Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Canadian Wind]

I have one other hen that started laying last week. I know which one because she's my only blue egger. Other than her, one of the Chantecler hens is laying, as well as a Silkie mix hen, and one of the indoor Cochin banty (Pekin for the Europeans). I got a few eggs from one of the OEGB hens a couple of weeks ago but she stopped again.

Hoping the additional sunlight gets more of them going. My Brahma girls, hatched in early May, haven't started yet.

 

[no fly zone]

Skekkers Claus knows if you've been naughty or nice

 

[Molpet]

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How cute

 

[no fly zone]

How cute

If she was still around I could actually take pictures of her in the snow.

 

[lightm]

Life has been busy. Honey the blind chicken passed away on the day that I needed to be away from home for a week. I did not witness her passing and I was not able to comfort my husband who was so saddened by her decease.

I wrote a tribute to Honey today: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/honey-the-miracle-chicken.1648241/

 

[notabitail]

Life has been busy. Honey the blind chicken passed away on the day that I needed to be away from home for a week. I did not witness her passing and I was not able to comfort my husband who was so saddened by her decease.

I wrote a tribute to Honey today: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/honey-the-miracle-chicken.1648241/

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach Have you made up a schedule who’s attending when, for the upcoming Hollidays?

No, I don't need shedules.

Are there enough busses to get you there, and back home again?

No there aren't any buses or trains Christmas day and reduced services for much of the holidays.

 

[Shadrach]

One and a half hours today. Bitterly cold in the wind with temperature barely above freezing. The chickens did go onto the field for half an hour but they hate the wind and after a brief forage returned to the shelter of the coop extension.
Henry flew today! He's normally fairly unruffled by the unusual but this evening a gust of wind caught one of the empty plastic compost bins and the bin went mobile in Henry's direction. Henry took off! He managed to stay off the ground for almost three metres. He's not a slender flighty sort of chap.

 

[no fly zone]

One and a half hours today. Bitterly cold in the wind with temperature barely above freezing. The chickens did go onto the field for half an hour but they hate the wind and after a brief forage returned to the shelter of the coop extension.
Henry flew today! He's normally fairly unruffled by the unusual but this evening a gust of wind caught one of the empty plastic compost bins and the bin went mobile in Henry's direction. Henry took off! He managed to stay off the ground for almost three metres. He's not a slender flighty sort of chap.
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I imagine Henry sounding like the old rooster in Chicken Run.

 

[fuzzi]

Life has been busy. Honey the blind chicken passed away on the day that I needed to be away from home for a week. I did not witness her passing and I was not able to comfort my husband who was so saddened by her decease.

I wrote a tribute to Honey today: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/honey-the-miracle-chicken.1648241/

I'm sorry...she was a pretty girl.