Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[SimpleJenn]

Oh how sad I am for that goose. I know he isn't your responsibility but thank you so much for checking on the lonely guy.
My flock is down to 16 members, and they are actually playing chase and acting like proper chickens now. The two cockerels still haven't hit any hormonal phase so it's all peace and love right now haha.
I haven't seen our hawk in a couple weeks, but last I saw him he was flying with another so maybe he's found a mate.
Here are my keeper boys. If they stop getting along I'll divide the flock but so far they get along.

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Ric Flair

 

[Perris]

Oh how sad I am for that goose. I know he isn't your responsibility but thank you so much for checking on the lonely guy.
My flock is down to 16 members, and they are actually playing chase and acting like proper chickens now. The two cockerels still haven't hit any hormonal phase so it's all peace and love right now haha.
I haven't seen our hawk in a couple weeks, but last I saw him he was flying with another so maybe he's found a mate.
Here are my keeper boys. If they stop getting along I'll divide the flock but so far they get along.
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Ric Flair

Your boys look gorgeous, but I'm sure you are aware that that much head gear can be a liability with aerial predators about. Would you consider trimming their head feathers, or maybe the hawk(s) can't get to them anyway...?

 

[SimpleJenn]

Your boys look gorgeous, but I'm sure you are aware that that much head gear can be a liability with aerial predators about. Would you consider trimming their head feathers, or maybe the hawk(s) can't get to them anyway...?

They have a covered run! Yeah I definitely think the hawks would pick them off, they have very little peripheral vision.
Ric Flair is due for a bit of a trim!

 

[no fly zone]

The naked neck on the left is Skeksis Jr's baby

 

[Molpet]

The naked neck on the left is Skekis Jr's baby
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Aww what a cutie

 

[Shadrach]

One and a half hours today. Dry, chilly with some sunshine.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

One and a half hours today. Dry, chilly with some sunshine.View attachment 3987537View attachment 3987538View attachment 3987539

Looks like a nicely feathered bunch now. Has Mow become darker after the molt?

 

[fuzzi]

One and a half hours today. Dry, chilly with some sunshine.View attachment 3987537View attachment 3987538View attachment 3987539

Looking happy, fat and sassy!

 

[Perris]

we have had a few days of proper sunshine and it has had a transformative effect on a tomato plant that I brought in about a month ago (since it had grown from seed very late in a cold wet spring and was really trying its hardest in adverse conditions):

Btw, the main 'plant food' this tomato has had while growing in a pot, first outdoors and more recently in, is the gloopy liquor from the fermented grains 'n' peas 'n' seeds feed that I make, the liquor poured away when I rinse the grains before serving. All those phytonutrients work wonders on houseplants, and also, as I now find, on tomatoes.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Bats good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 80s partly sunny.

Have a great day1