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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    I've known a few crowing hens so I don't decide until they lay an egg. I've not had a male lay an egg yet.:p
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    19/07. Three hours. Warm with some sunshine. 21C to 18C by the time I headed home. They're getting used to each other. Pretty much always together these days. Either Sylph knows her name of has got the tone of voice, mostly for food, right now. Mow came into roost from the back of the run while...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    18/07. Three hours.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    They are/were both native soil. I can't have explained myself well. In March in this one area I planted a sapling. The soil was moist and soft down to the stones and was an easy dig. In July, after below average rainfall for the past three months the soil had turned to dust; not a solid spade...
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    When do hens most often go broody?

    When you've casually watched where a hen is laying but not quite got a fixed location and that night it's pouring with rain and they don't return to the coop and you can't find them.:rant
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Time. The sapling was planted in March. The graves dug in July.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's a massive task to calculate the available nutrition for a species from a square metre of ground. For a start it changes with the weather and the seasons and new seeds and bugs arrive from lots of sources. Then of course the chickens preference changes as other options become available so...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't think this can be quite right. A translation problem? The membrane is built. It doesn't encase the egg in an instant as I understand it. Gloria, my lovely vet in Catalonia told me that membrane sometimes gets stuck in the last bend and new eggs can squeeze by.:confused: The topic came...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    How old are they/she? I'm pretty sure Lima died of salpingitis; similar stuff to that you are seeing. You may remember me posting about it and posting a picture of one of the lash eggs I cut open. I'm pretty sure most of the Ex Battery hens died of salpingitis or complications arising from...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's not a problem. In fact it's quite good for me to look back at some of those posts.:)
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I believe it's called Rubbing Alcohol in America.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours. 22C and staying warm into the late evening. Rain this morning and very light drizzle this evening.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I haven't yet and given I've advised a number of posters to do exactly this I probably should. The simple truth is it's easier to painting the stuff La Fleche suggested on with very soft brush that is is to get a chicken to stand in a bowl of surgical spirit. I've done it a few times in the past...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Lets hope word doesn't get around.:D
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It was the wind and rain combined that seemed to be what made them throw in the towel early. That and they seem to have an uncanny ability in knowing that things are not going to improve in the near future.
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