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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    While losing Fret is horribly sad, I am glad C is doing the right thing.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    He is beautiful!
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    Review by 'MrsNorthie' in article 'Building a Better Coop: Coastal Challenges, Forest Solutions, and the Stuff Nobody Tells You'

    This is an excellent article, very well written and a great design. We are in South Carolina, so we have hot humid summers and periods of freezing temps in the winter. So I can modify this by adding a way to secure "storm shutters" to retain warmth in the cold months. Thank you!
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Excellent article! We have a combination of hot summers and a few weeks of freezing temperatures in the winter months, so we had to have a way for a LOT of ventilation in the warm months to being able to switch to minimal ventilation in the winter. Spuds group are in the huge coop that we...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My thought was that, while Fret was broody, she wasn't going out on the field, and maybe Tull got exposed to something, more than the others. I know it is probably not really helpful, I just always feel like if cause can be identified, then it can be fixed and, admittedly, I am not dealing well...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I am so sorry! This is heartbreaking. Tull is so young, and her sudden death kind of triggers my suspicious nature, is someone spraying stuff at the allotment or purposely poisoning the chickens?
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    If you have a psychological disorder, you are not alone. Apart from my son and my grandfather, the human losses that I have faced don't hit me particularly hard, recently, my dad died just before Thanksgiving last year, but he did it to himself and was mean, my Grandmother, who was just cruel...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I think I just love all the birds! :-)
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Oh, he is absolutely adorable!!
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    For us, we are often guided by sentimentality which doesn't always lead to doing the right thing. I know that your experience and decision making is always focused on doing what is right for those chickens, so while not an easy decision, it is the right one for the right reasons. Forcing her...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Is it possible that the differences in Fret's behaviour is that she is still mourning/pining for Henry or the lack of a male presence? Not necessarily in a psychological way, the way we humans mourn, but in a biological way. Or could the failure of the broody switch to flip, be the chicken...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    From a broodies point of view, all eggs are HER eggs and the more the merrier!
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I am so sorry for your loss. :hit
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I love a bit of snark.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I appreciated her straightforward answers.
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