Found a chicken tied up on the side of the road...

[gameboygal12]

But the REAL question is, did it cross the road???

 

[Bunnylady]

Tying a chicken's legs is a fairly old-fashioned but effective means of restraint if you haven't got a cage. In places where electricity/refrigeration isn't a given, chickens are still sold live to be slaughtered at home; it is very common to tie the legs to make sure the bird can't get away from the buyer. Chickens bound for a slaughterhouse are loaded in cages on a truck; no further restraint is used. To me, the likeliest explanation is that someone got this chicken at one of the nearby chicken houses, and was transporting it home when they somehow lost it (out of the back of a pickup truck, maybe?)

 

[fishnet1971]

How is she doing? your little ditch digger??????

 

[gameboygal12]

She's doing great! Yesterday I introduced her to the rest of the flock. She's still a little scared of them, but she's doing better! I'll post a picture of her in a little bit!

 

[tcmstalcup]

Even though sometimes its a real pain, I'm glad for all the chickens that have been brought to me by people tired of them, not cute easter chicks anymore ect....... At least they don't need to suffer. They have a home here or are eaten here. Even a complete idiot could call a feed store and ask who will take unwanted chickens!!

 

[gameboygal12]

Here she is pecking at my jeans! She was very fascinated by them for some reason!

 

[wabbit1964]

I'm just shaking my head WHY would someone tie a chickens legs together and leave it by the road?? Glad your mom rescued her for you!

 

[wabbit1964]

lizzybaxter I'm glad I know a bunch of middle schoolers who would rather save a dog/chicken/cat ... There are however many adults who are cruel and coldhearted enough to tie it and dump it...
I am thinking the replies that it fell off a truck hauling chickens or someone who'd just bought her for dinner and she fell out of their pickup make sense.. I hope that is the case and not that someone purposely dumped her. Either way glad she has a safe haven now.

 

[gameboygal12]

lizzybaxter I'm glad I know a bunch of middle schoolers who would rather save a dog/chicken/cat ... There are however many adults who are cruel and coldhearted enough to tie it and dump it...
I am thinking the replies that it fell off a truck hauling chickens or someone who'd just bought her for dinner and she fell out of their pickup make sense.. I hope that is the case and not that someone purposely dumped her. Either way glad she has a safe haven now.

I'm pretty sure it was purposely. My sister saw a mysteriously slow truck drive by our house and stopped next to our driveway. Our dogs started barking at them and they left. So maybe they decided not to ask us if we wanted it and they just dumped it right down the road? I still don't know, do but people do that all the time in our rural town.