Can someone help me to see the gender of my rescue chicken?

[TheOddOneOut]

Thank you @DogAndCat36 and @TheOddOneOut ! Raising them in an apartment will take a lot more effort than it will to raise them outside. Sorry if this is harsh, but based on your responses, it does not sound like you (or your parents, seems some things are conflicting) are fit to raise them. Chickens are farm animals, not pets.

What on earth does that mean?
My birds live outside. But they are pets. There’s no more to it.

 

[JadeFarms]

I think that you are mistaken. They are animals that are domesticated by human beings. My chickens live in a coop. There are 14 chickens living fat and healthy. Safe from the cooking pot and safe from mistreatment. I am knowledgeable about almost everything that can happen to them, prolapsed vent, mites, fowl pox, Marek's disease, and even predators. Farm animals are raised for a profit, that one difference does not mean that my chickens are not being mistreated. I am fit to raise my chickens, they are my pets, my family, my soul. This misconception that chickens only purpose is to lay till they die needs to stop. Most farmers do not care for their chickens wellbeings, rooster are culled on day one of hatching, and hens are debeaked, overcrowed, and die without seeing the sun.

This is what most farm chickens endure.
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What my chickens "endure"
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Those are not “farm” chickens. Those are egg production companies.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Those are not “farm” chickens. Those are egg production companies.

Commercial farm.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Those are not “farm” chickens. Those are egg production companies.

Exactly. Most egg production companies won't just take random hens either.

 

[JadeFarms]

Commercial farm.

Okay, I forgot the name. Thanks

 

[Scalrett0516]

Actually, if they are 6mo they look like hens.
And maybe they are white rocks.
(not meat birds).

Hi, thank you so much for you help.
I’ve read through your comment about having them in a cage and I understand it’s quite unfair for them. However right now I don’t really have a better alternative - no family or friends with gardens are willing to take them, or farms to accept them. All I will do now is to try my best to improve their living environment and diet according to what people on this thread suggested and make them live happier.
Thank you again for your suggestions, I really appreciate them.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I disagree with this statement. My chickens are entirely pets, but they still live outside in a coop. Chickens can be pets but they almost always shouldn't be indoors.

I wholeheartedly agree. My brids are pets, that live outside. I do think there are exeptions to all chickens must live outside, I am not opposed to house chickens as long as the CHICKEN is happy, but you have to keep the chickens needs inmind, not just your own. If the chicken is unhappy I think it is time to let go and let them live outside.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

I've gtg sorry.

 

[DogAndCat36]

While I don't disagree completely I do disagree. My family runs a small farm with about twenty hens and pullets with three roosters and we do not kill the hens when they get old. I've never met someone in our small farming community who would shoot there own dog because it's sick. I've met a few who would only treat them at home though.

Most big farms do though. Those are small communities that are kind. The world is big dogs eat small dogs sadly. I have seen dogs killed because the farmers do not want to pay for the operation of kidney failer, tumors, and broken legs,

 

[Eva2020]

Yikes ok there seems to be confusion on what I meant. I meant chickens are not dogs and cats. They can't live in an apartment. My chickens are pets more than anything else. I wouldn't care if I never got another egg from them (they started laying a couple months ago). Sorry for the confusion. I meant they need to live outside and be treated differently than house pets.