I posted 4 days into a rescue brought to me 12/11. Upon further research, I'm pretty sure what fell off the chicken truck was a Cornish X (meaty)...same condition described as no feathers on underbelly under wings, and poo encrusted bottom. Also had to bathe and blow dry and found her...
I have a rescued Cornish X given to me by a friend after it fell off a chicken truck (I assume on the way to slaughter). I've had her inside upstairs for 3 weeks in quarantine. Doesn't act much like my mixed flock who are 16 weeks. Do y'all think she can join the flock successfully? I didn't...
Being new to chickens, not sure what to expect with a battery rescue. A friend brought me one...really looked bad the first day. Looking better now on day 4. She seems to be in a heavy molt. Is that par for the course with battery chickens or something else going on? Also diarrhea...is that...
A friend brought me a leghorn hen found on the highway in shock...believe she was on her way to slaughter (seems young: has beginnings of a comb, but cheeps more like a chick than clucks like a hen). She was very short on feathers, not sure because of molt or because of trauma. After two days...
We got our first chickens in August (8 chicks--easter eggers, cochin, dominique, maran, buff orph,wynadotte, & australorpe). They have grown into beautiful healthy girls. I'm anxiously awaiting their first eggs--hoping for a Christmas morning surprise. We live adjacent to a neighborhood on 6...