Re: Sick Black Rock


" Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6bl1luF3c9756U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Some are, many others are kept shut in runs in gardens, where they are exposed to all sorts of threats they have never met before. Many only get out when the owners are around, which can be only a few hours a week in reality.
Being domestic is not always idyllic for battery birds. A few fokls can make it pretty good, and are aware enough to compensate for all the problems they will face, especially in their first months.
Unfortunately for many novices who are encouraged to take these birds, a high proportion will die within the first year of their new domestic life of the many conditions that make them uneconomic for the industry to keep them - tumours, egg peritonitis, and many more conditions which they would never have seen if they were not put outdoors at such a late stage in their lives.
The disease challenge from the wild birds alone is immense.
I can understand the anthropomorphic ideals which is behind the concept of putting these birds outside but strongly disagree with it, especially in the thousands that are going out now, mostly to complete novices who are less aware of the danger signs. For me, from the birds perspective, its such a stressful thing to inflict on them. Wind, rain, heat, variant feed, disease, predators, dangers, all at an age and to a bird which can only ever gain a tiny proportion of the armoury, that other birds will have, which start life to be outside.
I wish more people would love at the wonderful breeds we have which ARE bred for, reared for and suitable for the life in the domestic garden and its environs.
I know that this is not the MEDIA and the fashionable view to hold but then I have never been one for fashion, or media driven fads. I believe in doing things for the animals, not for the humans.
:O)



Actually ex-batts start to develop *normal* hen behaviours within days of being rehomed. One of the joys is seeing just how much they adore getting to know outside and are able to free-range in a garden and/or a run. Certainly with my two, they are not fragile at all. They cope *brilliantly* in a secure run and being able to free-range in the garden when a human is present. They *adore* being able to get out and about, scratching for things that have an inordinate number of legs and no backbone. If you would like, you are more than welcome to come and check on my two as to just how healthy they have become after the trauma of being a battery hen.

Here's some pics to let you see

Anode the day she arrived at my place

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Anode002190408.jpg

Cathode the same day

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Cathode001190408-1.jpg

Now:-

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/AnodeCathode130608004.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/AnodeCathode110608001.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Cathode110608001.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Cathode100608001.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Anode100608003.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Anode001020608.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/wafflycat/Cathode004020608.jpg

There's quite a difference and in an entirely positive fashion. Of the folk I know who have taken in ex-batts, almost without fail the experience is *positive* for the birds as the development of normal hen behaviours show, along with the obvious improvement in the health of the birds. The difference to the health of the birds is *amazing* in a short space of time - it is entirely in a positive direction. And if you disagree with that, on this, Jill, you are entirely wrong.





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