Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[SimpleJenn]

I hope this doesn’t come across as heartless, in the face of these losses:

The Cat, who has never in her 7(?) years of life been given wet cat food, is stunned to watch CHICKENS eating Sheba tuna and salmon (separate bowls), each spiked with a crushed 600 mg Ca - something Vitamin D caplet. Boy howdy, if you ever need to bribe a chicken, this is da bomb.

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Thanks for the tip. I will pick some up for my poor wry neck girl, she's getting fighty about taking her selenium and calcium supplements. Which is of course a good sign for recovery haha!

 

[SimpleJenn]

I am sorry for all of our recent losses. I lost a girl this morning, she was my beaked teddybear.

Shad, you have a good heart to continue to want rescue birds. Even with all the sadness of losses, you've held strong.
Sorry if that's too sappy haha, I'm feeling a bit philosophical today.

 

[Perris]

sorry for your loss @SimpleJenn ; our feathered friends seem to be falling like ten pins at the moment.

 

[Molpet]

Sorry for everyone's losses. It's an epidemic.
I found a 4 year old hen dead under the roost. She was the youngest in that coop. Very active and no sign of illness.

 

[no fly zone]

Really bad week for the regulars in this thread.

 

[tranquiliti]

The songbirds that have been nesting in the barn lost the mother today/last night: her toes were clinched in rigor mortis and I picked her up, nearly nuzzling her little body as I told her she did a great job with her little family.
Nest atop ladder

 

[townchicks]

Condolences on everyone's losses.it's one of the downsides of chicken keeping, to be sure. Shad, it's normal to feel, after a loss, that maybe there was more you could or should have done. Please don't kick yourself about it. Fret was extremely lucky to have you come into her life, as will the new hens, when they come.