Apparently if you don’t want your chickens, dump them at my place!

[KimbosKluckers]

For those of you that know I took in a stray rooster about a month ago, a hen showed up today! I gave her water and left my main gate open hoping she’d go home at dusk. Nope. She took roost in a tree. Been trying to get in the run all day. Wondering if she knows the rooster? If she stays then I have absolutely no more room for more strays and will have to call people that may eat them I’m a sucker for giving shelter because of predators and weather.

 

[alinas2010]

Aw she looks like a cinnamon queen. I really enjoy my CQs, but they are a production breed, so they may not live a lot of years.

Do you get a lot of strays? The way I see it if she isn’t the stray that uses up your space and resources, the next one will. And in that case who’s to say it shouldn’t be her since she was there in need of shelter first?

 

[Callender Girl]

She's a lovely girl.

But, I feel your frustration. Someone "kindly" left three adult cats -- all clearly used to being indoors and one about to drop kittens -- on my property. Because of coyotes and road traffic, I took them in. My reward was six kittens.

Hope you don't reach the point where you have to give chickens to people who won't treat them with the care that you do. I think it would hurt your kind heart.

 

[redinator]

For those of you that know I took in a stray rooster about a month ago, a hen showed up today! I gave her water and left my main gate open hoping she’d go home at dusk. Nope. She took roost in a tree. Been trying to get in the run all day. Wondering if she knows the rooster? If she stays then I have absolutely no more room for more strays and will have to call people that may eat them I’m a sucker for giving shelter because of predators and weather. View attachment 4255179View attachment 4255180View attachment 4255181View attachment 4255182

I think she was wondering where her boyfriend went.

 

[ksbkeys]

For those of you that know I took in a stray rooster about a month ago, a hen showed up today! I gave her water and left my main gate open hoping she’d go home at dusk. Nope. She took roost in a tree. Been trying to get in the run all day. Wondering if she knows the rooster? If she stays then I have absolutely no more room for more strays and will have to call people that may eat them I’m a sucker for giving shelter because of predators and weather. View attachment 4255179View attachment 4255180View attachment 4255181View attachment 4255182

I had someone drop off a rooster once in the middle of a cold January night.We woke up and my husband told me the rooster was crowing. I said, "but we don't have a rooster." I went out to investigate and found a rooster standing in the pitch black in a snowbank. I grabbed him and brought him in to look him over. He had an older injury on his leg that was somewhat necrotic. He was just developing spurs so I knew he was young. I did NOT want a rooster. I went door to door trying to find his owner...no one fessed up. Amazingly over time, he recovered but always had a crippled leg. He lived to be 6 and fathered quite a few chicks. I had so much joy and fun watching my broody hen hatch them and care for them. I guess God knew I needed this even though I was majorly resistant! I do not understand how people can just abandon an animal and one that is injured even more so. We later determined it was likely an injury from a weasel because we had a hen that sustained a similar injury from a weasel.

I wrote and illustrated two graphic novels about Mabel, a chicken who thinks outside the egg...and Roo's story is featured and he is a main character. You can see all of the cartoons on my thread in the hobbies forum called "Mabel's World Cartoons."

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mabels-world-cartoons.1645125/

Here are a couple of pictures of Roo and his injury.