Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

One of my rescue adoption hens, Maeve, the EE, had been laying a nice sage green egg about 3 times a week, since mid February, but stopped laying abruptly about a month ago. She's very handling adverse, so I left her alone for a couple of weeks, as she was acting fine and is an older girl, so I hadn't really been expecting her to lay much. I did grab her a couple weeks ago though, to trim a poopy butt, and check her out. I discovered a swollen abdomen and with palpation I could feel a hard, egg size mass. I thought she could be internally laying, and a trip to the vet earlier this week confirmed it. So this morning I dropped her off at the vet to have surgery, to remove the egg material and oviduct. It went well, and I'll be bringing her home on Saturday. So yesterday I tried to get a few decent pics of her, just in case things went sideways. She's camera shy, and I'm not much of a photographer, but I did get a couple decent ones. Also got pics of Celeste, who is definitely not camera shy, and Barbie, who is also not camera shy.
 

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that sounds horrid. Does anything work to relieve the pain?

I sometimes find I'm overlapping with you posting in the wee small hours, but that's because sometimes I wake up very early for no apparent reason 🙃 , and then feel like I have put in a full day by 11am and really need a few hours' nap to survive till anything remotely like a proper bedtime :rolleyes:

Tax: the chicks are 2 weeks old today. They are still allowed not only to eat with the grown-ups, but even to walk right through the middle of dinner :D:p (None of these hens are their broody btw, and I am convinced that they really do not need her protection, although she would surely disagree, and sooner or later an adult will get fed up with them - when they exit the cute phase, like toddlers do - and then they will be banished to the bottom of the pecking order. Meanwhile, mealtimes are easy.) View attachment 4100311
I love that photo 🥰
 
It's hilarious watching them sometimes, when adults are bunched together like that all trying to eat round a chick, and even funnier when a roo suddenly jumps into the air backwards as a chick zipped in in front of him :gig
We can all have lofty discussions about why we keep chickens, but I suspect that for many it is just pure entertainment.
I love just sitting outside on my garden chair and watching them do their thing.
 
One of my rescue adoption hens, Maeve, the EE, had been laying a nice sage green egg about 3 times a week, since mid February, but stopped laying abruptly about a month ago. She's very handling adverse, so I left her alone for a couple of weeks, as she was acting fine and is an older girl, so I hadn't really been expecting her to lay much. I did grab her a couple weeks ago though, to trim a poopy butt, and check her out. I discovered a swollen abdomen and with palpation I could feel a hard, egg size mass. I thought she could be internally laying, and a trip to the vet earlier this week confirmed it. So this morning I dropped her off at the vet to have surgery, to remove the egg material and oviduct. It went well, and I'll be bringing her home on Saturday. So yesterday I tried to get a few decent pics of her, just in case things went sideways. She's camera shy, and I'm not much of a photographer, but I did get a couple decent ones. Also got pics of Celeste, who is definitely not camera shy, and Barbie, who is also not camera shy.
I really wish I had that oviduct removal done to Skeksis. She would still be alive.
 
One of my rescue adoption hens, Maeve, the EE, had been laying a nice sage green egg about 3 times a week, since mid February, but stopped laying abruptly about a month ago. She's very handling adverse, so I left her alone for a couple of weeks, as she was acting fine and is an older girl, so I hadn't really been expecting her to lay much. I did grab her a couple weeks ago though, to trim a poopy butt, and check her out. I discovered a swollen abdomen and with palpation I could feel a hard, egg size mass. I thought she could be internally laying, and a trip to the vet earlier this week confirmed it. So this morning I dropped her off at the vet to have surgery, to remove the egg material and oviduct. It went well, and I'll be bringing her home on Saturday. So yesterday I tried to get a few decent pics of her, just in case things went sideways. She's camera shy, and I'm not much of a photographer, but I did get a couple decent ones. Also got pics of Celeste, who is definitely not camera shy, and Barbie, who is also not camera shy.
She’s lovely! What a beautiful color!
 
For your viewing pleasure:

ICYMI: my second coop is completed. I moved Silas and four hens I am not planning to breed into the coop, leaving Zacchaeus and four hens in the main coop. That was Monday.

Now that he has his own place away from Zacchaeus Silas is suddenly showing Good Boy traits, letting his hens eat first, etc. This morning I caught him vocally encouraging his hens as they lay eggs:
 

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