Oh no, they are never 'just a chicken', they are beautiful little souls & i'm not afraid to say i've cried over each one i've lost...OMG, Polish are next on my wish list & my daughter wants silkies, so when the broody coop is free it will be filled with more chooks, damn it, i'll need another...
I'm having a break from rexcuing more ex batts, heartbreaking to lose them after 12/18mths, i do miss how friendly & loving they were. I have added two cream legbar chicks to my flock & they're lunatics, they do make me chuckle with their antics.
Your so lucky you can have 'roos', i hatched one (light sussex) & had to rehome him, luckily to a local stud farm. Where i live we are not allowed to keep cockerels :(
Yes some of mine had crooked beaks too, breaks your heart how cruel egg farming can be. But now i have hens from a breeder & i have a broody hen than loves hatching chicks all the time, she has 2 cream legbar chicks at the moment & they are so funny & cute.
Before & after pics of my girls Babs. She was so scared of everything at first & bullied by the other hens, but then she became the friendliest, sweetest girl.
I went with my 2 daughters to get ours, one of them had hardly any feathers, she was practically oven ready, we called her Babs & she grew the most beautiful feathers, they all seemed to blossom & look amazing just before they died. I will get some more but i just need to give my heart a rest...
Yes they really are the friendliest birds, all mine have died now but i do miss them. It's hard when they die so young, battery farming is really cruel.
Hi Abriana & thank you. I got my battery hens through the British hen welfare trust, the uk is pretty big on rescuing ex batts at the moment so there is quite a surge in people keeping backyard flocks. Some people will go to farms where they know battery hens are kept & ask to buy them, the...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I've been keeping chickens for over 2 years, i started off with rescuing 6 ex battery hens
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
I have 8 chickens.
(3) What breeds do you have?
3 Bluebelles, 1 Copper black, 1 Speckledy, 1 RIR...