glais does it to usher Sylph mainly away from what he seems to believe is just his food.:p They haven't quite got to the I'll lead and you lot follow stage. He's got the chest bump sorted now. Most times Mow and Sylph sense what he's after and move...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I do hope you can keep him.:love
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Rain this morning. Dry this afternoon. Lighter wind meant everyone came out for about an hour.
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    Aggressive mating behaviour: a recent review of the literature

    All the mature roosters I've known bump the arse of the hen with their chest to ask to mate. If the hen crouches, they mate; if not the rooster moves on to another hen if there is one. Occasionally I've seen a mature rooster make a neck grab and try and force the hen to crouch. It usually...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    He is isn't he.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I find it odd that some chickens change their appearance so much after a particular moult. Hinge for example was so dark she might have been taken for some strange bantam Marans. I think she like that for the first two years. She got hit by a hawk and received a claw from the hawk in her chest...
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