Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Canadian Wind]

Turkeys sleep in the trees and are very unruly. I know a person who's wife said get rid of theirs when they scratched up her shiny car. They fight their reflection.

So do my geese!

(fight their reflection not sleep in trees)

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 50s sunny.

Have a great day!

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I spent yesterday in Jacksonville taking him to see his pulmonologist.

Then we went shopping for a new bed.

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach : This is Henry. He is from the same tribe I got Leonard & just as sweet natured & accommodating. I don't know what she does but all the roosters this girl raises are absolutely wonderful.

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Maybe something about bantams.

 

[Shadrach]

One and a half hours today. Chilly at 6C, grey and, well, usual British winter gloom.
I'll be able to take half a dozen soon. It's going to be difficult to tell who laid what with these eggs. Maybe in time Sylph will make a more distinctive egg; something with her name printed on it would be handy.

Henry with Tull and Sylph. Tull isn't laying yet but she's picking up hints and freebees by tagging along. Sylph is laying in one of the nest boxes now which is a bit of a relief given she had no senior hen to demonstrate the procedure. I've had hens take weeks to use a nest box and a few that just didn't.

For a while it looked like Mow might make an obvious sisterly bond with Tull and Sylph. What's happening now is Mow is spendng more time with her mother, Fret.

Sylph is no pushy enough to ensure she gets to roost next to Henry. We'll see how long pushy takes to get a slap.

 

[notabitail]

I don't know if I told this here before, but here it is:
This is Felicitas. She is a Cream Legbar Genetic Mishap Being of Some Kind. She's always been a bit odd compared to the other chickens. Usually a bit slower, along with the fact that her rear end hangs quite low, and she always has egg issues whenever she starts or stops laying. I don't know what's causing these issues, but she acts fine otherwise.

Anyways, it took some times, but I was annoyed with the fact she kept tripping me up while I was herding them to their tree, or while I was putting them in the coop. The others would go fairly fast, and she would lag behind. So I started picking her up and carrying her. At first she hated it. Hit me in the face with her wing and everything. And then she realized just how much easier it was to be carried to the coop, under the condition she be carried the way she likes. Now she expects to be picked up and taken to the coop. Today she actually stood there waiting for me to pick her up, and recently she's made angry chicken noises if I delay.

TL;DR, Felicitas lives in luxury and has a hooman (or, as she says, Big Rooster) to taxi her back and forth.

 

[notabitail]

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I don't know if I told this here before, but here it is:
This is Felicitas. She is a Cream Legbar Genetic Mishap Being of Some Kind. She's always been a bit odd compared to the other chickens. Usually a bit slower, along with the fact that her rear end hangs quite low, and she always has egg issues whenever she starts or stops laying. I don't know what's causing these issues, but she acts fine otherwise.

Anyways, it took some times, but I was annoyed with the fact she kept tripping me up while I was herding them to their tree, or while I was putting them in the coop. The others would go fairly fast, and she would lag behind. So I started picking her up and carrying her. At first she hated it. Hit me in the face with her wing and everything. And then she realized just how much easier it was to be carried to the coop, under the condition she be carried the way she likes. Now she expects to be picked up and taken to the coop. Today she actually stood there waiting for me to pick her up, and recently she's made angry chicken noises if I delay.

TL;DR, Felicitas lives in luxury and has a hooman (or, as she says, Big Rooster) to taxi her back and forth.

Her and her sister, Agathae:

 

[kcan2]

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I don't know if I told this here before, but here it is:
This is Felicitas. She is a Cream Legbar Genetic Mishap Being of Some Kind. She's always been a bit odd compared to the other chickens. Usually a bit slower, along with the fact that her rear end hangs quite low, and she always has egg issues whenever she starts or stops laying. I don't know what's causing these issues, but she acts fine otherwise.

Anyways, it took some times, but I was annoyed with the fact she kept tripping me up while I was herding them to their tree, or while I was putting them in the coop. The others would go fairly fast, and she would lag behind. So I started picking her up and carrying her. At first she hated it. Hit me in the face with her wing and everything. And then she realized just how much easier it was to be carried to the coop, under the condition she be carried the way she likes. Now she expects to be picked up and taken to the coop. Today she actually stood there waiting for me to pick her up, and recently she's made angry chicken noises if I delay.

TL;DR, Felicitas lives in luxury and has a hooman (or, as she says, Big Rooster) to taxi her back and forth.

Way to go - willing to take a wing slap or two to make a friend in the end! I think you deserve to power up a level for that trust win They are rewarding little creatures to interact with, for sure! Today I practically snapped a tarp right over the heads of my chickens and they didn't even bother moving. It is rewarding to know that they know me enough to feel safe, like your Felicitas does with you.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

EEx Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature s in the 40s mostly clear with 15% chance of rain.

Have a great day!

 

[Perris]

Thank you all. I miss her, but life goes on.
The rest of my chickens were clearly in some confusion about what happened and have been sticking together for security. But the contest for who becomes the next top hen has already begun.
My money is on Tassels, who has begun to flex her muscle a little. But Calypso is not taking that transition of power as a given.
Calypso is the only hen laying and that seems to confer some status that allows her to stand up to the generally more domineering Tassels.
It is fascinating to watch. All quite subtle at the moment - not any overt violence beyond the odd peck on the noggin - but still quite clear that they are sorting things out between them.

has the conclave decided on their new boss yet?

 

[RoyalChick]

has the conclave decided on their new boss yet?

No! And it is an apt analogy.
There are two contenders (Tassels and Calypso) and they have set up separate roosting camps at opposite ends of the Chicken Palace.
They rest go back and forth between them with a lot of chatter. I am sure alliances are being formed!
I have not been informed of the timing of the vote. My role is merely to serve.