Happy Hen Chicken Rescue!

[jenshenstoo]

When I was raising chickens to sell for pets, I had someone call who said he would take ALL my roosters. Of course being suspicious, I asked why he would do that. He said he had a boa constrictor to feed. It was at that moment I stopped breeding and selling my chickens! Now I only let a hen hatch a clutch when I need replacements for those chickens who have died of old age!!

 

[scriptkiddieJR]

The coop was finished this afternoon! I didn't have time to take pictures since I am sick, but I will try to get some pictures in the morning.

you're sick to? bummer.

 

[mainechicklet]

We need more animal lovers like you!

I rescued 4 hens in July from someone who just didn't want them anymore and was going to kill them. Then in Dec I rescued 4 hens from a sanctuary who had been called to an animal hoarder's location with 80+ farm animals. They were obviously living in horrid conditions.....little water/food, no shelter, dead animals on site, etc and ~60 of them were chickens. I had just built a new coop/run in Oct and it's only large enough for those I presently have. But as soon as spring arrives, I'm going to increase my coop size, triple my run and take 10 more of those hoarder rescues.

So don't worry, it won't take you long to fill up your coop. And however big it is, it will soon not be big enough!!

What you're doing is awesome!

 

[roostersandhens]

So, I managed to get pictures:

 

[roostersandhens]

Is hoping to rescue some spent battery hens this weekend.

 

[kolleenkirk]

What you are doing is so wonderful. Your henhouse looks like a penthouse Any hen would be happy to live in such opulence and especially here on the Central California coast..Thank you for caring. Get well.

 

[scriptkiddieJR]

So, I managed to get pictures:

so AWSOME!!!!!1111!!!!1!1!!!!1111!1

hope you can rescue them.

 

[theawesomechick]

Look at those nest boxes! They're HUGE! What are you planning to do with all those eggs? Do you sell eggs?

 

[One Chick Two]

And another thought about the eggs...

When we recently needed antibiotics for a hurt roo, we talked to the feed store manager about antibiotics, and she seemed to think you should not eat eggs from a hen who has been treated with them, or ever stew a roo who's had them. (Even a long time afterward.) She seemed to think that there are no hard statistics for how long antibiotics remain in their system (or like humans, store in the fat) etc.

Antibiotics does seem like a pretty big concern if you plan to eat the eggs, or feed eggs back to the chickens as you won't know the past history of each hen. (I don't know if this is really a concern... but I have heard similar things from a few other sources as well, that if a hen is treated you should never eat her eggs...)

 

[roostersandhens]

I have 14 hens that are mine, and we had to medicate them all. I used to give eggs away to everyone, but now I just give them to close family who we know aren't allergic to that med. Because, technically you should be fine if you eat the eggs after you have medicated your flock. So if I don't medicated the hens I rescue, I can give their eggs away.