Fostering chicks and chickens....?

[Mellowmalt]

Bit hard to interpret - I am generally not against fostering a chicken although it shouldn't be called fostering , it should be called adopting because its not like one gives the chickens back once they are fully grown, it is providing a forever home for a fully grown chicken however that site and those pcitures did not convince me one bit. There is a picture of a woman wearing a t-shirt saying "Friends, not food" while scratching her head looking at the out of place chicken in her living room which sums it up nicely.
But it gets worse, they seem to want to imply that a chicken can be housed anywhere and even wants to encourage people without a garden to adopt one showing pictures of a cage in a living room for the birds to freely poop on the floor. Seriously?
Who makes up this rubbish lol.

 

[Chickenwingwing]

There is a picture of a woman wearing a t-shirt saying "Friends, not food" while scratching her head looking at the out of place chicken in her living room which sums it up nicely.

 

[Mrs. K]

Well they can be let outside in the summer time. SMH

Very unrealistic to me, to each his own.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I can only imagine the bio security and quarantine nightmare involved with fostering chickens. One sick bird could contaminate your entire area for months or longer, potentially endangering every foster chicken that you take.

To be honest, that’s the case with any bird you bring into your flock, including ones you buy. There are plenty of diseases that chickens can carry and spread while not showing symptoms. However, it does seem to be a greater risk if you’re constantly moving birds in and out, especially ones from uncertain backgrounds.

 

[saysfaa]

I hadn't heard of it either but this is my guess about what they are talking about.

http://chickenrunrescue.org/Become-a-Chicken-Foster

From that website... "The fosters evolve into well-informed, confident, empathetic advocates."...
and
"Mission: Help all animals by adopting a plant-based diet. Help individual chickens by adopting them as companions. Chicken Run Rescue fosters an evolution in critical thought about who isfood and who is friend"

It is a variation of animal rights; specifically the branch devoted to destroying agriculture. Or a moneymaker for them (from the generous people giving their "charity" money... I didn't look this one up but have looked a lot of these up.) Or both. Both are far bigger and better organized than most people realize.

Although "fostering chickens" could be something besides this type of thing...maybe temporarily keeping chickens for someone moving or deployed or ill. Or someone might pay to have roosters kept because they weren't going to but can't bear to have them killed.