Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[notabitail]

Speaking of broody, on Monday Martha hatched three chicks. The eggs were slipped under her on March 18th. As she kept getting off the nest I had doubts the original eggs were still viable, and added 2 more on March 22nd.

Today Martha hatched the remaining two eggs, three days after the first three. I dub her Magnificent Martha for not giving up once the first chicks hatched!

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Is she a Speckled Sussex?

 

[notabitail]

Busy day. Forgot my camera. Had to take a couple of snaps with the phone.
It stayed dry today.
Fret is showing signs of going broody again.
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That chicken in the bottom photo is giving you a look that says, "That low-res trash you call a 'phone camera' cannot capture my true beauty".

 

[fuzzi]

Is she a Speckled Sussex?

Bantam Speckled Sussex, yes.

 

[Perris]

I bet it's mating season
Maybe he is bedraggled from fighting

You may well be right; that could explain his injury too.

 

[Perris]

pyrethrum ? Nothing stronger without a prescription from a vet.

that's a traditional remedy and I think it works

It's a long time since we discussed this, but given the impending withdrawal of permethrin, readers might be interested in some info I've dug up recently on pyrethrum.

So, it's "one of the safest and most widely used natural pesticides in the world... Pyrethrins (the active chemicals in the powder) are incredibly potent neurotoxins - just not to humans... We now know how pyrethrum works as an insecticide: pyrethrins bind to important protein passageways (voltage-gated sodium channels) for sodium ions in nerve cells. When pyrethrins bind to these proteins, the nerve cells wildly overfire, causing involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis and even death. This physiological reaction sounds bad, and it is indeed problematic for invertebrates like insects, molluscs, arachnids, and some vertebrates, like fish. But natural pyrethrins are not very toxic to other vertebrates, like humans and birds."
Hence we can use it safely on chickens; humans and birds.
"... A single ancient change in the DNA of insects makes their nerve cells a hundred times more sensitive to pyrethrins than ours. By contrast, cats and fish are sensitive to pyrethrins because they lack one of the liver enzymes we humans use to detoxify pyrethrins." So the cat owners amongst us might want to note, if they didn't know it already, that using pyrethrum may present a risk to their feline friend(s).

Source: N Whiteman Most delicious poison 2023:15-17.

 

[MaryJanet]

It's a long time since we discussed this, but given the impending withdrawal of permethrin, readers might be interested in some info I've dug up recently on pyrethrum.

So, it's "one of the safest and most widely used natural pesticides in the world... Pyrethrins (the active chemicals in the powder) are incredibly potent neurotoxins - just not to humans... We now know how pyrethrum works as an insecticide: pyrethrins bind to important protein passageways (voltage-gated sodium channels) for sodium ions in nerve cells. When pyrethrins bind to these proteins, the nerve cells wildly overfire, causing involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis and even death. This physiological reaction sounds bad, and it is indeed problematic for invertebrates like insects, molluscs, arachnids, and some vertebrates, like fish. But natural pyrethrins are not very toxic to other vertebrates, like humans and birds."
Hence we can use it safely on chickens; humans and birds.
"... A single ancient change in the DNA of insects makes their nerve cells a hundred times more sensitive to pyrethrins than ours. By contrast, cats and fish are sensitive to pyrethrins because they lack one of the liver enzymes we humans use to detoxify pyrethrins." So the cat owners amongst us might want to note, if they didn't know it already, that using pyrethrum may present a risk to their feline friend(s).

Source: N Whiteman Most delicious poison 2023:15-17.

As someone who shares a home with an elderly cat, thank you!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s and sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

OMG soooooooooo adorable! It is awesome to see Skeksis bloodline continue.

Good isn't it.

 

[Shadrach]

Bad Fret

She went on and off a bit last time. She'll come out one day swearing at everybody, eat like she's starved and that will be it, later to be found flat out on some eggs.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Slightly off topic, but I'm doing a crochet frizzle chicken for a crochet-along in a group. I might have to alter the pattern a bit and make a cute lil skeksis-kin chicken


In other news, I have a second broody. Of course she's the other silkie.