Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Canadian Wind]

Found this little documentary that I thought some of you would enjoy:

 

[Perris]

At this point she would venture out for a while with the others before retreating back into the run

poor girl! that looks significantly harder than Betws had to endure. Good to hear she's out the other end now.

 

[Molpet]

Found this little documentary that I thought some of you would enjoy:

When I was a kid we did hay similar. Had haystacks on pallets covered with a tarp.

Where's the documentary of the other side where everything goes wrong

 

[Shadrach]

What's unhealthy about flour, butter, sugar, nuts and dried fruit?

Flour, mostly okay.
Butter, okay in a limited amount. 175 grams in the cake.
Sugar, I shouldn't need to write more. 175 grams in the cake.
Nuts, mostly fine.
Dreid fruit, apart from the sunflower oil in all the dried fruit packs I looked at there's the fructose.

There is of course nothing seriously unhealthy, apart from the sugar, if one eats a slice or two of cake.

sauteeing or baking often retains nutritional values lost when veg are boiled (which sometimes results in more nutrients going down the drain with the water than are left in the veg that was cooked in it!) - and they usually taste better that way to my way of thinking

Depends on how long one boils the veg for. I often steam the veg but couldn't be bothered last night. I save some of the water for making stock, a recent venture in my cooking.

 

[Shadrach]

Found this little documentary that I thought some of you would enjoy:

Love how Joyce picks the hens out of the nest by the scruff of their necks.
It wasn't that different on my uncles farm when I was a lad.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Love how Joyce picks the hens out of the nest by the scruff of their necks.
It wasn't that different on my uncles farm when I was a lad.

And they didn't struggle!

 

[fuzzi]

I don't think Mary Berry has anything to worry about.
Tonights dinner. Baked Cod (no sauces), scrubbed not peeled boiled potatoes, boiled brussel sprouts, carrots, french beans, fresh parsley and black pepper.
One pot on the stove and a tray in the oven, sorted.

The above is nutritionally better for me than most of the recipe meals I've done recently.

Okay, the cake business could get out of hand I'll grant you. Did you see the stuff that went into the supermarket Christmas cakes.
The cakes one makes at home it seems are better for ones health, apart from the likelyhood one will eat more cake.

I would have enjoyed that dinner.

 

[fuzzi]

What's unhealthy about flour, butter, sugar, nuts and dried fruit?

some sardines would sort that.

they make their own (like all other animals bar us and guinea pigs, who have both suffered some sort of congenital hiccup along the evolutionary path and lost the ability to make it, so have to eat it).

sauteeing or baking often retains nutritional values lost when veg are boiled (which sometimes results in more nutrients going down the drain with the water than are left in the veg that was cooked in it!) - and they usually taste better that way to my way of thinking

I save the water used to boil vegetables and use it for soup.

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours today. Wet, windy but warmer than of late.
Well, they sort of came out for a bit. They are still nervous of the wind which behaves for a while then a strong gusts blows and everyone heads back to the coop extension.

Those of you who have read from the beginning of the thread know Fret has always fretted. The only time she shows she trusts me to a degree is when she's broody. She doesn't fret if I handle her or her chicks. When she isn't broody she likes to be close to me but is not impressed if I try to touch her.

Mow is much like Fret in this regard. Mow comes and rests by my chair and will seek me out in times of stress and danger but like Fret does not like being handled.

I don't handle any of them unnecessarily but in order to check them over some handling is unavoidable, even Henry has accepted this. Fret and Mow have got onto my lap on a few occasions and both are used to having crop and vent checks while on their roost bars.

Tull and Sylph are entirely different. I can pick both up in daylight without any fuss. In fact, I've had to encourage them off my lap once inspection is over on a number of occasions. I did both their legs again this afternoon while they stood on my lap.

I'm not aware of having treated any of this lot, or the numerous other chicks/pullets/mums any differently.
My experience has been that while they are chicks and up until they females start to lay eggs handling isn't usually a problem. Once the females start to lay eggs it seem handling means mating and naturally they would rather be doing that with a rooster. Both Tull and Sylph are adults now in so far as they lay eggs but the usual don't touch me attitude hasn't developed with them. They are probably moe friendly now than they were as chicks.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I'm not aware of having treated any of this lot, or the numerous other chicks/pullets/mums any differently.
My experience has been that while they are chicks and up until they females start to lay eggs handling isn't usually a problem. Once the females start to lay eggs it seem handling means mating and naturally they would rather be doing that with a rooster. Both Tull and Sylph are adults now in so far as they lay eggs but the usual don't touch me attitude hasn't developed with them. They are probably moe friendly now than they were as chicks.

I have the same thing with a chick that I raised inside because she was a lone hatcher (only she hatched). Even though I gave her some attention as a baby, she didn't like it and once she was grown she would attack my hand whenever I'd try to fill her food or water.

She started laying last week, and now is very friendly and loving. Go figure.