jonaeselaye
Songster
Has anyone here ever adopted or rescued chickens or ducks? I would love to hear your story on how and why you adopted them 
The first bird we adopted is a white drake. My friend and her mother use to live on a large hobby farm. Unfortunately they had to move out after her mother and step father separated and they took their hens and drake with them. They moved around a fair bit and each time they had to rehome a few of their animals. Last year they had to move again and needed to rehome the drake ASAP, back then his name was was "Duck". My boyfriend and I had just started getting into poultry pets and we had just bought three silkies. She asked me if I was interested in getting into ducks as well. I was hesitant as we would need to build him his own space away from our silkies and we didn't know much about duck keeping. Still, we felt sorry for "Duck" as it sounded like there was no one willing to take him in.
We offered to foster him for a few weeks until they found him a permanent home. A year later he is still here and we named him "Jeremy". He is an awkward, grumpy old duck but we love him and enjoy watching him enjoy bathtime.
A few months later, we started looking into adopting a friend for Jeremy. We asked around to see if anyone was giving away any older duck hens who were no longer laying. A local family gave us a brown duck who we named Beatrice. She was a pretty duck and it was awesome seeing Jeremy have some company. They gew really close but unfortunately after 8 weeks she disappeared. We are still unsure of what happened to her. Jeremy stopped eating and drinking for a couple of days. He would just find a quiet spot in his area and sit there all day. We got really concerned about him so we bought him the muscovy, Bellatrix, in the pic above.
Our third adopted pet is Ruth. Ruth was surrendered by a surburban hoarder to a local chicken rescue, along with 61 other chickens and 4 ducks. The rescue treated her for various ailments including a heart murmur, respiratory illness and scaly leg mites. When she was finally ready for adoption, the rescue struggled finding her a home as she needed to be placed in a flock that had already been exposed. Since my boyfriend and I were the ones who alerted the rescue about the hoarder after purchasing ill chickens from him/her, our flock had already been exposed and treated for the respiratory illness (Infectious Bronchitis). The rescue reached out to us and asked if we could take her in.
We were all very worried that she would be bullied or left out by the rest of the flock. However turns out she has a super bold personality. When she arrived, all of my chickens just went along with it and didn't mind her eating their food. Instead, she charged and pecked at all of them (none of them retaliate). Now even our main rooster doesn't mess with her.
The first bird we adopted is a white drake. My friend and her mother use to live on a large hobby farm. Unfortunately they had to move out after her mother and step father separated and they took their hens and drake with them. They moved around a fair bit and each time they had to rehome a few of their animals. Last year they had to move again and needed to rehome the drake ASAP, back then his name was was "Duck". My boyfriend and I had just started getting into poultry pets and we had just bought three silkies. She asked me if I was interested in getting into ducks as well. I was hesitant as we would need to build him his own space away from our silkies and we didn't know much about duck keeping. Still, we felt sorry for "Duck" as it sounded like there was no one willing to take him in.
We offered to foster him for a few weeks until they found him a permanent home. A year later he is still here and we named him "Jeremy". He is an awkward, grumpy old duck but we love him and enjoy watching him enjoy bathtime.
A few months later, we started looking into adopting a friend for Jeremy. We asked around to see if anyone was giving away any older duck hens who were no longer laying. A local family gave us a brown duck who we named Beatrice. She was a pretty duck and it was awesome seeing Jeremy have some company. They gew really close but unfortunately after 8 weeks she disappeared. We are still unsure of what happened to her. Jeremy stopped eating and drinking for a couple of days. He would just find a quiet spot in his area and sit there all day. We got really concerned about him so we bought him the muscovy, Bellatrix, in the pic above.
Our third adopted pet is Ruth. Ruth was surrendered by a surburban hoarder to a local chicken rescue, along with 61 other chickens and 4 ducks. The rescue treated her for various ailments including a heart murmur, respiratory illness and scaly leg mites. When she was finally ready for adoption, the rescue struggled finding her a home as she needed to be placed in a flock that had already been exposed. Since my boyfriend and I were the ones who alerted the rescue about the hoarder after purchasing ill chickens from him/her, our flock had already been exposed and treated for the respiratory illness (Infectious Bronchitis). The rescue reached out to us and asked if we could take her in.
We were all very worried that she would be bullied or left out by the rest of the flock. However turns out she has a super bold personality. When she arrived, all of my chickens just went along with it and didn't mind her eating their food. Instead, she charged and pecked at all of them (none of them retaliate). Now even our main rooster doesn't mess with her.
