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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I'm going to have to look into a method of supporting some form of netting over the coop run for the inevitable DEFRA directions due to bird flu. A couple of posts in the middle of the run might be required for support. Could really do without this problem.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    And this has got what exactly to do with chickens?
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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    Limps. Very difficult to do much about if the problems not visible. The ones I've seen, I can't say dealt with because I have yet to have a chicken fully recover from a major tendon strain, muscular deep bruising and maybe even partial hip dislocation which would need an xray to establish. I...
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    I want to suck the sour crop liquid out with a feeding tube from my chicken's crop but

    If the situation is critical and the assumption that it's straight forward sour crop is wrong, or even if it isn't, might not crop surgery, which has been successfully done and there are videos and advice on how to do it available, be a better option. You would have the benefit of being able to...
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    Open Contest Mister BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Glais. 7 months old. Mix of breeds.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half dry, cold but sunny hours today. I've been a bit concerned about the water freezing. If it has, it's been a thin skin gone by mid morning I would have thought. Last year the bowl of water in the coop froze but I think that was around -6C overnight and it didn't get above freezing...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The article is largely irrelevant to the irony, the arrogance and humour. In all my time watching other creatures, I can write that I have never noticed a creature apart from humans act on faith.:lol: I've yet to read a study that concluded "don't bother with this one, it's as dumb as a box of...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    There is and it's rather less than is currently popular.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh! So am I. It's just that I spend it on the chickens.:p:lol: I don't resent what I spend on them. At my age, they are a cheap enough hobby, if that's the right expression for what I feel is more of a passion. I live with pensioners who piss £20 a day up the wall day in day out. :confused...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03584-6 Such a shame we can't manage this yet.:p:lol:
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two hours today. Snow flurries this morning. Feeling cold at 3C. The sun did shine but only Glais was interested in going onto the field. The 25mph wind gusts are what kept Mow and Sylph mostly under the coop for the afternoon rather than the cold. I took sardines to the field today as an...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I read the post you linked to when you posted it. I don't think there's any doubt pecking back can work. There have been posts advocating this method from other BYC members.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Yes I know. Sorry, got distracted by the chicken part.:p I do understand the problem. Perhaps I've been lucky. Sylph from the field group is the only one so far to cause any pain from pecking, she's had whole finger tips in her beak which hasn't hurt as much as her pointy beak! Some of her...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two rather cold hours this afternoon. They all came out as soon as I opened the run. They ate very little of the feed and wanted out onto the field where they foraged. They came back to the coop after half an hour having had most of the treat food I brought them (the rest of the steak and...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh a bit of drama is okay. Ask Sylph.:rolleyes: One might expect from the reactions of some chickens to find their backs and back of necks a mass of scabs. I've checked a few. I couldn't find a single mark. I got very interested in peck strength a few years ago. It's not constructive in the long...
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